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[[Image:Oscar statuette.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Statue]]

[[Image:Oscar statuette.jpg|right|200px|thumb|The Statue]]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has, over the years, come under criticism for the role politics plays in the selection of nominees and winners, as the industry is predominately liberal. <ref name = "allabout">{{cite web|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=dH2Lb_YhIhAC&dq=academy+awards+politics&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Z65I49SCXs&sig=XiKXnkhzI5qI87QUP5efrLEDoDg&hl=en&ei=YD5OSoy5KovOM-SF_e0D&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10|title=All About Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards|work=Evanuel Levy|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has, over the years, been controlled by many immoral characters and informal lobby groups, most notably [[homosexual]]s and communists.<ref>Notably Milk, a nominee for best picture at the 81st Academy Awards</ref>

==History==

==History==

The first awards were presented at a private dinner with an audience of less than 250.<ref name="about2"/> Subsequently the show has been broadcast to the public, since 1953 by [[television]] (and previously by [[radio]]).<ref name="about2"/> For the first decade the show's results were given to newspapers for publication at 11 p.m. at the night of the awards; this method was ruined when the [[Los Angeles Times]] announced the winners far too early, and the results were available to those arriving to the show, and, as a result, the Academy adopted the sealed envelope method, which it still uses today.<ref name="history">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history01.html|title=History of the Academy Awards|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|language=English|format=HTML}}</ref> The show was broadcast internationally starting in 1969, and currently has viewers from more than 100 countries. Since 2002, the awards have been broadcast from the Kodak Theatre.<ref name="history"/>

The first awards were presented at a private dinner with an audience of less than 250.<ref name="about2"/> Subsequently the show has been broadcast to the public, since 1953 by [[television]] (and previously by [[radio]]).<ref name="about2"/> For the first decade the show's results were given to newspapers for publication at 11 p.m. at the night of the awards; this method was ruined when the [[Los Angeles Times]] announced the winners far too early, and the results were available to those arriving to the show, and, as a result, the Academy adopted the sealed envelope method, which it still uses today.<ref name="history">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/aboutacademyawards/history01.html|title=History of the Academy Awards|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|language=English|format=HTML}}</ref> The show was broadcast internationally starting in 1969, and currently has viewers from more than 100 countries. Since 2002, the awards have been broadcast from the Kodak Theatre.<ref name="history"/>