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Feb 5, 2014 · SPECIAL AWARD. To Douglas Fairbanks (Commemorative Award) – recognizing the unique and outstanding contribution of Douglas Fairbanks, first President of the Academy, to the international development of the motion picture.
Official site of the Academy with history and general information on the Academy Awards, as well as photographs, events and screenings, and press releases.
The 11th Academy Awards | 1939. Biltmore Bowl of the Biltmore Hotel. Thursday, February 23, 1939. ... Art Direction. Winner. The Adventures of Robin Hood. Carl J. Weyl
The 12th Academy Awards ceremony, held on February 29, 1940 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best in film for 1939 at a banquet in the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but from 1939 through 1956 and again from 1959-1966, it was divided into two categories Best Art Direction (Black-and-White) and Best Art Direction...
12th Academy Awards (1939) 1. Gone with the Wind (1939) Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War. A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
[NOTE: For the third Academy Awards no certificates of nomination were given out in this category, only the titles of the nominated films and their companies were listed. When the winners were...
