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  Academy Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world.
The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization, which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5,816.
Academy membership may be obtained by a competitive nomination (however, the nominee must be invited to join) or a member may submit a name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Awards   (1833 words)

  
 Academy's Awards of Sport
The awards have expanded over the years to honor exemplary achievement in coaching, all-around athletic performance, courage, humanitarian activity, fitness and media, as well as the top professional athletes of the year.
Award recipients are traditionally presented with the Academy's Order of the Eagle Exemplar medal and Academy Rosette.
The 2006 award winner, who will be receiving his medallion at the July 22, 2006 USSA graduation ceremony, begins his 11 th year as director of athletics at Santa Barbara, where he has received numerous national honors.
www.asama.org /awards/index.asp   (2078 words)

  
 noticias - OSCAR: 77th Academy Awards Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Fresh off receiving his fourth Emmy Award, three of which have come for his Oscar telecast work, this will be Horvitz's ninth time overall directing the Academy Awards show.
Academy governor and first vice president Sid Ganis and governor Cheryl Boone Isaacs, both of whom represent the public relations branch on the Academy Board of Governors, are co-chairs of the Governors Ball for the 77th Academy Awards.
Brett Davidson, who has been on staff at the Academy for 10 years and currently serves as the organization's information systems support specialist, was competing against dozens of established artists who submitted designs for the 77th Oscar poster.
www.noticias.info /asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=46100&src=0   (1334 words)

  
 Academy Awards Articles
Academy Awards news is sparse, practically non-existent, and the final surge of films comes before the more serious minded fare begins to be released around mid September.
But one awards organization did award honors this past week, the Annie Awards for animation, and while not a precursor to the Oscars by any means, it does bring to light the past year's...
This past week, the Academy released their official rules for the upcoming 72nd Annual Academy Awards, and it was pretty much the standard rules and guidelines for the annual Oscars, except for one major category change for the next Academy Awards.
www.suite101.com /articles.cfm/academy_awards/61-80   (10710 words)

  
 Oscars 2003 - 75 Days of Oscar - 1939
And to celebrate, we're bringing you winners, scandals and highlights from a different year's Academy Awards each day, right up until our star-studded coverage of the 2003 show.
War was looming in Europe, and box-office revenues had fallen at home, but it was business as usual at the Academy Awards.
Academy Awards®, Oscar® and the Oscar® statuette design are trademarks, service marks and copyrighted property of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
www.eonline.com /Features/Awards/Oscars2003/75Days/1939.html   (223 words)

  
 1975 Academy Awards Resource | 1975 Academy Awards Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Academy Awards typically can be counted on to be the second most watched prime time program of the television season, trailing only the Super Bowl.
The logistics involved in staging the Academy Awards Ceremony are complex, and the ability to quickly print high quality photo credentials on site using the latest digital imaging technology is critical to a smooth operation, said John Pavlik, communications director for the Academy.
That Special Effects and Cosmic Voyage were both nominated by the Academy this year is a validation of the excellence of the films as well as the increasing commercial acceptance of the IMAX medium.
www.movie-awards-resource.info /1975-academy-awards.html   (1014 words)

  
 1938 Academy Awards
The 1938 Academy Awards were presented Feb. 23, 1939 at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles.
Obituaries of the members of the Ohio Academy of Science report of the Necrology Committee, 2001.
Obituaries of the members of the Ohio Academy of Science report of the Necrology Committee, 2003.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0148089.html   (336 words)

  
 Academy Awards
For the 1927/28 through the 1950 Awards, the award went to the production company or studio that produced the winning film.
For the 1951 Awards through the present the award goes to the producers credited on the film.
Information on Academy Award winners as listed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
awards2001.belointeractive.com /history.html   (123 words)

  
 The Oscars (2007) : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Salon.com recently interviewed Gil Cates, executive producer of the Academy Awards ceremony.
He is responsible for coordinating hundreds of needy, high-profile egos, choreographing a four-hour mix of introductions, film clips, performers and host material and making sure that, in the end, the right envelope makes it to the stage at the right time.
Cates, who says he loves the gig as much as he did when he started directing the show, is a maestro of self-congratulatory pomp and circumstance, a man with a Zen-like armor of nonchalance that protects him from the slings and arrows of Oscar bashers.
www.countingdown.com /movies/9988?item_id=14849&start=120   (426 words)

