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?
7th Heaven
The Last Command
Tempest
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?
Hallelujah
Hell's Angels
Disraeli
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
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Guardsman
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?
The Gay Divorcee
The Merry Widow
Men in Black
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?
Theodora Goes Wild
My Man Godfrey
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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
The Adventures of Robin Hood
White Banners
12. Which 1939 Best Picture nominee lost to Gone With the Wind?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Stagecoach
Babes in Arms
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