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
The Last Command
7th Heaven
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?
Hallelujah
Disraeli
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
The Guardsman
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6. Which 1932/33 Best Picture nominee lost to Cavalcade?
One Way Passage
When Ladies Meet
A Farewell to Arms
7. Which 1934 Best Picture nominee lost to It Happened One Night?
Men in Black
The Gay Divorcee
The Merry Widow
8. Which 1935 Best Picture nominee lost to Mutiny on the Bounty ?
Top Hat
The Scoundrel
Gold Diggers of 1935
9. Which 1936 Best Picture nominee lost to The Great Ziegfeld?
My Man Godfrey
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Theodora Goes Wild
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?
White Banners
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Angels with Dirty Faces
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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