25 Facts About Academy Awards

Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American film industry.

Academy Awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the film industry in the United States.

The Academy Awards ceremony was first broadcast by radio in 1930 and was televised for the first time in 1953.

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

Much of its early history, the Academy Awards did not enjoy the luxury of a permanent home open to the public in California.

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Academy Awards 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.

From 1973 to 2020, all Academy Awards ceremonies have ended with the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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

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

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

Academy Awards predating this agreement have been sold in public auctions and private deals for six-figure sums.

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

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

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

Since the 90th Academy Awards, presented in 2018, multi-part and limited series have been ineligible for the Best Documentary Feature award.

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

Academy Awards is the world's longest-running awards show televised live from the U S to all-time zones in North America and worldwide, and gathers billions of viewers elsewhere throughout the world.

The Academy Awards 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.

Originally scheduled for April 8, 1968, the 40th Academy Awards ceremony was postponed for two days, because of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

In 1929, the first Academy Awards were presented at a banquet dinner at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.

Special Academy Awards are voted on by special committees, rather than by the Academy membership as a whole.

William Friedkin, an Academy Awards 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.

Academy Awards have long received criticism over its lack of diversity among the nominees.

Some winners critical of the Academy Awards have boycotted the ceremonies and refused to accept their Oscars.

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