Cinematic excellence in various categories are honored at the annual Academy Awards that now goes officially by its new name, The Oscars, from this year onward. This year 2013 marks the 85th year of the prestigious award ceremony, held at the Dolby Theatre on February 24, 2013.
The Oscars is overseen and organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences or AMPAS. It was Louis B. Meyer of Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer who originally conceptualized the AMPAS. He envisioned it to be a professional honorary governing body to boost the image of the film industry and as a film industry labor dispute mediator. Later the awards were established by the AMPAS to honor distinctive achievements in the film industry. The awards were first handed out in 1929.
Trivia
The Oscar statuette is 13.5 inches tall, weighs 3.85 kilos and made of gold-plated britannium placed on base of black metal. It is a figure of a knight in Art Deco style with both his hands holding a crusader’s sword. He stands on a film reel with five spokes, for the original branches of the AMPAS – Producers, Directors, Actors, Technicians and Writers. Mexican actor and film director Emilio Fernández was the model for the Oscar statuette, after finally being convinced to pose nude by Cedric Gibbons, MGM creative director, in 1928.
The Oscars: 2013 Top Category Winners
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz is an actor of Austrian-German descent. He is best known internationally for his works with Quentin Tarantino. His portrayal of Hans Landa, an SS-Standartenführer in the film Inglourious Basterds (2009) earned him a Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award, a Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Screen Actors Guild Award. He also received the Best Supporting Actor in the 2010 Academy Award for the said film. His second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor is for this year’s “Django Unchained,” which also earned him awards from Golden Globe and BAFTA.
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway for Les Miserables
Anne Hathaway is from Brooklyn. The 30-year o
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