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Academy Awards Ceremonies

  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

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