The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on Thursday, May 16, 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. There were reportedly 270 attendees and tickets cost $5. According to ...

The hotel opened in May 1927 and two years later, would host the first Academy awards. Very first Best Actor Academy Award in 1928 for Emil Jannings in The Last Command & The Way of All Flesh.

You read that right – just 15 minutes. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. At the end of a private black-tie banquet ...

That sort of frazzled energy wasn't a part of the first Academy Awards: The ceremony took place three months after the winners were announced. Academy President Douglas Fairbanks emceed the event ...

But did you know that the first Oscars ceremony was only 15 minutes long? Here's a look at what the first Academy Awards were like. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

You read that right — just 15 minutes. The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. At the end of a private black-tie banquet, leading ...