Oscar-nominated celebrities set to hit the red carpet, with awards ceremony to follow

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02-03-2025

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The 2025 Academy Awards
are set to take place on Sunday, March 2 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. The show is scheduled to be broadcast live on ABC at 7:00 PM EST, starting a whole hour earlier than it has in the past. For the first time in history, the Oscars will also be available to stream simultaneously via Hulu Live TV and other streaming services, and will also be available to watch in full on ABC.com and on the ABC app.
The very first Academy Awards were held in May 1929, but were not televised until March 1953, when it was broadcast on NBC. From then on, the award show bounced between NBC and ABC. After going back and forth for many years, ABC took over in 1976, broadcasting the Oscars
every year since then. The network is under contract with the award show through 2028, after which it could possibly find a new home.
It's not uncommon to find a film based loosely on past events which reflect real events and real people. However, these biographical films often feature twists doctored by Hollywood writers that aren't entirely historically accurate.
Some stories from the past have been stamped with Hollywood's highest honor, an Oscar nomination, and in certain cases, a win.
Oscar-nominated films which also took home wins include:
"The Wolf of Wall Street" is a 2013 movie based on the 2007 memoir by Jordan Belfort. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Belfort in the Martin Scorsese-directed film.
Erin Brockovich evolved as an unlikely hero in her own story. She played a large role in the case of Anderson v. Pacific Gas & Electric, a case settled for $333 million dollars.
Julia Roberts plays Brockovich in the 2000 movie titled "Erin Brockovich."
"Catch Me If You Can" stars DiCaprio as a famous check forger, Frank Abagnale Jr., who is on the run from the FBI.
The 2015 movie "The Big Short" is about Michael Burry, the investor and hedge fund manager who predicted the 2008 stock market crash. Christian Bale stars as Burry in the film.
Molly Bloom ran an underground poker empire involving several Hollywood elites. In 2014, she was convicted for the illegal gambling operation that she was running.
Bloom is played by Jessica Chastain in the Oscar-nominated film for Best Adapted Screenplay.
This is an excerpt from an article written by Fox News' Ashlyn Messier.
The most essential element of the Academy Awards is the people, the members who make up the organization that ultimately vote on the winners. The group comprises over 10,000 members of the entertainment industry, with approximately 9,500 having the ability to vote, according to Variety.
Over the last decade, the Academy has gone to great lengths to increase its membership of women and people of color.
A nominee is decided by these members after each person votes in their qualified branch categories during the nomination process, followed by their picks for Best Picture. If branches do not have a category, then those members are only able to vote on the best picture for that year. The inclusion of more diverse members from across the industry has allowed for more equity in the awards process over the last 10 years.
Moreover, other branches decide their contenders by cutting them down over time. The branches that participate in this form of voting include music, sound, visual effects, documentary feature, international features, and makeup and hairstyling.
In 1973, Marlon Brando declined an Oscar after he won best actor for his role as Vito Corleone in "The Godfather."
Although he was not present at the ceremony, he did send American actress Sacheen Littlefeather
in his place to decline the award. According to History.com, Brando declined the award as he was protesting the portrayal of Native Americans in films.
Littlefeather explained in her speech that the actor refused to accept his award because of the lack of Native American representation in the film/television industry.
When she took the stage, she refused the Oscar award from Roger Moore.
"Hello," she said. "My name is Sacheen Littlefeather. I'm Apache and I'm president of the National Native American affirmative image committee. I'm representing Marlon Brando this evening and he has asked me to tell you in a very long speech which I cannot share with you presently because of time, but I will be glad to share with the press afterwards that he very regretfully cannot accept this very generous award and the reasons for this being are the treatment of American Indians today by the film industry."
"I beg at this time that I have not intruded upon this evening and that we will in the future our hearts and our understandings will meet with love and generosity," she said. "Thank you on behalf of
Marlon Brando."
Sacheen received applause from the crowd before exiting the stage.
Fox News' Gabriele Regalbuto contributed reporting.
Aside from acting, the Academy Awards offer various high-profile awards for other professions within the film and entertainment industry. Individuals can receive multiple Oscars for the same category but not multiple nominations for the same performance.
The individual who has won the most awards in the organization's history was Disney founder and animation pioneer Walt Disney. Through a career that expanded across decades, Disney won 26 Oscars and received 59 nominations.
He won his first award at the Academy Awards for best short subject in 1932. He continued to win in various categories until 1969, two years after he died in 1967. He received Oscars for best animated short category for "Three Little Pigs," "The Ugly Duckling," "Winnie the Pooh" and "The Blustery Day." He also won the Honorary Academy Award for creating Mickey Mouse in 1932.
Disney is widely regarded today as a media and entertainment innovator.
By his death, Disney had turned his company into the biggest animation studio in the United States and founded the Disneyland theme park to entertain millions. He is widely regarded as the most crucial figure in the history of film animation and a cultural icon.
The first Oscars ceremony took place on May 16, 1929, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California, according to the Academy's official website, oscars.org.
The distribution of the awards reportedly took 15 minutes.
Actor and filmmaker Douglas Fairbanks, actress Mary Pickford, and showman Sid Grauman opened the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel two years before the venue hosted the first Academy Awards.
The historic location of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has hit television screens many times over the decades. The elegant hotel was featured in an episode of "I Love Lucy", "Melrose Place" and "Beverly Hills 90210", among other popular television shows, and scenes from films like "Beverly Hill Cop II", "Catch Me If You Can", "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" and "Hancock".
The two spaces dedicated to event hosting at the hotel are still named "Oscar" and "Academy", according to the hotel's website.
Fox News' Gabriele Regalbuto contributed reporting.
Katharine Hepburn is the most decorated actor and actress with four Academy Awards to her name.
In 1934, Hepburn was awarded the Best Actress Oscar for "Morning Glory," oscars.org reports. She then won two consecutive Best Actress awards in 1968 and 1969 for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and "The Lion in Winter," the latter she shared with Barbra Streisand.
Hepburn was nominated for Best Actress 12 times. She did not win for her role in "Alice Adams", "The Philadelphia Story" and "Woman of the Year", among other names.
All four of her awards are showcased at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. featured in a gallery named 'Twentieth-Century Americans'.
Her final Academy Award was in 1982 for "On Golden Pond."
Meryl Streep holds the record for most nominations, 21, by a performer in the acting categories, but she has only taken home three Oscars, according to oscars.org.
Fox News' Gabriele Regalbuto contributed reporting.
Three films hold the title for the most Oscars won since the start of the Academy Awards: 1959's "Ben-Hur," 1997's "Titanic" and 2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."
These iconic Hollywood blockbusters each received 11 Oscars during the years they were nominated.
Moreover, the "Lord of the Rings" and the "Titanic" brought in over $1 billion at the box office during the release year.
"The Titanic", directed by James Cameron and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, received 14 total Oscar nominations. The film won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress and Best Film Editing, among a handful of others.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", directed by Peter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis, was nominated for 11 Academy Awards. The fantasy film won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Song, Best Costume Design and Best Visual Effects, among others.
Fox News' Gabriele Regalbuto contributed reporting.
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