User blog:ARTaylor/90 Years of the Academy Awards

Today marks the ninetieth anniversary of the Academy Awards. The 1st Annual Ceremony was held on this day in 1929 to celebrate the best of films from 1927 and 1928. The ceremony was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and lasted a quaint fifteen minutes. It remains the only ceremony to not be broadcast on radio or television.

Since then, the Academy Awards, or Oscars as they are often known, have become the premiere award ceremony for the cinema industry. The top awards for television, theatre, and music have all patterned their ceremonies after the Academy Awards.

June Foray helped create the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature that was eventually won by Big Hero 6, the first superhero film to win an Oscar, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Winners include Friz Freleng for The Pink Panther short The Pink Phink; Martin Landau for Ed Wood as Bela Lugosi; Mahershala Ali for Moonlight as Juan and Green Book as Donald Shirley; Paul Francis Webster for Calamity Jane, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, and The Sandpiper; Don Hall, Chris Williams, and Roy Conli for Big Hero 6; as well as Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord, and Christopher Miller for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.