The Best Picture Winner the Oscars Retroactively Took Away

Channel:
United States Collider Ladies Night
Subscribers:
619,000
Published on ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDP-dgJaX6c


Duration: 1:53
1,084 views
36

Here’s a quick question for you: what was the first movie ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture? If you’re an Oscar buff, chances are that you didn’t even blink before answering the obvious: it was Wings, William A. Wellman’s 1927 silent war romance about two pilots fighting for the love of the same woman. But what if I told you that you are wrong? Or, rather, what if I told you that you are only half right? History is frequently a lot more complicated than what we believe, and the history of the Academy Awards is no exception to this rule. Sure, Wings was indeed the first film to win an Oscar for Best Picture, but so was another, less remembered classic: F. W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.

Yes, you read that right: the 1st Academy Award for Best Picture was actually split between two movies. However, only one of these films is featured in official timelines and montages that chronicle the evolution of the Oscars. The other one was reduced to a footnote in the awards’ history, to the point where it actually got mocked by Cameron Diaz in the 2020 ceremony without a single mention of its Best Picture status. How on Earth could the Academy allow something like this to happen? Well, to answer this question, we first have to understand how Sunrise and Wings came to be awarded in the same ceremony.

Read more: https://collider.com/sunrise-a-song-of-two-humans-oscars/

#oscars #academyawards #awards

BREAKING NEWS, REVIEWS & MORE: https://collider.com​​​​​​​​​​​​
SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/collider​​​​​​​​​​​​

FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL
https://twitter.com/collider​​​​​​​​​​​​
https://instagram.com/collider​​​​​​​
https://facebook.com/collider​

For copyright matters please contact us at: legal@valnetinc.com



Other Videos By Collider Ladies Night


2023-04-24Star Trek Picard: Wil Wheaton Explains Why Wesley Can’t Visit The Crushers
2023-04-23Beau Is Afraid Interview: Parker Posey's Burning Questions for Ari Aster
2023-04-22Evil Dead Rise Interview: Meet Lily Sullivan, Your New Chainsaw-Wielding Badass
2023-04-21Evil Dead Rise Interview: Meet Alyssa Sutherland, Your New Favorite Deadite
2023-04-21Does Evil Dead Rise Have an End-Credits Scene?
2023-04-21Yellowjackets Season 2 Episode 5: Samantha Hanratty on THAT Misty/Crystal Moment
2023-04-20The Mandalorian Season 3: Is Half a Pedro Pascal Performance Enough?
2023-04-19Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Once and Always Review: Netflix Special Needs Camp
2023-04-19Scream 3: What If Jennifer Jolie Survived? Here's Parker Posey’s Take
2023-04-18The Little Mermaid Record-Breaking Runtime Revealed
2023-04-17The Best Picture Winner the Oscars Retroactively Took Away
2023-04-14Avengers: Infinity War Had a 45-Minute Deleted Scene You Never Knew About
2023-04-13Harry Potter Series Gets 7-Season Order With JK Rowling Producing
2023-04-12HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery's Merged Streaming Service MAX Unveiled
2023-04-11This Classic Western Turned a Beloved Hollywood Hero Into a Monster
2023-04-1010 Best Movies of All Time, According to Roger Ebert
2023-04-07Star Trek Picard Season 3 Showrunner Explains Where Kestra Is
2023-04-06Obi-Wan Kenobi's Original Ending Makes Way More Sense For the Character
2023-04-05Harry Potter TV Series Reboot in the Works at HBO Max
2023-04-04Hollywood Keeps Trying (and Failing) to Adapt This “Unfilmable” Novel
2023-04-03Melanie Lynskey’s Two & a Half Men Exit Was Uglier Than You Thought


Tags:
1929 oscars
academy award rescinded
academy awards
best picture
best picture academy award
best picture oscar
everything everywhere all at once
f w murnau
first oscar
oscar snubs
oscars controversy
sunrise a song of two humans
the oscars
william a wellman
wings
fw murnau
fw murnau sunrise
wings best picture
wings wins best picture
sunrise best picture
sunrise oscar
sunrise oscar winner
first oscars 1929
1929 oscars nominees and winners