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- The Academy Awards are known universally as The Oscars Ceremony. It's the biggest movie award ceremony in the world and presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Actors, producers and directors dream of getting their hands on an Oscar statuette as the awards recognize the greatest achievements in the movie industry over the past year.
The award ceremony first took place in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in front of an audience of 270 people and lasted just 15 minutes. The awards have been known as The Oscars since 1931. Just why they have acquired that title isn't known for sure. The most accepted explanation is that the Academy's executive secretary Margaret Herrick felt the statue resembled her uncle Oscar.
They were first televised in 1953 and the event is now watched annually in more than 200 countries and lasts several hours. A whole range of famous people have hosted the awards, usually top comedians with Bob Hope holding the record for hosting the awards on 19 occasions.
Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences vote for who they should win each category. Nominations are announced at the end of January with the ceremony taking place in February. Once the nominees have been announced, focus is switched to looking at the potential winners and as with all major events these days, there is potential to be had in the Oscars betting market!
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2021 Oscars
It has been announced that the 2021 Oscars will not take place until 25 April, they had been scheduled to be held on 28 February. Due to the current situation that has affected the movie industry, the organisers have changed the dates for being able to be eligible to be up for an award. It was New Year's Eve but is now the end of February 2021.
2020 Oscars
The 92nd Oscars award ceremony takes place at the Doby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday 9 February, slightly earlier than normal. It is expected to be dominated by movies such as '1917,' 'Joker' and 'Judy.' The main categories had the following nominations with the winners in bold. It proved to be a big night for the South Korean movie 'Parasite.'
Best Movie
- Ford v Ferrari
- The Irishman
- Joker
- 1917
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Jojo Rabbit
- Little Women
- Marriage Story
- Parasite
Best Actor
- Leonardo DiCaprio for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Joaquin Phoenix for Joker
- Jonathan Pryce for The Two Popes
- Adam Driver for Marriage Story
- Antonio Banderas for Pain and Glory
Best Actress
- Cynthia Erivo for Harriet
- Charlize Theron for Bombshell
- Scarlett Johansson for Marriage Story
- Saoirise Ronan for Little Women
- Renée Zellweger for Judy
Bets Available on the Oscars
The most popular market - and the most prestigious award - is the Oscar for Best Picture. Markets are available on all the major Oscar categories and you can also bet on how many Oscars a particular film will win. More novelty based markets are available also such as whether or not recipients will drop their award on stage and this year there is also a special market for La La Land. With the film nominated for a joint record 14 awards, there are odds currently being offered on whether or not it claim a clean sweep and win each award it is nominated for.
Previous Oscars winners
A list of Oscar winners is almost the same as a list of the greatest screen actors, actresses and directors of the 20th and 21st century.
The most Oscars won by a movie is 11 achieved by Ben Hur, Titanic and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King which was nominated in 11 categories and won every single one. The most nominations for a film is 14 for All About Eve, Titanic and most recently La La Land.
Walt Disney won 22 Oscars including a record four in a year in 1954. In all he was given 26 Oscars as he also won four honorary Oscars.
The most Oscars won by a female is Edith Head who won eight for costume design.
The youngest winner of an Oscar is Tatum O'Neal who won a Best Supporting Actress award for 'Paper Moon' when she was just 10 years old. Justin Henry was just eight when being nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the film 'Kramer vs Kramer.'
The most nominations ever have gone to Meryl Streep who has been nominated 18 times, but has only won three Oscars so far. Katharine Hepburn holds the record for the most Oscars won for acting, with four, all for Best Actress.