Best Picture Oscar Winners Flashcards
Which film, directed by William A. Wellman, won the first Academy Award for Best Picture in 1929?
Wings
A 1927 and 1929 silent film starring Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy” Rogers and Richard Arlen.
Which American musical film, directed by Harry Beaumont, won the 1930 Academy Award for Best Picture?
The Broadway Melody
Starred Charles King, Anita Page and Bessie Love. Includes the popular hit “You Were Meant For Me”
Which 1930 anti-war film, featuring a harrowing account of warfare in WWI, won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture?
All Quiet on the Western Front
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Starred Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim and produced by Universal Studios.
Which epic Western film directed by Wesley Ruggles won the 1932 Academy Award for Best Picture?
Cimarron
Based on a 1930 novel by Edna Ferber. Starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne
Which drama film, based on a 1930 play by William A. Drake, won the 1933 Academy Award for Best Picture?
Grand Hotel
Directed by Edmund Goulding and produced by MGM.
Starring an ensemble cast featuring Greta Garbo and John Barrymore
Which drama film, based on a Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel of the same name, won the 1936 Academy Award for Best Picture?
Mutiny on the Bounty
Directed by Frank Lloyd
Starring a cast including Charles Laughton and Clark Gable.
Which epic drama film directed by Frank Lloyd, won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Picture?
Cavalcade
Based on a 1931 play by Noël Coward
Starring ensemble cast - featuring Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook.
Which American rom-com film about a socialite who falls in love with a rogiuish reporter won the 1935 Academy Award for Best Picture?
It Happened One Night
Based on Night Bus by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Starring Frank Gable and Claudette Colbert
Which musical drama film, directed by Robert Z. Leonard, won the 1937 Academy Award for Best Picture?
The Great Ziegfeld
Starring William Powell, Myrna Loy and Luise Rainer
