TORONTO – Who votes for Oscar winners? A new study finds the people who determine the award recipients are mainly white and male.
The Los Angeles Times reports 94 per cent of the Motion Picture Academy's voting members are white—and 77 per cent are men. The report comes just a week before the next Oscar winners are announced.
Global News takes a look at other Academy Awards facts and figures:
84 – Number of ceremonies to date (including 2012)
$5 – Cost of Oscar event tickets in 1929
$500 – The approximate cost of making an Oscar statuette
20– Number of hours it takes to make an Oscar statuette (from cast to finish)
6.75 - Weight (in pounds) of an Oscar statuette
13.5– Height (in inches) of an Oscar statuette
15 minutes – Length of shortest Oscar awards ceremony. The winners of the first Academy Awards in 1929 were announced three months before the ceremony. The winners simply showed up to take their statuettes home.
4 hours and 23 minutes – Length of longest Academy Awards telecast (2002)
19 – Number of times Bob Hope has hosted the Academy Awards—an Oscar record
One – Number of people named ‘Oscar’ who have won an Oscar statuette. Oscar Hammerstein II won for ‘Best Song’ in 1941 and 1945.
5,765 – Number of voters in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as of 2012
Three - Number of people who
have refused the Oscar. They are: George C. Scott (1971); Marlon Brando (1972); and
Dudley Nichols (1935).
26 – The number of Oscars awarded to Walt Disney—the most given to a single individual
Three – Number of films to have won the so-called ‘Big Five Academy Awards’ (best picture, director, actor, actress, and writing). The films are: “It Happened One Night” (1934), “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) and “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991).
One – Number of actors/actresses to win for a one-word role. In the film “The Miracle Worker,” Patty Duke portrayed the blind and deaf Helen Keller. The actress won the award for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ after uttering the word “wah-wah” (the word “water”) in the 1962 movie.
Five minutes and 30 seconds– The length of the longest acceptance speech made by an Oscar winner. Greer Garson spoke for five minutes and 30 seconds after accepting the ‘Best Actress’ award for her 1942 role in "Mrs. Miniver."
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