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09.02.2020 / 04:06
Hollywood Flashback: 'Wings' Soared to Win First "Outstanding Picture" Award
Sixteen months before THR was launched — and 91 years before 1917 entered the Oscar race — the World War I film Wings won the first Academy Award for "outstanding picture." And in May 1929, besides not being called best picture, the award presented in the Hollywood Roosevelt ballroom wasn't even called Oscar; that didn't happen until the mid-1930s, after the Academy's Margaret Herrick reportedly said that the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar.But Wings was not an unexpected choice.Though it