100 years ago, a pair of French brothers projected amazing images on the screen, and people were stunned to learn about this "moving photography". Over the past 100 years, this mobile photography that has traveled around the world has gradually become the seventh art in the world - film.
People continue to give credit to the film, trying to retain the mark of its historical development. The famous ones include the Cannes Golden Palm Award, the Berlin Golden Bear Award, the Venice Golden Lion Award, the Los Angeles Golden Globe Award, etc. However, in the face of the eye-catching Oscars, their "golden" purity still needs to be compromised.
In May 1927, Louis B. Meyer and other film industry celebrities founded the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy has approximately 3,000 elected members who are considered to have achieved the highest achievements in the film industry or in a particular professional field. These experts determine nominations for 13 categories (later added), usually with five awards in each category.
After the academy’s first anniversary, Meyer suggested awarding awards to film workers with outstanding achievements. According to the wishes of the college leaders, artist Cedric Gibbons drew a muscular warrior holding a sword standing on a plate of film, and handed the sketch to a man named George Stanley. Sculpture imaging by young sculptors. This is the Academy Award, also known as the Academy Award. For more than 60 years since then, its shape has remained the same except that the base has been slightly heightened.
As for the emergence of the name "Oscar", that was in 1931. One day, Margaret Herridge, who worked as a staff member in the college library, looked at the statue carefully and exclaimed in surprise: "Oh, he looks like my uncle Oscar!" A news reporter said this The incident was revealed in the newspapers, and the college gained a more popular name and became famous throughout the world.