From the Roosevelt to the Kodak, this is the history of Oscars venues…

The first Oscars ceremony took place in 1929 in the Roosevelt Hotel, which featured the swanky Blossom Ballroom.

Initially the ceremony was only attended by AMPAS members and was more like a private party than a public event.

The Biltmore Hotel’s Sala de Oro, the largest hotel ballroom in the world, became the iconic Oscars venue of the 1930s.

Times were tough during WWII. LA Times: “Guests didn’t get so much as a bottle of soda pop.”

In 1950 it moved to the Pantages Theatre, home of the first Oscars ceremony to be broadcast on television.

The ceremony moved to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 1961, where it would stay for eight years.

The Oscars returned to Downtown LA in 1969 and would remain at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion until 1988.

The Academy Awards then alternated between the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the vast 6,300-person Shrine Auditorium.

In 2002 the Oscars moved to the Kodak Theatre, just a stone’s throw from the 1929 venue the Roosevelt Hotel.

After Eastman Kodak went bankrupt in 2012, Dolby Laboratories signed a 20-year deal to rename it the Dolby Theatre.

Last year’s ceremony was held at the Union Station in Downtown LA, but it’s back in the Dolby Theatre for 2022.

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