Do You Know Your Oscar Trivia?

It’s that time of year again when all the lights in Tinsel Town will be shining bright! Hollywood Boulevard has begun its block-off, Wolfgang Puck has planned his menu and last minute beads are being sown on to glamorous frocks. (Which reminds me my fitting is tomorrow…yikes!) The big question is who will take home the coveted statuettes, the “Academy Award of Merit”, during the 81st Academy Awards?

Once again I am hosting at the Beverly Hills Hotel’s Party, “Night of 100 Stars.” More details to come!

Here is some Oscar Trivia to enjoy at your Academy Awards viewing party:

• Australian performer Hugh Jackman hosts this year’s ceremony for the first time.
• Bob Hope has hosted or co-hosted the Oscars 18 times, more than anyone else.
• The first awards were presented at a banquet dinner at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood with an audience of less than 250 people.
• Winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for $1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette.
• The youngest person to ever receive an Oscar was 5-year-old Shirley Temple in 1934; it was an honorary Oscar.
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads this year’s nominations with a total of 13.
• During World War II, the Oscars were made out of plaster to conserve metal and todays are made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base. It depicts a knight holding a crusader’s sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

Cheers!
Cortney a.k.a. Cort