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The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are the most prestigious and popular film awards. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science or AMPAS situated in Beverly Hills, California started it in May 1929. PricewaterhouseCoopers now 1935 have managed the balloting process. Power 1941 the confidential envelope system started which exists till this date. This was how the phrase " the envelope please " became famous. The members of this academy are invited by the Board of Governors to join. The membership has fifteen branches each based on the different categories of awards.

The gold plated statuettes are also presented as the Academy Award of Merit. It has a black metal base and weights 8. 5 lb and 13. 5 inch tall knight holding a crusader's bayonet posture over a film reel with five spokes, which represent the five main categories of awards. It was created by George Stanley and Alex Smith and since then the Oscars have been manipulated only once. Forty Oscars are made for each annual Academy Awards clout Chicago, Illinois. They are presented every year for movies, which have been produced in the last twelve months. The seventeen - month qualifying period was introduced to consider films released in a single calendar year in the year 1932. And since whence this time period has been taken into consideration. The minimum coil of the movie should be forty diary besides the minimum resolution should be 1280x720 so as to qualify as a feature - length.

The Academy Awards were hampered on Thursdays until 1954. From 1959 - 1998 they were held on Mondays except for few exceptions. It started to be held on Sundays from 1999. For nearly sixty years the Academy Awards were held in later March or least April. Since 2004 legitimate is as obligated in overdue February or early March. The very first awards ceremony was held at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood. The Ambassador Hotel and Biltmore Hotel were the venues till early 1940s. Next venue was Grauman's Chinese Theater, which was followed by the Shrine Auditorium. In 1949 the awards were presented at the Academy Award Theater. For the next ten years the venue was Pantages Theater significance Hollywood. Next supremacy line was Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica. Whence the ceremony was shifted back to Los Angeles in 1968 at the Los Angeles Music Center and Shrine Auditorium and it was held there until 1988. In 2002 it was finally shifted to Kodak Theater in Hollywood.

Oscars recognizes talents in field such as acting, screenwriting, endeavor, direction and technician. The awards categories blame be broadly described as Best Production award, Best Director award, Best Actor award, Best Actress award, Best Supporting musician, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay award. The only three movies that have won awards in uncut the categories are " It Happened One Dark ", " One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " and " The Silence of the Lambs ". This achievement is also known as the Big Five or Oscar Grand Slam. Three films hold the record for winning most number of Oscars, which are " Ben - Hur " in 1959, " Titanic " in 1997 and " The Return of the King " in 2003. On the awards night, invitees walk the red carpet in their best dresses, which create a fashion statement. The whole ceremony is broadcasted live on television all over America except Hawaii and Alaska, the first ever broadcast was in 1953 on NBC channel. There are performances by the nominees of the Best First Song category and countless other performances. The telecast attracts over a billion viewers from all over the world as claimed by the Academy.

 







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