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  Academy Award
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 5816, with actors, with a membership of 1311, making up the largest voting block.
Academy Awards are nicknamed "Oscars", which is also the nickname of the statuette (the name is said to have been born when Academy librarian Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said: "It looks just like my uncle Oscar!").
The awards were first given at a banquet in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929 but there was little suspense since the winners of the awards had already been announced three months earlier on February 18.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/ac/academy_award.html   (957 words)

  
 Academy Award - The Film Guide - A Wikia wiki
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.
The Academy Awards were the brainchild of MGM executive Louis B. Mayer in 1927.
The official name of the Oscar statuette is the "Academy Award of Merit." Made of gold-plated britannium, it is 13.5 inches (34 cm) tall and depicts a knight holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film.
filmguide.wikia.com /wiki/Academy_Award   (1219 words)

  
 DesMoinesRegister.com | Famous Iowans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Academy Award for best assistant director of 1935 went to Clem Beauchamp for his work on Paramount's "Lives of a Bengal Lancer." The next year, in the same category, Beauchamp was nominated for "The Last of the Mohicans."
Assistant directors were honored only from 1932 to 1937.
Daughter Michele is now the keeper of the framed parchment document awarded by the academy to her father.
desmoinesregister.com /extras/iowans/beauchamp.html   (414 words)

  
 CHP -- What You Need to Know About Cadet Training at the CHP Academy
The Academy is designed to be very stressful, testing each cadet's ability to adapt to varying situations and manage stress.
Awards will also be given to the cadet(s) selected as the Most Inspirational Cadet and the Outstanding Cadet in each class.
Director of Field operations, responsible for delivery of service to the motoring public.
www.chp.ca.gov /html/academycadet.html   (2349 words)

  
 ACADEMY AWARDS OSCAR
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.
However it came to be, both Oscar and Academy Award are registered trademarks of the Academy, and are fiercely protected by the Academy through litigation and threats therof.
But as the most prominent award show and certainly the most important, the Academy Awards over the years and especially in recent years have been the target of a considerable amount of criticism and controversy.
www.solarnavigator.net /films_movies_actors/academy_awards.htm   (1740 words)

  
 The Oscar® and Other Awards - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Shortly after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was organized in 1927, a dinner was held in the Crystal Ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles to discuss methods of honoring outstanding achievements, thus encouraging higher levels of quality in all facets of motion picture production.
MGM art director Cedric Gibbons designed the statuette and Los Angeles sculptor George Stanley was selected to create it - the figure of a knight standing on a reel of film, hands gripping a sword.
Officially named the Academy Award of Merit, the statuette is better known by a nickname, Oscar, the origins of which aren't clear.
www.oscars.org /aboutacademyawards/awards   (361 words)

  
 AFIFEST 2004 November 4-14
Director, DAYBREAK / OM JAG VÄNDER MIG OM Björn Runge was born in 1961.
Director, AFTERMATH / LAD DE SMÅ BØRN Paprika Steen was born November 3, 1964, and was educated at the Actors School of the Odense Theatre.
She has received multiple acting awards and in 2003 won both the Danish Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in OPEN HEARTS, as well as the Award for Best Leading Actress for her role in OKAY.
www.afi.com /onscreen/afifest/2004/newface.aspx   (1092 words)

  
 Maquis Excellence Award Ribbons
Academy awards are authorized by confirmation of a passing grade on a particular exam by the Academy Commandant.
Awarded by the Coordinator Council upon the Maquis who best demonstrates the spirit of volunteerism from amongst all the Zone winners of that year.
Awarded by the Zone Coordinator to the best volunteer of that Zone for the year, per Zone standards.
maquis.com /awards   (1875 words)

  
 Howard Dwayne Graves / Distinguished Graduate Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1974, Howard Graves was appointed Military Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, James Schlesinger.
As Vice Director of the Joint Staff, a position he assumed in 1985, Howard Graves reorganized the staff of over 2,000 mid-level professionals in response to the Defense Reorganization Act of 1986, enhancing its responsibility and streamlining operations.
Among his many decorations, General Graves was awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Bronze Star Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters.
www.aog.usma.edu /AOG/AWARDS/DGA/01cit/graves.htm   (738 words)

  
 Academy's Awards of Sport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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   (2279 words)

