What is the most watched awards ceremony in the world?
The Oscars/Academy Awards
What is the Oscar a statue of?
A knight/Crusader holding a sword
How many people have claimed to have given the Oscar its name?
3
Shirley Temple was the first child actor to receive this award.
The Juvenile Oscar
When was the Academy started?
1927
In what year was the first Oscars award ceremony?
1929
The other/original name of the Oscar award is....
The Academy Award
Around what year did the Oscar receive its name?
1935
During World War II they didn't have the materials to make a real Oscar, so they made them out off...
Plaster
How many Oscars were awarded at the first awards ceremony?
15
How much were tickets to the first Oscars ceremony?
$5
How much does each Oscar weigh?
8.5 lbs
This legendary actress claimed to name the Oscar after her husband because the backend of the statue looked like her husband when he got out of the shower.
Bette Davis
In 1938, Walt Disney received a special Oscar that consisted of a normal statuette that was connected to 7 smaller ones for this movie.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Since 2009, actors can receive the name plate for their Oscar at this official event after the ceremony.
In what year was the first televised broadcast of the Oscars?
1953
Who designed the Oscar Statue?
Cedric Gibbons
Margaret Herrick was the Executive Secretary for the Academy and claimed to name the statue after this family member.
Her Uncle Oscar
name plate
Walt Disney
What was the name of the prominent studio executive that created the award?
Louis B. Mayer
The Oscar statue stands on a reel of film with 5 spokes that are meant to resemble what?
The 5 Branches of the Film Industry
Sidney Skolsky was a Hollywood columnist and he claimed that he inspired by this when naming the Oscar.
an old vaudeville joke
Edgar Bergen received a special Oscar that looked like a puppet with a moving mouth. This was because he was a famous....
Ventriloquist
After starting the Academy Awards, Louis B. Mayer went on to co-found this major movie studio.
MGM Studios (Metro Goldwyn Mayer)