CAO Cigars Chosen As Exclusive Cigar Sponsor To HBO® Academy Awards Luxury Lounge CAO, one of the world’s foremost premium cigar manufacturers, was selected as the exclusive cigar sponsor to the HBO® Academy Awards Luxury Lounge, to be hosted at The Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on February 22-24. The luxury suite will host presenters, nominees, and invited VIP guests of The 80th Annual Academy Awards®. ABC will telecast the awards show live from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center® on Sunday, February 24, at 5 pm PST. The ‘king of all awards shows’ will be watched by over 75 million viewers around the globe. Guests of the HBO® Academy Awards Luxury Lounge will be offered their choice of CAO products, including CAO The SopranosTM Edition Cigars and CAO Vision Cigars. Among the invited celebrities will be Daniel Day-Lewis (“There Will Be Blood”), Cate Blanchett (“I’m Not There”), Johnny Depp (“Sweeny Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street”), Viggo Mortensen (“Eastern Promises”), and Amy Ryan (“Gone Baby Gone”). Last year CAO was the exclusive cigar featured at the HBO Emmy® Awards Luxury Lounge and has been the cigar brand of choice for the past two Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the past two People’s Choice Awards. THE SOPRANOS and HBO are service marks for Home Box Office, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------- CAO International, Inc. is the producer of one of the country’s top lines of premium cigars. Founded by Cano A. Ozgener in Nashville as a labor of love 40 years ago, today CAO products can be found on every continent in the world with the exception of Antarctica. CAO produces ten cigar lines that have all been rated ‘90’ (“OUTSTANDING”) or above by Cigar Aficionado and Cigar Insider.