Talk:Academy Awards

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Objectivity and professionalism

I'm getting a little tired of the unprofessional and biased edits that have been made to the "Criticism" section of this article lately. Look, I understand that we all have our little beefs with the Academy's choices, but rants, uncited speculation and unecessary additions to this section are inappropriate and should be deleted immediately. Personally, I'm okay with the section as it is now, but I won't discourage someone from editing or adding something to change it, as long as it actually contributes something and doesn't make Wikipedia look like a fanboy forum. -- metafact (talk) 5:20, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Dolores del Rio

A friend of mine who is a Dolores del Rio biographer pointed out that she was not married to Gibbons before 1930, a fact reported as well in the corresponding article at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_del_R%C3%ADo

Given that, shouldn't the line "In need of a model for his statuette Gibbons was introduced by his then wife Dolores del Río to Mexican film director and actor Emilio "El Indio" Fernández." be edited or even removed? ----

Last Oscars on Page

Seems to be some form of mistake. Changed.

Quidom (talk) 18:49, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What year was it where?

Currently, the Venues section reads "From 1930–1943, the awards were presented first at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood, and later the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles from 1930 to 1943". The wording makes no sense - were the awards awarded twice each year (in different hotels)? Or is this a mistake?