  
 Savannah College of Art and Design > Academic > Majors > 102706 SCAD rolls out the red carpet for film ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Award recipients for the 2006 festival include Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones, Director’s Guild and Emmy award-winning director Walter Hill, screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, actor/director Liev Schreiber, entertainment journalist Rex Reed, Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern and producer/writer/director David Zucker.
In addition, producer, director and writer David Zucker will host a workshop titled "Comedy and Film," in which he will share some of his favorite clips from his career, including "Airplane," "The Naked Gun" and the "Scary Movie" franchise.
The winner of the HBO Best Student Film three years ago, "Left Behind," went on to win the Academy’s gold medal in the Documentary category eight months later.
www.scad.edu /academic/majors/film/102706.cfm   (539 words)

  
 Sabin Humanitarian Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
James D. Watson, PhD, who will receive the Sabin Humanitarian Award, is renowned for co-discovery of the structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), for which he shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins.
Watson is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Biological Chemists, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for Cancer Research, and the American Philosophical Society.
Nick is Director of the Company since its inception in 1983, became president in 1985, has been the Chairman of the Board since March 1993, and took the company public in 1994.
www.sabin.org /awards_human.htm   (1890 words)

  
 Cary Academy Admissions - Main Page
Cary Academy, founded in 1996, is an independent, co- educational college preparatory day school that offers a superior college preparatory education in a secure and caring atmosphere for students of diverse backgrounds and abilities in grades 6 through 12.
Cary Academy stands behind the principle that there shall be no discrimination against any person in admission, employment or otherwise because of race, color religion, national origin, disability, gender, sexual orientation or age.
Cary Academy is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and Southern Association of Independent Schools.
www.caryacademy.org /admissions/index.html   (383 words)

  
 Academy For the Performing Arts
In 2003, she was given The Laurel Award for Professionalism by the Cultural Council of Indian River County.
She was a resident of Honolulu, where she worked part-time as music director for a small parish and taught piano privately.
In addition to serving as a piano instructor for the Academy, Dolores is music director at St. Helen Catholic Church in Vero Beach.
www.academyinvero.org   (1608 words)

  
 UTSA partners in award-winning high school program > UTSA Today > University of Texas at San Antonio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
More than 20 UTSA professors and staff members from across the university have participated in several academy courses that are credited with inspiring students to take the next step to attend a college or university.
According to William Sturgis, director of the Engineering and Technologies Academy, many of the high school students who participate in the program would not have considered college or the field of engineering without the special classes.
The TSA award was based on student projects submitted on solar energy, biotechnology, power generation, principles of flight, electricity, hydroelectric power, laser technology, global positioning systems, satellite communications, robotics and a written engineering principles test.
www.utsa.edu /today/2006/05/academy.cfm   (667 words)

  
 AWARDS/HONORS, Jan. 2005-Dec.2005
Peter Devreotes, professor and director of cell biology and director of the School of Medicine’s Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences, is elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Gabor Kelen, professor and director of the Department of Emergency Medicine and director of the Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) is elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science awards the distinction of fellow to Hal Dietz, professor of pediatrics, for identifying the genetic basis of Marfan syndrome; and George Rose, professor of pathology, for contributons to the field of protein conformation and folding.
www.hopkinsmedicine.org /about/05-06/awards/index.html   (1900 words)

  
 Academy Award - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Academy Award - Questionz.net, answers to all your questions
The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2002 had over 6000 members.
Academy Awards are nicknamed "Oscars", which is also the nickname of the statuette (the name is said to have been born when Margaret Herrick saw the statuette on a table and said: "It looks just like my uncle Oscar!").
www.questionz.net /Film/Academy_Awards.html   (533 words)

  
 1935 Academy Awards® Winners and History
Members of the Directors Guild successfully lobbied the Academy for elimination of the category, arguing that the term "direction" should only apply to the director of a film, not the dance director.
The Best Picture winner was the expensive (the film was the costliest film of the year - budgeted at about $2 million) and unequaled earliest version of Mutiny on the Bounty - a film with eight nominations and only one win.
The adventure classic from director Frank Lloyd was based on Charles Nordoff's and James Hall's trilogy, and the actual historical case of the Tahiti-bound British naval vessel HMS Bounty, that suffered a famous mutiny in 1787 against its iron-fisted, sadistic commander Captain Bligh (Charles Laughton).
www.filmsite.org /aa35.html   (1772 words)

  
 Academy Award for Best Song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Academy Award for Best Song is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers.
The song was not performed at the 75th Academy Awards because Eminem declined to attend the ceremony.
Jorge Drexler was the second foreign language songwriter to win the award, for Al Otro Lado del Río from The Motorcycle Diaries in 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Song   (599 words)

