The 2018 Oscars will be the jubilee this time. The 90th ceremony of this prestigious film award will take place this year on March 4 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, and will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. While we wait for the awards, here are 13 things you may not have known about the ceremony.
Oscars 2018 – 13 things you didn't know about the Oscars:
"And the winner is..."
This phrase used to be a real trademark of the awards. At the 61st award ceremony in 1989, they stopped using it and replaced it with "And the Oscar goes to..." (And the Oscar gets...). The reason they do this is to convince people that there are no losers at the Oscars.
"Here are all the male nominees." (All male nominees here.)
Greta Gerwing is the fifth woman to be nominated for the Oscar for best director (Lady Bird) and this year also the only woman in this category. Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman who won the Oscar for best director (in 2008 for the film Mission Bomb).
Mahershala Ali is the first Muslim to win an Oscar.
He won the Oscar last year for his role in the movie Moonlight.
Movie sequels are worthy of an Oscar.
In 1975, The Godfather: Part II (1974) won the Oscar for Best Picture, the first and only sequel worthy of this prestigious award. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and Robert De Niro won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Worst linker ever
Rob Lowe is still considered the worst Oscar linker in all of history. In 1989, he opened the Oscars with Eileen Bowman as Snow White, and together they sang Proud Mary. Critics slammed it, Disney sued, and even Paul Newman signed a statement saying it was a shameful and humiliating act.
Sidney Poitier was the first African-American to win an Oscar.
In 1964, Sidney won an Oscar for his role in Lillies of the Field (1963). Although his win signaled a new direction and a push toward diversity, it would be 38 years before the next African-American won the Academy Award for Best Actor. It was Denzel Washington for his role in the movie Training Day (2001).
Pictures of a full hall at the Oscars are an illusion.
When the real guests leave their seats to announce the nominees, perform or just go to the bathroom, their seats are filled by extras. These are ordinary people who are lucky enough to know the right people.
Nicolas Cage is the one and only.
Nicolas Cage's acting abilities are hard to overestimate, and his generous contribution to the world of memes only makes it even more difficult. Nevertheless, Cage won the Oscar for best actor in 1996 (Goodbye, Las Vegas, 1995).
Marlon Brando turned down the Oscar.
In 1973, Marlon Brando received an Oscar, but he turned it down. Reason? Discrimination against Indians by USA and Hollywood. She sent Sacheen Littlefeather, a Native American woman, to the award to read his statement. Later it turned out that it was actually the actress Maria Cruz.
The shortest speech
Oscar winners have 45 seconds to speak. The record for the shortest speech in history is held by William Holden and Alfred Hitchcock, who simply said "Thank you."
Big 5
Only 3 films won the 'big 5', i.e. Oscars for best film, director, actor and actress in the main role and screenplay. These were It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and The Silence of The Lambs (1991).
A snitch at the Oscars
In 1974, Robert Opal ran onto the stage in Adam's suit just as the English actor David Niven was tying the Oscars.
The statue actually costs a bad euro.
When the winners receive the Oscar, they must sign a statement that if the golden statuette is sold, they will first contact the Academy and sell it to them for 1 US dollar. This rule has been in place since 1950. In 2001, Steven Spielberg bought Bette Davis' Oscar for $578,000 and donated it to the Academy. Michael Jackson paid more than a million US dollars for a golden statue of David Selznick in 1999.
