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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?
Tempest
7th Heaven
The Last Command
2. Which 1928/29 Best Picture nominee lost to The Broadway Melody?
Weary River
The Patriot
Madame X
3. Which 1929/30 Best Picture nominee lost to All Quiet on the Western Front?
Disraeli
Hallelujah
Hell's Angels
4. Which 1930/31 Best Picture nominee lost to Cimarron?
A Free Soul
Skippy
Morocco
5. Which 1931/32 Best Picture nominee lost to Grand Hotel?
The Champ
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Guardsman
6. Which 1932/33 Best Picture nominee lost to Cavalcade?
When Ladies Meet
A Farewell to Arms
One Way Passage
7. Which 1934 Best Picture nominee lost to It Happened One Night?
The Merry Widow
The Gay Divorcee
Men in Black
8. Which 1935 Best Picture nominee lost to Mutiny on the Bounty ?
The Scoundrel
Gold Diggers of 1935
Top Hat
9. Which 1936 Best Picture nominee lost to The Great Ziegfeld?
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Theodora Goes Wild
My Man Godfrey
10. Which 1937 Best Picture nominee lost to The Life of Emile Zola?
Camille
One Hundred Men and a Girl
The Girl Said No
11. Which 1938 Best Picture nominee lost to You Can't Take It with You?
The Adventures of Robin Hood
White Banners
Angels with Dirty Faces
12. Which 1939 Best Picture nominee lost to Gone With the Wind?
Stagecoach
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Babes in Arms
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