THE FIRST CEREMONY of the Academy Awards was held 83 years ago today – on 16 May 1929.
A lot may have changed since then, but the glitz of Oscar night is still firmly in place.
Check out some of the black-and-white treasures from the years, below…
Emil Jannings , 1929
Norma Shearer, 1930
Vivien Leigh, 1940
Ginger Rogers and Jimmy Stewart, 1941
Joan Fontaine, 1941
Celeste Holm, 1947
Loretta Young and Rosalind Russell, 1947
Olivia de Havilland, 1950
Grace Kelly and Marlon Brando, 1954
Audrey Hepburn, 1954
Peter Ustinov, Shirley Jones, Elizabeth Taylor and Burt Lancaster, 1960
Julie Andrews, 1965
Elliot Gould and Barbra Streisand, 1969
Jack Nicholson, 1976
Jane Fonda, 1979
David Niven and streaker, 1974
