96 years ago today, on May 16, 1929 (April 8, 1929, the first film "Academy Awards" were awarded in Hollywood. "Wings" United States 1927 - 1929 The first film "Academy Awards" held an award ceremony in Hollywood, the American film capital."Wings"(also known as "Plane Wars") won the best picture award, and Warner Bros. Pictures won a special award for "The King of Jazz Songs". Comedy master Chaplin was awarded a special prize. Ten years after the establishment of the academy in World War I, devastated Europe was in ruins and the film industry entered a trough. American films took this opportunity to usher in Hollywood's first golden age. In May 1928, Louis B.Mayer, the general manager of MGM, the "king of Hollywood", proposed an idea to his colleagues present at a dinner party: "Hollywood elites should be gathered together to form a group. It includes actors, directors, screenwriters, photographers and of course producers. Make them pillars of Hollywood, let them mediate disputes, or serve as a channel in the studio. A week later, Mayer drafted a proposal to establish the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose first chairman was popular MGM movie star Douglas Fairbanks. It came into being on May 4, 1927, at the banquet for the establishment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, it was proposed by participants, and the first award ceremony was held in Hollywood on May 16, 1929. About 270 people attended the meeting at that time. The first Academy Award was awarded to Emil Jannings, who won the first Academy Award for Best Actor. From the very beginning of the Academy Awards, they have attracted great attention from the film industry and the public, and the media have also actively participated in the broadcast. At the second ceremony, Los Angeles radio broadcast it live for an hour. Since then, the annual awards ceremony has been reported accordingly by the media. The first Academy Awards were held on May 16, 1929. To this day, the Academy Awards have become the "main business" of the American Academy of Film Arts and synonymous with the institution. Origin of the name 1 The origin of the name "Oscar" is different. What is more credible is that Margaret Herridge, the female librarian of the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1931, exclaimed after carefully reviewing the Academy Awards."Ah! He looks just like my uncle Oscar!" The journalist next door wrote after listening: "The staff of the Academy of Arts and Sciences affectionately called their gold statue" Oscar." From then on, this nickname spread like wildfire. Argument 2:"Famous actress Betty Davis claims that she was the first to name the Oscar. She said that when she won the Academy Award for the first time, she accidentally called her husband Haimon Oscar Nelson's name "Oscar". Reporters interviewed on the spot heard it, so it spread all of a sudden. Argument 3: While writing a report on his typewriter on the night after the 6th Awards Ceremony ended, Hollywood columnist Skorsky actually forgot the spelling of Statuette. He suddenly remembered a scene in a musical drama he had seen in the past. It was a group of comedians walking to the orchestra pit and jokingly saying to the conductor: "Oscar, do you want a cigarette?" "The conductor reached out his hand to take it, but the comedians avoided it without giving him cigarettes. This caused a burst of laughter. Skorsky believes that the Golden Academy Awards symbolize desire and should have a comedic color. So he wrote in the report: "Katharine Hepburn won the Oscar for her role of Ava in" Amazing Talent." According to various analyses, the first statement above is more credible. Because Betty Davis first won the Best Actress Award in 1935, when the nickname Oscar was already a household name. As for Skorsky's belief that the Academy Awards should have a comedy color, this view may not be accepted by the majority of people in the film industry.