The story behind the golden statue of the Oscars – Andina

The Oscar is undoubtedly the most coveted prize of the film world by the fame and prestige it represents, even after the party ends on the TV, a bookshelf, as bookends or bath of lucky winners.

The art director studio Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, Cedric Gibbons, was commissioned to design this Knight of 34.2 cm and 3.8 kg carrying arms crossed holding a sword and standing on a reel of film.

The first statues were bronze, but the scarcity of metal during World War forced for a time to make plaster. Then with the economic recovery and progress of machinery, ended up being bathed in gold and silver.

One of the greatest legends surrounding this trophy is his name, so common as striking and mythical.

connoisseurs who was responsible for the library of the Academy, Margaret Herrick, who named it the resemblance he saw his uncle Oscar say.

The name spread like wildfire through the halls of Hollywood until it reached the ears of Sidney Skolsky editor, who cited a 1934 column about the triumph of Katherine Hepburn Best Actress for “Morning Glory”.

Infected by this trend, the Academy decided to adopt the name officially in 1939. So far we have delivered 2,951 figurines and today is divided between 24 other 50 categories in contention to grant the 6,124 members of the Academy.

Hepburn It is precisely the interpreter’s Oscars in his -cuatro- have, but Meryl Streep could equal the record with its nomination for Best Actress for “Into the Woods” (“In the woods”).

Lupita Nyong’o, Jared Leto, Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey, Zoe Saldana and Scarlett Johansson are some of those responsible for delivering this year figurines, like Reese Witherspoon nominees, Marion Cotillard Benedict Cumberbatch and others.

The ceremony, which usually lasts about three hours, will be held in the theater Dolby -before Kodak-, as usual since 2001.

This iconic scene is on the sidewalk in front of the Chinese theater, cinema El Capitan and the Roosevelt Hotel, which hosted the May 16, 1929 the first ceremony of the awards in a short and simple dinner.

While the show is preceded by the most pompous red carpet of the world, its organizers and guests were able to show austerity in times of war or after the attacks of September 11, 2001.