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Anecdotage.com - Awards anecdotes. Anecdotes From Yeats to Gates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) At the 41st Academy Awards ceremony in 1969, Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepb... In 2002, University of Sydney professor Karl Kruszelnicki was awarded an Ig Nobe... At the Academy Awards dinner in 1942, the legendary director Cecil B. De Mille a... www.anecdotage.com /browse.php?term=Awards   (3718 words)

Academy Awards Betting on Oscars at Hollywood Sportsbook For 15 years the Academy Awards Presentations were banquet affairs held, after the first in the Blossom Room, at the Ambassador and Biltmore hotels. For a few years, the event alternated venues — the 62nd, 64th, 65th, 66th, 68th and 71st Awards were held at the Music Center, while the 63rd, 67th, 69th, 70th, 72nd and 73rd were at the Shrine. The 74th, 75th and 76th Awards were held at a new venue, the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland®, across the street from where the Oscars had first been handed out at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in 1929. www.hollywoodsportsbook.com /academyawards/presentation.cfm   (1246 words)

COSMOWORLDS Europe Style Portal | THE ACADEMY AWARDS - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Oscars, ... Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2005 were presented on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theater at Hollywood and Highland®. For a dozen years, the event alternated venues — the 62nd, 64th, 65th, 66th, 68th and 71st Awards were held at the Music Center, while the 63rd, 67th, 69th, 70th, 72nd and 73rd were at the Shrine. The Awards ceremony was postponed from April 8 to April 10 in 1968 out of respect for Dr. Martin Luther King, who had been assassinated a few days earlier, and whose funeral was held on April 8, the day set for the Awards. www.cosmoworlds.com /academy_awards.html   (1350 words)

Nomination Ballots Mailed for 77th Academy Awards - RopeofSilicon.com Nomination ballots for the 77th Academy Awards® were mailed over the past week to the 5,808 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All nomination and final award ballots are tabulated by PricewaterhouseCoopers, to ensure that all aspects of the balloting process are conducted with fairness and accuracy. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2004 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland® and televised live by the ABC Television Network at 5 p.m. www.ropeofsilicon.com /awards/article.php?id=93   (216 words)

The Politics Resource Center: Guest Editorial Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, based on the series by C.S. Lewis's Christian colleague, J.R.R. Tolkien, was a major hit in 2003 and swept the awards, winning all 11 of the categories for which it was nominated. At the Academy podium last Sunday, one of the glitterlings professed, "Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it." Unfortunately, far too many entertainment consumers lack the ability to filter critically what they see, hear and read. Because The Radical Academy publishes essays and articles on its website does not imply acceptance or approval of the comments or opinions expressed by the author of the material. radicalacademy.com /studentrefpolitics22awards.htm   (1053 words)

Awards for Paul Newman - RopeofSilicon.com Hometown: Shaker Heights, OH At the 1994 Academy Awards Paul Newman was awaded the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Award. At the 1987 Academy Awards Paul Newman won an Oscar for Best Actor for his work in The Color of Money. At the 1986 Academy Awards Paul Newman was awaded an Honorary Award. www.ropeofsilicon.com /awards.php?id=2006   (189 words)

History of Academy Awards It was here, on March 19,1953, that the Academy Awards Presentation was first televised.The NBC-TV and radio network carried the 25th Academy Awards ceremonies live from Hollywood with Bob Hope as master of ceremonies and from the NBC International Theater in New York with Fredric March making the presentations. The Awards ceremony was postponed from April 8 to April 10 in 1968 out of respect for Dr. Martin Luther King, who had been assassinated a few days earlier,and whose funeral was held on April 8, the day set for the Awards. In 2003, after U.S. forces invaded Iraq the Tuesday before the telecast,the show went on, but the red carpet was reduced to the area immediately in front of the theater entrance, the red carpet bleachers were eliminated and the bulk of the world's press was disinvited. movies.monstersandcritics.com /features/article_1134680.php/History_of_Academy_Awards   (1354 words)

