The award for the Best Picture in the year 1929-30, was won by the movie called ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’. It was the first major anti-war film of the sound era, faithfully based upon the timeless, best-selling novel by Erich Maria Remarque, who had experienced the war first-hand as a young German soldier.
The film won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. The other two nominations were Best Writing, and Best Cinematography. It was the first film to win both Best Picture and Best Director, a feat that became common in later years. This movie was directed by Lewis Milestone. The movie stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.
The film includes a series of scenes that portray the futility of war from the sympathetic point of view of young German soldiers in the trenches during the Great War.
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