Venues

The 1st Academy Awards were presented at a banquet dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.
Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood then hosted the awards from 1944 to 1946, followed by the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1948. The 21st Academy Awards in 1949 were held at the Academy Award Theater at the Academy's then-headquarters on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood.
From 1950 to 1960, the awards were presented at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre. The Oscars then moved to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California in 1961. By 1969, the Academy decided to move the ceremonies back to Los Angeles, this time at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the Los Angeles Music Center.
In 2002, Hollywood's Kodak Theatre became the first permanent home of the awards. It is connected to the Hollywood & Highland Center, which contains 640,000 square feet (59,000 m²) of space including retail, restaurants, nightclubs, other establishments and a six-screen cinema.
These are the locations at which the awards were presented over the years.

• The Blossom Room at Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (1929)
  
• The Coconut Grove at Ambassador Hotel (April 1930, 1940, 1943)
  
• The Fiesta Room at Ambassador Hotel (November 1930, 1932, 1934)
  
• The Sala D’Oro at Biltmore Hotel (1931)
  
• The Biltmore Bowl at Biltmore Hotel (1935–1939, 1941, 1942)
  
• Grauman's Chinese Theatre (1944–1946)
  
• The Shrine Civic Auditorium (1947, 1948, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001)
  
• The Academy Award Theater (1949)
  
• The RKO Pantages Theatre (1950–1960)
  
• The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (1961–1968)
  
• The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (1969–1987, 1990, 1992–1994, 1996, 1999)
  
• The Kodak Theatre (since 2002)
  
• The awards took place from the 25th to 29th edition not only in Hollywood but also in New York:
  
• NBC International Theatre (1953)
  
• NBC Century Theatre (1954–1957)