Oscar speeches should be fun, lively and short - More Academy Award news - MSNBC.com Eric Draper / AP Gwyneth Paltrow cries as she accepts the Oscar for best actress for her role in "Shakespeare in Love," during the 71st Annual Academy Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles Music Center on March 21, 1999. Share your comments on the nominated films and actors, host Jon Stewart, your other favorite films of the year and whether or not you'll be watching the big show. Winning an Academy Award can be a dangerous thing — especially when the whole world is watching your acceptance speech. msnbc.msn.com /id/11625874   (855 words)

Academy's Diamond Anniversary Screening Series to Feature "The Silence of the Lambs" when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 75th anniversary screening series "Facets of the Diamond: 75 Years of Best Picture Winners" serves up the 1991 film "The Silence of the Lambs" in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Tickets may be purchased, pending availability, at a cost of $5 each for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid I.D. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Academy during regular business hours or by mail. The Academy is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2003/03.09.15.html   (300 words)

The Silence of the Lambs Sweeps Top Awards at Oscars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The award for best actress went to Jodie Foster, who played the FBI trainee assigned to hunt down a second serial murderer. Although the movie was very well-received, skeptics wondered if the Academy, which usually recognizes films with more uplifting themes, would break with tradition and bestow its top award to such a grisly effort. The award for best original screenplay went to Callie Khouri for "Thelma and Louise," another controversial film about two women who take off on a weekend trip and wind running from the law. www-tech.mit.edu /V112/N16/oscars.16w.html   (968 words)

| SAG Awards Official Web Site | SAG Awards Committee founding members Yale Summers (the committee chair), Daryl Anderson and Paul Napier, vice-chair Karla Tamburrelli and committee member Shelley Fabares will again produce for SAG; supervising producers for the eighth consecutive year are Gloria Fujita O’Brien and Mick McCullough. Also returning is Keaton S. Walker who has served as the SAG Awards’™ art director since 1997 and the Academy Awards’® art director for 24 years. SAG Awards™ event supervisor Andrea Wyn Schall, a two-time Special Events Gala award nominee, returns for the seventh year to coordinate event design logistics. www.sagawards.com /PR_060102.htm   (1017 words)

Asexual trivia Why does the academy do this to poor reviewers like me? This category comes down to the last three women on this list. Often the academy votes for a director and the respective film. The academy shafted Thelma and Louise by not nominating it for Best Picture, but won't turn that fact into an award for Scott, because it has no spine. www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1992/03/03-27-92tdc/03-27-92darts-06.asp   (937 words)

1991 Chronicle Jeremy Irons was best actor for his portrayal of Claus von Bülow in Warner Bros. Reversal of Fortune, while the award for best actress went to Anjelica Huston for her performances in The Witches and The Grifters, which also won best supporting actress for Annette Bening. Venice, 14 September: The televised award ceremony at the close of the 48th Venice Film Festival was held on a temporary platform set up in Saint Mark's Square, on which stood a huge plywood Golden Lion. The actual Golden Lion, made of gilded bronze, was awarded to the Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov for Urga (Close to Eden), a visually stunning film from the USSR made mostly with French money. theoscarsite.com /chronicle/1991c.htm   (5306 words)

Oscars 2003 - 75 Days of Oscar - 1992 He made a showstopping entrance strapped to a gurney and wearing a leather mask à la Hannibal Lecter. When his City Slickers costar Jack Palance won the evening's first award and demonstrated his septuagenarian stamina by doing some one-handed push-ups onstage, Crystal sprinkled the rest of the show with "ad-libs" he'd scripted in the wings with Bruce Vilanch: "Jack Palance is backstage on the StairMaster...Jack Palance just bungee-jumped off the Hollywood sign..." 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/1992.html   (228 words)

Annette Bening pictures, posters, photos, interviews and wallpapers. 73rd Annual Academy Awards, The (2001) (TV) (uncredited).... 64th Annual Academy Awards, The (1992) (TV) (uncredited).... 63rd Annual Academy Awards, The (1991) (TV) (uncredited).... www.perfectpeople.net /biopage.php3/cid=364   (186 words)

