вторник, 26 мая 2009 г.

Fashion on the red carpet











Red Carpet view




Red Carpet


The red carpet originated with the railroad. Conductors commonly rolled out the red carpet to direct passengers to the correct location on the train. Today it is known as a legacy of the entertainment industry. It is identified with the culture of our celebrities and the ora that surrounds them. The red carpet has a history of all of those who have been a part of the entertainment industry. It is a great way to honor those who have passed on from the red carpet to the afterlife.


The red carpet makes its first appearance on the historical stage in Aeschylus' 5th century BCE play Agamemnon.

King Agamemnon recognizes that the gods are wholly responsible for the Greek victory at Troy, and he thanks the gods for aiding him and bringing his ship back to Argos safely. He says, "We must thank the gods with grace," because he is so grateful to them.m he claims no responsibility at all himself, even though it was he who commanded the Greek army.



Clytaemnestra tries to convince Agamemnon to walk across the red carpet, insisting that he deserves special recognition for his accomplishments. However, he is afraid to offend the gods, insisting that the gods have given the Greeks victory, and he had nothing to do with it at all. The gods deserve recognition, not him. But Clytaemnestra continues to pressure him.



Clytaemnestra then murders him.





For the carpet leads him into his palace and to his own death. The carpet takes him through the palace door which Clytemnestra closes behind him. It reopens some minutes later with Clytemnestra triumphantly holding an axe aloft as Agamemnon's body lies lifeless at her feet on the blood-saturated carpet.





The Rice Museum staff notes that President James Monroe once walked the red carpet:



President James Monroe was entertained in 1821 at Prospect Hill (now Arcadia) on Waccamaw with a real red carpet rolled out to the river.



And then finally in the 20th century we get to the 20th Century Limited, the reference for the "railroad" story at the Academy History website.




Known for its style as well as for its speed, passengers walked to and from the train on a plush, crimson carpet which was rolled out in New York and Chicago and was specially designed for the 20th Century Limited, thus the "red carpet treatment" was born.

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)

Telecast of the ceremony


The major awards are presented at a live televised ceremony, most commonly in February or March following the relevant calendar year, and six weeks after the announcement of the nominees. It is the culmination of the film awards season, which usually begins during November or December of the previous year. This is an elaborate extravaganza, with the invited guests walking up the red carpet in the creations of the most prominent fashion designers of the day. Black tie dress is the most common outfit for men, although fashion may dictate not wearing a bow-tie, and musical performers sometimes do not adhere to this. (The artists who recorded the nominees for Best Original Song quite often perform those songs live at the awards ceremony, and the fact that they are performing is often used to promote the television broadcast.)
The Academy Awards is televised live across the United States (excluding
Alaska and Hawaii), Canada, the United Kingdom, and gathers millions of viewers elsewhere throughout the world. The 2007 ceremony was watched by more than 40 million Americans. Other awards ceremonies (such as the Emmys, Golden Globes, and Grammys) are broadcast live in the East Coast but are on tape delay in the West Coast and might not air on the same day outside North America (if the awards are even televised). The Academy has for several years claimed that the award show has up to a billion viewers internationally, but this has so far not been confirmed by any independent sources. The usual extension of this claim is that only the Super Bowl, Olympics Opening Ceremonies, and FIFA World Cup Final draw higher viewership.
The Awards show was first televised on
NBC in 1953. NBC continued to broadcast the event until 1960 when the ABC Network took over, televising the festivities through 1970, after which NBC resumed the broadcasts. ABC once again took over broadcast duties in 1976; it is under contract to do so through the year 2014.
After more than sixty years of being held in late March or early April, the ceremonies were moved up to late February or early March starting in 2004 to help disrupt and shorten the intense
lobbying and ad campaigns associated with Oscar season in the film industry. Another reason was because of the growing TV ratings success of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, which would cut into the Academy Awards audience. The earlier date is also to the advantage of ABC, as it now usually occurs during the highly profitable and important February sweeps period. (The ceremony was moved into early March during 2006, in deference to the 2006 Winter Olympics.) Advertising is somewhat restricted, however, as traditionally no movie studios or competitors of official Academy Award sponsors may advertise during the telecast. The Awards show holds the distinction of having won the most Emmys in history, with 38 wins and 167 nominations.
On March 30, 1981, the awards ceremony was postponed for one day after
the shooting of President Ronald Reagan and others in Washington, D.C.
Since 2002, celebrities have been seen arriving at the Academy Awards in
hybrid vehicles; during the telecast of the 79th Academy Awards in 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio and former vice president Al Gore announced that ecologically intelligent practices had been integrated into the planning and execution of the Oscar presentation and several related events.

Nomination


Since 2004, Academy Award nomination results have been announced to the public in late January. Prior to 2004, nomination results were announced publicly in early February.

