The Best film Oscar winners are the best movies for the pervious year. Each January the Oscar nominees are announced and in March after much anticipation the winners are announced in a televised program. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/about/index.html

The Academy’s members choose which movies are nominated and they choose the winners by use of a secret ballot. Currently there are 6,000 members of the Academy and they are motion picture artists and other professionals who are in the industry. Once all the ballets are turned in, the auditing firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers counts all the votes. http://www.pwc.com/us/en/pwc-and-the-oscars/index.jhtml For 76 years this company has counted the votes.

Trivia around the Oscars is always fun, and here are a few facts that most people find fascinating. Only three times has a film won the award without its director being nominated for best director: Wings in 1928, Grand Hotel in 1932, and Driving Miss Daisy in 1989. Only three films have ever swept "The Big Five" awards of Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. Those films were: It Happened One Night in 1934, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.

On this page, visitors will find links to Oscar related news and blogs, along with a history of Oscar’s winners from last year right back to the very first winner. Be sure to watch the featured video, which highlights the Oscars.

The 2010 Academy Award for Best Film went to the movie The Hurt Locker. It is still showing in some theaters as a result of it's performance at the Oscars but it is also available to rent or own on DVD.

Oscar trivia is a collection of interesting facts and film buffs will enjoy. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/trivia.html

Meryl Streep has 16 Oscar nominations, which is the record for any one person.

Two films swept all the categories they were nominated for, this honor is held by, ‘’All About Eve’’ in 1950 and ‘’Titanic’’ in 1997

Bob Hope hosted the show 19 times in his career - he holds the record.

The first Academy Awards on TV were on March 19, 1953.

Each year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives awards for excellence in the film industry for many types of movies. However, of all the awards presented, none carries more prestige than the Best Motion Picture of the year. In the very first ceremony in 1928, there were two separate awards: one for Most Outstanding Production (won by Wings) and one for Most Artistic Quality of Production (won by Sunrise).

The following year, the academy decided to award only one winner, and the title of the award was changed to Outstanding Picture. In 1941, the name changed again to Outstanding Motion Picture, then in 1944 to Best Motion Picture, and finally in 1962 to its present official title of Best Picture.