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Every year, millions around the world become glued to their television watching the Academy Awards. The show serves as an inspiration for parties, betting, and holding elaborate mock award shows so fans can root for their favorite actors. These awards might be numerous decades old, but even probably the most rabid fans don’t know several issues concerning the Oscars. “The Oscars” itself is some thing of a trivia — the name given the statue that winners get. Years ago, somebody made a comment that the golden figuring looked a great deal like “Uncle Oscar”. And that is how the name was born. The following are four much more fascinating things concerning the Academy Awards.

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1. The Youngest Nominee for Greatest Director – Before 1991, Orson Welles held the honor for becoming the youngest nominee for the best director award. It was for his film Citizen Kane. Welles was 26 years when he was nominated and he held the honor for five decades until the director for Boys N the Hood John Singleton was nominated. Singleton was 24. It was in 1931 when the youngest director won. Norman Taurog win for his film Skippy.

2. The Statues Weren’t Often Metal – There was a three year period through the time of shortages and rations in World War II that the Oscar statues were not actual metal. The statues had been made of plaster rather and painted gold. When the war was more than and there was no longer any shortages, the Academy began offering metal statuettes with actual gold plating.

3. Revealing the Winners…Or Not – Through the Academy Awards’ initial 10 years (1929-1939), the winners had been announced three months ahead of the actual awards show. This was so the media would know who the winners are. This gave the media chance to write their stories. It was understood that the names with the winners were not to be mentioned under any circumstances until right after the ceremony. This understanding was broken in 1939, nonetheless, and the Academy did not release the names with the winners for the media the following year. And so the tradition of sealing the envelope began. Except for a select few within the Academy, the winners remained unknown and weren’t revealed until the ceremony itself when the sealed envelopes are opened.

4. Winners Do not Truly Own the Statuettes – Actors and actresses who win an Oscar do not own the statuettes free and clear. Their heirs do not either. Following 1950 it became a requirement that prior to the winners provided their awards for sale to anyone else they should offer it back to the Academy for the sum of . If the winners refuse to agree to these terms they do not get the statue.

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