Each year, awards season begins with the Emmy Awards in November and culminates with the Academy Awards in February. (The Tonys are a summertime outlier.)
每年，頒獎典禮從11月的艾美獎開始，到2月的奧斯卡獎。(託尼獎是夏季的異常值。)
Rare talents can sometimes win all four of the major performing arts awards–an almost mythicachievement known colloquially as an EGOT: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.
罕見的天才有時能贏得四個主要表演藝術獎，這幾乎是神話般的成就，它被稱為EGOT：艾美獎、葛萊美獎、奧斯卡獎和託尼獎。
There are relatively few EGOT recipients, but they include Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Legend.
獲得EGOT的人相對較少，但其中包括了梅爾·布魯克斯、奧黛麗·赫本、胡比·戈德堡和約翰·萊昂。
EGOTS aside, each award ceremony appeals to its own audience of devotees. Are you familiar with how your favorite award show got its name?
除了EGOTS，每個頒獎典禮都吸引自己的奉獻者觀眾。您是否熟悉自己喜歡的頒獎晚會的名字?
The Oscars
奧斯卡獎
The Oscars are awarded each year by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), an invitation-only professional organization of film industry heavyweights. The Oscar is its casual nickname; the official name of the golden statuette is the Academy Award of Merit.
奧斯卡獎每年由電影藝術與重量級電影專業邀請美國電影藝術與科學學院(AMPAS)頒發。奧斯卡是它的休閒綽號;金色小雕像的正式名稱是奧斯卡功績獎。
They were first awarded in 1929, first broadcast on radio the following year in 1930, and first televised in 1953.
它們於1929年首次獲得頒獎，於1930年在廣播中首次播出，並於1953年首次進行電視轉播。
The first award show ran a total of 15 minutes, which is a far cry from the hours-long endurance marathons they』ve become.
第一場頒獎晚會總共進行了15分鐘，這與他們已經經歷了長達數小時的耐力馬拉松比賽相去甚遠。
The statue that everyone hopes to take home was modeled after Mexican actor, film director, and screenwriter, Emilio 「El Indio」 Fernández, best known for directing Maria Candelaria.
每個人都希望帶回家的雕像是模仿墨西哥演員，電影導演和編劇埃米利奧·「埃爾·印第奧·費爾南德斯」(Emilio「 El Indio」Fernández)製作的，該電影因導演瑪麗亞·坎德拉裡亞而聞名。
The statue’s nickname, Oscar, has conflicting origin stories, but the most popular narrative credits Margaret Herrick, Academy Award librarian and eventual Director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
雕像的暱稱奧斯卡(Oscar)的起源故事相互矛盾，但最受歡迎的敘述是瑪格麗特·赫裡克(Margaret Herrick)，奧斯卡金像獎得主，也是電影藝術與科學學院的最終導演。
Allegedly, Herrick claimed in 1931 that the statuette looked 「like her Uncle Oscar.」
據稱，赫裡克(Herrick)在1931年聲稱小雕像「看起來像她的奧斯卡叔叔」。