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A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include other criteria, such as personality, intelligence, talent, character, causes, and charitable involvement, through closed-door interviews with judges, or the conventional question-and-answer round(s) in the finals.
The following is a list of Miss Universe titleholders from the competition's inaugural ... Winners gallery. Miss Universe 2024 ... Big Four international beauty ...
[39] [40] The pageant became part of Kayser-Roth and then Gulf+Western Industries, before being acquired by Donald Trump in 1996, [41] [42] and WME/IMG in 2015. [33] [43] Miss International, also called "Miss International Beauty", [44] is a Tokyo-based international beauty pageant organized by The International Culture Association. The pageant ...
Winner State/District City Age [2] Awards Talent Notes; 1921: Sept. 8, 1921 Margaret Gorman [3] District of Columbia: Washington: 16 Inter-City Beauty, Amateur: Earned title of "The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America" (pageant renamed "Miss America" in 1922) 1922: Sept. 7, 1922 Mary Katherine Campbell [4] [5] Ohio: Columbus: 16
The following is a list of Miss Grand International titleholders from the competition's inaugural edition in 2013 to ... Winners gallery ... List of beauty pageants;
The most frequently presented Miss America awards are for preliminary talent and swimsuit. The talent award was introduced in 1936, and the swimsuit award in 1940. In the 2000s, preliminary awards for evening gown and interview were briefly introduced but were discontinued after two years as it was felt that they made the semi-finalists too predictable.
The pageant has awarded the five remaining finalists from 1952 to 1989, 2001 to 2014, 2020 and 2024 with the first, second, third and fourth Runner-Up being awarded. From 1990 to 1997 and 2016, the number of finalists was increased to six.
Since 2013, Miss Grand International has started announcing awards for all four runner-up positions and the Miss Grand International titleholder. [1] Originally, the pageant presented trophies solely to the contestants who ranked 1st runner-up through 4th runner-up, in addition to the winner. [2]