Oscars are the most important entertainment awards in the world. Given since 1929, every cine artiste aspires to get an Oscar for his or her creativity. Granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, an honorary organization in Los Angeles, the gold plated britannium Oscar statuette, called the Academy Award of Merit, depicts a knight with a sword on a reel of a film with five spokes. The five spoke represent Acotors, Directors, Writers, Producers and Technicians.
For nominations for Oscar, the film must be shown in the Los Angeles county, California, the previous calendar year from January one and December 31. The awards are given six weeks after their nominations.
The awards are given in between February and March and the ceremony is televised live throughout the United States of America barring Alaska and Hawaii. The function is an elaborate extravaganza with red carpets rolled out to welcome the guests. It is an international billion viewer event, organized at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood since 2002.
Among the Oscar winning Best Pictures are ‘Wings’ and ‘Sunrise’ (only silent films 1927/28), The Broadway Melody (first musical 1928/29), Midnight Cowboy (first X-rated film 1969), The French Connections ( first R-rated film 1971), Rocky (first sports film1976), The Godfather Part II ( first sequel 1974), The Last Emperor ( first PG-rated film 1987), The Silence of the Lambs ( first horror film 1991), Beauty and the Beast (first animated film 1991), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King ( first fantasy film 2003) and The Departed ( first remake of a foreign film 2006).
Among the Best Actors are Spencer Tracy, Frederich March,Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson and Tom Hanks with two awards each. The oldest winner is 76-year-old Henry Fonda for the film On Golden Post in1981 and the youngest being 29-year-old Adrien Brody for the film Pianist in 2002.
Among the Best Actress the most notable is Katherine Hepburn who won four awards in 1981. Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Julie Andrews, Jodie Foster, Julia Roberts are the other heroines who glorified the Oscar awards.
Among the Indian film personalities, Bengali Director Satyajit Ray won Oscar as Life Time Achievement Award in his death bed in 1992.
For nominations for Oscar, the film must be shown in the Los Angeles county, California, the previous calendar year from January one and December 31. The awards are given six weeks after their nominations.
The awards are given in between February and March and the ceremony is televised live throughout the United States of America barring Alaska and Hawaii. The function is an elaborate extravaganza with red carpets rolled out to welcome the guests. It is an international billion viewer event, organized at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood since 2002.
Among the Oscar winning Best Pictures are ‘Wings’ and ‘Sunrise’ (only silent films 1927/28), The Broadway Melody (first musical 1928/29), Midnight Cowboy (first X-rated film 1969), The French Connections ( first R-rated film 1971), Rocky (first sports film1976), The Godfather Part II ( first sequel 1974), The Last Emperor ( first PG-rated film 1987), The Silence of the Lambs ( first horror film 1991), Beauty and the Beast (first animated film 1991), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King ( first fantasy film 2003) and The Departed ( first remake of a foreign film 2006).
Among the Best Actors are Spencer Tracy, Frederich March,Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson and Tom Hanks with two awards each. The oldest winner is 76-year-old Henry Fonda for the film On Golden Post in1981 and the youngest being 29-year-old Adrien Brody for the film Pianist in 2002.
Among the Best Actress the most notable is Katherine Hepburn who won four awards in 1981. Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Julie Andrews, Jodie Foster, Julia Roberts are the other heroines who glorified the Oscar awards.
Among the Indian film personalities, Bengali Director Satyajit Ray won Oscar as Life Time Achievement Award in his death bed in 1992.
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