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Below is some general information about the Academy Awards, also known as the “Oscars.”
March 10, 2024 – The 96th annual Academy Awards ceremony takes place, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
March 12, 2023 – The 95th annual Academy Awards ceremony takes place, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
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“Oppenheimer”
Actor in a leading role
Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer”
Actress in a leading role
Emma Stone, “Poor People”
Supporting Actress
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, “The Remains”
Actor in a supporting role
Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer”
Director
Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”
The complete list of winners
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“Everything everywhere at the same time”
Actor in a leading role
Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”
Actress in a leading role
Michelle Yeoh, “Everything, everywhere, at once”
Actor in a supporting role
Ke Huy Quan, “Everything at once, everywhere”
Supporting Actress
Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything, everywhere, at once”
Director
Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, “Everything at once, everywhere”
The complete list of winners
The accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has tallied the votes since 1934. Newspaper headlines announced the winners before the ceremony until 1941, when the sealed-envelope system was implemented. Before a PwC envelope mix-up in 2017, when a mistake was made during the Best Picture award announcement, only two partners at the firm knew the results until the envelopes were opened. After 2017, new procedures were adopted, including adding a third voting partner to also memorize the list of winners. The third partner sits with the Oscar producers in the control room, while the other two voting partners are stationed on opposite sides of the stage. Additionally, PwC partners are prohibited from using mobile phones and social media backstage during the show.
Walt Disney is the most honored person in Oscar history. He received 59 nominations and 26 competitive awards throughout his career.
Composer John Williams is the most nominated living person: 54 nominations (including five wins).
Meryl Streep is the most nominated performer in the history of the Academy with 21 nominations.
Jack Nicholson is the most nominated male actor in Academy history with 12 nominations.
Katharine Hepburn won the most Oscars for a performer, with her record four Oscars for Best Actress.
Daniel Day-Lewis is the only person to have three Best Actor Oscars.
Tatum O'Neal is the youngest person to win a competitive Oscar at 10 years and 148 days old.
Only three films have won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay: in 1934, “It Happened One Night”; in 1975, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”; and in 1991, “The Silence of the Lambs.”
No film has ever taken home the top six awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
Scientific and technical awards are given at a separate ceremony for methods, discoveries or inventions that contribute to the arts and sciences of cinema.
May 16, 1929 – The first Academy Awards are held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Tickets are $5.
1929 – The first prize for Best Picture goes to “Wings.”
1929 – The first statuette ever awarded goes to Emil Jannings, for his performance as Best Actor in “The Last Command.”
1937 – The first award of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is presented to Darryl F. Zanuck.
1938 – Due to major flooding in Los Angeles, the ceremony is delayed a week.
March 19, 1953 – The first televised ceremony is from the Pantages Theater in Hollywood.
1966 – The awards are broadcast for the first time in color.
1968 – Due to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the ceremony is moved up two days since the original date is the day of King's funeral.
1976-present – ABC broadcasts the Oscars.
1981 – Due to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, the ceremony is postponed 24 hours.
2001 – The Best Animated Feature Film category is added.
June 23, 2009 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces that starting in 2010, 10 films will receive nominations in the Best Picture category, instead of five.
June 26, 2009 – The Academy announces that starting in 2010, new rules governing the Best Song category may eliminate that category in any given year. Additionally, the Irving G. Thalberg and Jean Hersholt Honorary Awards will be presented at a separate ceremony in November.
June 14, 2011 – The Academy announces new rules governing the Best Picture category, the number of nominated films can vary from 5 to 10 in a given year and will not be known until the nominees are announced. The new rule will come into force in 2012.
November 9, 2011 – Eddie Murphy left his position as host of the Oscars in February 2012, a day after producer Brett Ratner left the show, due to a comment he made that was considered homophobic.
January 18, 2016 – After two years in a row of criticism for the lack of diversity among Oscar nominees, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy, issues a statement saying that “in the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our recruitment of members in order to achieving much-needed diversity in our class of 2016 and beyond.”
January 24, 2017 – The romantic musical “La La Land” earns 14 Oscar nominations, tying the record of “All About Eve” and “Titanic.” After complaints in 2016 about a lack of diversity, six black actors receive nominations for their performances, a record.
February 26, 2017 – After “La La Land” is mistakenly announced as best picture, “Moonlight” becomes the first film with an all-black cast to win the Academy Award for best picture. Additionally, Mahershala Ali is the first Muslim actor to win the Best Supporting Actor award.
August 8, 2018 – In a letter to members, the Academy announces it will add a new category in 2019 for outstanding achievement in popular films. The letter does not specify the criteria for a “popular” film.
September 6, 2018 – The Academy announces that it is reconsidering the decision to add a popular film category. Academy chief executive Dawn Hudson says in a statement: “There has been a wide range of reactions to the introduction of a new award and we recognize the need for further discussion with our members.”
December 6, 2018 – Kevin Hart steps down from hosting Oscars after past homophobic tweets surface.
February 5, 2019 – ABC confirms that the Academy Awards will not have a host. This will be the first time in 30 years that the ceremony will be held without a host.
February 9, 2020 – “Parasites” becomes the first non-English film to win an Oscar for Best Picture. It is also the first film to win Best International Film and Best Picture.
February 9, 2020 – The 92nd Academy Awards draws an average of 23.6 million views, the lowest ratings in the show's history.
June 15, 2020 – For the first time in 40 years, the Academy postpones the 93rd edition of the Oscars. The last time the Oscars were postponed was in 1981, when the ceremony was delayed 24 hours due to an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. In addition to the delay, the Academy agrees to extend the eligibility period for films, which normally corresponds to the calendar year. For the 2021 Oscars, the new window will extend until February 28, 2021.
September 8, 2020 – The Academy announces that films must meet certain criteria in terms of representation to be eligible for the Academy Award for best picture starting in 2024. Presented under an initiative called Aperture 2025, the organization says the goal is to “encourage equitable and off-screen representation to better reflect the diversity of the film audience.”
April 25, 2021 – Yuh-jung Youn is named best supporting actress for her role in “Minari” and becomes the first Korean actress to win an Oscar. Chloe Zhao is named best director for “Nomadland,” becoming the first woman of color and the first woman of Asian descent to win the award. She is also the second woman to win.
May 27, 2021 – The Academy announces that the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony will take place in March 2022, one month later than originally planned.
March 27, 2022 – Will Smith slaps Chris Rock after Rock made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith's shaved head while presenting the best documentary award. Smith then says, “Keep my wife's name out of your fucking mouth!” twice. Censors muted the verbal portion of the exchange for viewers in the United States.
March 12, 2023 – Michelle Yeoh is named best actress for her role in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” becoming the first woman of Asian descent to win the award.
