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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
Tempest
7th Heaven
2. Which 1928/29 Best Picture nominee lost to The Broadway Melody?
The Patriot
Madame X
Weary River
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?
Morocco
A Free Soul
Skippy
5. Which 1931/32 Best Picture nominee lost to Grand Hotel?
The Guardsman
The Champ
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?
The Merry Widow
Men in Black
The Gay Divorcee
8. Which 1935 Best Picture nominee lost to Mutiny on the Bounty ?
Gold Diggers of 1935
Top Hat
The Scoundrel
9. Which 1936 Best Picture nominee lost to The Great Ziegfeld?
My Man Godfrey
Theodora Goes Wild
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
10. Which 1937 Best Picture nominee lost to The Life of Emile Zola?
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Camille
The Girl Said No
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?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Babes in Arms
Stagecoach
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