TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, February 23, 2015

Greetings Infomaniacs,

Last night the Oscars were on, and since I'm writing this ahead of time, I don't know yet who won those shiny statues! However, I do know that I have some fun facts about the Oscars for you today, courtesy of usatoday.com. Check them out below...

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "There are a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."

HINT: (1930-), American actor, director, producer, musician, and politician, one famous role was Dirty Harry.


RANDOM TIDBITS
The first Academy Awards were held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929.

The famous golden statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit. According to the Oscars, the nickname's origins are unclear. The most widely known story goes that Academy librarian Margaret Herrick, who had the gig in the 1930s, saw the statue and said it looked like her Uncle Oscar. (The Academy didn't adopt the nickname officially until 1939.)

The design of the Oscar statuette, by Cedric Gibbons, is a knight holding a crusader's sword while standing on a film reel. There are five spokes on the reel representing the five original branches of the Academy: writers, technicians, producers, actors and directors.

The first televised Oscars show was on March 19, 1953. That year, Gary Cooper won the Oscar for best actor for High Noon (and it was accepted by John Wayne). Shirley Booth took home the best actress prize for Come Back, Little Sheba. The first color broadcast was in 1966, when The Sound of Music won best picture.

The more-than-5,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are the ones who choose the winners. Among that group, more than 1,000 are actors.

Seventy-two million U.S. viewers tuned into last year's Academy Awards. In comparison, this year's Super Bowl had 114.5 million viewers and Sunday's #SNL40 performance had 23.1 million viewers.

(www.usatoday.com)


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "There are a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."

ANSWER: Clint Eastwood.

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