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  Academy Awards information - Search.com
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.
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  12th Academy Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 77th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The 77th Academy Awards were presented on Sunday, February 27, 2005, and was telecast live from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland by the ABC Television Network.
The 77th Academy Awards Set-Up Steve Miessner and Patrick Stockstill unpack and prepare Oscar statuettes for for tonight's broadcast.
Nominations for the 77th Annual Academy Awards were announced today (Tuesday, January 25) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Frank Pierson and Oscar®-winning actor Adrien Brody.
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 Academy Awards Show Team | 77th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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.oscars.org /77academyawards/team.html   (1280 words)

  
 The 79th Annual Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
It will be DeGeneres’ first time as Oscar® host, as well as her first appearance on an Academy Awards telecast.
Her first was in 2002 for the telecast of the 74th Academy Awards, the first time the ceremonies were broadcast from the Kodak Theatre.
In August of this year, Horvitz added a fifth Emmy® Award to his mantel for his achievement in directing the 78th Annual Academy Awards.
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 76th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2003 were presented on February 29, 2004, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland®.
Inter-Con Security guards for the Academy Awards escorted Oscar Statuettes to thier holding room at the Kodak Theatre Saturday, February 28, 2004 in Hollywood, California.
With much fanfare, a real red carpet and the glitter of 24 carat gold, the 2003 Oscar statuettes that were awarded at the 76th Annual Academy Awards ceremony, were unveiled at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
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 Boston.com / A&E / TV / Academy Awards TV audience down 2 million   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
With comedian Chris Rock, the Academy Awards succeeded in its effort to find a younger audience -- but perhaps at the expense of the country as a whole.
"The academy made a concerted effort to go in a different direction and try to appeal to a younger audience with the Academy Awards, and it appears they have succeeded," he said.
It was the 12th time since 1990 that the Academy Awards drew an audience of between 40 and 46 million people, according to Nielsen.
www.boston.com /ae/tv/articles/2005/02/28/academy_awards_tv_audience_down_slightly   (408 words)

  
 The GATE's Oscar File - 77th Academy Awards® News & Features
Like no other award show, whether you agree with them or not, the best thing about the Academy Awards is the buzz they create and with today's announcement of the nominations for the 2005 Oscars there's likely to be lots of room for arguments.
Tomorrow morning the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will announce their nominations for this year's Oscar Awards, but that doesn't mean there still isn't a little time for some guess-work.
ACADEMY AWARDS®, OSCAR(S)®, OSCAR NIGHT® and OSCAR® statuette design mark are the trademarks and service marks, and the OSCAR© statuette the copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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 Academy Awards Show Team | 78th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Beverly Hills, CA — For the 17th consecutive year, special events producer Cheryl Cecchetto has been chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to produce the annual Governors Ball, the post-telecast celebration for the 78th Academy Awards® on Sunday, March 5, 2006, at the Hollywood and Highland® entertainment complex.
The posters will be used to promote the 78th Academy Awards Presentation on March 5, 2006, both in the U.S. and internationally.
Selected from among several hundred entries, the concept chosen by the Academy was presented by Joan Maloney, founder and president of the San Diego-based graphic design firm, Studio 318.
www.oscars.org /78academyawards/team.html   (1326 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Academy Awards
Academy Award winners Tom Hanks, Hilary Swank and Michael Douglas will be among those contributing recipes to "Morgan Freeman and Friends: Carribean Cooking for a Cause," publisher Rodale, Inc. announced Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005.
The festival is an Academy Award qualifier in the short-film category and this year's prize went to John Williams's ''Hibernation.
To put the success of the CMA Awards rating in perspective, during the 2004-2005 television season, the CMA Awards trailed only the Academy Awards and in a statistical tie with the GRAMMY Awards.
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 Acadey Awards Osacar Ballot Pool
Choose leading actors and actresses, best film and see who at your Academy Awards party knows the what the Hollywood Elite are thinking.
Each person at your Academy Awards party that wishes to participate, Presses the Vote button, A poll screen appears after a password has been choosen by the user (so that no one may change someone else's answers).
As the Awards are announced, the category appears on the screen with the percentage/tally of the voters to see who the party favorite is, and when the winner is annouced on TV, all the people with correct answers are scrolled across the computer screen.
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 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.
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 ABC News: Academy Awards TV Audience Down 2 Million   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Academy Awards Television Audience Down 2 Million From Last Year's Show
NEW YORK Feb 28, 2005 — With comedian Chris Rock, the Academy Awards succeeded in its effort to find a younger audience but perhaps at the expense of the country as a whole.
Oscar ratings were up from last year among viewers aged 18 to 34 a prime target for the advertisers who pay millions of dollars for time on what is traditionally the year's highest-rated program after the Super Bowl.
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 Texas Auction Academy - The Course   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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 Gold rush: No clear favorites for Academy Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This year's Academy Awards are still more than two months off, but the campaigns are in full swing, the trade papers are crammed with ads and the pundits are already dusting off their crystal balls and sharpening their pencils.
One of the things that makes Oscar-watching fun is that the nominations and awards can be strongly influenced by a scandal, a stupid statement by a contender, an ill-advised ad in the trades -- so what happens during the voting period can be important.
The Academy Awards presentations will take place at the lavish new Kodak Theater in Hollywood on Sunday, March 23, with Steve Martin as host.
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 'Baby' wins Oscar prize fight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Although "The Aviator" lifted off early in the evening, by the time the 77th Annual Academy Awards reached its final round, Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" was declared the champ.
Cate Blanchett was also awarded her first Oscar -- as best supporting actress for her turn as Katharine Hepburn, who enjoys an idiosyncratic romance with Hughes in "The Aviator." In expressing her thanks, she kept returning to the iconic Hepburn.
The award for live-action short went to the British film "Wasp," a harrowing little film about a single mom juggling her responsibilities to her children with a yearning for romance.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000818311   (1613 words)

