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Helpful facts and trivia about the annual Academy Awards are presented. They can help Oscar party goers to be knowledgable about every actor, actress and movie nominated. It is deemed important for attendees of Oscar parties to be at their smartest to enjoy the event.

* SINCE THE ACADEMY of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences started giving out accolades in 1929, over 3,000 Oscar statuettes have gone home in the hands of Hollywood's most lauded [...]

E! preshow divas Joan and Melissa Rivers offer their own gay guide to the party I'm the luckiest gay guy in the world. I get to go to the Oscars--the [...]

The Academy of Political Picture Arts and Sciences in Washington, D.C., has just announced nominees for this year's awards. The list contains a few surprises: Best Actor in a Leading [...]

In Competition No. 2534 you were invited to submit an extract from a speech given by the presenter of a Lifetime Achievement award at the Oscars in which the discerning [...]

That's the way I've started my appearance on the red carpet before introducing the stars-celebs, nominees--to audiences at the various venues of the Oscars over the years plus the cameras [...]

Ask anyone in the world what the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences does, and you may get a blank stare. But if they do know the name, it [...]

On March 21st Hollywood will hand out its Oscars. As a guide to form, we publish a conversation overheard in a taxi approaching Washington SIMON LACEROUS: I'll admit I was [...]

LOOK, EVERYONE knows the geeks have taken over Hollywood. So why shouldn't we take over the Oscars, too? Every time I go to conventions, I remind people they're in control [...]

WHEN JOKES BY FRANCO AND Hathaway FALL flat 1500 puppets laugh HYSTERICALLY. THE OPENING NUMBER consists of 57 dancing and flying SPIDER-MAN OSCARS. IN THE ACTION-PACKED finale THEY ALL VIE [...]

SIMON LACEROUS: Yo, Cecil, what're you doing here in Aspen? I thought all you moguls were down with Barbra's boycott? CECIL B. DESILVER: Name one of us who is. Nicholson's [...]

There have been outrageous events during past Academy Award ceremonies that have taken place off-camera. In 1961, Elizabeth Taylor fainted backstage after winning the 'Best Actress' award. Several mishaps have occurred with 'seat-fillers' who are hired to fill vacant seats during the Academy Awards.

On March 30th Hollywood will hand out its Oscars. As a guide to form, we publish a conversation overheard poolside at the Beverly Hilton SIMON LACEROUS: Cecil! Are you still [...]

The Oscar race, it's often said, is akin to a presidential campaign, a comparison one suspects has at least something to do with both being filled with dinners of indeterminate [...]