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The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. Awarded annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1929 in Los Angeles, it recognizes excellence in many aspects of motion picture making, such as acting, directing, and screenwriting.
Academy Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, which as of 2007 had a voting membership of 5,830. Actors, with a membership of 1,311, make up the largest voting bloc at 22 percent. The votes have been tabulated and certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and its predecessor Price Waterhouse for 72 years, since close to the awards' inception.
The 81st Academy Awards was held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on Sunday, February 22, 2009. The ceremony honoring the best of film for 2008 was hosted for the first time by Australian actor, singer, and dancer Hugh Jackman.
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Selected ceremony
The 74th Academy Awards were held on March 24, 2002 It was historically significant for a number of reasons. It saw the return of the Academy Awards celebrations to Hollywood, after more than forty years away, taking place at the brand new Kodak Theatre. The ceremony was also the longest-ever Oscar show. The ceremony also saw both the Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars awarded to African-American actors (Denzel Washington and Halle Berry respectively) for the first time in Academy Award history.
Resources
- Oscars.org (official Academy site)
- Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)
- The Academy Awards Database (official site)
- Oscars Photos (Moviefone)
- Academy Awards Photos and News(People.com)
- Academy Award at the Internet Movie Database
- Academy Awards - Feature from Daily Telegraph
- Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
Did you know...
- ...that the oldest person ever to win an Oscar: Jessica Tandy (age 80) for Driving Miss Daisy.
- ...that Walt Disney holds the record for having the most Academy Awards: 22 won, and 4 honorary. He also holds the record for the most nominations, having been nominated for 64 Academy Awards during his lifetime.
- ...That the first movie to win a best picture award was the 1927 film Wings.
- ...at the 1st Academy Awards tickets were $10, and fewer than 250 people attended the ceremony.
- George Bernard Shaw is the only person to have been awarded both an Oscar (Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Pygmalion in 1938) and a Nobel Prize (the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925). However, Nobel laureate John Steinbeck was nominated for his screenplay for Lifeboat (1944), and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter was nominated for his screenplays for both The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and Betrayal (1983).
- With 45 Oscar nominations, film composer John Williams is currently the most-nominated person alive.
- Sound re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell currently holds the record for most Oscar nominations without a win at 20. His most recent nomination was for Transformers (2007).
- For the Best Director Award, John Ford holds the record for the most awards (four awards resulting from five nominations), while William Wyler holds the record for the most nominations (12 nominations resulting in three awards).
- Only six directors have won Oscars for their screen debuts [1]: Delbert Mann, Jerome Robbins, Robert Redford, James L. Brooks, Kevin Costner, and Sam Mendes.
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Academy Award news
- 2008
- September 24 - Bill Condon and Laurence Mark are announced producers for the 81st Academy Awards.
- December 12 - Condon and Mark name Australian actor Hugh Jackman to emcee the 81st Academy Awards
- 2009
- January 22 - Nominations for the 81st Academy Awards are released with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leading the nominations with 13. Slumdog Millionaire followed with ten nominations.
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