This year we are pleased to present an expanded history of the Academy Awards®, where you are encouraged to explore Oscar's® exciting past.

Your journey will begin with a look at Past Nominees & Winners. This incredible database will provide an interactive, searchable directory listing all the stars, films and filmmakers throughout Oscar history, from 1927 to last year. Eventually, we hope to have photos and bios of every one.

Tradition and Folklore, when completed, will present Oscar's colorful past. Year by year, decade by decade, discover how the Academy was born and how it grew to its present stature. Explore the development of cinema from its early beginnings to the contemporary art form it has become today.

Take the ultimate Oscar challenge on the Oscar Trivia page.
Test your knowledge of the cinema with trivia from the greatest classics of all time. Just who was the one dwarf Snow White forgot to kiss as she rode off with her prince?