Editing Academy Awards (section)

== Associated events ==
The following events are closely associated with the annual Academy Awards:

* [[Governors Awards]], which includes the presentation of the [[Academy Honorary Award]], the [[Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award]], and the [[Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award]]<ref name="Governors Awards">{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/governors|title=Governors Awards|website=[[Oscars.org]] &#124; [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]]}}</ref>
* The [[25th Independent Spirit Awards]] (2010), usually held in [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]], California the Saturday before the Oscars, marked the first time it was moved to a Friday and a change of venue to [[L.A. Live]]
* The annual "Night Before", traditionally held at [[the Beverly Hills Hotel]], begun in 2002 and generally known as ''the ''party of the season, benefits the [[Motion Picture & Television Fund]], which operates a retirement home for SAG actors in the [[San Fernando Valley]]
* [[Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Party]] airs the awards live at the nearby [[Pacific Design Center]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Pener|first=Degen|date=February 23, 2017|title=Elton John's Oscar Party Turns 25: Spielberg, Hanks, and an Oral History of the AIDS Benefit Where Heidi Klum Dances on Tables|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/elton-johns-oscar-party-turns-25-spielberg-hanks-an-oral-history-aids-benefit-heidi-klum-da-977094/|access-date=September 28, 2021|website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|language=en-US}}</ref>
* The Governors Ball is the Academy's official after-party, including dinner (until 2011), and is adjacent to the awards-presentation venue<ref>[https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/other/inside-the-governors-ball-with-oscar-winners-and-nominees/ar-BB1jI6Df ''Los Angeles Times'' article, 2024]</ref>
* The ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' after-party, historically at the former Morton's restaurant, has been at the [[Sunset Tower]] since 2009<ref name="hollywoodreporter.com">Gary Baum (November 13, 2013), "[https://hollywoodreporter.com/news/vanity-fair-oscar-party-exits-655904 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Exits Sunset Tower; Will It Land in Parking Lot? (Exclusive)]", ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219133703/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vanity-fair-oscar-party-exits-655904 |date=February 19, 2014}}.</ref>