Editing Academy Awards (section)

=== Current categories ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of current Awards of Merit categories by year introduced, sortable by category
! Year introduced
! Category
|-
| '''1927/28'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
|-
| '''1927/28'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
|-
| '''1927/28'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
|-
| '''1927/28'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
|-
| '''1927/28'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography|Best Cinematography]]
|-
| '''1927/28'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Production Design]]
|-
| '''1927/28'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
|-
| '''1929/30'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Best Sound]]
|-
| '''1931/32'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film|Best Animated Short Film]]
|-
| '''1931/32'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film|Best Live Action Short Film]]
|-
| '''1934'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
|-
| '''1934'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]]
|-
| '''1934'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Song|Best Original Song]]
|-
| '''1936'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
|-
| '''1936'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
|-
| '''1939'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Visual Effects|Best Visual Effects]]
|-
| '''1940'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]]
|-
| '''1941'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film|Best Documentary Short Film]]
|-
| '''1943'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film|Best Documentary Feature Film]]
|-
| '''1947'''
| [[Academy Award for Best International Feature Film|Best International Feature Film]]
|-
| '''1948'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]]
|-
| '''1981'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling|Best Makeup and Hairstyling]]
|-
| '''2001'''
| [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature|Best Animated Feature Film]]
|}

In the first year of the awards, the Best Directing award was split into two categories, Drama and Comedy. At times, the Best Original Score award has also been split into separate categories, Drama and Comedy/Musical. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Art Direction (now Production Design), Cinematography, and Costume Design awards were split into two categories (black-and-white films and color films). Prior to 2012, the Production Design award was called Art Direction, while the Makeup and Hairstyling award was called Makeup. Prior to 2020, the International Feature Film award was called Foreign Language Film.

In August 2018, the Academy announced that several categories would not be televised live, but recorded during commercial breaks and aired later in the ceremony.<ref>{{cite news |title=Oscars Won't Televise All Awards, Adds Popular Film Category |work=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/academy-plans-three-hour-oscars-telecast-adds-popular-film-category-1133138 |url-status=live |access-date=August 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103125108/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/academy-plans-three-hour-oscars-telecast-adds-popular-film-category-1133138 |archive-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref>
Following dissent from Academy members, they announced that they would air all 24 categories live. This followed several proposals, among them, the introduction of a Popular Film category, that the Academy had announced but did not implement.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Academy Reverses Decision, Will Air All Awards at the 2019 Oscars |magazine=Time |url=http://time.com/5531252/air-all-awards-oscars-2019/ |url-status=dead |access-date=February 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190217185917/http://time.com/5531252/air-all-awards-oscars-2019/ |archive-date=February 17, 2019}}</ref>