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Template:/box-header The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. Awarded annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1929 in Los Angeles, it recognizes excellence in many aspects of motion picture making, such as acting, directing, and screenwriting. Academy Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, which as of 2007 had a voting membership of 5,830. Actors, with a membership of 1,311, make up the largest voting bloc at 22 percent. The votes have been tabulated and certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and its predecessor Price Waterhouse for 72 years, since close to the awards' inception. Template:/box-footer Forest Whitaker (born 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director. He has earned a reputation for intensive character study work for films such as Bird and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. Whitaker won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film The Last King of Scotland. Whitaker has also won a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA. He became the fourth African American man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, following in the footsteps of Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, and Jamie Foxx. (more...) Archive 1927/1928 • 1928/1929 • 1929/1930 • 1930/1931 • 1931/1932 • 1932/1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939 • 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949 • 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959 • 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969 • 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979 • 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989 • 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 Template:/box-footer The oldest actor ever to win an Oscar: Christopher Plummer (age 82) for Beginners. Walt Disney holds the record for having the most Academy Awards: 22 won, and 4 honorary. He also holds the record for the most nominations, having been nominated for 59 Academy Awards during his lifetime. The first movie to win a best picture award was the 1927 film Wings. The 1st Academy Awards tickets were $10, and fewer than 250 people attended the ceremony. George Bernard Shaw is the only person to have been awarded both an Oscar (Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Pygmalion in 1938) and a Nobel Prize (the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925). However, Nobel laureate John Steinbeck was nominated for his screenplay for Lifeboat (1944), and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter was nominated for his screenplays for both The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) and Betrayal (1983). With 45 Oscar nominations, film composer John Williams is currently the most-nominated living member of the Motion Picture Academy. Sound re-recording mixer Kevin O'Connell currently holds the record for most Oscar nominations without a win at 20. His most recent nomination was for Transformers (2007). For the Best Director Award, John Ford holds the record for the most awards (four awards resulting from five nominations), while William Wyler holds the record for the most nominations (12 nominations resulting in three awards). Only six directors have won Oscars for their screen debuts [1]: Delbert Mann, Jerome Robbins, Robert Redford, James L. Brooks, Kevin Costner, and Sam Mendes. 2011 February 27 - 83rd Annual Academy Awards are held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. 2010 February 2 - Nominations are announced for the 82nd Academy Awards by AMPAS president Tom Sherak and actress Anne Hathaway. Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead the nominations with nine each. February 20 - Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards are held at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with actress Elizabeth Banks hosting the presentation. March 7 - 82nd Annual Academy Awards are held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The Hurt Locker wins six Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow who became the first woman to win that award. 2009 October 20 - Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman are announced as producers of the 82nd Academy Awards. November 3 - Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin are announced as the hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards. ▼ Academy Awards ► Academy Awards ceremonies ► Academy Award winners ► Academy Award templates Current Awards for Merit Best Picture • Best Leading Actor • Best Leading Actress • Best Supporting Actor • Best Supporting Actress • Best Animated Feature • Best Art Direction • Best Cinematography • Best Costume Design • Best Director • Best Documentary Feature • Best Documentary Short Subject • Best Film Editing • Best Foreign Language Film • Best Makeup • Best Original Score • Best Original Song • Best Animated Short Film • Best Live Action Short Film • Best Sound Mixing • Best Sound Editing • Best Visual Effects • Best Adapted Screenplay • Best Original Screenplay Current Special Awards Academy Honorary Award • Academy Special Achievement Award • Academy Award, Scientific or Technical • The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award • The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award • Gordon E. 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