5 Facts About Academy Awards

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

2. In 2018, the Academy Awards announced that the ceremony would be moved from late February to mid February beginning with the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020.

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

4. 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.

5. On 30 March 1981, the 53rd Academy Awards was postponed for one day, after the shooting of President Ronald Reagan and others in Washington, DC.