Bill Conti Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) But it was his music for the Oscar-winning sleeper hit "Rocky" (1976), especially the Academy Award-nominated theme "Gonna Fly Now", that established Conti as an in-demand composer. He went on to score several films directed and/or starring Sylvester Stallone (including the "Rocky" sequels) as well as several for "Rocky" director John G Avildsen (most notably "The Karate Kid" films). Since 1977, Conti has served a record 12 times as musical director of the annual Academy Awards telecast. www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/195136   (747 words)

64th Academy Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The 64th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The Silence of the Lambs won five major awards, only the third film to do so after It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975). The following is an incomplete list of winners: en.wikipedia.org /wiki/64th_Academy_Awards   (120 words)

OSCAR.com - 78th Annual Academy Awards - Flash Streaming Player OSCAR.com - 78th Annual Academy Awards - Flash Streaming Player An Oscar Moment With John Stewart (64th Annual Academy Awards) An Oscar Moment With John Stewart (75th Annual Academy Awards) www.oscar.com /video/index.html   (256 words)

Amazon.com: 75th Annual Academy Awards Short Films: DVD: Eric Armstrong,Dustin Adair,Yakov Baytler,Mary Biondo,Sumit ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) So it's delightful that all of the short animated and live-action films nominated for an Academy Award in 2003 have been packaged together for home viewing. Previously screened only at selected theaters across the country, this special collection of OSCAR nominated short films celebrating the 2003 75th Annual ACADEMY AWARDS® is now available to compel and delight the filmmaker and film lover. The winner is a very contemporary story set in Denmark that takes on a LOT of issues in a short time and deals with them in a way that has the viewer nodding in recognition. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001EQI2Y?v=glance   (2772 words)

OSCAR.com - 78th Annual Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Posters OSCAR.com - 78th Annual Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Posters 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. www.oscar.com /legacy/ceremonyposter/600.html   (113 words)

The Hollywoodreporter.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The 77th Annual Academy Awards (TV special documentary) - Writer (written by) The 76th Annual Academy Awards (TV special documentary) - Writer (written by) The 75th Annual Academy Awards (TV special documentary) - Writer (written by) www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/imdb/imdb_frame.jsp?pagetype=name&page=/name/nm0463171   (246 words)

>> Barbra Streisand Archives | Grammy, BAFTA Awards, Yentl, Nuts, Prince of Tides Interviews Grammy, BAFTA Awards, Yentl, Nuts, Prince of Tides Interviews Barbra presented Trustees Award to Ira Gershwin's widow, Leonore May not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. barbra-archives.com /TV/streisand_tv_1980-92.html   (125 words)

Marc Shaiman Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Shaiman earned an Emmy nomination as Crystal's musical director for "The 63rd Annual Academy Awards" (1991) and pocketed the award the following year for his contributions to Crystal's hosting of "The 64th Annual Academy Awards", not to mention teaming with him on several TV specials. Shaiman has also enjoyed a long and fruitful collaboration with producer Scott Rudin, who first hired him to score Barry Sonnenfeld's "The Addams Family" (1991), followed quickly by "Sister Act" (1992) and the sequels "Addams Family Values" and "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit" (both 1993). 1996 Received Academy Award nomination for the score of "The First Wives Club", starring Midler and Goldie Hawn www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/190658   (1262 words)

The Hollywoodreporter.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) The 75th Annual Academy Awards (TV special documentary) - Himself - Presenter: Film clip from 'Chicago' The 65th Annual Academy Awards (TV special) - Himself - Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (uncredited) The 64th Annual Academy Awards (TV special) - Himself - Presenter: Best Cinematography (uncredited) www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/imdb/imdb_frame.jsp?pagetype=name&page=/name/nm0000152   (350 words)

The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Himself - accepting Best Song Award for his late partner Howard Ashman Himself - Honorary Award Recipient (pre-recorded in Calcutta) Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for The 64th Annual Academy Awards (1992) (TV) www.imdb.com /title/tt0266219   (449 words)

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Playbill Biography: LISA GADJA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) Television: "Viva Variety" (swimsuit squad), "MTV Music Awards" (with Paula Abdul), the 63rd and 64th Academy Awards (choreographed by Debbie Allen). Lisa is a founding member of the 405 Project. Cast YOUR vote for the top 10 Tony Awards here. www.playbill.com /celebritybuzz/whoswho/biography/12946   (198 words)

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