When presenters opened the envelopes on stage at the 2024 Academy Awards and announced who the Oscar goes to, they were using a nickname that's been around for almost as long as the award itself. The statuette given to winners is technically called the Academy Award of Merit. It's ...
The Academy Award of Merit, as the statuette is officially named, was first presented to honorees at the inaugural Academy Awards in 1929. But it wasn’t until years later that the nickname “Oscar” emerged, and even longer before the Academy embraced the moniker. Oscar statuettes are displ...
Why Are They Called "the Oscars"? It is also interesting to note that the first two ceremonies didn't have actual Oscar statues, and the winners were notified three months before the banquet. We suppose that almost 100 years ago, it was necessary to have some serious advanced notice so tr...
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Eminem rarely does interviews, and a conversation about last night’s surprise performance of “Lose Yourself” at the Academy Awards— some 17 years after the song won him an Oscar — would seem rarer still. The performance in many ways was a belated do-over: He’d decided not t...
Saint's Academy Award was one of eight Oscars won by "On the Waterfront that night, including Best Picture. Rocca asked, "When you won an Oscar, was your name legally changed to 'Oscar-winner Eva Marie Saint'?" "Yes," she said, "and I love it." ...
I wrote a play called "Angela's Mixtape," which is a memoir, back in 2009, and the idea was to make sure that we had a narrative that proceeded like a mixtape. Miranda:That’s [structure] all she thinks about! Davis:The conversation for this album has been building up in this subte...
The name is said to have been born when Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said,“It looks just like my uncle Oscar!” Berlin International Film Festival It is one of the"A"festivals in Europe. The Berlin International Film Festival, also called the "Berlinale", is held ...
And while Dwayne and Emily reunited on the stage at last year's Academy Awards when they presented Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio with the Best Animated Film Oscar last year, the Jungle Cruise costars will soon grace the screen again. "I'm doing a movie called Smashing...
I enjoy that wild and reckless exhilaration that comes from naming my truth as best as I can; it is what Nina Simone might have called a "boon." The truth is that I was not groomed for stardom and watered down for your enjoyment. As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a ...