Every Best Picture - Wings (1927) - Academy Award Winners series

In Every Best Picture we are doing Deep Dives on every winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture. For our inaugural episode, we look at William A. Wellman's 1927 silent WWI epic "Wings", starring Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen and a young Gary Cooper.

We discuss the merits and innovations of the very first "Best Picture" winner, presented in 1929, and assess whether or not it has stood the test of time.

0:00 - Intro

1:46 - Wings synopsis

2:24 - First thoughts on Wings

5:30 - Inspires so many war films that have followed

9:34 - First of many collaborations between Hollywood & the military

12:50 - In 1927 even our racism was racist

14:20 - Clara Bow was the biggest star of her time

17:54 - Fan boying out to Gary Cooper

22:01 - Early tracking camera work in Wings

25:02 - Wings at the first Academy Awards

27:22 - Does Wings deserve its place in cinema history?