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Academy Awards Every February Oscar Fever hits the entertainment community and film fans around the world. Hundreds of milli
Academy Awards Every February Oscar Fever hits the entertainment community and film fans around the world. Hundreds of milli
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Academy Awards
Every February Oscar Fever hits the entertainment community and film fans around the world. Hundreds of millions of cinema lovers glue themselves to their television sets to learn who will receive the golden statuettes. After more than seven decades of recognizing excellence in film-making achievement, the presentation of the Oscars has become the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ most famous activity.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization of over 6,000 motion picture professionals, was founded to
advance the arts and sciences of motion pictures
foster cooperation among creative leaders for cultural, educational and technologic progress;
recognize outstanding achievements;
cooperate on technical research and improvement of methods and equipment;
provide a common forum and meeting ground for various branches and craft;
represent the viewpoint of actual creators of the motion picture;
foster educational activities between the professional community and the public-at-large.
The Academy Awards
The Oscars! Every January, when the calendar has turned to a new year, the*attention of the entertainment community and of film fans around the world turns to the upcoming Academy Awards. After three-quarters of a century of recognizing excellence in cinema achievement, the annual presentation of the Oscars has become the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ most famous activity. The Academy Awards Presentation is also the activity that enables the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to maintain its varied year-round calendar of programs and events and a wide- ranging educational and cultural agenda.
History of the Academy Awards
When the first Academy Awards were handed out on May 16, 1929, movies had just begun to talk. That first Awards ceremony took place during a banquet held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The attendance was more than 270 and tickets for members were no charge and guests cost $ 5.
The suspense which now touches most of the world at Oscar time was not always a characteristic of the Awards. At first the winners were known prior to the Awards banquets. Results were given in advance to the newspapers for publication at 11 p.m. on the night of the Awards. But in 1940, guests arriving for the affair could buy the 8:45 p.m. edition of the Los Angeles Times, which announced the winning achievements. As a result, the sealed-envelope system was adopted the next year and remains in use today.
Since the earliest years, interest in the Academy Awards has run high, if not at the modern fever- pitch. The first presentation was the only one to escape a media audience, but by the second year enthusiasm for the Awards was so high that a Los Angeles radio station actually did a live, one-hour broadcast. The Awards have had broadcast coverage since.
For 15 years the Academy Awards Presentations were banquet affairs held, after the first in the Blossom Room. The custom of presenting the statuettes at a banquet was discontinued after 1942. Increased attendance and the war had made banquets impractical, and the presentation ceremonies have since been held in theaters.
In 1966, the Oscars were first broadcast in color. From 1971 through 1975 the NBC-TV network carried the Awards. ABC has telecast the show since 1976 and is under contract through 2008. On April 14, 1969, the 41st Academy Awards ceremonies moved to the brand new Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center of Los Angeles County. It was the first major event for this world-renowned cultural center.
The Awards remained at the Music Center until 1986, when the ceremonies returned to the Shrine Auditorium (礼堂) for the 60th and 61st Awards. Since then the Awards have moved back and forth between the Shrine and the Music Center. The larger Shrine Auditorium (6,000 seats) is used principally to afford Academy members an opportunity to attend the telecast, an opportunity that is limited by the Music Center’s size (about 2,500 seats). The 74th Awards, in 2002, were held at a new venue, the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood &. Highland, across the street from where the first Oscars were handed out at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929.
Academy Award Voting
Each November, an election campaign commences that rivals, at least in Hollywood, the passions and sometimes the excesses of the quadrennial race for the nation’s presidency. It’s the race for an Academy Award nomination (提名). These days, because of the Academy’s successful efforts over the years to eliminate splashy gimmicks and gifts, the race consists principally of attempts by studios, independent distributors and publicists to make sure that each of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 5,800 voting members sees their film. It means special screenings for Academy members, free admission to commercial runs of a film and the mailing of video cassettes and DVDs.
Nomination ballots are mailed by the Academy in January, and members will have two weeks to return their secret ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the professional services firm formerly known as Price Waterhouse. Secrecy is strictly maintained by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The results does not revealed until the famous envelopes are opened on stage during the Awards Presentation February 27, 2005.
Because the Academy numbers are the most gifted and skilled artists and craftsmen in the motion picture world, its Award stands alone as an indication of what top filmmakers feel are the year’s top achievements. Regular awards are presented for outstanding individual or collective efforts of the year in up to 25 categories.
Up to five nominations are made in most categories, with balloting for these nominations restricted to members of the Academy branch concerned; directors, for instance, are the only nominators for Achievement in Directing. Nominations for awards in the foreign language category are made by a large committee of members drawn from all branches. Best Picture nominations and final winners in most categories are determined by vote of the entire membership
Kodak Theatre
The Kodak Theatre, the anchor of Los Angeles’ Hollywood & Highland destination site, is Southern California’s home for the best in fine arts, live theatre, concerts, award shows and special events. The theater, home to the annual Academy Awards ceremonies, opened in November of 2001 and hosted its first Academy Awards Presentation five months later.
The Kodak Theatre, a $ 94 million project, is designed with state-of-the-art technology that optimizes the venue for the presentation, recording and broadcast of world class live entertainment from concerts and Broadway shows to the performing arts and award shows.
The audience’s seating capacity and configuration (构造) is completely flexible to fit every performance need and can range from 2,200 for live theatre to 3,500 for concerts and awards shows. Three balcony levels will bring visitors close to one of the largest theater stages in the country-113 feet wide and 60 feet deep. In addition there are 24 theatre boxes with four seats each.
The complex has notable provisions for the annual Academy Awards Presentation, including a press area in the hotel for 1,500 journalists, and staging for a gala arrival sequence that allows celebrities to be photographed, interviewed and welcomed. Also featured is a 40,000 square-foot Grand Ballroom, featuring the renowned culinary wizardry of Wolfgang Puck as caterer.
"The Kodak Theatre is a world-class theatre and has quickly become a Hollywood institution," said Shaul Kuba, principal of CIM Group. "The location at Hollywood & Highland creates a unique destination that includes first class restaurants, great retail shops and easily accessible parking all surrounded by the glamour of Hollywood."
The establishment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is to award excellent movies, directors, actors and actresses.
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A、Y
B、N
C、NG
答案
B
解析
文章第一个副标题列举了成立电影艺术与科学学院的七个目的。颁奖只是推动电影艺术的发展的一个举措。该命题颠倒了因果关系。
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