Voters
The
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, maintains a voting membership of 5,835 as of 2007.
Actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22 percent) of the Academy's composition. Votes have been certified by the auditing firm
PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor Price Waterhouse) for the past 73 annual awards ceremonies.
All AMPAS members must be invited to join by the Board of Governors, on behalf of Academy Branch Executive Committees. Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination or a member may submit a name based on other significant contribution to the field of motion pictures.
New membership proposals are considered annually.The Academy does not publicly disclose its membership, although as recently as 2007 press releases have announced the names of those who have been invited to join. The 2007 release also stated that it has just under 6,000 voting members. While the membership had been growing, stricter policies have kept its size steady since then.

Rules
Today, according to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film must open in the previous calendar year, from midnight at the start of January 1 to midnight at the end of December 31, in
Los Angeles County, California, to qualify. Rule 2 states that a film must be "feature-length", defined as a minimum of 40 minutes, except for short subject awards and it must exist either on a 35 mm or 70 mm film print or in 24 frame/s or 48 frame/s progressive scan digital cinema format with native resolution not less than 1280x720.
The members of the various branches nominate those in their respective fields while all members may submit nominees for Best Picture. The winners are then determined by a second round of voting in which all members are then allowed to vote in most categories, including Best Picture.
As of the
79th Academy Awards, 847 members (past and present) of the Screen Actors Guild have been nominated for an Oscar (in all categories).

Ceremonies

  1. Annual Ceremony
  2. Date of Ceremony
  3. Year Honored
  4. Host
  5. Best Picture

1st Academy Awards
May 16, 1929
1927 / 1928
Douglas Fairbanks, William C. DeMille
Wings


2nd Academy Awards
April 3, 1930
1928 / 1929
William C. DeMille
The Broadway Melody


3rd Academy Awards
November 5, 1930
1929 / 1930
Conrad Nagel
All Quiet on the Western Front


4th Academy Awards
November 10, 1931
1930 / 1931
Lawrence Grant
Cimarron


5th Academy Awards
November 18, 1932
1931 / 1932
Lionel Barrymore, Conrad Nagel
Grand Hotel


6th Academy Awards
March 16, 1934
1932 / 1933
Will Rogers
Cavalcade


7th Academy Awards
February 27, 1935
1934
Irvin S. Cobb
It Happened One Night


8th Academy Awards
March 5, 1936
1935
Frank Capra
Mutiny on the Bounty


9th Academy Awards
March 4, 1937
1936
George Jessel
The Great Ziegfeld


10th Academy Awards
March 10, 1938
1937
Bob Burns
The Life of Emile Zola


11th Academy Awards
February 23, 1939
1938
no host
You Can't Take It with You


12th Academy Awards
February 29, 1940
1939
Bob Hope
Gone with the Wind


13th Academy Awards
February 27, 1941
1940
Bob Hope
Rebecca


14th Academy Awards
February 26, 1942
1941
no host
How Green Was My Valley


15th Academy Awards
March 4, 1943
1942
Bob Hope
Mrs. Miniver


16th Academy Awards
March 2, 1944
1943
Jack Benny
Casablanca


17th Academy Awards
March 15, 1945
1944
Bob Hope, John Cromwell
Going My Way


18th Academy Awards
March 7, 1946
1945
Bob Hope, James Stewart
The Lost Weekend


19th Academy Awards
March 13, 1947
1946
Jack Benny
The Best Years of Our Lives


20th Academy Awards
March 20, 1948
1947
no host
Gentleman's Agreement


21st Academy Awards
March 24, 1949
1948
Robert Montgomery
Hamlet


22nd Academy Awards
March 23, 1950
1949
Paul Douglas
All the King's Men


23rd Academy Awards
March 29, 1951
1950
Fred Astaire
All About Eve


24th Academy Awards
March 20, 1952
1951
Danny Kaye
An American in Paris


25th Academy Awards
March 19, 1953
1952
Bob Hope, Conrad Nagel
The Greatest Show on Earth


26th Academy Awards
March 25, 1954
1953
Donald O'Connor, Fredric March
From Here to Eternity


27th Academy Awards
March 30, 1955
1954
Bob Hope, Thelma Ritter
On the Waterfront


28th Academy Awards
March 21, 1956
1955
Jerry Lewis, Claudette Colbert, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marty


29th Academy Awards
March 27, 1957
1956
Jerry Lewis, Celeste Holm
Around the World in Eighty Days


30th Academy Awards
March 26, 1958
1957
Bob Hope, David Niven, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Rosalind Russell
The Bridge on the River Kwai


31st Academy Awards
April 6, 1959
1958
Bob Hope, David Niven, Tony Randall, Mort Sahl, Laurence Olivier, Jerry Lewis
Gigi