  
 THE 78TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS / 'CRASH' BREAKS THROUGH
George Clooney, winner of the best supporting actor award for his performance in "Syriana," alluded to the frequent criticism that film actors are "out of touch" with mainstream America.
A highlight of the night was the introduction of Robert Altman, who won a special Academy Award for his body of work.
It was, as always at the Academy Awards, a night for bizarre juxtapositions, such as four fellows holding stuffed animals in the shape of penguins, exiting the stage as Jennifer Lopez entered to make a presentation.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/06/MNGICHJ8331.DTL   (810 words)

  
 The User Group Academy AWARDS
The UG Academy Awards will recognize those organizations and their communications editors -- both printed and electronic -- who excel in publications of excellence in the service of their members.
The awards will be juried by a panel of publishers and designers communications industry, as well as peers from the user group community.
Awards will be on display at User Group Breakfast in San Francisco, and/or at the 1999 UG Soiree.
www.user-groups.net /UGAcademy/1998/awards.html   (497 words)

  
 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Dishing Oscar
Essentially what happened is that I was on the board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences the year after the '89 show Alan Carr had produced.
The then president of the academy was Richard Kahn and he appointed a committee of academy board members just to look into the show in terms of ways of improving it and things to watch out for.
I have that feeling when the academy presents me with a list of people who are going to get honorary Oscars or the Thalberg award.
archive.salon.com /ent/movies/feature/2001/03/23/gil_cates/print.html   (3122 words)

  
 CNN - 71st Annual Academy Awards
But for movie lovers around the world the night of the Academy Awards provides the best guessing game of the year.
He won Best Actor in 1996 for his role in "Shine." Rush's performance in "Shakespeare" is beautifully crafted and one of the major reasons this film stands out, but since I'm betting the Academy will honor Judi Dench in the Supporting Actress category for the same film, she may trump Rush's Oscar bid.
Edward Norton is magnificent in "American History X." He changed his entire body type for this role by putting on masses of muscle and he's utterly chilling as a skinhead on a rage.
www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/specials/1999/oscars/critics/clinton.html   (1788 words)

  
 Alex Fung's Page > Film Awards > 74rd Annual Academy Awards
The 74rd annual Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, March 24th, 2002 at the Kodak Theater at the Hollywood & Highland complex in Los Angeles), and broadcast live on the ABC television network at 5:00 p.m.
It was announced on January 23rd, 2002 that actor Sidney Poitier would be presented with an honourary Academy Award "for his extraordinary performances and unique presence on the screen, and for representing the motion picture industry with dignity, style and intelligence throughout the world".
The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is given to up to four individuals (as selected by the film's producer[s]) responsible for supervising the effects work on the designated film.
www.ncf.carleton.ca /~aw220/02oscar.htm   (1417 words)

  
 1976 Academy Awards Facts | 1976 Academy Awards Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The Academy Awards show is, at 66 the unchallenged grandmother of them all.
During the broadcast of the Grammy awards in February, Frank Sinatra himself got the hook when CBS cut to a commercial in the middle of his remarks as he accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award.
PITTSBURGH Alcoa Foundation today announced that it has awarded a 250,000 three year grant to the Fund for Public Schools to support the NYC Leadership Academy, which was established in 2003 to recruit and train outstanding principals to lead New York City's public schools.
www.movie-awards-resource.info /1976-academy-awards.html   (838 words)

  
 The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : Media academy awards
BANGALORE: The Bangalore edition of Kannada Prabha has been selected for the annual award (2005) of the Karnataka Media Academy for best front-page design and coverage of zilla and taluk panchayat elections results.
Academy Chairman V.N. Subba Rao announced 12 newly instituted awards, including three for TV journalists, on Saturday.
In the TV category, Gulbarga City Channel bagged the prize for best special report on "Aneya Akrosha," Maya Sharma of NDTV for her report on "Changing Bangalore" and C.N. Bhopaiah, newsreader, Udaya TV.
www.hindu.com /2006/04/23/stories/2006042321420400.htm   (173 words)

  
 CanMag- Movie Awards- 78th Annual Academy Awards Nominations
Returning to the Kodak Theatre, the 78th Annual Academy Awards is ready to list for us its selected nominees to appear on March 5th.
It is hard for me to call which is my favorite award show: The Academy Awards or the MTV Movie Awards.
Sure, the Academy Awards is a bit more 'serious' you have to enjoy MTV's fun with film; plus the parodies.
www.canmag.com /news/4/3/2988   (380 words)

  
 Those Were the Days, Today in History - February 23
The Best Actor award was claimed for the second year in a row ("Captains Courageous") by Spencer Tracy for "Boys Town".
Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards were presented to Bette Davis and Fay Bainter, respectively, for their performances in "Jezebel"; while Walter Brennan took home the prized statuette for Best Supporting Actor in "Kentucky".
These were Davis’ and Brennan’s second Academy Awards; the first for Davis was awarded three years earlier for "Dangerous", and Brennan received his first Oscar two years before for "Come and Get It".
www.440.com /twtd/archives/feb23.html   (1667 words)

