This a casual look at Oscar® history -- including the history of the cinema (1894 - 1926) -- and incorporating news ariticles, a brief look at the major winners and a listing of Oscar® nominees' births, deaths and marriages.
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If you have any questions or comments -- especially any nominees that you would like to see added to the Births and Deaths listings -- email me at gary@theoscarsite.com with their link to the Internet Movie Database.
This section is based on Chronicle of the Cinema, copyright © 1995 Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.; directed by Catherine Legrand; Robyn Karney, editor-in-chief. Many of the photographs in the early parts of this section are from that book, as well as The Movies, by Richard Griffith and Arthur Mayer (copyright © 1957 Simon & Schuster, Inc.). I'd also like to acknowledge filmsite.org for much of the material about sex in cinema used in the pre-cinema to 1927 pages.
Birth-, marriage- and death dates are from The Internet Movie Database.
The following terms and symbols are copyrighted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and are used without their permission: Oscar®, Academy Award® and the Oscar® statuette.
If any of the images on these pages constitute a violation of copyright laws, please inform me and I will remove the image.