32nd Academy Awards
April 4, 1960
1959
Bob Hope
Ben-Hur


33rd Academy Awards
April 17, 1961
1960
Bob Hope
The Apartment


34th Academy Awards
April 9, 1962
1961
Bob Hope
West Side Story


35th Academy Awards
April 8, 1963
1962
Frank Sinatra
Lawrence of Arabia


36th Academy Awards
April 13, 1964
1963
Jack Lemmon
Tom Jones


37th Academy Awards
April 5, 1965
1964
Bob Hope
My Fair Lady


38th Academy Awards
April 18, 1966
1965
Bob Hope
The Sound of Music


39th Academy Awards
April 10, 1967
1966
Bob Hope
A Man for All Seasons


40th Academy Awards
April 10, 1968
1967
Bob Hope
In the Heat of the Night


41st Academy Awards
April 14, 1969
1968
no host
Oliver!


42nd Academy Awards
April 7, 1970
1969
no host
Midnight Cowboy


43rd Academy Awards
April 15, 1971
1970
no host
Patton


44th Academy Awards
April 10, 1972
1971
Helen Hayes, Alan King, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Lemmon
The French Connection


45th Academy Awards
March 27, 1973
1972
Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson
The Godfather


46th Academy Awards
April 2, 1974
1973
John Huston, Burt Reynolds, David Niven, Diana Ross
The Sting


47th Academy Awards
April 8, 1975
1974
Sammy Davis, Jr., Bob Hope, Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra
The Godfather Part II


48th Academy Awards
March 29, 1976
1975
Goldie Hawn, Gene Kelly, Walter Matthau, George Segal, Robert Shaw
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


49th Academy Awards
March 28, 1977
1976
Warren Beatty, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, Richard Pryor
Rocky


50th Academy Awards
April 3, 1978
1977
Bob Hope
Annie Hall


51st Academy Awards
April 9, 1979
1978
Johnny Carson
The Deer Hunter


52nd Academy Awards
April 14, 1980
1979
Johnny Carson
Kramer vs. Kramer


53rd Academy Awards
March 31, 1981
1980
Johnny Carson
Ordinary People


54th Academy Awards
March 29, 1982
1981
Johnny Carson
Chariots of Fire


55th Academy Awards
April 11, 1983
1982
Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore, Richard Pryor, Walter Matthau
Gandhi


56th Academy Awards
April 9, 1984
1983
Johnny Carson
Terms of Endearment


57th Academy Awards
March 25, 1985
1984
Jack Lemmon
Amadeus


58th Academy Awards
March 24, 1986
1985
Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Robin Williams
Out of Africa


59th Academy Awards
March 30, 1987
1986
Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Paul Hogan
Platoon


60th Academy Awards
April 11, 1988
1987
Chevy Chase
The Last Emperor


61st Academy Awards
March 29, 1989
1988
no host
Rain Man


62nd Academy Awards
March 26, 1990
1989
Billy Crystal
Driving Miss Daisy


63rd Academy Awards
March 25, 1991
1990
Billy Crystal
Dances with Wolves


64th Academy Awards
March 30, 1992
1991
Billy Crystal
The Silence of the Lambs


65th Academy Awards
March 29, 1993
1992
Billy Crystal
Unforgiven


66th Academy Awards
March 21, 1994
1993
Whoopi Goldberg
Schindler's List


67th Academy Awards
March 27, 1995
1994
David Letterman
Forrest Gump


68th Academy Awards
March 25, 1996
1995
Whoopi Goldberg
Braveheart


69th Academy Awards
March 24, 1997
1996
Billy Crystal
The English Patient


70th Academy Awards
March 23, 1998
1997
Billy Crystal
Titanic


71st Academy Awards
March 21, 1999
1998
Whoopi Goldberg
Shakespeare in Love


72nd Academy Awards
March 26, 2000
1999
Billy Crystal
American Beauty


73rd Academy Awards
March 25, 2001
2000
Steve Martin
Gladiator


74th Academy Awards
March 24, 2002
2001
Whoopi Goldberg
A Beautiful Mind


75th Academy Awards
March 23, 2003
2002
Steve Martin
Chicago


76th Academy Awards
February 29, 2004
2003
Billy Crystal
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King


77th Academy Awards
February 27, 2005
2004
Chris Rock
Million Dollar Baby


78th Academy Awards
March 5, 2006
2005
Jon Stewart
Crash


79th Academy Awards
February 25, 2007
2006
Ellen DeGeneres
The Departed


80th Academy Awards
February 24, 2008
2007
Jon Stewart
No Country for Old Men


81st Academy Awards
February 22, 2009
2008
Hugh Jackman
Slumdog Millionaire