The Oscars in numbers: 25 curious facts

The Academy Awards are considered to be the most prestigious and famous honors in the entertainment industry. The first ceremony debuted in 1929 and is the oldest of the four annual American entertainment awards. Learn some fun facts about the Oscars, whose 94th ceremony will be this Sunday, March 27.

• The name of the trophy is actually the Academy Award of Merit, but it is known as Oscar. No one really knows why, but there is a theory that a librarian and later executive director of the academy noticed that the statuette resembled her uncle named Oscar. The nickname was not officially associated with the trophy until 1939.
• The youngest Oscar winner in history was Tatum O’Nealwho won the award for best supporting actress for Paper Moon (1973) with only 10 years.

• Shirley Temple (1928-2014) received one, but not for his participation in a movie, but rather he was given the Academy Junior Award when he was 6 years and 310 days old. Temple was also the youngest person to award one of the statuettes during the award ceremony. She got up on a stool to present the best actress award to Claudette Colbert for it happened one night in 1935.
• There have been six ties in Oscar history. Before 1950, being within three votes of the winner constituted a tie until an actual tie was necessary to award the award to multiple contenders.
• The oldest Oscar winner to date is Christopher Plummer, who won the award for best supporting actor for Beginners (2010) at 82 years. In women it was Jessica Tandy at the age of 81, who won a prize for best actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy.
• The first Academy Awards were presented in 1929 at a private dinner with some 270 guests.

• peter finch (network, 1976) and Heather Ledger ( Dark Knight, 2008) are the only actors to receive an Oscar posthumously. Ledger’s statuette was given to his youngest daughter, Matilda.
• meryl streep She has been nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, winning three Oscars for Best Actress. Her most recent victory was for Iron Lady in 2011. Katharine Hepburn has won a record four Oscars.
• Jack Nicholson is the most nominated male actor, having received 12 nominations as of Easy Rider (1969). His three wins tie him with Daniel Day-Lewis and Walter Brennan.
• Ben Hur (1959), titanica (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) are the most successful films in Oscar history. Each won 11 awards, with the latter winning every award for which it was nominated. Thus, Peter Jackson’s trilogy, The Lord of the rings, he harvested a total of 17 statuettes.
• In 1940, The LA Times broke the embargo on the Academy and published the names of all the winners. of the Oscar before the ceremony. Following this, the Academy introduced the tradition of the sealed envelope which is still practiced to this day.

• Bob Hope he hosted the ceremony 19 times, making him the most frequent host in history.
• The first time a ceremony was broadcast on television was in 1953 and on color television in 1966. Now the ceremony is seen in more than 200 countries.
• The first color film to win a best picture award was gone With the Wind In 1940.
• waltdisney It has the most Oscars of all time. In total, she has won 22 competitive and 3 honorary awards, out of a total of 59 nominations. He was nominated every year between 1942 and 1963. Composer John Williams (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potteramong other films) is the second most nominated person, with 47 and has won 5.
• Only three films have won the five most coveted Oscars for best film, actor, actress, director and screenplay: it happened one night (1934), Some one flies over the cuco’s nidus (1975) and The silence of the inocents (1991).

• The actress with the most Oscars is Katharine Hepburnwho won four in the best actress category during her career. Clint Eastwood he is the male actor with the most awards, with a total of 4 trophies to his name, but he did not win any for acting. He won two for best director and two for best film for Unforgiven and million dollar Baby.
• Kathryn Bigelow She became the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director in 2010 for her Iraq War thriller. The Hurt Locker (2008).
• Avatar It has the crown of the most expensive film to win an Oscar with a production budget estimated at around $280 million. While it didn’t win best picture or best director, it did win the awards for art direction, cinematography, and visual effects.

• Several famous couples have won Oscars, but only one Hollywood family can truly claim to be an Oscar winner: the Minellis. Liza Minellidaughter of Vincent Minnelli (which won the award for best director in 1959 for Gigi) and judy garland (which received a Junior Miniature Award in 1940), won Best Actress for Cabaret in 1973.
• Each figurine is gold plated and costs $500, weighs about 8 and a half pounds. Chicago-based company RS Owens begins manufacturing Oscar statuettes a year before the show.
• The Red carpet of the gala is made especially for the event. It is 500 feet long (152.4 meters) and must be unfurled at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles days in advance, vacuumed and covered in protective plastic, before being unveiled just hours before the ceremony.
• Italy It is the country with the most wins in the foreign language film category at the Oscars, with 10 wins.
• Jennifer Lawrence She wore the most expensive dress in Oscar history at the 2013 ceremony: her teal-pink Dior Couture gown valued at $4 million when she lent it to him.
• After the 2002 ceremony, when the show ran for a staggering four hours and twenty-three minutes, the Academy enacted the 45-second rule. Therefore, speeches longer than this period are interrupted by the orchestra. The record for the shortest acceptance speech is shared by the renowned director Alfred Hitchcock and William Holden. They both simply said, “Thank you.” The longest speech goes to the actress Greer Garsonwho rambled for seven minutes when she won Best Supporting Actress for Mrs. Miniver (1942).

Source: Eluniverso

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