Academy Award for Best Picture (1920s) facts for kids
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 movie 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.
Outstanding Picture
- 1927/28 Wings – Paramount Famous Lasky – Lucien Hubbard
- The Racket – Caddo, United Artists – Howard Hughes
- Seventh Heaven – Fox – William Fox
- 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
Outstanding Production
- 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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