Academy Awards

The Academy Awards are a set of awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

In 1943, the film Casablanca won an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Behind the scenes
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, were first presented in 1929. The Academy Awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953.

At, every Indiana Jones film, minus Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, has won an Academy Award in some category:
 * Raiders of the Lost Ark won the Academy Awards of Best Art Direction for Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley and Michael Ford; Best Film Editing for Michael Kahn, Best Sound for Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker and Roy Charman; Best Sound Effects Editing for Ben Burtt and Richard L. Anderson and Best Visual Effects for Richard Edlund, Kit West, Bruce Nicholson and Joe Johnston.
 * Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom won the Academy Award of Best Visual Effects for Dennis Muren and the Industrial Light & Magic's visual effects department.
 * Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade won the Academy Award of Best Sound Effects Editing for Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns.