When the Academy Awards were presented for the first time May 16, 1929 , just beginning to show sound films. That first ceremony took place during a banquet held in the Blossom Room Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
There 270 attendees and guests had tickets for $ 5. It was a long and full banquet speeches, but the delivery of the statues was carried out quickly by the President of the Academy, Douglas Fairbanks .
The suspense which now sit on most of the world at the time of the Oscars, there was always a feature of the Awards ceremony. In the first year, the winners were announced to the public three months in advance. In the following decade, the results were delivered in advance to newspapers for publishing the night of delivery to 11 pm
But in 1940, to the consternation Academy, the guests on their way to the ceremony could buy evening edition of the Los Angeles Times that broke the ban and announced the winners . Accordingly, the following year took the sealed envelope system, which remains in force today. D ince its inception, the Academy Awards have generated great interest, though not reached the end of the current madness.
L at first delivery was the only one not told the public media; the second year, the enthusiasm for the Awards was such that a radio station in Los Angeles conducted a live broadcast of the event than an hour. The ceremony has been broadcast since.
D uring 15 years the deliveries of the Academy Awards banquet turned out to be made in Ambassador and Biltmore hotels , after the first in Hollywood Roosevelt.
The custom of presenting the statuettes at a banquet was discontinued after the 1942 Awards. Increased attendance public and the war had made banquets impractical, and since that year, the ceremonies have been held in theaters. The delivery was performed sixteenth on the Grauman Chinese Theatre for the first time was covered by a network of radio and broadcast overseas to American soldiers.
L awards I spent three years in the Grauman Chinese Theatre and then moved to the Shrine Civic Auditorium. Two years later, in March 1949 was the twenty-first installment in the theater itself Academy Theater Melrose Avenue.
D uring the next 11 years, annual deliveries Awards were held at the RKO Pantages Theater in Hollywood.
F ue where the March 19, 1953 , was televised for the first time the Award of the Academy Awards. The radio and television network NBC broadcast the twenty-fifth Ceremony live Academy Awards from Hollywood with Bob Hope as master of ceremonies and from the NBC International Theatre in New York with Fredric March in charge of deliveries. In 1961, the Awards moved to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and for the next 10 years the ABC television network was responsible for the transmission.
E n 1966, the Oscars were first broadcast in color. From 1971 to 1975, the NBC television network was responsible for the transmission of the awards. ABC has telecast the show since 1976 and, by contract, will continue to do until 2014. On April 14, 1969, the forty-first ceremony of the Academy Awards moved to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center of Los Angeles County. It was the first major event for this cultural center now famous throughout the world.
L you Awards remained at the Music Center until 1987 , then the ceremonies returned to the Auditorium Shrine for the sixtieth and sixty- delivery. For twelve years, the event alternated venues: the 62, 64, 65, 66, 68 and 71 deliveries were performed at the Music Center, while the 63, 67, 69, 70, 72 and 73 deliveries took place at the Shrine .
E l first year, 15 statuettes were awarded (all received by men except in the category of Best Actress, won Janet Gaynor ), but the second year the amount was reduced to seven statues, two for acting and the other for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction. Since then, the number of categories has grown slowly but steadily.
D ince the beginning recognized the need for special awards beyond the traditional categories. Two were granted in the year 1927/28, one for Warner Bros. in the production of the first talkie, "The Jazz Singer" and the other to Charles Chaplin, Production, Direction, Screenplay e Performance in "The Circus ." In 1934, added three new regular categories: Best Editing, Best Score and Best Song. That same year also saw a campaign to add the nomination Bette Davis for her performance in "Of Human Bondage."
A urrently, the Academy has a rule that prohibits adding candidates on the ballot for the final vote.
L the company Price Waterhouse signed with the Academy in 1934 and since then has worked to tabulate the results and ensure privacy. The 79 delivery will be tabulated by PricewaterhouseCoopers , the name adopted by the company in 1998. In 1936, first awarded prizes for the categories of Best Actress and Supporting Actor. The honors went to Walter Brennan for his performance in "Come and Get It" and Gale Sondergaard in " Anthony Adverse e ".
E n 1937, became the first Honorary Award Irving G. Thalberg and Darryl F. Zanuk received. In 1939 he added the Academy Award for Special Effects and the first to receive were Fred Sersen and EH Hansen 20th Century-Fox for "The Rains Came .
In 1963, Special Effects category was divided into two: Sound Effects and Visual Effects, in recognition that the best sound effects and best visual effects do not necessarily come from the same film.
E n 1941, first appeared in the documentary category vote. In 1947, before the increased interest in the rest of the world where the Oscar ceremonies on television, the Academy inserted non-English speaking countries in the field of recognition Academy Awards. That year, the Italian film "Shoe-Shine" was the first to be awarded the prize for best foreign language film.
A efore Best Foreign Film category should become a regular in 1956, seven were given special awards. In 1948, the Academy placed in the voting for Best Costume Design.
E n 1956 is awarded for the first time Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Y. Frank Freeman. The Award for Best Makeup Award and the Gordon E. Technological Contributions Sawyer settled in 1981. In 2001 it added a new category, Best Animated Film. Only in these circumstances is interrupted the scheduled delivery of the Academy Awards.
L at first was in 1938, when terrible Floods swept through Los Angeles and delayed the ceremony one week. In 1968, the ceremony planned for April 8 was postponed to April 10 by respect for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated a few days before and his funeral took place on 9 April.
E n 1981, the delivery was delayed 24 hours due to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.
E n 2003 , after U.S. forces invaded Iraq on Thursday prior to broadcast, the show went on, but the red carpet was reduced to the area which is immediately opposite the entrance theater, the bleachers were removed and invitations to most of the world press were rescinded. In 2004, the red carpet again with all glow and charm. Attendance at the Annual Awards of the Academy is by invitation only. No tickets sold to the public.
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