  
 IMDb: Academy Awards, USA: 1939   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
- Spencer Tracy was not present at the awards ceremony.
Shaw's reaction to the award was not enthusiastic as he is quoted as saying "It's an insult for them to offer me any honour, as if they had never heard of me before - and it's very likely they never have.
For the 11th Academy Awards, names the of nominees for the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award were announced for the first and only time.
us.imdb.com /Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/1939   (1008 words)

  
 Honorary Academy Awards Nomination : Stewart Granger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
yet and has been forgoten by the Academy for to long,lkie the few other truley great actors for some reason the ones who gave us something to emulate and to admire have been the ones who are forgotten.
It is ridiculous that this fabulously talented man was overlooked by the academy simply because he was either too good looking or more probably because he was a real man and refused to sell out to Hollywood and compromise his principals.
I second the nomination of Stewart Granger to be given an honorary postumous Academy Award.
www.oscarworld.net /awardlobby_read.asp?LobbyId=434   (4162 words)

  
 MSN Movies - 2005 Academy Awards
At this Sunday's Academy Awards, presenters such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet, Natalie Portman, Drew Barrymore, Kirsten Dunst, Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz, Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta will cart off thousands of dollars worth of freebies in the form of spa vacations and mink eyelashes, reports USA Today.
Bruce Davis, executive director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hosts the gala atop the Kodak Theatre, says: "This is one party that everybody goes to."
At the Governors Ball, invitees include nominees, presenters, the academy's governors and sponsors, and some studio executives — roughly half of those who attend the show.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/oscars/gifts   (615 words)

  
 Academy Awards
Summoned to the majestic heights of Kilimanjaro, two women--one African, one American are led by an ancient and mysterious ancestor on a primal journey of spiritual awakening.
Music composed by Grammy Award winner Cyril Neville, the youngest of The Neville Brothers is both mesmerizing and hypnotic and features the Fina Mbira, an unusual mbira designed by Italian musician Enzo Fina.
Additionally, the film has garnered two Best Actress Awards for Amandina Lihamba at the Zanzibar International Film Festival and at the Southern African Film Festival.
www.grisgrisfilms.com /html/academy_awards.html   (1243 words)

  
 2002 Academy Awards
I do have to say, it was "Why do you come to the Academy Awards when the world is in such turmoil?" Because art is important.
But I also want to dedicate this award to all the people that are raising their voices in favor of peace, respect of human rights, democracy and international legality.
This award is also to them and to Spanish cinema and to all of you, because you are the witness of this wonderful moment of my life.
academyawards.20m.com /cerem75.htm   (3461 words)

  
 2002 Academy Awards® Winners
Oscar® and Academy Awards® and Oscar® design mark are the trademarks and service marks and the Oscar© statuette the copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
This was the first year that the Academy Awards ceremony was broadcast in high-definition television.
For the only time in Academy Award history, five animated films qualified for the category, and surprisingly, only one was completely or purely CGI (Ice Age).
www.filmsite.org /aa02.html   (3142 words)

  
 Presenters for 78th Academy Awards Announced
Academy Award®-winning actor Jack Nicholson will join Oscar® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, Eric Bana, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Stiller, John Travolta and Ziyi Zhang as presenters at the 78th Academy Awards ceremony, telecast producer Gil Cates announced today.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2005 will be presented on Sunday, March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 - This Saturday at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles.
www.movieweb.com /news/75/11375.php   (258 words)

  
 71st Annual Academy Awards
The 71st Annual Academy Awards was presented on March 21st, 1999 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center (seating: approximately 3200, less 500 for camera platforms), and broadcast live on the ABC television network at 5:30 p.m.
The print submitted for award consideration must be identical in form with the final version in general release in the country of origin.
The Academy's visual effects branch is scheduled to screen 15-minute excerpt reels from each of these films on February 3, 1999 before casting their nomination ballots.
www.ncf.carleton.ca /~aw220/99oscar.htm   (3549 words)

  
 The 74th Annual Academy Awards (2002) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Trivia: The oft-nominated Woody Allen made his first-ever appearance at the ceremony, introducing a 9/11 inspired tribute to films set in New York City.
One of the most memorable scenes was when Whoopi Goldberg came down on a chandelier, half naked (mocking Moulin Rouge).
I was also very pleased to see Randy Goldman take home the best original song award (it's about time!), and Shrek win best animated feature.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0313162   (402 words)

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