Wings (film)

Wings
Wings movie poster
Directed by	William A. Wellman
Produced by	Lucien Hubbard
Written by	John Monk Saunders (story) Hope Loring Louis D. Lighton
Starring	Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston, El Brendel, Richard Tucker, Gary Cooper, Gunboat Smith, Henry B. Walthall, Roscoe Karns, Julia Swayne Gordon, Arlette Marchal
Music by	J.S. Zamecnik (uncredited)
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	August 12, 1927 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
Running time	139 min / USA:141 min
Language	English
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Wings is a 1927 silent movie about World War I fighter pilots Charles 'Buddy' Rogers and Richard Arlen who vie for the attentions of (Jobyna Ralston). The film was the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture (then called "Best Picture, Production") in 1929. It was also the only film to ever win the Academy Award for Engineering Effects. The film was written by John Monk Saunders (story), Louis D. Lighton and Hope Loring, and was directed by William A. Wellman, with an original orchestral score by John Stephan Zamecnik (J S Zamecnik), which was uncredited.

It is the first known film to feature a male-on-male kiss.

The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.