Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first, followed by the runners-up. The films below are listed with their production year, so for example the Oscar awarded in 2000 went to the Best Picture in 1999.

1920s

Best Production

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• 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.

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• 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}

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• 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