Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars

Current categories
Best Picture: since 1927/28
Best Director: since 1927/28
Best Actor: since 1927/28
Best Actress: since 1927/28
Best Supporting Actor: since 1936
Awards of Merit categories
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Best Supporting Actress: since 1936
Best Animated Feature Film: since
2001
Best Animated Short Film: since
1930/31
Best Cinematography: since 1927/28
Best Costume Design: since 1948
Best Documentary Feature: since 1943
Best Documentary Short Subject: since
1941
Best Film Editing: since 1934
Best International Feature Film:
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since 1947
Best Live Action Short Film: since
1931/32

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In the first year of the awards, the Best
Directing award was split into two
categories (Drama and Comedy). At
times, the Best Original Score award has
also been split into separate categories
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: since
1981
Best Original Score: since 1934
Best Original Song: since 1934
Best Production Design: since 1927/28
Best Sound: since 1929/30
Best Visual Effects: since 1939
Best Adapted Screenplay: since
1927/28
Best Original Screenplay: since 1940

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(Drama and Comedy/Musical). From the
1930s through the 1960s, the Art
Direction (now Production Design),
Cinematography, and Costume Design
awards were likewise split into two
categories (black-and-white films and
color films). Prior to 2012, the Production
Design award was called Art Direction,
while the Makeup and Hairstyling award
was called Makeup.
In August 2018, the Academy announced
that several categories would not be
televised live, but rather be recorded
during commercial breaks and aired later
in the ceremony.
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 Following dissent
from Academy members, they

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announced that they would indeed air all
24 categories live. This followed a
number of proposals (among them, the
introduction of a Popular Film category)
that the Academy had announced but did
not implement.
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