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12th Academy Awards - February 29, 1940
Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles
Best Picture: Gone With the Wind (December 28, 1939)
• Shearer to Star in 'Gone With the Wind' (June 24, 1938)
• Shearer Gives Up Role of Scarlett (August 1, 1938)
• Scarlett — Otherwise Known as Vivien Leigh — Finally Comes to Town (July 16, 1939)
• The 'Wind' Sweeps Clean (March 10, 1940)
• Juliet, Not Scarlett (June 9, 1940)
• GWTW: Supercolossal Saga of an Epic (October 26, 1940)
• Reunion Recalls Those Gone With the Wind (December 31, 1979)

13th Academy Awards - February 27, 1941
Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
Best Picture: Rebecca (March 29, 1940)
• Hitchcock Considers 'Rebecca' (March 19, 1939)

14th Academy Awards - February 26, 1942
Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles
Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley (October 29, 1941)
• Village for Sale (September 7, 1941)

15th Academy Awards - March 4, 1943
Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles
Best Picture: Mrs. Miniver (June 5, 1942)
• Veni, Vidi, Vici! (March 15, 1942)
• William Wyler and His Screen Philosophy (November 17, 1946)

16th Academy Awards - March 2, 1944
Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
Best Picture: Casablanca (November 27, 1942)
• Ingrid Bergman: In, but Not of, Hollywood (December 26, 1943)

17th Academy Awards - March 15, 1945
Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
Best Picture: Going My Way (May 3, 1944)
• Clerical Callers (May 7, 1944)
• Fitzgerald Meets Fame — and He Frowns (January 14, 1945)

18th Academy Awards - March 7, 1946
Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
Best Picture: The Lost Weekend (December 3, 1945)
• Alcohol and Celluloid (December 9, 1945)

19th Academy Awards - March 13, 1947
The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
Best Picture: The Best Years of Our Lives (November 22, 1946)
• William Wyler and His Screen Philosophy (November 17, 1946)

20th Academy Awards - March 20, 1948
The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
Best Picture: Gentleman's Agreement (November 12, 1947)
• Anti-Semitism Assaulted Boldly on the Screen (November 16, 1947)

21st Academy Awards - March 24, 1949
The Academy Theater, Hollywood
Best Picture: Hamlet (September 30, 1948)
• Olivier Explains His Cinematic Approach to 'Hamlet', by Sir Laurence Olivier (September 19, 1948)
• The Oliviers in Hollywood (October 22, 1950)

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Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund Laszlo in "Casablanca." (United Artists)

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