Sixteen months before THR was launched — and 91 years before 1917Movie entered the Oscars race — World War I film 'Wings' won the Academy's top prize
Sixteen months before The Hollywood Reporter was launched — and 91 years before '1917' entered the Oscar race — the World War I film won the Academy's top prize.entered the Oscar race — the World War I filmwon the first Academy Award for "outstanding picture.
" And in May 1929, besides not being called best picture, the award presented in the Hollywood Roosevelt ballroom wasn't even called Oscar; that didn't happen until the mid-1930s, after the Academy's Margaret Herrick reportedly said that the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar., the 1927 release still involved 5,000 extras, a half-dozen tanks and 100 biplanes. The cost was estimated at $2 million . "It" girl Clara Bow starred as a woman loved by two young pilots .
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