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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. The films below are listed with their production year, so for example the Oscar awarded in 2000 went to the Best Picture in 1999.Each entry shows the title followed by the production company, and the producer. When the film was produced in a country other than the United States that is shown in parentheses after the production company.
This award was originally called Best Production.
1 1920s
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
- ChangChang: A Drama of the Wilderness (Famous Lasky Corp. 1927) is a film about a poor farmer in Siam ( Thailand) and his daily struggle for survival in the jungle. The film would most likely have been forgotten today except that its two directors, Merian C. - Paramount - Merian C. CooperMerian Caldwell Cooper (Born October 24, 1893 in Jacksonville, Florida, USA-Died April 21, 1973 in San Diego, California, USA of cancer) was an American movie actor, director, screenwriter and producer. His most famous work was the 1933 movie King Kong. and Ernest B. Schoedsack
- The CrowdThe Crowd a film, released in 1928, was nominated for the Academy Award for Unique and Artistic Production. The film discusses the sameness, the emptiness, of being a nameless face in the cog of business. John (played by James Murray), marries Mary ( Elea - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - Irving Thalberg
Best Production
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