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For the unrelated, but same-named TV Show, see here. For Paul McCartney's 1970s solo band, see here.

Wings is a 1927 film that tells a love story between two pilots and two girls. Their lives are disrupted by World War One. Notable for its realistic air battles, filmed without miniatures or rear projection (the latter hadn't been invented yet).

It's also notable for the fact that it won the very first Oscar for Best Picture. Note that there were two categories for Best Picture in the first year. The one that's officially counted today is "Best Production," which was won by this film. The other one, "Unique and Artistic Production", was won by Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, a film that is far better remembered today.

For several decades, it was also the only silent film to have won Best Picture, as the first ceremony coincided with the rise of "talkies."[1] The only other one--The Artist--won Best Picture a whopping 84 years later.


The film features the following tropes:

  1. The first talkie, The Jazz Singer, was rendered ineligible despite coming out during the same period just so this film could win.
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