Posted on Mar 9, 2023
The first Oscars lasted 15 minutes — plus other surprises from 95 years of awards
385
16
3
8
8
0
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/09/ [login to see] /oscars-academy-award-scandal-slap
You read that right – just 15 minutes. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. At the end of a private black-tie banquet, leading man Douglas Fairbanks announced the first ever winners of the golden statuettes.
All the recipients that year were silent movies, except one: The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson. The top prize in 1929 went to Wings, an airplane film similar to one of this year's best picture nominees, Top Gun: Maverick.
The following year, the Academy Award for Outstanding Production went to a war movie, All Quiet on the Western Front (a remake of that film is also a contender this year). Newsreel footage from 1930 captured the head of MGM, Louis B. Mayer, solemnly congratulating the movie's producer Carl Laemmle, saying, "Sorry I didn't win it, Mr. Laemmle. I know of no one I'd rather have beat me than you.
You read that right – just 15 minutes. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. At the end of a private black-tie banquet, leading man Douglas Fairbanks announced the first ever winners of the golden statuettes.
All the recipients that year were silent movies, except one: The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson. The top prize in 1929 went to Wings, an airplane film similar to one of this year's best picture nominees, Top Gun: Maverick.
The following year, the Academy Award for Outstanding Production went to a war movie, All Quiet on the Western Front (a remake of that film is also a contender this year). Newsreel footage from 1930 captured the head of MGM, Louis B. Mayer, solemnly congratulating the movie's producer Carl Laemmle, saying, "Sorry I didn't win it, Mr. Laemmle. I know of no one I'd rather have beat me than you.
The first Oscars lasted 15 minutes — plus other surprises from 95 years of awards
Posted from npr.org
Movies
Awards
Hollywood
American History
Posted >1 y ago
Responses: 3
3
3
0
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
(3)
(0)
My theory on declining viewership of the Oscars. It's not because of the ideology, lack of diversity, or obscure films that nobody except critics have heard of being nominated (although all three of those are major factors).
The main reason as I see it is THEY WON'T SHUT UP and keep going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
Oh, also, they are too long.
The main reason as I see it is THEY WON'T SHUT UP and keep going on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
Oh, also, they are too long.
(2)
(0)
2
2
0
Film Actors Guild (F.A.G) - Team America: World Police
Hollywood actors are literally the pinnacle of political intellectualism. Clips from Team America: World Police.
A very interesting article, chip! They did the Oscars to keep the unions out and they formed their own Guild such as the Screen Actors Guild which everybody has to belong to now if you have a speaking part. Marlon Brando having the indigenous woman not accept the award and then the escorted off. The original Mammy from Gone With the Wind sitting on a segregated table accepting her award.
Bob Hope saying on the first televised Oscar that TV is where movies go to die!
Since he is being very funny, and since we already saw a clip of a gay Streaker showing his shortcomings like David Niven said, I thought I would take something from Team America showing the film Actors Guild F. A. G. For short!
Team America making satire of Hollywood especially Matt Damon and Sean Penn!!
https://youtu.be/qOH9trJLedk
Bob Hope saying on the first televised Oscar that TV is where movies go to die!
Since he is being very funny, and since we already saw a clip of a gay Streaker showing his shortcomings like David Niven said, I thought I would take something from Team America showing the film Actors Guild F. A. G. For short!
Team America making satire of Hollywood especially Matt Damon and Sean Penn!!
https://youtu.be/qOH9trJLedk
(2)
(0)
Read This Next
Continue with Facebook 
Continue with Google