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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?
Weary River ✓
Madame X ✓
The Patriot ✓
3. Which 1929/30 Best Picture nominee lost to All Quiet on the Western Front?
Hell's Angels ✓
Disraeli ✓
Hallelujah ✓
4. Which 1930/31 Best Picture nominee lost to Cimarron?
A Free Soul ✓
Morocco ✓
Skippy ✓
5. Which 1931/32 Best Picture nominee lost to Grand Hotel?
The Champ ✓
The Guardsman ✓
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ✓
6. Which 1932/33 Best Picture nominee lost to Cavalcade?
When Ladies Meet ✓
One Way Passage ✓
A Farewell to Arms ✓
7. Which 1934 Best Picture nominee lost to It Happened One Night?
Men in Black ✓
The Merry Widow ✓
The Gay Divorcee ✓
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?
Angels with Dirty Faces ✓
White Banners ✓
The Adventures of Robin Hood ✓
12. Which 1939 Best Picture nominee lost to Gone With the Wind?
Stagecoach ✓
Babes in Arms ✓
The Hunchback of Notre Dame ✓
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