The first Academy Awards ceremony
On May 16, 1929, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out its first award at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.
The academy was organized two years earlier as a non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and improvement of the film industry.
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