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12th Academy Awards
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American Motion Picture Academy film award
Key facts
- Date
- February 29, 1940
- Site
- Coconut Grove , The Ambassador Hotel , Los Angeles
- Hosted by
- Bob Hope
- Best picture
- Gone with the Wind
- Most awards
- Gone with the Wind (8)
- Most nominations
- Gone with the Wind (13)
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Series
- Academy Awards
- Followed by
- 13th Academy Awards
- Follows
- 11th Academy Awards
- Location
- Ambassador Hotel
- Official website
- www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1940
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- point in time
- 1940-02-29
- edition number
- 12
- presenter
- Bob Hope
- awarded for period
- 1939-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
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. It was hosted by Bob Hope, in his first of nineteen turns as host.
David O. Selznick's Gone with the Wind received the most nominations of the year with thirteen, winning eight Oscars (both records at the time). It became the first film in color that won Best Picture. This year was the first in which multiple films received ten or more nominations (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington received eleven).
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