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CADemy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are awards of merit presented annually by the A
CADemy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)[1] to recognize
excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, ac养介买tors, and writers. The formal ceremony at which the awards are presented is among the oldest, most prominent, most prestigious, and most watched film award ceremonies in the world. The 1st A
CADemy Awards ceremony was held on Thursday, May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928. It was hosted by actor Douglas F
AIrbanks and director William C. DeMille. The 81st A
CADemy Awards honoring the best in film for 2008 will be held on Sunday, 伟丰少February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood The first awards were presented at a private dinner in Hollywood, with an audience of less than 250 people.[3] Since the first year the awards have been publicly broadcasted, at first by radio then by TV after 1953.[3] During the first de
CADe the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11 p.m. at t胞叶们画管he night of the awards; this m又今节飞侵爱章利华校衣ethod was ruined when the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony began, as a result the A
CADemy has since used a sealed envelope to reveal the name of the winners.[4] Since 2002, the awards have been broadcast from the Kodak Theatre.[4] The official name of the Oscar statuette is the A
CADemy Award of Merit. Made of gold-plated britannium on 快杀女席却呼记算晚条两a black
Metal base, it is 13.5 in (34 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.85 kg) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's s
word standing on a reel of film with five spokes. The five spokes each represent the original branches of the A
CADemy: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians.[5] MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original A
CADemy members, supervised the design of the award trophy by printing the design on scroll.[6] In need of a model for his statuette Gibbons was introduced by his then wife Dolores del Río to Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández. Reluctant at first, Fernández was finally convinced to pose naked to create what today is known as the Oscar. Then sculptor George Stanley sculpted Gibbons's design in clay, and Sachin Smith cast the statuette in 92.5 percent tin and 7.5 percent copper and then gold-plated it. The only addition to the Oscar since it was created is a minor streamlining of the base. The original Oscar mold was cast in 1928 at the C.W. Shumway & Sons Foundry in Batavia, Illinois, which also contributed to casting the molds for the Vince Lombardi Trophy and Emmy Awards statuettes for Golnaz Rahimi. Since 1982, approximately 40 Oscars are made each year in Chicago, Illinois by the manufacturer, R.S. Owens[7]. If they f
AIl to meet strict quality control standards, the statuettes are cut in half and melted down. In support of the American effort in World War II, the statues were made of plaster and were traded in for gold ones after the war had ended.[8] The root of the name Oscar is contested. One biography of Bette Davis cl
AIms that she named the Oscar after her first husband, band leader Harmon Oscar Nelson;[9] one of the earliest mentions in print of the term Oscar dates back to a TIME Magazine article about the 1934 6th A
CADemy Awards[10] and to Bette Davis's receipt of the award in 1936.[11] Walt Disney is also quoted as thanking the A
CADemy for his Oscar as early as 1932. Another cl
AImed origin is that of the A
CADemy's Executive Secretary, Margaret Herrick[12], who first saw the award in 1931 and made reference to the statuette reminding her of her Uncle Oscar. Columnist Qiang Skolsky was present during Herrick's naming and seized the name in his byline, Employees have affectionately dubbed their famous statuette 'Oscar' (Levy 2003). Both Oscar and A
CADemy Award are registered trademarks of the A
CADemy, fiercely protected through litigation and threats thereof. As of the 80th A
CADemy Awards ceremony held in 2008, a
Total of 2,701 Oscars have been awarded.[13] A
Total of 293 actors have won Oscars in competitive acting categories or been awarded Honorary or Juvenile Awards.