13 Facts About Academy Award

Academy Award was originally sculpted by George Stanley from a design sketch by Cedric Gibbons.

In 1940, the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began; as a result, the following year the Academy Award started using a sealed envelope to reveal the names of the winners.

Academy Award 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.

In 2016, the Academy Award returned to bronze as the core metal of the statuettes, handing manufacturing duties to Walden, New York-based Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry.

Academy Award officially adopted the name "Oscar" for the trophies in 1939.

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Until 2010, winners returned their statuettes to the Academy Award and had to wait several weeks to have their names inscribed on their respective Oscars.

The Academy Award earned enforcement of its statuette contract by gaining a permanent injunction against the sale.

Academy Award membership is divided into different branches, with each representing a different discipline in film production.

In May 2011, the Academy Award sent a letter advising its 6, 000 or so voting members that an online system for Oscar voting would be implemented in 2013.

In 2021, for the 2022 Oscars, the Academy Award banned all physical screeners and in-person screenings, restricting official membership viewing to the Academy Award Screening Room.

The Academy Award has produced condensed versions of the ceremony for broadcast in international markets in more desirable local timeslots.

In 2010, the Academy contemplated moving the ceremony even further back into January, citing TV viewers' fatigue with the film industry's long awards season.

William Friedkin, an Academy Award-winning film director and former producer of the ceremony, expressed this sentiment at a conference in New York in 2009, describing it as "the greatest promotion scheme that any industry ever devised for itself.