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1920s/30s Best Picture Oscar Nominees - Multiple Choice

Identify the 20s/30s films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture* but lost.

Other decades in this quiz series here.

Wrong answers were nominated in categories other than Best Picture* in the same year(s).
Years given are the years in film being awarded, not the dates of the ceremonies.
*Known as the award for Outstanding Picture or Outstanding Production in this era.
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1. Which 1927/28 Best Picture nominee lost to Wings?
The Last Command
7th Heaven
Tempest
2. Which 1928/29 Best Picture nominee lost to The Broadway Melody?
The Patriot
Weary River
Madame X
3. Which 1929/30 Best Picture nominee lost to All Quiet on the Western Front?
Hallelujah
Disraeli
Hell's Angels
4. Which 1930/31 Best Picture nominee lost to Cimarron?
Skippy
Morocco
A Free Soul
5. Which 1931/32 Best Picture nominee lost to Grand Hotel?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Guardsman
The Champ
6. Which 1932/33 Best Picture nominee lost to Cavalcade?
A Farewell to Arms
When Ladies Meet
One Way Passage
7. Which 1934 Best Picture nominee lost to It Happened One Night?
The Gay Divorcee
The Merry Widow
Men in Black
8. Which 1935 Best Picture nominee lost to Mutiny on the Bounty ?
Top Hat
Gold Diggers of 1935
The Scoundrel
9. Which 1936 Best Picture nominee lost to The Great Ziegfeld?
Theodora Goes Wild
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
My Man Godfrey
10. Which 1937 Best Picture nominee lost to The Life of Emile Zola?
The Girl Said No
Camille
One Hundred Men and a Girl
11. Which 1938 Best Picture nominee lost to You Can't Take It with You?
White Banners
Angels with Dirty Faces
The Adventures of Robin Hood
12. Which 1939 Best Picture nominee lost to Gone With the Wind?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Babes in Arms
Stagecoach
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