10 Facts About Academy Awards

1. Academy Awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment industry worldwide.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Finally, a film that is selected as a gold, silver, or bronze medal winner in an appropriate category of the immediately previous Student Academy Awards is eligible.

6. 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.

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

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

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

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