Ladies and Gentlemen!
Two nights from now the 85th Academy Awards will commence and all the stars will be out on the town. If you have read previous articles from LIH about award shows, you will know that some of us think most of them are overrated. However, Golden Globes and Oscars are our favorite!
**Random Oscar Trivia**
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Titanic, and Ben-Hur won the most Oscars with 11 statuettes each!
Walt Disney had 64 nominations and 26 awards over his lifetime!
The Beatles’ “Let it Be” was the first musical act to win for original song.
Douglas Fairbanks hosted the first Academy Awards in 1929. The awards were held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Louis B. Mayer (of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) created the awards because “I found that the best way to handle [filmmakers] was to hang medals all over them … If I got them cups and awards they’d kill them to produce what I wanted. That’s why the Academy Award was created”
The first award show cost $5 per ticket and consisted of 270 guests. The Kodak theater, where the awards will be held, seats up to 3,332!
The awards are broadcast live across the United States (excluding Hawaii until 2011!), Canada, and the UK.
First televised broadcast was 1953 with Bob Hope as a co-host.
31st Academy Awards–1959 at the Pantages
**Cast your vote!**
(This is what you THINK will win! Go to Oscar to print your list of who you WANT to win.)
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Love the Oscar trivia LB!
THANKS! it was fun looking up. I would love to get in our LIH time machine and head over to the first awards and then maybe a few in the 30s and 40s. That would be surreal and mind blowing. Also I’m sure very intriguing…
Did you happen to catch this week’s 20/20? it was all about the Oscar. It was great and I learned somethings as well. 🙂
ps. When are we meeting live for the Oscars? Are we doing Red Carpet as well?
U must be reading my mind again LB. Hahaha! We will be meeting at 5pmEST. There will be a Oscar Live Stream page that will post tomorrow.
No I did not see the show. However, I do like the idea of a LIH time machine. Gosh any excuse to wear a 30’s bias cut dress with long evening gloves is worth traveling back in time for. Sorry, where was i?
LB,
Awesome trivia. 🙂
OB,
Are you talking about a dress like this?
GORGEOUS! I think I opened Pandora’s box! hahaha!!!
I’ll either travel in:
or
Those are both gorgeous gowns but i’ll take the one I posted. 🙂
Hey! I’m online!
Hello? Anyone there? I could of sworn that today was Friday instead of Saturday!
Scratch that last post! Stress and tiredness are not a good combination when it comes to time zone differences, lol!
Ozzie-Don’t feel bad. I missed the party last night as well. Hahaha!
Paris & LB-
Oh my! These gowns are beautiful. I would wear all of them to three different events. Hahaha! I mean its not every day u get a chance to time travel.
Paris-How did u know red is my favorite color? I love the back.
OB and Ozzie!
No you didn’t miss a party last night! This was just a “fun” article and a place to vote for Best blah-blah-blah. 🙂 Just a few questions: Who is in charge of asking Mayer, Fairbanks, Vivian Leigh, and Bogart and Bacall the questions and who is in charge of taking pics and photoboming behind celebrities? 🙂
Ozzie did not select an evening gown.
You are RIGHT! Ozzie you have until tomorrow to find your selection. 🙂
No worries LB!
Although u failed to mention evening gowns and time traveling. That’s the real reason for the article. Hahaha!
Pretty much. 🙂