{"id":544,"date":"2014-02-20T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/02\/20\/wed-like-to-thank-the-academy-for-this-infographic\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:31:00","slug":"wed-like-to-thank-the-academy-for-this-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/02\/20\/wed-like-to-thank-the-academy-for-this-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;d like to thank the Academy for this infographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/movies\/2014\/02\/oscar_acceptance_speeches_who_thanks_spouses_agents_directors_and_oprah.html\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-dONrNR2Jm-k\/UwY7D3Xr07I\/AAAAAAAAA_Q\/84HtX4d819c\/s1600\/022012_oscar.jpg\" height=\"193\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Oscars are almost upon us, and with only a little over one week to go (!), the floodgates have opened on Oscar trivia. Every year we find a new batch of unusual award-related studies, like last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/the-new-york-times-breaks-down-oscar.html\">breakdown of trailer lengths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Slate has analyzed twelve years of actors&#8217; and actresses&#8217; Academy Awards acceptance speeches and determined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/arts\/movies\/2014\/02\/oscar_acceptance_speeches_who_thanks_spouses_agents_directors_and_oprah.html\">who gets thanked the most<\/a>. Industry organizations, companies, and agents received the most praise, though most nominees immediately thanked the Academy upon receiving their statue. A decent number of winners thanked their role&#8217;s namesake, but only one (Javier Bardem) thanked a specific country. It&#8217;s a fun breakdown to see who appears most in the Oscar spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, as the article title mentions, Meryl Streep has been thanked more times than all religious entities. This is what happens when you get nominated every year.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oscars are almost upon us, and with only a little over one week to go (!), the floodgates have opened on Oscar trivia. Every year we find a new batch of unusual award-related studies, like last year&#8217;s breakdown of trailer lengths. This year, Slate has analyzed twelve years of actors&#8217; and actresses&#8217; Academy Awards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[212,263],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academy-awards","tag-links-of-interest","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}