  
 Aldric La'Auli Porter - assistant director
According to his bio on the official Dance With Me website, Porter is a "graduate of the difficult and comprehensive Directors Guild of America Trainee Program" and has worked as second assistant director on a variety of television programs.
Although most of Porter's projects have been made in Hollywood, at least one of his projects was for a very alternative "production company": He was the 1st assistant director on "The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepherd" (2000), the epic film about Jesus, and Christians in both the Middle East and the Americas.
Written and directed by Academy Award-winning director and IMAX pioneer Kieth Merrill, "The Testaments" plays to audiences in the historic Joseph Smith Building (formerly the Hotel Utah) in Salt Lake City.
www.ldsfilm.com /directors/Porter.html   (513 words)

  
 AALI | Faculty & Staff Contacts
He is director of the African American Leadership Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and professor in government and politics at the University of Maryland.
He was awarded the honor of "Alumnus of the Year" by the School of InternationalService of the American University in April 2000.
Due to her commitment to the community both in and outside of academia, she was awarded the distinguished Sister Thea Bowman Award in 1999.
www.academy.umd.edu /scholarship/aali/staff.htm   (1082 words)

  
 DGA AWARDS | Update Page 2003-2004
LOS ANGELES, CA: The winners of the 2003 Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards and the recipients of the DGA's 2004 Lifetime Achievement Awards were announced tonight at the 56th Annual DGA Awards Dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
Director Mike Nichols has been selected to receive the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of Nichols' distinguished career in motion picture directing.
As the Guild's highest tribute, the Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Nichols, one of the industry's finest practitioners, at the 56th Annual DGA Awards on February 7, 2004.
www.dga.org /thedga/aw_announcements-04.php3   (585 words)

  
 1932-33 Academy Awards® Winners and History
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.
The Academy had finally decided to match the eligibility period to the calendar year, beginning in the next year, 1934.
Young and thin 24 year-old Katharine Hepburn's third screen role was rewarded, unpopularly at the time, with her first Academy Award as Best Actress in director Lowell Sherman's Morning Glory, based on a Zoe Akins play.
www.filmsite.org /aa32.html   (1348 words)

  
 Richard Rich - Animation Director
As is the case with most directors of animated films, the name of Richard Rich may not be well known to the typical movie-goer.
Rich was the director of two of Disney's animated features, "The Fox and the Hound" (1981) and "The Black Cauldron" (1985).
Rich was, in fact, the assistant animation director working directly under Bluth on the live-action/animation hybrid "Pete's Dragon" and the animated short "The Small One." Rich also composed one of the three songs featured in the film, a poignant tale of the the donkey who carried Marie in to Bethlehem.
www.ldsfilm.com /directors/Rich.html   (1411 words)

  
 CCPL: Academy Awards Prediction Contest
Taiwanese director Ang Lee studied film at New York University and started as an assistant to director Spike Lee.
This is Lee's second Academy Award nomination for directing.
Prolific director Steven Spielberg has garnered his sixth Academy nomination for Munich, an account of the terrorist incident at the 1972 Olympic Games and its aftermath.
www.carmel.lib.in.us /oscar/bestdirector.htm   (248 words)

  
 American Cinema Editors > ACE Eddie Awards
The film further garnered four Golden Globes®, including the award for Best Motion Picture Drama and a Best Director of the Year for Howard from the Directors Guild of America and Broadcast Film Critics.
Over the course of his career, he’s been nominated for the Academy Award®, the ACE Eddie Award, the Cable ACE Award and the Emmy® for both editing and directing television series, television specials and feature films.
He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Motion Picture Editors Guild, Directors Guild of America, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and the American Film Institute.
www.ace-filmeditors.org /newace/eddieSpecHonoree.html   (1157 words)

  
 Academy Awards @ Filmbug UK
Academy Awards @ Filmbug UK Home > Film Dictionary > Academy Awards
Awards are given in many categories, including the following:
Academy Award for Best Short Film - Live Action - 2 Reels (1936-1956)
www.filmbug.co.uk /dictionary/academy-awards.php   (947 words)

  
 FSU Film School: Richard Portman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He won an Academy Award for Best Sound for the film The Deer Hunter and a British Academy Award for Best Sound on Robert Altman's Nashville.
He has received eleven Academy Award nominations for sound work in feature films, including The Godfather, Young Frankenstein, Coal Miner's Daughter and On Golden Pond.
During this period he was instrumental in creating an entirely new approach to re-recording sound and post-production, and was the first in Hollywood to ever mix an entire feature film by himself.
www.fsu.edu /~film/spotlight/faculty/portman.html   (336 words)

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