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The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. Awarded annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1929 in Los Angeles, it recognizes excellence in many aspects of motion picture making, such as acting, directing and screenwriting.

Academy Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, which as of 2007 had a voting membership of 5,830. Actors, with a membership of 1,311, make up the largest voting bloc at 22 percent. The votes have been tabulated and certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and its predecessor Price Waterhouse for 72 years, since close to the awards' inception.

Most recently, the 80th Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles to honor outstanding film achievements of 2007. It was hosted by Comedy Central's The Daily Show host Jon Stewart.

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The 74th Academy Awards were held on March 24, 2002 It was historically significant for a number of reasons. It saw the return of the Academy Awards celebrations to Hollywood, after more than forty years away, taking place at the brand new Kodak Theatre. The ceremony was also the longest ever Oscar show. The ceremony also saw both the Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars awarded to African-American actors (Denzel Washington and Halle Berry respectively) for the first time in Academy Award history.

Resources

• Oscars.org (official Academy site)
• Oscar.com (official ceremony promotional site)
• The Academy Awards Database (official site)
• Oscars Photos (Moviefone)
• Academy Awards Photos and News(People.com)
• Academy Award at the Internet Movie Database
• Academy Awards - Feature from Daily Telegraph
• Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees

Did you know...

• ...that the oldest person ever to win an Oscar: Jessica Tandy (age 80) for Driving Miss Daisy.
• ...that Walt Disney holds the record for having the most Academy Awards: 22 won, and 4 honorary. He also holds the record for the most nominations, having been nominated for 64 Academy Awards during his lifetime.
• ...That the first movie to win a best picture award was the 1927 film Wings.
• ...at the 1st Academy Awards tickets were $10, and fewer than 250 people attended the ceremony.
• George Bernard Shaw is the only person to have been awarded both an Oscar (Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Pygmalion in 1938) and a Nobel Prize (the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925). However, Nobel laureate John Steinbeck was nominated for his screenplay for Lifeboat (1944), and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter was nominated for his screenplays for both The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and Betrayal (1983).
• With 45 Oscar nominations, film composer John Williams is currently the most-nominated person alive.
• Sound re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell currently holds the record for most Oscar nominations without a win at 20. His most recent nomination was for Transformers (2007).
• For the Best Director Award, John Ford holds the record for the most awards (four awards resulting from five nominations), while William Wyler holds the record for the most nominations (12 nominations resulting in three awards).
• Only six directors have won Oscars for their screen debuts [1]: Delbert Mann, Jerome Robbins, Robert Redford, James L. Brooks, Kevin Costner, and Sam Mendes.

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Academy Award news

• 2007
  • September 10 - Gil Cates is announced as producer for the 80th Academy Awards.
  • September 12 - Cates names The Daily Show host, Jon Stewart to emcee the 80th Academy Awards
  • December 11 - Regis Philbin is selected to host the pre-show leading up to the ceremony.
  • December 18 - The Writers Guild of America, west denies a waiver for producers to use clips from movies or past award telecasts for the upcoming ceremony in consequence of the impending strike.
• 2008
  • January 22 - Nominations for the 80th Academy Awards are released with No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood leading the nominations with eight apiece.
  • February 4 - Luncheon for the nominees are held at the AMPAS headquarters in Beverly Hills, California
  • February 9 - The Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards are held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel hosted by Jessica Alba
  • February 12 - Members of the WGA elect to halt the strike, thus effectively permitting a regular scripted telecast.
  • February 24 - 80th Academy Awards take place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, with Stewart as emcee. Notable winners include:
    • Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
    • Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen
    • Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis
    • Best Actress: Marion Cotillard
    • Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem
    • Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton

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