The 79th Academy Awards took place on February 25th, 2007.
 LiveThe 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 ValleyElton John AIDS Foundation Academy Award Party airs the awards live at the nearby Pacific Design CenterThe Governors Ball is the Academy's official after-party, including dinner (until 2011), and is adjacent to the awards-presentation venueThe Vanity Fair after-party, historically at the former Morton's restaurant, has been at the Sunset Tower since 2009 to 2023Ariel Award in Mexico== Presenter and performer gifts ==It has become a tradition to give out gift bags to the presenters and performers at the Oscars
25 million viewers tuned to the telecast for the 70th Academy Awards in 1998, the year of Titanic, which generated a box office haul during its initial 199798 run of US$600

