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Photo: Greg in Hollywood (Greg Hernandez), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.Step onto the red carpet and test your knowledge of Hollywood's most prestigious night! From historic ties to surprising records, see how well you know the Oscars.
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Kathryn Bigelow made history in 2010 when she won the Best Director Oscar for her intense Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. Her film also won Best Picture that year, famously beating out the massive box-office hit Avatar, which was directed by her former husband, James Cameron.
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Tatum O'Neal earned the Best Supporting Actress trophy in 1974 at just ten years old for her incredible performance alongside her real-life father, Ryan O'Neal, in Paper Moon. Shirley Temple was actually younger when she received an Oscar, but hers was an honorary juvenile award.
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Peter Finch was awarded Best Actor posthumously in 1977 for his unforgettable role as the unhinged television anchor Howard Beale in Network. His widow, Eletha Finch, accepted the statuette on his behalf. Heath Ledger later became the second actor to receive a posthumous acting Oscar.
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Katharine Hepburn won for The Lion in Winter and Barbra Streisand won for Funny Girl after both received exactly 3,030 votes from Academy members. Because Hepburn skipped the ceremony, Streisand took the stage alone and famously greeted her statuette with her film's opening line: Hello, gorgeous!
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Glenn Close has been nominated eight times across four decades for iconic roles in films like Fatal Attraction and The Wife but has yet to take home a competitive trophy. Despite this, she remains one of Hollywood's most respected performers and has won multiple Emmy and Tony Awards.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept the 1976 Oscars by winning Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay. This rare feat has only been achieved by two other films in history: It Happened One Night in 1935 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1992.
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Margaret Herrick, the Academy's first librarian, reportedly remarked that the gold statuette looked just like her Uncle Oscar. By the end of the 1930s the Academy had taken up the nickname itself, and its library in Beverly Hills is now named in Herrick's honour.
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Wings is a silent war film about fighter pilots in the First World War. For more than 80 years it was the only silent film to win the top prize, until The Artist did it again in 2012. Its realistic air battles amazed audiences at the time.
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During World War II, metal was scarce and reserved for military use, so the Academy handed out plaster Oscars for three years. Once the conflict ended, the winners were invited to exchange their temporary plaster awards for the classic gold-plated metal statuettes we know today.
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Located in the Hollywood and Highland shopping complex, the Dolby Theatre (originally known as the Kodak Theatre) was custom-built specifically to host the glamorous Academy Awards ceremony. Before moving here, the Oscars rotated between several iconic Los Angeles locations, most notably the Shrine Auditorium.
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