Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars

Country
United States
Presented by
Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and
Sciences

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Sc e ces
First awarded
May 16, 1929
Website
oscar.go.com

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Most recent Academy Award
winners
Best in films in 2019
 
Award Best Actor
Best
Actress
Winner
Joaquin
Phoenix 
(Joker)
Renée
Zellweger 
(Judy)
 
Award
Best
Supporting
Actor
Best
Supporting
Actress
Winner'>Winner Brad Pitt
Laura Dern

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Winner Brad Pitt 
(Once
Upon a
Time in
Hollywood)
Laura Dern 
(Marriage
Story)
 
Award
Best
Director
and Best
Original
Screenplay
Best
Adapted
Screenplay
Winner
Bong
Joon-ho 
(Parasite)
Taika
Waititi 
(Jojo
Rabbit)
Previous Best
Best Picture

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The award was originally sculpted by
George Stanley from a design sketch by
Cedric Gibbons.
[2]
 AMPAS first presented
it in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by
Douglas Fairbanks in the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel in what would become
known as the 1st Academy Awards.
[3][4]
The Academy Awards ceremony was first
broadcast by radio in 1930 and was
televised for the first time in 1953. It is
the oldest worldwide entertainment
awards ceremony and is now televised
Previous Best
Picture 
Green Book 
Best Picture  
Parasite 

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live worldwide.
[5]
 It is also the oldest of
the four major annual American
entertainment awards; its equivalents –
the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony
Awards for theater, and the Grammy
Awards for music – are modeled after
the Academy Awards.
[6]
 They are widely
cited as the most famous and
prestigious competitive awards in the
field of entertainment.
The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony,
honoring the best films of 2019, was held
on February 9, 2020. As with the previous
ceremony, there was no host. The
ceremony was broadcast on ABC. It took
place at the Dolby Theatre in Los

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Angeles, California, for the 18th
consecutive year. This ceremony marked
the first time in Oscar history that more
than three films had received ten or more
nominations.
[7]
 A total of 3,140 Oscar
statuettes have been awarded since its
inception in 1929.
[8]
The first Academy Awards presentation
was held on May 16, 1929, at a private
dinner function at the Hollywood
Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of
about 270 people.
[9]
The post-awards party was held at the
Mayfair Hotel.
[5]
 The cost of guest tickets
History

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for that night's ceremony was $5 ($74 in
2020 dollars). Fifteen statuettes were
awarded, honoring artists, directors and
other participants in the film-making
industry of the time, for their works
during the 1927–28 period. The
ceremony ran for 15 minutes.
Winners were announced to media three
months earlier. That was changed for the
second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for
the rest of the first decade, the results
were given to newspapers for publication
at 11:00 pm on the night of the awards.
[5]
This method was used until 1940, when
the Los Angeles Times announced the
winners before the ceremony began; as a

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result, the Academy has, since 1941,
used a sealed envelope to reveal the
names of the winners.
[5]
Milestones
The first Best Actor awarded was Emil
Jannings, for his performances in The
Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.
He had to return to Europe before the
ceremony, so the Academy agreed to
give him the prize earlier; this made him
the first Academy Award winner in
history. At that time, winners were
recognized for the entirety of their work
done in a certain category during the
qualifying period; for example, Jannings
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received the award for two movies in
which he starred during that period, and
Janet Gaynor later won a single Oscar for
performances in three films. With the
fourth ceremony, however, the system
changed, and professionals were
honored for a specific performance in a
single film. For the first six ceremonies,
the eligibility period spanned two
calendar years.
[5]
At the 29th ceremony, held in 1957, the
Best Foreign Language Film category,
now known as Best International Feature
Film, was introduced. Until then, foreign-
language films had been honored with
the Special Achievement Award.

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Perhaps the most widely seen streaker in
history was 34-year-old Robert Opel, who
streaked across the stage of The Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles flashing
a peace sign on national US television at
the 46th Academy Awards in 1974.
Bemused host David Niven quipped, "Isn't
it fascinating to think that probably the
only laugh that man will ever get in his
life is by stripping off and showing his
shortcomings?" Later, evidence arose
suggesting that Opel's appearance was
facilitated as a publicity stunt by the
show's producer Jack Haley Jr. Robert
Metzler, the show's business manager,
believed that the incident had been
planned in some way; during the dress

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rehearsal Niven had asked Metzler's wife
to borrow a pen so he could write down
the famous line, which was thus not the
ad-lib it appeared to be.
[10]
The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002,
presented the first Academy Award for
Best Animated Feature.
[11]
Since 1973, all Academy Awards
ceremonies have ended with the
Academy Award for Best Picture.
Traditionally, the previous year's winner
for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor
present the awards for Best Actress and
Best Supporting Actress, while the
previous year's winner for Best Actress

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and Best Supporting Actress present the
awards for Best Actor and Best
Supporting Actor.
Parasite became the first foreign-
language film to win Best Picture at the
February 9, 2020 award ceremony.
[12]
Tom Hanks announced at the 2020 Oscar
Ceremony, the opening of the Academy
Museum of Motion Pictures on
December 14, 2020.
[13]
 The museum
development started in 2017 under Kerry
Brougher, but is now led by Bill
Kramer.
[14]
 The industry curated exhibits
will be geared toward the history of
motion picture, the art & science of film
making, exhibiting trailblazing directors,

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actors, film makers, sound editors and
more, and will house famous artifacts
from acclaimed movies like Dorothy's
Ruby Red Slippers.
Because of COVID-19, Academy
president David Rubin and CEO Dawn
Hudson announced that for the 2021
Oscar Ceremony, streaming movies not
shown in theaters would be eligible,
though at some point the requirement
that movies be shown in theaters would
return.
[15]