Wings is a 1927 movie about fighter pilots during
World War I (
Charles Buddy Rogers[?] and
Richard Arlen[?]), who vie for the same girl (
Clara Bow). The film was the first film to win the
Academy Award for Best Picture (then called "Best Picture, Production", in
1927. It was also the only film to ever win the
Academy Award for Engineering Effects. The film was written by
John Monk Saunders[?] (story) and
Louis D. Lighton[?] and
Hope Loring[?], and directed by
William A. Wellman[?].
The film has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.