The Academy Awards or the Oscars are one of the most prestigious, and oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony given to people for their  artistic and technical merit of films. 

The 1st Academy Awards were held in 1929 and this year it was the 96th Academy Awards, which was a glorious night  with many artists getting an Oscar for the first time in their life.

It may come as a surprise, but the person with the most Oscar awards ever is not a movie star, it's Walt Disney. He received 26 Oscars, of which 22 were competitive awards and four were honorary awards.

Disney is followed by Iain Neil, a renowned camera optical systems developer with 13 Oscar wins; art director and production designer Cedric Gibbons, with 11 wins, and photographic effects creator Farciot Edouart, with 10 wins.

When it comes to actors, Katherine Hepburn has the most Oscars in its history! She has four Academy Awards wins for the best actress  She was nominated 12 times and won for 1933's "Morning Glory," 1967's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," 1968's "The Lion in Winter" and 1981's "On Golden Pond."

Walter Brennan, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson, who have three Oscars apiece, are tied as the actors with the most Academy Award wins, while three actresses — Ingrid Bergman, Frances McDormand and Meryl Streep — have also won three Oscars.

Day-Lewis is the only man with three Oscars for best actor. His first win was for 1989's "My Left Foot." Day Lewis won again for 2008's "There Will be Blood" and for 2013's "Lincoln."