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To Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia.
The 14th Academy Awards honored film achievements in 1941 and were held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was briefly cancelled due to the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
The film's innovators (Walt Disney, William Garity, John N.A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company) also won a second Special Award for "their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures."
Date of Ceremony: Thursday, February 27, 1941. For films released in: 1940. Host (s): Bob Hope. Nominations List. Other years: < 12th. 14th > There was a lot more anticipation as stars headed into the Biltmore Hotel’s Biltmore Bowl on Thursday, February 27, 1941 for the 13th Annual Academy Awards.
The 13th Academy Awards were held on February 27, 1941, to honor films released in 1940. This was the first year that sealed envelopes were used to keep the names of the winners secret. The accounting firm of Price Waterhouse was hired to count the ballots, after voting results in 1939 were leaked by the Los Angeles Times.
May 25, 2016 · The original “Outstanding Picture” lasted for the first two ceremonies before becoming “Outstanding Production” in 1930, a change that held until 1941 when the Academy renamed the prize “Outstanding Motion Picture.”
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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
