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The last time a silent movie was nominated for Best Picture was The Patriot in 1928 and it's so obscure today it's apparently the only Best Picture nominee in the history of the Academy Awards that no longer exists.

Today the Oscars are the ultimate showbiz institution - with a swarm of pundits, publicists and consultants keeping the machine running smoothly all season long.

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With the silent film The Artist in competition for this year's Best Picture Oscar, movie critic Bob Mondello has been thinking about the pre-talkie era.

The recently released 'Red Tails' tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, black fighter pilots who fought the enemy and prejudice during World War II.

The nominations for the 2012 Academy Awards were announced this week, just as the very first best-picture winner arrived for the first time on Blu-ray. Wings , the silent, black-and-white World War I epic, has been fully restored with a newly recorded orchestral score.

Synopsis ~ Wings is the story of two men who have gone to war and the girl they both leave behind.

"Wings," the first film to win the Academy Award for best picture, made its long-awaited debut on DVD and Blu-ray this week.

Instead of the grotesqueness of the "Saw" franchise, with their overwrought torture scenes and excessive gore, the "Paranormal Activity" movies are instead high on scares and low on blood and guts.

We are in the heart of Awards Season and not only are there plenty of Oscar hopefuls in theaters, but there are also several that have recently been released on the home market.

Paramount Home Entertainment kicks off the studio's centennial celebration in 2012 by releasing the inaugural Best Picture Academy Award winner WINGS for the first time ever on Blu-rayTM and DVD January 24, 2012.

Richard Arlen, in an image from 1927's 'Wings,' a silent film that stands as the winner of the first Oscar for Best Picture.

Rihanna and Coldplay sing together on the group's latest album, and they'll do so again at next month's Grammy Awards.

"Red Tails," in theaters this weekend, is about the first black fighter pilots in the United States: the Tuskegee Airmen who finally saw battle in the skies over Europe during World War II.

Tuesday will see the announcement of the Oscar nominations - and the DVD and Blu-ray release of the first-ever best-picture Oscar winner.

The Jan. 24 DVD releases include a high-flying film classic and a powerful tale about a man fighting cancer.

Last night at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, there was a special screening of a restored version of original Best Picture co-winner Wings .

As silent movie The Artist tap-dances its way through awards season, we look back at the first movie to win the Academy Award for best picture, 1927's silent epic Wings.