WhenWasThe?com » movies https://www.whenwasthe.com Sun, 08 Oct 2017 22:12:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 First Oscar Award Ceremony? https://www.whenwasthe.com/first-oscar-award-ceremony/ https://www.whenwasthe.com/first-oscar-award-ceremony/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2015 10:44:12 +0000 http://www.whenwasthe.com/?p=129 The very first Academy Awards (Oscar) ceremony was on May 16, 1929. The presentation ceremony lasted 15 minutes. Movies from 1927 and 1928 were eligible.

Wings (1927) won best picture. It was a silent movie set in World War I, combining action and romance with a little nudity and the first same sex onscreen kiss.

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