首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Oscar award The Academy Awards Oscar presentation for excellence in the film industry has a long and rich history. In 1927
Oscar award The Academy Awards Oscar presentation for excellence in the film industry has a long and rich history. In 1927
admin
2010-04-12
33
问题
Oscar award
The Academy Awards Oscar presentation for excellence in the film industry has a long and rich history.
In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) was formed by 36 of the film industry’s most prominent individuals, choosing film actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. as its first president. In 1929, AMPAS presented the first Academy Award. This award was for recognition of excellence in the motion picture industry. This award has remained the ultimate industry standard of recognition.
Voting members of AMPAS represent fourteen branches of the film industry to determine who receives the coveted (垂涎) awards. The Oscar voting process begins in November of each year. Movie studios, publicists and film distributors begin their attempts to coax the voting members of AMPAS to view their film offerings. These attempts are regulated in the interest of fairness. The following January, the Academy Awards ballots are distributed to voting members, who have one month to make their nominations and return these nominations to the offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers, formerly Price Waterhouse, a professional service used to tabulate the votes. PricewaterhouseCoopers guarantees the security of the balloting. Only two people employed by PricewaterhouseCoopers know the results of award balloting before the ceremonies.
The nominations for the award are made by members of the craft (行业) categories for each of the rewards. In the Best Picture category, however, all voting members are allowed to submit nominations. In February, PricewaterhouseCoopers announces the result of the nominations. Voting members then receive ballots to east their votes to select winners in each category. They are then returned to the tabulating service. Although many of the fourteen Oscar categories have been broadened or changed since 1927, the awards still fall within the main branches of the Academy. This includes actors, producers, directors, writers and technicians. Even the names of some of the awards have changed. For example, the Best Picture award was known as the Best Production award prior to 1933. In that year, two Best Picture awards were given. One, to "Wings" for the Best Production and another to "Sunrise" for the Best Unique and Artistic Picture. After that year’s awards the latter category was dropped. Until 1939, the award was called the "Academy Award of Merit" and was not a statuette but a plaque. The first Oscar statuette was awarded to actor Emil Jannings, who was named Best Actor for his role in "The Last Command" and" The Way of All Things".
How the awards statuette came to be known as "Oscar" is not known but it is generally accepted that Katherine Herrion, a future Academy Executive Director, remarked upon seeing the statue that it reminded her of her uncle Oscar and began referring to it by that name. Academy staff followed her lead and the name Oscar has been used ever since. The Oscar itself is a statuette, made by the R.S. Owens Company of Chicago. It is approximately 13.5 inches high and weighs 8.5 pounds. It is made from a copper, silver and nickel alloy and covered with 25Carat gold. During World War Il , the statues were made of plaster. Recipients turned in these plaster statues after the war for golden Oscars. In the 1930’s juvenile recipients of the award were given miniature versions and there is one instance where a wooden Oscar was awarded to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Walt Disney received seven miniature Oscar statuettes for the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first all-animated feature film. The statue was designed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer art director Cedric Gibbon and sculptor George Stanley. The Oscar depicts a knight holding a sword, standing atop a reel of film. The film reel has five spokes, representing the five original branches of AMPAS. 1949 marked the first year that the Oscar statuettes were numbered, beginning with number 501. In a surprising turn of events, 55 Oscars vanished before the awards program in March, 2000. Later 52 of the statues were found in a Los Angeles dumpster.
The first awards presentations were actually large banquet-type dinners. Anyone who wished to attend could simply purchase a ticket. These affairs were first held in the larger hotels such as the Ambassador and the Biltmore in Los Angeles. As public interest and crowds increased, the affairs were moved to larger theaters~ where the ever-growing awards could be accommodated. While awards programs are now watched by millions on television, the first awards were broadcast live through radio. The first televised ceremonies took place in 1953, at the 25th annual presentation. The Academy Awards have been held annually without fail except on three occasions. In 1938, Los Angeles floods delayed the event for one week. Thirty years later, in 1968, the program was delayed two days so as not to coincide with the funeral of Martin Luther King. The last postponement to date was in 1981 when the attempted-assassination of US President Ronald Reagan took place, when the awards were delayed for 24 hours.
