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The 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be held February 27, 2011. The hosts this year will be James Franco and Anne Hathaway. This is the biggest happening the entertainment community and all film fans around the world look forward to every year. Hundreds of millions of movie lovers tune in to watch the glamorous ceremony live and learn who will receive the highest honors in filmmaking.

The Oscars reward the previous year’s greatest cinema achievements as determined by some of the world’s best motion picture artists and professionals. About 6,000 Academy members vote for the Oscars using secret ballots, which are tabulated by the international auditing firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers. 1) ………... And the Oscar Goes To...

Awards are presented for outstanding individual or collective efforts in up to 25 categories. 2)………..….. (For example, only film editors may nominate for the Achievement in Film Editing award.) The only exceptions are the Best Picture category, for which nominees are selected by the entire membership, and the Best Foreign Language films, which are nominated by a committee of members drawn from all branches.

For this year’s most important nominees click here.

The Oscar statuette, the most recognized trophy in the world has stood on the mantels of the greatest filmmakers in history since 1929. Shortly after the formation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927, the organization held a dinner in the Crystal Ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles to set out its goals. 3) ……………

Agreeing to create an annual award, the group turned its attention to creating a suitably majestic trophy. 4) ……………. The Academy asked Los Angeles sculptor George Stanley to realize the design in three dimensions – and the world-renowned statuette was born.

5) …………….. Each January, additional new golden statuettes are cast, molded and polished by R.S. Owens & Company, the Chicago-based awards manufacturer retained by the Academy since 1982.

The knight, called Oscar stands 13½ inches tall and weighs 8½ pounds. The film reel features five spokes, signifying the five original branches of the Academy: actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers. Although the statuette remains true to its original design, the size of the base varied until 1945, when the current standard was decided.

6) ………………….. While the origins of the nickname aren’t clear, a popular story says that when Academy librarian Margaret Herrick saw the trophy for the first time she remarked that it resembled her Uncle Oscar. The Academy didn’t adopt the nickname officially until 1939, but it was widely known enough by 1934 that Hollywood columnist Sidney Skolsky used it in an article referring to Katharine Hepburn’s first Best Actress win.

Among the topics discussed that night was how to honor outstanding moviemaking achievements and encourage excellence of motion picture production.

Officially named the Academy Award of Merit, the statuette is better known by its nickname, Oscar.

The auditors have to keep absolute secrecy until the moment the show’s presenters open the envelopes and reveal the winners on live television.

Since the first awards banquet on May 16, 1929, in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel’s Blossom Room, 2,701 statuettes have been presented.

MGM art director Cedric Gibbons designed a statuette of a knight standing on a reel of film gripping a crusader’s sword.

Members select winners from five nominees in each category, which are determined by members of the relevant Academy branch.