Oscar fever also known as Academy Awards is hosted annually with big and small names getting together to witness this spectacular event. Every year the Oscar events are held in United States which takes nearly four hours for the ceremony to end.
The first Academy Award was held in the year 1929 on May 16 Thursday, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood. This was held to honor outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928; this ceremony was hosted by actor Douglas Fairbanks and director William C. deMille.
The history of Academy Awards dates back to 1929 at a private brunch at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood with small number audiences of around 270. The first Oscar Awards was aired first in the radio and then it was broadcasted in the TV after 1953.
The results were declared by the newspaper for publication at 11 p.m. on the night of the awards. This was carried on until Los Angeles Times announced the winners before even the award ceremony could begin. Since 1941 the Academy ceremony has sealed the envelope to reveal the name of the winners only during presentation. The awards that were held on 2002 and the following years are organized in the Kodak Theatre.
The 31st Academy Awards Presentations was held in Pantages Theater, Hollywood in the year1959. The 81st Academy Awards Presentations was held in Hollywood and Highland which was organized in Hollywood in the year 2009.
Academy Award has generated huge number of applause from all over the globe. Along with other categories Best Foreign Language Film is also included in the award ceremony to inaugurate and award films made from other nations.
They were other records that were witnessed by the audiences during the Academy ceremony. First of all the most number of wins were bagged by “Ben-Hur” which won 11 Academy Awards in the year 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 Oscar awards in the year 2003.
“Titanic” and “All About Eve” received 14 nominations but “Titanic” bagged with the majority of awards that year. Not only this “Dr Stranger Love or: How I Learned to stop Worrying and Love to Bomb” (1965) which was the longest ever name for Best picture nominations and “Z” (1970) was the shortest name to be announced at the ceremony.
