Oscar 2016 Topic Challenge II: The Academy Awards and their workings [completed]

Question

The 88th Annual Academy Awards ("Oscars") have just been held. Like last year this might be a chance to discuss the workings of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the intricacies of choosing the year's best films and film-makers. So due to popular demand we're starting a new weekly topic challenge. From 2016-02-29 00:00 UTC to 2016-03-06 01:00 UTC we encourage you to ask any kind of on-topic¹ question on the main site about the workings of the Oscars (tagged with academy-awards).

Once the challenge is over we'll tally the results and winners (by question votes) here. Also don't forget to suggest new topics for our next possible challenge.

1) _{Just be sure to not just plain ask why your favourite movie didn't win while it's so much better than any other. ;-)}

Answer 1

The challenge is over and the top-voted question (with a score of 45 and 4561 views) was asked by Thunderforge, which makes him the winner of this challenge:

1. At what point is the orchestra told who the Academy Award winner will be?

The other questions asked, in order of votes are (the numbers are the votes and views):

2. Has The Academy ever addressed the issue with acting categories being gender separated? (10 / 124)

3. Where does an Oscar winner go when they leave stage after accepting their award? (8 / 204)

4. Where do non-binary people fall for the gender specific awards in the Oscars? (3 / 115)