Academy Award | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Academy Award


00:01:28 1 History
00:02:39 1.1 Institutions
00:04:13 2 Oscar statuette
00:04:23 2.1 Other awards presented by the Academy
00:05:47 2.2 Academy Award of Merit (Oscar statuette)
00:08:19 2.3 Naming
00:09:24 2.4 Engraving
00:10:13 2.5 Ownership of Oscar statuettes
00:12:19 3 Nomination
00:12:39 3.1 Voters
00:14:50 3.2 Rules
00:19:54 4 Awards ceremonies
00:20:04 4.1 Telecast
00:27:24 4.2 TV ratings
00:29:10 5 Venues
00:30:45 6 Awards of Merit categories
00:30:55 6.1 Current categories
00:31:49 6.2 Discontinued categories
00:31:58 6.3 Proposed categories
00:32:32 7 Special categories
00:32:53 7.1 Current special categories
00:33:38 7.2 Discontinued special categories
00:33:52 8 Criticism
00:34:01 8.1 Accusations of commercialism
00:35:14 8.2 Accusations of bias
00:36:06 8.3 Allegations of a lack of diversity
00:36:59 8.4 Symbolism or sentimentalization
00:37:24 8.5 Refusing the award
00:38:42 8.6 Incidents
00:39:28 9 Associated events
00:40:40 10 Presenter and performer gifts
00:41:48 11 Television ratings and advertisement prices
00:42:05 12 Trademark
00:42:27 13 See also



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The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the "Academy Award of Merit", although more commonly referred to by its nickname "Oscar". The award was originally sculpted by George Stanley from a design sketch by Cedric Gibbons. AMPAS first presented it in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.The Academy Awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and is now seen live in more than 200 countries, including being streamed live online. Its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music – are modeled after the Academy Awards.The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2017, was held on 4 March 2018, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,072 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 90th.