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Academy Award for Best Picture

annual award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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Summary

Academy Award for Best Picture is an award for best film[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of award for best film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (66,544 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Winner: Wings[3], The Broadway Melody[4], All Quiet on the Western Front[5], Cimarron[6], Grand Hotel[7], Cavalcade[8], It Happened One Night[9], Mutiny on the Bounty[10], The Great Ziegfeld[11], The Life of Emile Zola[12], You Can't Take It With You[13], Gone with the Wind[14], Rebecca[15], How Green Was My Valley[16]
  • Country: United States[17]
  • Part of: Academy Awards[18]
  • Commons category: Academy Award for Best Picture[19]
  • Inception: 1929[20]
  • Official website: https://oscar.go.com/nominees/best-picture[21]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Best Picture Academy Award winners[22]
  • Conferred by: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences[23]

Why It Matters

Academy Award for Best Picture has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

FAQs

What awards did Academy Award for Best Picture receive?

Honors received include Wings[3], The Broadway Melody[4], All Quiet on the Western Front[5], and Cimarron[6].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · NeverDoING · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Commons category → Academy Award for Best Picture
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  2. 6w ago · CommonsDelinker · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Icon → —
    Instance of → award for best film
    Part of → Academy Awards
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