Oscars

Answer 1: It is also know as the Oscars and it honors film production achievements across many different fields such as directing or acting or technical elements such as sound and film edits.

Answer 2: The best picture best actor and best director awards are know to gain much mainstream exposure compared to most technical categories.

Answer 3: Movies must qualify from specific rules based around timing for their release and theatrical presence or certain streaming access. For each the qualification varies.

Answer 4: The Academy awards are announced generally between February to April across international markets each year.

Answer 5: Many within the film industries are offered the opportunity and have to apply for certain requirements but generally they must be known within the major parts of the film profession for a longer period of time.

Answer 6: The oscars offer a lot of mainstream attention that translates into more business opportunities for all nominated movies regardless if they won. The film is shown as part of mainstream culture on a wide spectrum of markets.

Answer 7: Yes due to mainstream media covering many popular categories such as lead actors many new viewers gain exposure to films previously not know. So in some sense each award can bring new growth or interest in each nominated film.

Answer 8: Yes it does happen often that older catalog films can gain new popularity if they win or have other association to a modern event.

Answer 9: Each category uses various votes from other members in their category, the final nominations are then a result of that vote process

Answer 10: Celebrity talent appears in many elements. From being a host, presentor, award receiver, nominee or event attendees many big named from film to music will often be at these major public events