stackyFACTSToday, the Academy Awards is an incredibly bloated, four-hour endurance test of awkward speeches and elaborate musical numbers. However, the very first banquet in 1929 was an absolute model of brutal efficiency, handing out exactly fifteen statues in fifteen minutes to winners who already knew they had won three months in advance.
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