The 86th Academy Awards are upon us. Here are some of the numbers on the biggest showbiz bash of all:
1929 - the year the first ceremony was held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
270 - the number of guests who attended that event.
15 - the number of statuettes handed out in 1929
3 - the number of times the ceremony has not gone ahead as planned. In 1938 flooding in Los Angeles delayed it by a week. The event was postponed in 1968 following the murder of Dr Martin Luther King Jr and in 1981 after the failed assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.
1939 - the first time the Academy called the award by its nickname - the Oscar. Up until then they had been known by their formal title - the Academy Award of Merit.
3 - the number of years during the Second World War that painted plaster statuettes were given out because of a shortage of metal caused by the conflict. They were all exchanged for gold-plated metal awards when the war ended.
2000 - the year that ceremony's shipment of statuettes were stolen. They were recovered in time, but ever since the Academy has kept a spare ceremony's worth of statuettes on hand.
6,028 - members of the academy who are eligible to vote
50 - Oscar statuettes created for the ceremony
2,900 - Oscar statuettes handed out since the ceremony began
34.3 - the height of the statuettes in centimetres
152.5 - the length of the red carpet in metres
75 - photographers on the red carpet
19 - times that Bob Hope hosted the Oscars
76 - countries submitting foreign language films
225 - countries where the 86th Oscar telecast will be seen
