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The Academy Awards are watched adamantly by millions of people each year. They inspire parties, bets and elaborate mock award shows that give fans a distinctive opportunity to root for their preferred performers. Even though these awards have been going on for decades, there are many issues about the Oscars that even some rabid fans are don’t know. Just the name “The Oscars” itself is a bit of a trivia, nodding not toward an official title but a nickname given to the statue awarded to honorees when an individual mentioned that the gold figurine looked like “Uncle Oscar”. And that’s how the name was born. The following are four more interesting things concerning the Academy Awards.

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1. The Youngest Nominee for the most effective Director Award – Prior to 1991, the youngest greatest director nominee was Orson Welles. He was nominated for the groundbreaking Citizen Kane. He was 26 in the time, and held the honor for 50 years until 24 year old John Singleton for Boys N the Hood. The youngest director to truly win is Norman Taurog who in 1931 won the award for his movie Skippy.

2. Uncle Oscar Wasn’t Usually Created of Metal – There was a three year period during the time of shortages and rations in Globe War II that the Oscar statues were not actual metal. The statues were made of plaster instead and painted gold. When the war ended and shortages eased the Academy began providing metal statuettes plated in real gold.

3. And also the Winner is… – Between the years of 1929 and 1939, the first ten years of the Awards, winners were announced three months in advance so that you can give the names to the media. It gave the media a lot of time to prepare their stories. There was an understanding between the Academy as well as the media that the winners had been not to be divulged to the public till following the awards night. Unfortunately this condition was broken in 1939 and the subsequent year the release for the media was ended. This began the tradition of having the sealed envelope — no one except several inside the Academy knew who the winner is till the envelope is opened.

4. Winners Do not Truly Own the Statuettes – Oscar winners don’t really get to keep their statuettes free and clear. Neither do their heirs. After 1950 it became a requirement that prior to the winners provided their awards for sale to anyone else they should supply it back for the Academy for the sum of . If they refuse, they do not get to take the statuette home.

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