OSCAR: the interesting facts
• «Oscars» hand over the «Best Picture» only to producers.
• Producers and directors of exclusively English-speaking works became Winners of the award "Oscar" in the main categories («Best Picture» and «Best Director»).
• Into Academy structure enters hardly more than 10 000 persons.
• The length of red carpet is about 150 m, width — about 10 m. It consists of the several rolls, 135 kg everyone by weight, and its total weight is five tons. Two days and 21 persons are required to spread a carpet: to connect among themselves all parts, to hide joints and to level. Right after the terminations of ceremony start to clean a path. On it leaves only 4 hours.
• "Oscar's" big statues which establish along a red carpet, in height from 2,5 to 8 meters and weight to 550 kgs, do of fiber glass. Then revet with the most thin sheets of aluminum and covered with a yellow paint. They are not painted gold not with a view of economy: the special yellow paint looks better in the spotlight than gold.
• That stars have not got confused, on armchairs put posters with their portraits and names. The actors who have played together in one film, put nearby, but their marital status is thus considered also: spouses will be nearby too in a hall.
• Stars are exposed to careful examination. At first the police checks limousines on which actors approach to a cinema, and then at an input on a red path all celebrities show their invitations and pass through the metal detector.
• Now process of the counting of given for nominees votes experts of the auditor company «Price Waterhouse Coopers» conduct. Two experts of the company and four their assistants process more than 6 thousand the bulletins sent by members of the American film academy. On an operating time which occupies three days, they are in strictly coded place. Before "Oscar's" delivery on solemn ceremony names of winners are known only by two experts «Price Waterhouse Coopers». Even assistants to auditors are supposed only before procedure of estimation of voices.
• After winners in each category will be defined, cards with their names are located in envelopes which are unpacked on a scene during ceremony. Employees «Price Waterhouse Coopers» make two sets of such envelopes and place them in special portfolios. On the eve of "Oscar's" delivery two portfolios are delivered to a place of carrying out of ceremony at various times and different routes which also keep in a strict secret.
• Since 1950 there is a rule according to which Oscar's any owner cannot sell the figurine from auction, without having offered the initial price in 1 dollar to members of Film Academy.
• About an origin of the name "Oscar" walk various rumors. Some are convinced that in an origin of this name is guilty the librarian of Academy Margaret Herrick, seen a figure on a table and declared: «It looks directly as my uncle Oscar!» Others consider that so it was named by actress Betty Davis in honor of the first husband.