who won the first academy award for best picture
Wings
title: Academy Award for Best Picture text: 2002, showcase every film that has won the Best Picture title since the award's inception. As of 2018, there have been 546 films nominated for Best Picture and 90 winners. At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony (for 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: "Outstanding Picture" and "Unique and Artistic Picture," the former being won by the war epic "Wings," and the latter by the art film "." Each award was intended to honor different and equally important aspects of superior filmmaking. The following year, the Academy dropped title: 1st Academy Awards text: given the Best Actor award for his work in both "The Way of All Flesh" and "The Last Command". Also, Charlie Chaplin and Warner Brothers each received an Honorary Award. Major winners at the ceremony included "7th Heaven" and "", which each received three awards, and "Wings", receiving two awards. Among its honors, "Sunrise" won the award for Unique and Artistic Picture and "Wings" won the award for Outstanding Picture (now known as Best Picture). These two categories at the time were regarded equally as the top award of the night intended to honor different and important aspects of superior title: 1st Academy Awards text: pictures ("The Jazz Singer"). Three categories were eliminated for subsequent presentations: Best Engineering Effects, Best Title Writing, and Best Unique and Artistic Quality of Production. The larger film producers received the preponderance of awards: Fox Film Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, and Warner Bros.. Winners are listed first and indicated with double dagger The following six films received multiple nominations: The following three films received multiple awards: 1st Academy Awards The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and took place on May 16, title: 1st Academy Awards text: handle [filmmakers] was to hang medals all over them ... If I got them cups and awards, they'd kill them to produce what I wanted. That's why the Academy Award was created". Mayer asked Cedric Gibbons, art director of MGM, to design an Academy Award trophy. Nominees were notified through a telegram in February 1928. In August 1928, Mayer contacted the Academy Central Board of Judges to decide winners. However, according to the American director King Vidor, the voting for the Academy Award for Best Picture was in the hands of the AMPAS founders Douglas Fairbanks, Sid Grauman, Mayer, Mary title: 1st Academy Awards text: 1st Academy Awards The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929 at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks hosted the show. Tickets cost $5 (which would be $ in considering inflation), 270 people attended the event and the presentation ceremony lasted 15 minutes. Awards were created by Louis B. Mayer, founder of Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation (at present merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). It is the only