The beige, not the red carpet has already been laid, the last details of the event have been discussed and Hollywood ready to celebrate the cinematic achievements of 2022.

On the night of 12^her March (Monday morning in Greece), we will find out this year’s winners, 95^her Oscar ceremony.

How many golden statuettes will the film collect?All(“Everything is everywhere at once”) by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert? The academy will bow to Cate Blanchett’s performance inTar“? And how willTriangle of sadness» by Ruben Östlund, most of which was filmed in Chiliados beach in Evia;

Hours before the event, we take a look back at the entertainment industry’s most important institution and moments that have stood out over the years.

The first Academy event was held in May 1929 in the Blooming Room of the Hollywood Hotel. Roosevelt.

The ceremony lasted only 15 minutes, and the winners were announced by an American actor and director. Douglas Fairbanks. All of the award-winning films were silent except for one: The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson. However, the main prize went to the film “Wings”.

The following year, the war drama All Quiet on the Western Front, the remake of which has 9 nominations this year, won the Oscar for best production.

In 1939, Hattie McDaniel made history by becoming the first African-American actress to win an Oscar. And this is for the role of Mami, which she played in the film Gone with the Wind.

McDaniel, who was seated at a table separate from her co-stars due to racial discrimination, got up from her seat and walked onto the stage to receive the Best Supporting Actress statuette.

Scandals and controversy

Over the years, the Oscars have witnessed scandals and controversy, such as that between sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland, who hated each other.

Both competed for the 1942 Best Actress Oscar. Fontaine ultimately won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion.

The Oscars continued into the infamous “McCarthy” period, when many Hollywood screenwriters were “blacklisted” as suspected communists.

That all changed in 1957, when the screenplay award went to Dalton Trumbo, who won under the name Robert Rich for the western The Brave. But he himself was not at the ceremony, so someone else received his award.

In 1953, the Oscars began to be televised, with comedian, actor, singer, and dancer Bob Hope as the host.

In the evening, he joked: “Isn’t it great that tonight all the shining stars will be in your homes?” TV where movies die.

One of the most memorable moments in Oscar history was when Charlie Chaplin, whose career began in silent films, won the Lifetime Achievement Award. Chaplin received a 12-minute applause from the audience.

In 1973, indigenous activist and actress Sahin Littlefeather attended the Academy Awards on behalf of Marlon Brando to refuse the gold statuette he had won for his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather.

Brando declined due to “the film industry’s treatment of Native Americans”. Many years later, Littlefeather said that security at the ceremony removed her from the stage that night. Some 50 years after this event, the Academy apologized to her.

A year later, Oscar goers reacted when gay photographer and activist Robert Opel ran onto the stage naked.

#OscarSoWhite

In the past decade, the Oscars have been criticized for not awarding actors, directors, producers of different nationalities.

The year 2017 culminated with a storm of backlash and the creation of the #OscarsSoWhite online hashtag.

In 2022, the winners of the ceremony were overshadowed by a rebuke between Will Smith and Chris Rock. Smith took the stage and slapped the American comedian after the latter made a crude and humorous comment about the shaved head of Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith. Pinkett Smith suffers from alopecia.

A few minutes later, Smith won the Best Actor award for his performance in King Richard.

According to NPR