 |

| |
12th Awards: February
29, 1940
Thursday, 8:30 p.m.
The Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles (banquet)
MC - Bob Hope (for last half only) |
| |
13th Awards:
February 27, 1941
Thursday, 8:45 p.m.
The Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles (banquet)
Banquet addressed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt via direct
- line radio from Washington D.C.
Host - Walter Wanger, Academy President |
| |
14th Awards: February
26, 1942
Thursday, 7:45 p.m.
The Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles (dinner)
Wendell Willkie, principal speaker
MC - Bob Hope |
| |
15th Awards: March 4,
1943
Thursday, 8:30 p.m.
The Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles (banquet)
MC - Bob Hope |
| |
16th Awards: March 2,
1944
Thursday, 8:00 p.m.
Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
MC - Jack Benny (for overseas broadcast) |
| |
17th Awards: March 15,
1945
Thursday, 8:00 p.m.
Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
MCs - John Cromwell (for first half)
Bob Hope (for last half)
Program Director - Charles Brackett
General Stage Director - Mervyn LeRoy
Musical Director - Franz Waxman |
| |
18th Awards: March 7,
1946
Thursday, 8:00 p.m.
Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood
MCs - Bob Hope, James Stewart
Produced and Staged by - Dore Schary
Musical Director - Johnny Green |
| |
19th Awards: March 13,
1947
Thursday, 8:45 p.m.
Shrine Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles
MC - Jack Benny
Produced and Staged by - Mervyn LeRoy
Musical Direction - Leo Forbstein |
| |
20th Awards: March 20,
1948
Saturday, 8:15 p.m.
Shrine Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles
Produced and Directed by Delmer Daves
Musical Direction - Ray Heindorf |
| |
21st Awards: March 24,
1949
Thursday, 8:00 p.m.
Academy Award Theater, Hollywood
MC - Robert Mongomery
General Director - William Dozier
Musical Director - Johnny Green |
|