Academy Awards

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Academy Award

The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and arguably the world. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5,816. Actors (with a membership of 1,311) make up the largest voting bloc. The most recent awards were the 77th Academy Awards.

Oscar Statuette

The official name of the Oscar statuette is the "Academy Award of Merit." Made of gold-plated britannium, it is 13.5 inches (34 cm) tall and depicts a knight holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film. The root of the name "Oscar" is contested. Some believe it comes from Academy librarian Margaret Herrick, who saw it on a table and said, "it looks just like my uncle Oscar!" Others claim that Bette Davis named it after her first husband. However it became, the nickname stuck and is used almost as commonly as Academy Award, even by the Academy itself. In fact, the Academy's domain name is oscars.org and the official website for the Academy Awards is at oscars.com.

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Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received five honorary Oscars for contributions to cinema and humanitarian work.

Awards night

The awards night itself is an elaborate extravaganza, with the invited guests walking up the red carpet in the creations of the most prominent fashion designers of the day. The ceremony and extravagant afterparties, including the Academy's Governors Ball, are televised around the world.

Nominations

Today, according to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film has to open in the previous calendar year (from midnight January 1 to midnight December 31) in Los Angeles County, California, to qualify. [1] Rule 2 states that a film must be "feature-length" (defined as 40 minutes) to qualify for an award (except for Short Subject awards, of course). It must also exist either on a 35mm or 70mm film print OR on a 24fps or 48fps progressive scan digital film print with a native resolution no lower than 1280x1024.

Awards Up To 2005

The "Academy Award of Merit" is given in many categories, including the following:

Special Awards, which are voted on by special committees, rather than by the Academy membership as a whole, include:

Academy Award Statistics

Films receiving 10 or more nominations

14 NOMINATIONS

  • All about Eve, 1950 (6 awards)
  • Titanic, 1997 (11 awards)

13 NOMINATIONS

  • Gone with the Wind, (8 awards, plus one Special and one Sci/Tech awards)
  • From Here to Eternity, 1953 (8 awards)
  • Mary Poppins, 1964 (5 awards)
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966 (5 awards)
  • Forrest Gump, 1994 (6 awards)
  • Shakespeare in Love, 1998 (7 awards)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001 (4 awards)
  • Chicago, Miramax, 2002 (6 awards)

12 NOMINATIONS

  • Mrs. Miniver, 1942 (6 awards)
  • The Song of Bernadette, 1943 (4 awards)
  • Johnny Belinda, 1948 (1 award)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951 (4 awards)
  • On the Waterfront, 1954 (8 awards)
  • Ben-Hur, 1959 (11 awards)
  • Becket, 1964 (1 award)
  • My Fair Lady, 1964 (8 awards)
  • Reds, 1981 (3 awards)
  • Dances With Wolves, 1990 (7 awards)
  • Schindler's List, 1993 (7 awards)
  • The English Patient, 1996 (9 awards)
  • Gladiator, 2000 (5 awards)

11 NOMINATIONS

  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939 (1 award)
  • Rebecca, 1940 (2 awards)
  • Sergeant York, 1941 (2 awards)
  • Pride of the Yankees, 1942 (1 award)
  • Sunset Boulevard, 1950 (3 awards)
  • Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961 (2 awards)
  • West Side Story, 1961 (10 awards)
  • Oliver!, 1968 (5 awards, plus 1 Honorary award)
  • Chinatown, 1974 (1 award)
  • The Godfather Part II, 1974 (6 awards)
  • Julia, 1977 (3 awards)
  • The Turning Point, 1977 (0 awards)
  • Gandhi, 1982 (8 awards)
  • Terms of Endearment, 1983 (5 awards)
  • Amadeus, 1984 (8 awards)
  • A Passage to India, 1984 (2 awards)
  • The Color Purple, 1985 (0 awards)
  • Out of Africa, 1985 (7 awards)
  • Saving Private Ryan, 1998 (5 awards)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003 (11 awards)
  • The Aviator, 2004 (5 awards)

10 NOMINATIONS

  • The Life of Emile Zola, 1937 (3 awards)
  • How Green Was My Valley, 1941 (5 awards)
  • Going My Way, 1944 (7 awards)
  • Wilson, 1944 (5 awards)
  • Roman Holiday, 1953 (3 awards)
  • Giant, 1956 (1 award)
  • Sayonara, 1957 (4 awards)
  • The Apartment, 1960 (5 awards)
  • Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 (7 awards)
  • Tom Jones, 1963 (4 awards)
  • Doctor Zhivago, 1965 (5 awards)
  • The Sound of Music, 1965 (5 awards)
  • Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 (2 awards)
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, 1967 (2 awards)
  • Anne of the Thousand Days, 1969 (1 award)
  • Airport, 1970 (1 award)
  • Patton, 1970 (7 awards)
  • Cabaret, 1972 (8 awards)
  • The Godfather, 1972 (3 awards)
  • The Exorcist, 1973 (2 awards)
  • The Sting, 1973 (7 awards)
  • Network, 1976 (4 awards)
  • Rocky, 1976 (3 awards)
  • Star Wars, 1977 (6 awards, plus 1 Special Achievement award)
  • On Golden Pond, 1981 (3 awards)
  • Tootsie, 1982 (1 award)
  • Bugsy, 1991 (2 awards)
  • Braveheart, 1995 (5 awards)
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000 (4 awards)
  • Gangs of New York, 2002 (0 awards)
  • Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 2003 (2 awards)

References

Gail, K. & Piazza, J. (2002) The Academy Awards the Complete History of Oscar. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc.

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