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	Academy Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Academy Awards, commonly known as The Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States.
		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 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.
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	Academy Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Academy Awards (often better known as Oscars) are the most prominent film award in the United States.
		The awards night itself is an elaborate extravaganza, with the invited guests walking up the red carpet in the creations of the most prominent fashion designers (who usually loan them to the stars to gain publicity).
		The greatest number of Academy Awards won by a film is 11, this distinction is shared by 3 films: Ben-Hur, Titanic, and.
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	Encyclopedia: Academy Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Academy Award for Directing is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry.
		This is a list of Academy Awards ceremonies, the year in film which they were honoring, their hosts, and their date of the ceremony.
		Academy Awards Founded on May 11, 1927 in California, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures.
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	Academy Award
		The Academy Awards are the most prominent film award in the United States.
		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.
		The Academy includes a preponderance of, as Charles Taylor, film critic for salon.com describes it, "elderly and (aesthetically) conservative" members.
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	Academy Award - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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!").
		In the past few decades, the advent of VHS tape and DVDs have given Academy Awards a new level of importance, as the attachment of a win (or even nomination) in a prominent category can dramatically increase sales and rentals.
		The greatest number of Academy Awards won by a film is 11, this distinction is shared by 3 films: Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Return of the King.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Academy_Awards (858 words)

	Academy Award - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Academy Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Annual honour awarded since 1927 by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a number of categories that reflect the diversity and collaborative nature of film-making.
		The Academy Award is one of the highest accolades in the film industry, and a virtual guarantor of increased financial returns.
		There are also awards for original screenplay, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, supporting actor, and supporting actress, in addition to a series of honours for documentaries, shorts, animated films, foreign-language films, special effects, make-up, art direction, and musical scores.
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	Academy Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Academy Awards, commonly known as The Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the world.
		The awards night itself is an elaborate extravaganza, with the invited guests walking up the red carpet in the creations of the most prominent fashion designers.
		Academy Award, Scientific or Technical – 1931 to present at three levels
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	Academy Award for Directing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the majority of years, this award has gone to the director of the eventual winner for Best Picture, although in recent years this trend has weakened.
		While the award is considered a good way to sum up the most successful and talented American film directors, it is interesting to note that several revered directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Orson Welles, and Alfred Hitchcock never won the award.
		Martin Scorsese, who has been nominated for the award five times as of 2005, is typically considered the most notable living American director without an Oscar, with Robert Altman running a close second.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Academy_Award_for_Directing (785 words)

	Academy Award -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The academy's primary focus is preparing students to be military officers.
		An honorary society of United States citizens in the creative arts, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters was created through the 1976 merger of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		A nonprofit organization, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences was established in 1946 in Hollywood, Calif., for the advancement of television arts and sciences.
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	Pork Chop Hill (1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In 1928 he won the only Academy Award given for Comedy Direction, for the recently rediscovered military comedy Two Arabian Knights.
		He also directed 1950's Halls of Montezuma, a film which focused on the horrors of war and the effect it had on the men who fight them.
		His direction here is accomplished, never drawing attention to itself with needless camera tricks while driving the narrative along at a steady pace.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=5425 (1211 words)

	Academy Award for Comedy Direction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Academy Award for Comedy Direction would now be considered as a variation of Best Director.
		It was only given in the first year of the awards.
		This page was last modified 04:34, 17 September 2005.
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	Academy Award : Academy award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Such influence isn'thing new - it is widely believed that early media mogule William Randolph Hearst ran a campaign to ensure that Citizen Kane, a film regarded by many as the greatest of all time - did not receive Oscars (it received only one, despite nominations in nine categories).
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		He paused, and then said their arms gathered to their sides they ran for quite two miles without a suddenly.
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	Academy Awards Best Pictures
		Note: 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 Awards®, affectionately known as the Oscars®, have been presented annually since 1927 (the first awards ceremony was held in May 1929) by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
		Clean Sweeps: Only four Best Picture winners have won every award for which they were nominated (the first was five for five, the next two were nine for nine, and LOTR was 11 for 11; except for the 1934 film, none of the films were nominated for acting awards):
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	Two Arabian Knights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Two Arabian Knights (1927) is a silent fl and white comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone.
		The plot concerns two American soldiers during the First World War, who escape from a German prison camp and face many adventures in Arabia.
		The film won an Academy Award for Best Comedy Direction.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Two_Arabian_Knights (151 words)