The suspense that is now an accepted part of the Oscar ceremony did not always exist. The results of the Oscar poll was released to the press in advance of the awards ceremony and could be found in the late edition newspapers on the night of the awards. The tradition of revealing the results on camera at the awards was not adopted until 1941. As well as the suspense involving the winners, the Oscar awards programs have had their share of unexpected excitement. In 1973, a nude streaker (裸奔者) ran across the stage of the televised proceedings. In 1972, in a surprise move, winner Marion Bran do sent an actress who identified herself as Sacheen Littlefeather to read a political statement and refuse his award.
The awards also broke some barriers. Actress Hattie Mcdaniel received the first Oscar awarded to a Black actor in any category for her supporting role in Gone with the Wind, a movie which received a record-breaking 13 nominations and 8 wins.
The Academy Awards continues to evoke the same excitement and intensity that it had at the beginning.
Oscar used to be a famous actor.
选项
A、Y
B、N
C、NG
答案
C
解析
本文只是提到Katherine Herrion一看到雕像就想起了她的叔叔Oscar,但没有提到她叔叔的其他情况。故答案为NG。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/G6j7777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
【B1】【B15】
OneexplanationforthedifferentcharacterofEnglishpeopleisthat______.Accordingtothepassage,onenteringarailway
A、Theirlifeisworsethanbefore.B、Theirhusbandsenjoybetterrightsthanthem.C、Therearemorechancesforthemthaneverb
Whatcanweinferfromthetragicexamplegiveninthefirstparagraph?Paragraph4ismainlyabout______.
Whatcanweinferfromthetragicexamplegiveninthefirstparagraph?The"hard"detergentscausedtroubleduringthe1950sb
A、Hisgirlfriendcomplainedofhisgoingtothepartywithouther.B、Hewastogetherwithhisgirlfriendyesterday.C、Hehasbee
A、It’stoohigh.B、It’sacceptable.C、It’scheapindeed.D、Thewomanshouldhavebargainedforit.C信息明示题,男士所说的you’vegotabarg
Onthenightoftheplay,Albertwasalreadymade-upand【B1】______inhispoliceman’suniformlongbeforetheendofthefirsta
A、Hethinkschildrenarenormallysilly.B、Hethinksweareshortofgoodchildren’sbooks.C、Hethinksweneedtoproducemore
随机试题
在物质的三种聚集状态中,液体分子的间距一定大于固体分子的间距。()
下述哪一点不符合神经内分泌细胞的特征
A.技术性B.稳定性C.经济性D.法律性E.有效性“医师对患者做出明确的诊断后,在安全、有效、经济的原则下开具处方”,这体现的处方意义是具有
A.九味羌活汤B.防己黄芪汤C.独活寄生汤D.苓桂术甘汤E.羌活胜湿汤
A、刺痛B、胀痛C、隐痛D、重痛E、掣痛筋脉失养所致的疼痛()
肺炎患儿存在的主要护理问题是( )。
患者因脑外伤昏迷,给予降颅内压和抗生素治疗。患者2周后出现口腔溃疡,有白色膜状物。用棉签拭去,创面出血。为其做口腔护理,漱口液应选用
试验测得某风化岩石的压缩波速度为3000m/s,饱和单轴抗压强度为3200kPa,其新鲜岩石的压缩波速度为6000m/s,其饱和单轴抗压强度为8000kPa。试判定该岩石的风化程度为()。
规模经济贸易理论由()提出。
SOL语言集数据查询、数据操纵、数据定义和数据控制功能于一体,语句REVOKE实现其中的_________功能。
最新回复
(
0
)