Academy Award for Best Picture
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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 movie industry by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The name of the award has changed over time. It was first Outstanding Picture in 1927. In 1930, the name was changed to Best Picture. It is still called that today.
In the list below are the winners of the award for each year. A list of the winners and other nominees is in the main article for each decade.
Winners[change | change source]
indicates the winner
1920s[change | change source]
Year | Film | Film Studio |
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1927/28 (1st) | ||
Wings | Famous Players-Lasky | |
7th Heaven | Fox | |
The Racket | The Caddo Company | |
1928/29 (2nd) [a] | ||
The Broadway Melody | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
Alibi | Feature Productions | |
Hollywood Revue | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
In Old Arizona | Fox | |
The Patriot | Paramount Famous Lasky |
1930s[change | change source]
1940s[change | change source]
1950s[change | change source]
1960s[change | change source]
1970s[change | change source]
1980s[change | change source]
1990s[change | change source]
2000s[change | change source]
2010s[change | change source]
References[change | change source]
- Notes
- ↑ The 2nd Academy Awards is unique in being the only occasion where there were no official nominees. Subsequent research by AMPAS has resulted in a list of de facto nominees, based on records of which films were evaluated by the judges at the time.
- ↑ The Academy also announced that A Farewell to Arms came in second, and Little Women third.
- ↑ The Academy also announced that The Barretts of Wimpole Street came in second, and The House of Rothschild third.
- ↑ The Academy also announced that The Informer came in second, and Captain Blood third.
Other websites[change | change source]
- Oscars.org (official Academy site)
- Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)
- The Academy Awards Database (official site)
- Academy Awards Photos and News(People.com)
- Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
- IMDb.com (Internet Movie Database site)
- Link to DVD list of all Best Picture Winners