Interesting facts about the Oscars not everyone knows

The first Oscar ceremony took place in 1929, and it is the oldest of the four annual US entertainment awards. And since then, there has been a series of interesting things happening at the Oscars ceremony.

Summary of interesting things in the Oscars ceremony

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1. The official name of the award is actually the American Academy Awards, but it's called the Oscars. No one really knows why, but it is theorized that a librarian and later the academy's chief executive changed its name after a figurine resembling the director's uncle, and his name is Oscar. This nickname was not officially associated with the trophy until 1939.
2. The youngest Oscar winner ever was Tatum O'Neal, who won Best Supporting Actress for Paper Moon (1973) at the age of 10.
3. The oldest Oscar winner to date is Anthony Hopkins, who won Best Actor in The Father (2020), when he was 83 years old.
4. The first Oscar was awarded in 1929 at a dinner with about 270 guests. And then it was televised for the first time in 1953, and the ceremony is now watched in more than 200 countries.
5. Peter Finch (Network) and Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) are the only two actors to receive an Oscar after their death. Ledger's Oscar was given to his young daughter Matilda.
6. Meryl Streep is an actress who has been nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, of which she won three Academy Awards for Best Actress. Meryl Streep's most recent Oscar was for The Iron Lady in 2011.
7. Jack Nicholson is the most nominated actor for an Oscar, he received 12 Oscar nominations starting in 1969 with the film Easy Rider. And he has won three times with Daniel Day-Lewis and Walter Brennan. He is second only to Katharine Hepburn, who has won a record four Academy Awards, all for Best Actress.
8. Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) are the most successful films in Oscar history. These are movies that have won 11 Oscars, and won every award for which it was nominated.
9. In 1940, The LA Times broke the Academy ban and released the names of all Oscar winners before the ceremony. The Academy then gave birth to the sealed envelope tradition that is still practiced today.
10. Bob Hope has hosted the award-winning ceremony 19 times, making him the most Oscar host ever.
11. Walt Disney has the most Oscars of all time. In total, he has won 22 competitive Oscars and 3 honors out of 59 nominations. He was nominated for an Oscar every year from 1942 to 1963. This is the founder of a series of famous characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck.
12. Oscar winners don't actually own their statues. When presented with the trophy, the winners must sign an agreement that states that if they want to sell their golden statues, they must first offer to sell them to the Academy for. $1 la. If they refuse, they cannot keep their trophy, and their descendants cannot give away or sell the statue. This was introduced by the Academy to prevent the winner from profiting from the sale of the trophy.
13. After the ceremony in 2002, when the show took place with a duration of up to 4 hours 23 minutes. The Academy issued the 45-second rule. As a result, speeches longer than this timeframe will be cut off by the orchestra.
14. The record for the shortest acceptance speech is shared by acclaimed directors Alfred Hitchcock and William Holden. Both simply said, "Thank you."
15. Diane Keaton is the only actress to be nominated for exactly one award for four consecutive decades. She won the award for best actress in the films Annie Hall in 1977 and Reds in 1981. Fifteen years later, she received her third nomination for Marvin's Room (1996) and the last in 2006. 2003 with Something's Gotta Give.
16. There have been six Oscars held in history. Prior to 1950, a three-vote winner would constitute a tie until an actual tie was needed to award prizes to multiple candidates.
17. The Oscar red carpet is 500 feet long and 16,500 square feet wide.
18. Jennifer Lawrence wore the most expensive dress in Oscar history at the 2013 awards ceremony: her pink and blue Dior Couture evening gown worth $4 million (about 95 billion), and she also had a famous fall. most famous in this dress at the time.
19. Liza Minnelli became the only Oscar recipient whose parents also won an Oscar, after winning Best Actress for Cabaret (1972). Her mother, Judy Garland, received the honorary award in 1939 and her father, Vincente Minnelli, won Best Director for Gigi (1958).
20. Kathryn Bigalow became the first woman in history to win Best Director for The Hurt Locker (2009). Interestingly, Bigelow beat her ex-husband in that category, the famous director James Cameron, who was also nominated for the movie "Avatar".
21. Midnight Cowboy (1969) was the only x-rated film to win the Best Picture award.
22. Italy is the country with the most wins for Foreign Language Film at the Oscars, with 10 wins.
23. The only sequel to win Best Picture was The Godfather: Part 2 (1974).
24. No film has ever won a quartet of Oscars for acting: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. The closest film to ever hit this mark was 1951's A Streetcar Named Desire; Marlon Brando lost the Best Actor award. The other film is Network (1976); Ned Beatty slipped in the category of Best Supporting Actor.
25. Although the first Oscar ceremony was held in 1929, it was not until March 19, 1953, that audiences could see it on black-and-white television on NBC. Thirteen years later, in 1966, viewers were able to enjoy the Awards Ceremony on color television.
26. Until now, only one person named Oscar has won an Oscar. It was composer Oscar Hammerstein II. He received 5 nominations during his career and won 2 times, in 1941 and 1945.
27. At the third Academy Awards ceremony, 1931, Norma Shearer was the artist in charge of announcing the winner of the Best Actress award. Since that year, Shearer has been nominated twice in the same category, finally announcing her name as the winner for her role in The Divorcee. It was the only time a nominated actor announced the winner as themselves.
28. Katharine Hepburn is the actress who has won the most awards. She has had a film career spanning more than six decades. During that time, she received 12 Academy Award nominations and won 4 Academy Awards for Best Actress. The first time she won that prize was in 1933, when she was only 26 years old. Despite being the artist with the record to win the most Oscars, Hepburn has never attended an awards ceremony to receive a golden statuette.
29. The artist who won the Oscar for playing the Oscar winner is Cate Blanchett. She played Katharine Hepburn in the 2004 film "The Aviator".
30. The first African-American actor to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel, who received the Best Supporting Actress award in 1940 for her role in Gone With the Wind.
31. The 2017 Oscars ceremony had the rarest incident in history. That's when actors Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty went on stage and mistakenly awarded Best Picture to "La La Land", instead of "Moonlight". The film crew "La La Land" was receiving the award and giving a speech when the auditor of PwC company came on stage and said that there was a mistake, "Moonlight" was the winning name.

Kareem Winters

Update 13 March 2023