The Academy Awards, known as the Oscars, is a set of twenty-four awards for artistic and technical merit in the American 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.

The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the "Academy Award of Merit", which has become commonly known by its nickname "Oscar".

The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS.

The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century.

The dominant style of American cinema is Classical Hollywood Cinema, which developed from 1917-1960 and characterizes most films to this day.

While the French Lumière Brothers are generally credited with the birth of modern cinema, it is American cinema that soon became the most dominant force in an emerging industry.

Since the 1920s, the American film industry has grossed more money every year than that of any other country.

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon.

This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession.

The process of filmmaking is both an art and an industry.

A film is created by photographing actual scenes with a motion picture camera; by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques; by means of CGI and computer animation; or by a combination of some or all of these techniques and other visual effects.

A film poster is a poster used to promote and advertise a film.

Studios often print several posters that vary in size and content for various domestic and international markets.

They normally contain an image with text.

Today's posters often feature photographs of the main actors.

Prior to the 1990s, illustrations instead of photos were far more common.

The text on film posters usually contains the film title in large lettering and often the names of the main actors.

It may also include a tagline, the name of the director, names of characters, the release date, etc.

In role-playing games, a status effect is a temporary modification to a game character’s original set of stats that usually comes into play when special powers and abilities (such as spells) are used, often during combat.

It appears in numerous computer and video games of many genres, most commonly in role-playing video games.

The term status effect can be applied both to changes that provide a character an advantage (increased attributes, defensive barriers, regeneration), and those that hinder the character (decreased attributes, incapacitation, degeneration).