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The Great Oscar Awards
The Great Oscar Awards
Academy Award - The Oscars contains all the information from first Academy Awards ceremony in year 1929 to 2010.
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Any Academy Awards trivia will start by making it clear that this is the most important awards ceremony honoring the film industry in America. The awards are usually simply called the Oscars, and were first held in 1929. The first Oscars was a small, intimate dinner honoring those who had made great achievements in the industry, and it has gone on to become one of the most watched televised events in the country. An Academy Awards quiz will show that it first appeared on television in 1953.
An interesting piece of Academy Awards trivia is that no one seems to know exactly where the nickname of "Oscar" came from. There are references as early as the second awards when Walt Disney thanked someone for an Oscar, Bette Davis referred to is as such in 1936, and after that the trophy was officially recognized as such by 1939.
What many people don't realize is that since 1950, all Oscars which are awarded are actually the property of the Academy, not of the people who have been awarded them. This means that it is not allowed for people who win the awards, or those to inherit them, to try and sell them, and this has been held up in court.
The best movies of all times have been the recipient of multiple Oscar wins, as have some of the most legendary actors of the film generation. An Academy Awards quiz will show that the films which have won the most awards are "The Return of the King" "Ben Hur" and "Titanic" all of which have won eleven statues.
The records for the actors and actresses who have received the most nominations and the most wins belong to different people. The most wins for Best Actress is Katherine Hepburn, who won four separate times, ranging in years from 1932 to 1981. An Actor has only ever won a maximum of two best Actor Oscar's, and seven men have done this: Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Fredric March, Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, Gary Cooper, and Spencer Tracy. The records for nominations belongs to Meryl Streep, who has been nominated 15 total times. Jack Nicholson, who has won two best Actor Oscars and one Best Supporting Actor, and has been nominated 12 times in total. An interesting record is also the person who won the most total Oscars in all categories, who is Walt Disney, with a total of 26 wins and 64 nominations. http://www.semantifi.com/search_apps/Academy_Awards/1544
Word in the street has it that the best actor award for an actor in a leading role should have gone to one of three leading contenders in the 2009 ceremony. These are, namely; Mickey Rourke, Sean Penn and Frank Langella. At least these were the people carrying the most wagers at the time.
Sean Penn is rated as the favorite at 5/4 with Ladbrokes as a contender for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in the Drama category. It is believed that the winner of the GB stands automatically in the frontline for an Oscar because 4 out of 5 winners of the GB have gone on to bag themselves an Oscar according to past results. Daniel Day-Lewis got both the awards the year before it may be noted when speculations are made on this decision. semantifi.com/
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