  
 Academy Press Photo Area - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Leigh won the Lead Actress Academy Award® for her portrayal of Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film.
Although both Gable and Leigh received Academy Award® nominations for their portrayals, only Leigh took home the Oscar® in the Lead Actress category.
"Oscar®," "Oscars®," "Academy Awards®," "Academy Award®," "A.M.P.A.S. ®" and "Oscar Night®" are the trademarks, and the ©Oscar® statuette is the registered design mark and copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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 DAILY NEWS: Students Selected to Compete for 27th Annual Student Academy Awards; Sundance Channel Announces Two-Hour ...
Academy members will screen and vote on finalists' work and the winners flown to Los Angeles for a week of industry-related functions and social events that will culminate on June 11 with an awards ceremony at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Academy members may present awards to as many as three films in each category.
Finalists for that award include students from the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and Slovakia.
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 1939 Academy Awards — Infoplease.com
The 1939 Academy Awards were presented Feb. 29, 1940 at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.
Oscar's sole survivors: it only takes one victory at Oscar time for a film to claim it is an Academy Award winner--and in several......
This week in Black history.(Halle Berry won an Academy Award for Best Actress)(Emmanuel Cleaver II was elected the first Black mayor......
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 Movies, Videos, DVDs Review: The Sea Inside   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Not a bad night’s work and hopefully, these awards will give the film a shot in the arm and propel it to much better box office returns.
The rest of the Awards were spread around a bit.
Most of the films that won have already had their threatrical run, so won’t be affected too much by the Awards.
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 OSCAR.com - 77th Annual Academy Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As we approach show time for the 12th Academy Awards broadcast that I have produced, my mind recalls the world as it was in 1990 when I produced my first Oscar telecast.
Along with our main Academy Award location in Los Angeles, Oscars were presented from Moscow, London, Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Sydney.
In short, the 62nd Annual Academy Awards created a special moment in time that recorded the way we all felt, the movies we watched, what made us laugh and the stars we loved best at the time.
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 Donat Agosti
1991 - 93 Postdoctoral research award from the Swiss Science Foundation for a combined morphological, biochemical and molecular study of Cataglyphis ants (two years).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97: 13678-13683.
12th International Congress of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, Paris, FRANCE, 22.8.1994.
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 NCBuy: Oscars - Academy Awards for Film Editing (1940's)
Oscar's decade review of Academy Award winners and nominations for Film Editing - winners are highlighted.
Award Decades: • 1930 • 1940 • 1950 • 1960 • 1970 • 1980 • 1990 • 2000
ACADEMY AWARD(s)®, Oscars®, and the Oscars® statuette are the registered trademarks, service marks, and copyrighted property of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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 Academy Awards Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Academy's Board of Governors voted on some category name changes, as well as announcing the dates for the next Academy Awards...
Sunday's 72nd Annual Academy Awards were one of the classiest and technically accomplished telecasts in the Academy's history, and what do you know...
Just over a week after the 72nd Oscar nominees were announced, a couple of other precursor awards to the Oscars announced their choices, and there's some more news coming out this week about the upcoming Oscar telecast.
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 Academy Awards TV Audience Down 2 Million (phillyBurbs.com)
Academy Awards TV Audience Down 2 Million (phillyBurbs.com)
NEW YORK - With comedian Chris Rock, the Academy Awards succeeded in its effort to find a younger audience - but perhaps at the expense of the country as a whole.
Oscar ratings were up from last year among viewers aged 18 to 34 - a prime target for the advertisers who pay millions of dollars for time on what is traditionally the year's highest-rated program after the Super Bowl.
www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/80-02282005-456707.html   (394 words)

  
 Augusta Chronicle, augusta news, augusta weather, augusta sports, augusta golf, augusta georgia
Gil Cates, producer of the 77th Academy Awards, works in his office in the Century City section of Los Angeles.
Cates is producing his record 12th Academy Awards telecast on Feb.27.
Gil Cates, producer of the 77th Academy Awards, races back to his office on his electric scooter after visiting the office of Denis Doty, producer of the pre-show telecast in the Century City section of Los Angeles.
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 Dialogue: Gil Cates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
"This is what we used to call a good gig," declares Gil Cates, who on Sunday will preside as producer over his 12th Academy Awards telecast in the past 16 years.
Some awards will be announced while the nominees are standing up on the stage; others will be given to people sitting in the audience, who will then move to the aisle where the presenter is standing and give the acceptance speech right there.
We want our female award winners to be safe.
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 OSCAR.com - 79th Annual Academy Awards - Video
OSCAR.com - 79th Annual Academy Awards - Video
ACADEMY AWARD(S)®, OSCAR(S)®, OSCAR NIGHT® and OSCAR® statuette design mark are the registered trademarks and service marks, and the OSCAR® statuette the copyrighted property, of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The Official Academy Awards web site is produced by ABC.com in partnership with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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 2005 News Reports (Christopher Reeve Homepage)
January 6, 2005: Dr. Lloyd Guth was recently awarded the 2004 Reeve-Irvine Research Medal for his work with spinal cord injury research.
The award, established in 1996 for research in spinal cord injury, originally was called the Christopher Reeve Research Medal, and was changed in 2003 to the Reeve-Irvine Research Medal.
The award recognizes those who make scientific contributions in the area of spinal cord repair, and whose research has stood the test of time and scrutiny, according to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
www.chrisreevehomepage.com /news.html   (2542 words)

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