15 Things You Didn’t Know About...
The Oscars, the awards of the stars,
have taken place since 1929. The ceremony was first televised in 1953 and
now over 40 million people view it each
year from all over the world. This year
all different movies are nominated for
the Best Picture including The Imitation Game, Selma, Boyhood, Whiplash,
& The Theory of Everything. Here are 15
things you probably did not know about
the little gold men & their winners.
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To qualify for Best Picture, a
film needs to be at least 40 minutes long, have shown at an LA
cinema for at least a week in the previous
year and have a projection resolution of
2048 x 1080 pixels.
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These days a 45-second limit
is imposed on speeches. Anyone straying past that mark is
played off by the orchestra.
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Meryl Streep picked up her 19th
nomination this year, the most
of any actor, male or female.
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The sealed envelope dates
back to 1941. In 1940 the LA
Times broke the Academy's
embargo and published the names of all
the winners before the ceremony.
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Nine out of 20 acting nominees this year portray real
people.
compiled by, Hayden of Haute Table
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An Oscar statue weighs 8.5 lbs.
There are 700 fan bleacher
seats on the Red Carpet.
The Red Carpet is 500 feet long
at the Dolby Theatre.
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
has hosted the most Academy
Awards.
Gone With The Wind is the
longest Best Picture winner in
history clocking in at 234 minutes.
Dolby Theatre holds 3,300
seats on Oscar Night.
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Wes Anderson got his firstever Best Director nomination for The Grand Budapest
Hotel.
Boyhood only took 39 days to
complete.
Not a single winner from the
2014 Oscars was nominated
this year.
The only sequel to ever win
an Oscar is The Godfather:
Part II.