The Last Command was nominated for 3
Oscars, including Best Picture, winning one for German actor Emil Jannings.
Oscar Movies: Last Command, The (1928)
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Oscar Movies: Hollywood Revue of 1929, The (1929)
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929 was nominated for one Oscar, Best Picture, but the award went to another MGM musical, The Broadway Melody.
Oscar Movies: Front Page, The (1931)
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The Front Page was nominated for 3 Oscars, Best Picture, Director Lewis Milestone, and Actor Adolph Menjou, but it lost in all categories; the winner was Cimarron.
Oscar Movies: East Lynne (1931)
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East Lynne was nominated for one Oscar, Best Picture, but the winner was Cimarron, the first and one of the few Westerns to win the top award.
Oscar Movies: Divorcee, The (1930)
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The Divorcee was nominated for 4
Oscars: Best, Director Robert Z. Leonard, Actress Norma Shearer, and Writing Achievement John Meehan, winning one for Shearer, who then married to production head Irving G. Thalberg.
Oscar Context
The Best Picture (or Production, as it was then called) went to All Quiet on the western Front.
Frank Lloyd won the Director Oscar for The Divine Lady; The Screenwriting Oscar went to Frances Marion for The Big House.
