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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit,[1] commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in the United States, in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.[2] The Oscars are widely considered to be the most prestigious awards in the film industry.[3]

"Oscars" and "The Oscar" redirect here. For other uses, see Oscar (disambiguation).

Academy Awards

Excellence in the American and International film industry

United States

May 16, 1929 (1929-05-16)

The major award categories are presented during a live-televised Hollywood ceremony, that is typically held in February or March. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony.[4] The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929.[5] The second ceremony, in 1930, was the first one broadcast by radio. The 1953 ceremony was the first one televised.[4] It is the oldest of the four major annual American entertainment awards. Its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music – are modeled after the Academy Awards.[6] The Oscar statuette depicts a knight, rendered in the Art Deco style.[7]

Governors Awards

Academy Honorary Award

Scientific and Engineering Award

The Academy (annual).

Student Academy Awards

Best Casting: rejected in 1999; will be implemented for the 2026 ceremony[107]

[110]

: proposed in 2018 for presentation at the 2019 ceremony; postponed until the 2020 ceremony at the earliest (yet to be implemented)[111]

Best Popular Film

Best Coordination: rejected every year from 1991 to 2012[112][113][114][115][116]

Stunt

Best Title Design: rejected in 1999

[110]

: since 1929

Academy Honorary Award

(three different awards): since 1931

Academy Scientific and Technical Award

: since 1981

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

: since 1957

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

: since 1938

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

: from 1972 to 1995, and again for 2017

Academy Special Achievement Award

Criticism and controversies[edit]

Accusations of commercialism[edit]

Due to the positive exposure and prestige of the Academy Awards, many studios spend around 25 million dollars and hire publicists specifically to promote their films during what is typically called the "Oscar season".[117] This has generated accusations of the Academy Awards being influenced more by marketing and lobbying than by quality. William Friedkin, an Academy Award–winning film director and former producer of the ceremony, expressed this sentiment at a conference in New York in 2009, describing it as "the greatest promotion scheme that any industry ever devised for itself".[118]


Tim Dirks, editor of AMC's Filmsite, has written of the Academy Awards:

which include the presentation of the Academy Honorary Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, and the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award[184]

Governors Awards

The 25th (2010), usually held in Santa Monica, California the Saturday before the Oscars, marked the first time it was moved to a Friday and a change of venue to L.A. Live

Independent Spirit Awards

The annual "Night Before", traditionally held at , begun in 2002 and generally known as the party of the season, benefits the Motion Picture & Television Fund, which operates a retirement home for SAG actors in the San Fernando Valley

the Beverly Hills Hotel

airs the awards live at the nearby Pacific Design Center[185]

Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Party

The Governors Ball is the Academy's official after-party, including dinner (until 2011), and is adjacent to the awards-presentation venue.

[186]

The after-party, historically at the former Morton's restaurant, has been at the Sunset Tower since 2009.[187]

Vanity Fair

The following events are closely associated with the annual Academy Awards:

Presenter and performer gifts[edit]

It has become a tradition to give out gift bags to the presenters and performers at the Oscars. In recent years, these gifts have been extended to award nominees and winners.[188] The value of each of these gift bags can reach into the tens of thousands of dollars. In 2014, the value was reported to be as high as US$80,000.[189] The value has risen to the point where the U.S. Internal Revenue Service issued a statement regarding the gifts and their taxable status.[190]


Oscar gift bags have included vacation packages to Hawaii and Mexico and Japan, a private dinner party for the recipient and friends at a restaurant, videophones, a four-night stay at a hotel, watches, bracelets, spa treatments, bottles of vodka, maple salad dressing, weight-loss gummie candy and up to $25,000 worth of cosmetic treatments and rejuvenation procedures such as lip fillers and chemical peels from New York City facial plastic surgeon Konstantin Vasyukevich.[188][191][192][193][194] Some of the gifts have even had a "risque" element to them; in 2014, the adult products retailer Adam & Eve had a "Secret Room Gifting Suite". Celebrities visiting the gifting suite included Judith Hoag, Carolyn Hennesy, Kate Linder, Chris Mulkey, Jim O'Heir and John Salley.[195]

List of film awards

List of actors with Academy Award nominations

List of superlative Academy Award winners and nominees

Brokaw, Lauren (March 3, 2010). . The Weekly Juice. The Daily Truffle. Los Angeles. Archived from the original on March 7, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2024.

"Wanna See an Academy Awards Invite? We Got It Along with All the Major Annual Events Surrounding the Oscars"

Cotte, Oliver (2007). Secrets of Oscar-Winning Animation: Behind the Scenes of 13 Classic Short Animations. Focal Press.  978-0-240-52070-4.

ISBN

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Kinn, Gail; Piazza, Jim (2002). The Academy Awards: The Complete History of Oscar. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers.  978-1-57912-240-9.

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Levy, Emanuel (2003). All About Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards. Burns & Oates.  978-0-8264-1452-6.

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Schulman, Michael (2023). Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears. New York: Harper.  9780062859013. OCLC 1356972435.

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Wright, Jon (2007). The Lunacy of Oscar: The Problems with Hollywood's Biggest Night. Thomas Publishing, Inc.

Official website

at IMDb

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