{"id":1059,"date":"2014-03-02T21:39:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T21:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2014-03-02T21:39:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T21:39:43","slug":"sid-at-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2014\/03\/02\/sid-at-the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Sid at the Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of this evening&#8217;s 86th Academy Awards ceremony, here is a picture of Sid Grauman being awarded his honorary Oscar for &#8220;raising the standard for film exhibition of motion pictures&#8221; at the 21st Academy Awards, held on March 24, 1949 (roughly a year before his death on March 5, 1950).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/graumanoscar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1060\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" alt=\"grauman oscar\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/graumanoscar-243x300.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/graumanoscar-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/graumanoscar-121x150.jpg 121w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/graumanoscar.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to being an Oscar recipient, Mr. Grauman was also one of the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; having been one of the 36 industry figures invited to a founding banquet, held at the Ambassador Hotel, on January 11, 1927. Initially named the International Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the &#8220;international&#8221; was dropped when the organization officially filed for incorporation, on May 4, 1927.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recognition of this evening&#8217;s 86th Academy Awards ceremony, here is a picture of Sid Grauman being awarded his honorary Oscar for &#8220;raising the standard for film exhibition of motion pictures&#8221; at the 21st Academy Awards, held on March 24, 1949 (roughly a year before his death on March 5, 1950). In addition to being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}