Academy Awards through the years: The Location

The Location: Academy Awards through the years 

STEP 1

May 16, 1929... the Oscars had just begun...

The Location was the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and for the occasion, a huge banquet was set up for an audience of about 270 people, and a guest ticket of 5$.

The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel 1929

 From that day on the Ceremony has changed ten Locations, choosing Theatres instead of Hotels.

STEP 2
From 1930 to 1943 the Oscars locations have been the Ambassador Hotel and the Biltmore Hotel.

 Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador

The Ambassador Hotel was famous for the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, unfortunately demolished in 2005. 

STEP 3

 Biltmore Hotel

Biltmore Bowl

"Legend has it that MGM art director Cedric Gibbons, who was in attendance, immediately grabbed a linen Biltmore napkin and sketched the design for the Oscar statue on it. Eight Oscar ceremonies were held in the Biltmore Bowl during the Academy's early years of 1931, 1935–39, and 1941-42. In 1977 Bob Hope hosted the Academy's 50th Anniversary banquet in the same room." (Source: Wikipedia)

STEP 4 & 5

The Grauman's Chinese Theatre

 
From 1944 to 1946 Oscars' new home was Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood Blvd. and afterfrom 1947 to 1948 it has been the Shrine Auditorium.

 Shrine Auditorium

In 1949, and just for that year, the Oscars found a new home which was The Academy Award Theater (the future Kodak theatre).

The Academy award Theatre in 1949, Best Movie Hamlet

STEP 6
The Pantages Theatre:1950–1960

 The Pantages Theatre

STEP 7 & 8

From 1961 to 1968 they moved to the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, and from 1969 to 1987 to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles Music Center.

 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

From 1988 to 2001the Oscars Alternated again between the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Shrine Auditorium.

STEP 9
And at the end from 2002 to 2012 at the Dolby Theatre,(the Kodak Theatre) in 2012 the Kodak changed again name in Hollywood and Highland Center (2012).

 The Kodak Theatre, today's Hollywood and Highland Center

Check out from Google Maps all the Academy Awards Venues

A: The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
B: The Cocoanut Grove at the Ambassador
C: The Biltmore Hotel
D: The Grauman's Chinese Theatre
E: The Shrine Auditorium
F: The Pantages Theatre
G:The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
H:The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 
I: The Kodak Theatre 
 
For more infos:

http://timelines.latimes.com/academy-awards/