The Wizard of Oz was nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Picture In 1939,It lost the award in the Best Picture category to "Gone with the Wind" but won in the category of Best Song for "Over the Rainbow."
It's been 71 years since "The Wizard of Oz" first burst onto screens,There's something special on Google.com today: The search engine's normal logo has been replaced by a colorful, yellow-brick-road drawing of Dorothy and her friends from the Wizard of Oz.
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