The Artist was the first silent movie to win Best Picture since Wings, the first Best Picture winner (1927-28).
'Wings' won the very first Best Picture Oscar and is the only silent film to have done so.
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Yes, in 1948, it was the first and to day the only Shakespeare play to win the award. Laurence Olivier also won for Best Actor and the film also won for Best Art Direction in black in white and Best Costume Design in black and white.
The first comedy to win the Academy Award for Best Picture was Frank Capra's 1934 film "It Happened One Night," which starred Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. It was the first of three movies to win the top five Oscars on the same night: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and a screenwriting award. The two others that accomplished the feat: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991).
Wings
It was the first film, and the only silent film ever, to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Wings, the first Outstanding Picture, also won an Academy Award for Effects.
The first film to get Oscar is Wings as per now knowledge. The awards were first given in 1929 at a ceremony created for the awards, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood. Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently Oscars are given in more than a dozen categories, and include films of various types.