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The members can only nominate those in their specified branch, f
while all the members may submit nominees for Best Picture. The winners are determined by a second vote in which all members are
then allowed to vote in most categories.
6. The Award
Shortly after the AMPAS was incorporated, the Board of Governors made a decision to achieve their aim. The aim is
encouraging higher levels of quality in motion picture production. Therefore, the AMPAS agreed to institute an award. To support that
idea, an item or a trophy was needed to represent honor for outstanding achievement in film industry.
The trophy or the statue was designed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer MGM art director, Cedric Gibbon, and was sculpted by
George Stanley. The figure of the statue is a knight holding a sword, standing on a reel of film that has five spokes that are representing the
five original branches of the award; actors, writers, directors, producers and technicians. In the former years, the statue was made
from copper, silver and nickel alloy and covered with 24 carat gold. Nowadays, it is made from britania metal, a pewter-like alloy and
covered with 24 carat gold. However, due to the metals shortage during World War II, the statues were made of plaster. After the war,
the recipients turned in these plaster statues for Golden Oscar.
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http:www.afb.orgSection.asp?Sectio nID=1TopicID=181DocumentID=1
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OSCARS HEIGHT 13 ½ IN
Oscars weight 8 ½ lbs
Number of Oscars presented at Academy Awards shows or to winners absent from
show to date 2,622
How many people it takes to make a statuette
12 How long it takes to make a statuette
20 hrs Number of Oscars manufactured each year
50-60 How many Oscars have been refused
3 Number of decorative prop Oscar statues
65 Smallest decorative prop Oscar statue
1½ ft Tallest decorative prop Oscar statue
24 ft
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debated. There are stories around it but based on the official sites of Academy Award, the nickname was started by the Academy
Librarian. Margaret Herrick, an Academy librarian and eventually become an executive director, thought that the statue was resembled
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her uncle whose name Oscar. Since then he began to referring to it as Oscar. By the sixth award presentation in 1934, Hollywood
columnist, Sidney Skolsky, used the nickname in his column in
itself was not officially used by the Academy until 1939. There are only 24 categories in the award but each year
approximately 50 Oscars are made in Chicago by the manufacturer, R.S. Owen. When they do not meet the quality control standards, the
statuettes are immediately cut in half and melted down. The academy does not know how many Oscars will actually be handed out at the
Annual Academy Award ceremony until the envelopes are opened on the Oscar Night. Although the number of category is priory known,
the possibility of multiple recipients sharing the prize in some categories makes the exact number of Oscars awarded unpredictable.
A Annual Academy award. Since 1949 the Oscar statuettes began to be
numbered, starting with an arbitrary number 501. Each statuette worn this number behind its heel.
Since 1950, the Oscar statuettes have been legally protected by a requirement that neither winner nor their heirs may sell the
statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for 1. When a winner refuses to agree to this requirement, the Academy
will keep the statue. This rule is still very controversial since it
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implies that the winner does not own the award. However, the award recipients agreed to this rule and it makes the academy win if there is
any legal battle.
B. Biography of The Oscar Winner
