And the Winners Were. . .

The Santa Fe New Mexican › March 13, 2004

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When the Academy Awards ceremony is telecast Sunday, Feb. 29, it will be 76 years old, which isn't a particularly notable birthday (unlike, say, 75). Still,

it's as good a time as any to look back at the history

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And the Winners Were. . .

of the event via this timeline, which was mostly compiled from information in Robert Osborne's excellent book 75 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards.

1927: In a year in which movie tickets cost 25 cents, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was created by movie industry people who wanted to promote the film industry through a variety of ways, including an annual awards ceremony. Actress Mary Pickford called the Academy "the League of Nations

of the Motion Picture Industry."

The first Acad...

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