What's the origin of the Oscars
4hw.com.cn: the 90th Academy Awards in 2018 is coming soon. As the top award in the film industry, its status and influence are beyond the reach of other film awards. Do you know what the Academy Awards are? Let's unveil the origin of the Oscars.
The origin of the Oscars, speaking of the Oscars, can't be without mentioning the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which was founded in 1927 and is dedicated to promoting the development of the film manufacturing industry to a higher level, quality and technology. In order to recognize the outstanding talents who have made outstanding contributions in these fields, we will give them (her) the recognition They awarded Academy Awards, which represent the highest honors of the film industry.
For this reason, we must first create an award holder that can symbolize the achievements of the film. At that time, Cedric Gibbons, MGM's artistic director, was responsible for the design of the now famous Figurine -- a knight standing on a film scroll with a sword in his hand! And George Stanley, a sculptor from Los Angeles, was lucky to be the creator of the figurine. The society's first prize presentation was held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood on May 16, 1929. The 13.5-inch-tall (10.25-inch-old) 11 pound (6.75-pound-old) Figurine was originally made of bronze.
During World War II, due to the lack of resources, it was made of gypsum instead. Today, we see that the little gold man is made of tin and ammonium alloy after polishing, 10K Gold foil is laid, after fine grinding, 24K gold foil is laid on the outside, and the outermost layer is painted with luminous paint.
Originally, the Academy of film arts and Sciences called this Award Academy Awards, but in fact, the world knows more about this award as Oscar.
There is no exact explanation for why the Academy Award is called the Oscar. A popular one is that a librarian and executive director of the Academy, Margaret Herrick, thinks that the figurine is very similar to her uncle Oscar, so she calls it Oscar.
After that, people in the Academy began to use Oscar as the nickname of the figurine. After the sixth award ceremony in 1934, Sidney skolsky, a Hollywood columnist, used the term Oscar for the first time in his article about Katharine Hepburn's best actress award.
In 1939, the academy also recognized the name Oscar, and began to use it officially. Since then, the name Oscar has continued, since today. Therefore, what we usually call Oscar now is actually another habit of the Academy Awards awarded by the American Academy of film arts and Sciences, which symbolizes the highest honor in the film industry Law and oneself