Academy Award for Best Picture (1920s)
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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards. Also called Oscars, the Academy Awards are given to people working in the film industry by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
In the list below, the winner of the award for each year between 1927 and 1929 is shown first, followed by the other nominees.
Best Production
- 1927-28 Wings - Paramount Famous Lasky - Lucien Hubbard
- The Racket - Caddo, United Artists - Howard Hughes
- Seventh Heaven - Fox - William Fox
Best Picture, Unique and Artistic Production also known as "Best Artistic Quality of Production" was only presented in the first year.
- 1927-28 Sunrise - Fox - William Fox
- Chang - Paramount - Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
- The Crowd - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
Best Production {Not official nominations, according to AMPAS records for 1928/29}
- 1928-29 The Broadway Melody - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Harry Rapt
- Alibi - Feature Productions, United Artists -Roland West
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Harry Rapt
- In Old Arizona - Fox - Winfield Sheehan, studio head
- The Patriot - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch
- 1929-30 All Quiet on the Western Front - Universal - Carl Laemmle Jr.
- The Big House - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
- Disraeli - Warner Bros. - Jack L. Warner with Darryl F. Zanuck
- The Divorcee - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Robert Z. Leonard
- The Love Parade - Paramount - Ernst Lubitsch
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