The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

The Oscar statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit and is one of nine types of Academy Awards.

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.

The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

Gary Cooper and Joan Fontaine holding their Oscars at the Academy Awards, 1942

The post Academy Awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel.

Winners had been announced three months earlier ; however that was changed in the second ceremony of the Academy Awards in 1930.

For example, the 2nd Academy Awards presented on April 3, 1930, recognized films that were released between August 1, 1928 and July 31, 1929.

Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

Academy Awards:

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

* 1969 – At the U. S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.

He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.

The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.

Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once — for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960.

The film won five Academy Awards at the 68th Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, and was nominated for an additional five.

In their research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA in October, 2006, they showed that both pure monetary rewards and charitable donations activated the mesolimbic reward pathway, a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food and sex.

* Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USA

* CCC ( Chartered Cost Controllers ) issued and conferred by the American Academy of Financial Management USA Certifying Board ( AAFM )

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* Delaware Military Academy, a high school in Delaware, USA

The film was financially successful and generally well received by critics in the USA and won an Academy Award for sound editing.

His seminal work on thermodynamics was published mostly in the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, a journal edited by his librarian brother-in-law, which was little read in the USA and even less so in Europe.

* Foreign Associate to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 1996.

The resulting Diplomate status is recognized by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine ( AASM ), and these dentists are organized in the Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine ( USA ).

It is operated by Soulsville USA, which also operates the adjacent Stax Music Academy.

* Advanced Technologies Academy, a high school in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

* Concord Academy, Massachusetts, USA

* Concord Academy ( Memphis ), Tennessee, USA

* Montgomery Bell Academy, a college preparatory school in Nashville, Tennessee, USA

* The United States Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland USA, built 1904-1908, architect Ernest Flagg.

* Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA

* New Hope Academy, a private school in Landover Hills, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA

It was nominated for six Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA awards, five Chicago International Film Festival awards, eight Gemini Awards, fifteen Leo Awards, and five WorldFest Houston awards.

* Brewster Academy, a boarding school in New Hampshire, USA

* USA Academy Awards

* USA Academy Awards ( 1971 ):

It won the ASCAP Award from ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards for " Top Box Office Films "-- the recipient was Alan Silvestri, it received a Saturn Award nomination for " Best Fantasy Film " from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA.