Lights! Camera! Action! The Academy Awards in Britannica
With hundreds of photographs and entries on all the major awards, Britannica’s Guide to the Academy Awards takes you on a category-by-category tour of the award-winning movies and their stars over the years. It features entries on award winners in seven major categories-picture, director, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, and foreign-language film, and other important winners from each year’s ceremony are listed. Britannica’s coverage begins with the first Academy Awards dinner in 1928 and continues to the present. Explore the lush history of the Oscars by year or by category, or browse the image gallery.
You can see this spotlight by clicking the Spotlight Archive on the Britannica home page and then choosing “All About Oscar.” This spotlight can be found in Encyclopædia Britannica Online (Academic Edition), Encyclopædia Britannica Online Reference Center (for public libraries), or Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.