3 hours and 37 minutes.
It's hard to say how long it lasted because I was in the crapper the whole time during the first academy awards. It normally takes me 3 days to finish but the crap I took that day was much shorter
The Kodak Theater, which opened in 2001, was built specifically to be the permanent home of the Academy Awards. It was renamed the Dolby Theater in 2012.
The 82nd Academy Awards (2010) ran for 3 hours, 37 minutes.
The awards committee, you might recognize them in movies they usually been in the biz for a long time.
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Katharine Hepburn won a record four Academy Awards -- all for Best Actress -- during her long and distinguished career.
Long Island Academy was created in 2006.
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The Video Music Awards last two hours, from 9 - 11 pm.
Carson Long Military Academy was created in 1836.
The first televised Academy Awards were held in March 19, 1953. So that would be 55 years.The first Oscar telecast was on March 19, 1953 via the NBC television network, which provided live coverage from Hollywood and New York City.