Of all the award shows, I love the Oscars because it deals with movies. Meanwhile, the facets are plenty and most are just regurgitated.
Here are some that may not have been spit out before. For example, most know that Bob Hope has hosted the most shows, so we will skip that. Oh wait, we got it in there, didn't we? Oh well, again, that was just an example of the type of item we will not post.
- If you think airing the show in March is odd, you would be mistaken or be listening to a young person who is writing about them. They were often held in March, with February being a recent thing. COVID threw everything off, however.
- It is also a recent thing that there can be 10 Best Picture nominations. Recent sure, but at first, that was the case as well. Then it was reduced to five, which is where it should be still.
- Cedric Gibbons sketched the figure of a knight gripping a sword, standing in front of a film reel. Yes, he sketched it. That is what it says right here. Gibbons was an art director at MGM.
- The official name of that figure is the Academy Award® of Merit.
- The 15 statuettes presented at the initial ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze.
- Oh yes, there are 24 categories at this year's Oscars, but that does not mean there are only 24 handed out. That number is not known until after this how, due to possible ties and multiple winners for certain categories. There are rules on this for crying out loud.
- May 16, 1929 was the very first Academy Awards. I am using Academy Awards exclusively for this item since the word Oscar has yet to be uttered. That came later and the source is a bit murky. I will not go into the Bette Davis item that always gets brought up. I am going with that story being a bit muddy.
- However, even after that Bette Davis thing around 1933, the Academy did not refer to it as an Oscar until 1939.
- The very first presentation was not aired on radio, but the second one was and it has been broadcast ever since. Later, it will go to You Tube.
- The Oscar statuette is 13.5 inches tall, or short. It weighs 8.5 pounds. I know, I have held an actual one that was handed out in the 1940s. And another prop one. I was on the Red Carpet when I did that. I also held a $1 million pair of diamond shoes that were to be worn during a show.
- No model was used when the statuette was formed.
- With this year's show (2026), it will mark the 25th time the Oscars were held in Hollywood proper (on Hollywood Boulevard), at the Dolby Theatre (formerly the Kodak Theatre). The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion hosted 25 times as well.
- If you want to count the number of winners this year, add it to the 3,491 winners this far.
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Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (it is trademarked) and my own notes over the years. OSCAR®, OSCARS®, ACADEMY AWARDS®, ACADEMY AWARD®, A.M.P.A.S.® and “OSCAR NIGHT® are registered trademarks, and the OSCAR statuette is a registered trademark and copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science
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