Photoplay Award / Best Film
Photoplay Award : Best Film
Winner in the Best Film category . From 1921 to 1969 the "Photoplay Medal" ("Photoplay Medal of Honor", also called "Photoplay Gold Medal") honored the best film of the year. The winners were voted on by the readers of the film magazine Photoplay until 1940 and from 1954; from 1945 to 1953 the winners were determined by an opinion poll by Audience Research Inc.
The years given below indicate the film years evaluated. The awards took place in the following year.