Oscar fever, also known as the Academy Awards, is celebrated annually with big and small names coming together to witness this spectacular event. Every year, the Oscar events are held in the United States, which takes almost four hours for the ceremony to end.
The first Academy Awards were held in the year 1929 on Thursday, May 16, at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. This was held to honor the outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928; this ceremony was hosted by actor Douglas Fairbanks and director William C. deMille.
The history of the Academy Awards dates back to 1929 at a private brunch at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood with a small audience of around 270. The first Oscars were broadcast first on radio and then on television after 1953.
The results were declared by the newspaper for publication at 11:00 p.m. on the night of the award ceremony. This continued until the Los Angeles Times announced the winners even before the award ceremony could begin. Since 1941, the Academy ceremony has sealed the envelope to reveal the name of the winners only during the presentation. The awards that were held in 2002 and subsequent years are staged at the Kodak Theater.
The 31st Academy Awards Presentation was held at Pantages Theatre, Hollywood in the year 1959. The 81st Academy Awards Presentation was held at Hollywood and Highland which was hosted in Hollywood in the year 2009 .
Academy Award has generated a lot of applause from around the world. Along with other categories, Best Foreign Language Film is also included in the award ceremony to inaugurate and award films made from other nations.
Other records were witnessed by the audience during the Academy ceremony. First of all, the most wins went to “Ben-Hur,” which won 11 Academy Awards in 1959. The other that followed the suite was “Titanic” in 1997 and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the Kings”, which also won 11 Oscars in 2003.
“Titanic” and “All About Eve” received 14 nominations, but “Titanic” took the most awards that year. Not only was “Dr Stranger Love or: How I Learned to stop Worrying and Love to Bomb” (1965), which was the longest name for Best Picture nominations, and “Z” (1970) was the shortest name announced at the ceremony. .
1977’s “The Turning Point” and 1985’s “The Color Purple” received 11 nominations but failed to win a single award. Not only this “Walt Disney” was nominated for 64 awards and won 26 of them and the first triumph came in 1932.
The Academy Awards are not only intended for male directors, but are other female nominations for this category. They were Lina Wertmuler for 1976’s “Seven Beauties”; Jane Campion for “The Piano” in 1993, Sofia Coppola for “Lost in Translation” in 2003 and Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Lockeran” in 2009, two other African Americans John Singleton for “Boyz n the Hood” in 1991 and Lee Daniels for “Precious” in 2009 failed to win the award in this category.
The 82nd Academy Awards, honoring the best films of 2009, will take place on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, with actors Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin hosting the ceremony. . Much of the anticipation is for James Cameron, the “Avatar” master who has broken all box office records.