94th Oscar Award Ceremony Tonight

In 1927, 4 friends laid the foundation of Oscar, so far only 4 Indian films could reach the top-5

The 94th Academy Awards (Oscars) are to be held on March 28. This year, Tamil film Koojangal has been nominated by India for the Best Foreign Language Film category. In this award, which has been running for 94 years, four Indian films Mother India, Salaam Bombay, Shwaas (Marathi) and Lagaan have got a place in the top 5. Films from India have been sent to the Oscars since 1957, while the first awards were held in 1929.

Today we tell you how the Oscar Award, which is called the benchmark of film awards, started, how the Oscar was named and on which parameters how films are selected. Let's know how the history of Oscars is ...

How the Academy Awards started

Louis B. Meyer, head of MGM Studios in the US, along with three of his friends, actor Conrad Nagel, director Fred Niblow and filmmaker Fade Bitson, hatched a plan to create a group that would benefit the entire industry.

36 of the most famous people from the motion picture industry met at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles before the International Academy of Motion Picture Art and Science was presented. Everyone agreed. By March 1927 its officers were elected, whose president was Douglas Fairbanks.

On May 11, 1927, a feast of 300 eminent personalities was held, of whom 230 people took the official membership of the Academy for $100. Initially this ceremony was divided into 5 categories Producer, Director, Actor, Technician and Writer.

The first Oscar award ceremony took place on 16 May 1929.

270 guests were invited to a private party in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The ticket for this event was $5. No media, no spectators, no crowd.

The winners of the first award ceremony were announced three months back. From the next year, at 11 o'clock on the night of award night, the newspaper started giving the list of winners, but in 1940 it happened that the Los Angeles Times announced the winners before the ceremony. Since then, the winners have been disclosed in a closed envelope.

Winners cannot sell awards

Celebs definitely get Oscars, although they do not have the right to sell them. If the winner of the award wishes, he can sell the award to the Academy.

How was the performance of Indian films at the Oscars?

Talking about Indian films, only Mother India, Salaam Bomb, Shwaas and Lagaan are the only films that were nominated for Oscars, but failed to win the award.

In 1983, Bhanu Athaiya was the first Indian to receive the Golden Trophy for her costume design for the film Gandhi.

The biggest historic moment for India came when Satyajit Ray was awarded the Oscar's Honorary Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1992.

AR Rahman is the only Indian musician to have won two Oscars. He received this award for the song Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire.