☜ The Oscars are said to be called "Oscars" because college librarian Margaret Herrick believes the statue resembles her uncle Oscar, and the trophy actually depicts a knight standing on a film reel with a sword of a Crusader in his hand.
The Oscar Little Golden Man was just plated with a layer of 24k gold. It is made of pure bronze and weighs 8.5 pounds and is 13.5 inches high. Metal shortages were during World War II, and the Oscars were made of stucco plaster for three years. After the war, the Academy invited the recipients to replace the plaster statue with a gilded metal statue.
☜ Since Grecia Carson won best actress in 1943 for "Mrs. Miniver," the winner's speaking time has been limited to 45 seconds.
The 1943 awards ceremony lasted until 1 a.m. until she received the last Oscar at the ceremony and gave a 5-minute speech.
☜ The shortest-time Oscar winner to date is Patty Duke, who, when she won Best Supporting Actress in 1963 for "The Miracle Worker," said only one thing: "Thank you." (Joe Percy, who won Best Supporting Actor in 1991 for Goodfellas, and Director Alfred Hitchcock, who won the Irving Salberg Memorial Award in 1968, also believe in brevity, and their way of acknowledging them is five words.) )
☜ So far, the Oscars have aired the longest
One was in 2002 and lasted 4 hours and 23 minutes. Beautiful
"The Mind" won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
☜ The youngest Oscar winner was Tatum O'Neal, she was in
He won it in 1973 with Paper Moon
Best Supporting Actress, only 10 years old.
☜In 1994, 11-year-old Anna Paquine performed "Piano Lessons"
(The Piano) won the same award, she was second
Young winners.
☜ The oldest Oscar winner in the competition category is James Ivory, 89, who won the 2018 Best Adapted Screenplay award for "Call Me by Your Name."
That same year, Christopher Plummer, 88, became the oldest Oscar-nominated actor for "All the Money in the World."
Director Agnès Valda is eight days older than Ivori and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature for "Faces Places."
☜ So far, there have been 6 Oscars tied for the award: Best Sound Editing - 2013, Best Live-Action Short Film - 1995, Best Documentary Feature - 1987, Best Documentary Short - 1950 and two Performance Awards.
In 1932, the Oscars were awarded to Frederick March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wallace Billy in The Champ.
☜In 1969, the Oscars were awarded to two best actresses: Catherine Hepburn in Lion in Winter and Barbara Streisand in Funny Girl. Hepburn didn't attend that night, so when Streisand accepted her award, she famously said, "Hello, Beauty." ”(“Hello, gorgeous.")
☜ Only five women have been nominated for Best Director since the Oscars began, the first nominations for 1977 for Lena Wittmüller's SevenBeauties.
The most recent was Greta Gerweger's Lady Bird in 2018.
The only winner was Catherine Bigelow of The Hurt Locker in 2010.
The only X-movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy, 1969.
☜ Only two sequel films won Best Picture Awards: "The Godfather Part II" in 1974 and "The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King" in 2003.
☜ The Oscars were never cancelled, but were postponed three times. The floods of 1938 postponed the celebration by a week; the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 delayed the ceremony by two days; and in 1981, the assassination of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan was postponed by 24 hours.