Bloc voting to ballyhoo - A look at Oscar's ups and downs

Friday, February 25, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- On the evening of May 16, 1929, some 300 film industry figures and their spouses gathered in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to dine on squab and lobster and hear Douglas Fairbanks Sr. announce the first awards of the fledgling Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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