	Academy Award Winners and Categories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Academy awards, best picture, movie reviews, film, movies, best actor, movie theaters, people search, awards, festivals, celebrities, games online
		Academy Award of Scientific or Technical Merit - - a statuette
		Academy Award for Scientific and Engineering Achievement - - a plaque
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	BIOGRAPHY
		But it was his role as Henry V for the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) a couple of years later at age 23 that secured his position as one of the hottest new talents of the British stage.
		Anyway, the movie was a commercial hit, and the "golden boy of British stage and screen", "boy wonder of British filmmaking", and Hollywood's current "wunderkind" continued his roll with the low-budget comedy Peter's Friends and the fun, romantic romp-in-Tuscany that was Much Ado About Nothing.
		Uncut, four hours long and graced with an all-star cast, it was one of the "event" pictures of 1996 and was largely hailed by critics as a masterpiece.
	www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~jyking/bio.htm (1320 words)

	Alicia Silverstone @ Filmbug UK
		She followed this by re-teaming with the comedy Blast From The Past with Brendan Fraser.
		In 2002, Silverstone forged ahead in yet another direction, making her Broadway debut as Elaine Robinson in the smash-hit comedy The Graduate.
		Alicia has earned a total of four MTV Movie Awards as well as a Blockbuster Award, Nickelodeon Award, American Comedy Award and the prestigious National Board of Review Award.
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	BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Academy Awards are awards given to people working in the motion picture industry; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry and usually awarded to a film released the previous year.
		The films below are listed with their production year, so for example the Oscar 2000 went to the best supporting actress in 1999.
		Originally winners of this award received a plaque.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/BEST+SUPPORTING+ACTRESS+OSCAR (1373 words)

	Alicia Silverstone - CinemaReview.com....Cast/Crew
		She followed this by re-teaming with Walken opposite Sissy Spacek in the comedy Blast From The Past.
		In 2002, Silverstone forged ahead in yet another direction, making her Broadway debut as Elaine Robinson in the smash-hit comedy “The Graduate.” The production, in which she starred alongside Kathleen Turner and Jason Biggs, sold out upon opening through Silverstone’s entire run, breaking Broadway box office records in the process.
		In addition to her 2003 Golden Globe Nomination, Alicia has earned a total of four MTV Movie Awards as well as a Blockbuster Award, Nickelodeon Award, American Comedy Award and the prestigious National Board of Review Award.
	www.cinemareview.com /castcrew.asp?id=102 (550 words)

	direction
		The term direction can be applied to various topics.
		For determination of position, see navigation, compass or left and right; also note that a direction may be shown by a vector;
		For finding the direction to a radio source, see radio direction finder.
	www.fact-library.com /direction.html (153 words)

	CNN.com - List of Emmy winners - Sep 19, 2004
		Directing for a Comedy Series: "Arrested Development: Pilot," Fox.
		Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic Special: "Angels in America," HBO.
		Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program: "The 76th Annual Academy Awards," ABC.
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		His name had been announced over the loudspeaker moments earlier.
		Evolution Debate in Kansas Spurs Battle Over School Materials : In an escalation of the nation's culture war over the teaching of evolution, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Teachers Association announced yesterday that they will not allow Kansas to use key science education materials developed by the two organizations.
		Senate Panel Requests Records From AU on Ladner and Board : The Senate Finance Committee has asked for every document related to ousted American University president Benjamin Ladner's severance package and compensation and for the board's plans for an audit of all 11 years of his tenure.
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	Academy Award for Directing -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Academy Award for Directing -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The (Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies) films below are listed with their production year, so for example the Oscar awarded in 2000 went to the Best Supporting Actor in 1999.
		In the majority of years, this award has gone to the director of the eventual winner for (Click link for more info and facts about Best Picture) Best Picture, although in recent years this trend has weakened.
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	IMDb: Academy Awards, USA: 1952 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		- Vivien Leigh was not present at the awards ceremony.
		- Kim Hunter was not present at the awards ceremony.
		Voted by the Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1951.
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		Annual backstage coverage (http://www.digitalhit.com/academy/) of the Academy Awardsbs:Oskar
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	SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
		Shakespeare in Love is a new romantic comedy drama from Miramax Films, starring Gwyneth Paltrow as an adventurous noblewoman and Joseph Fiennes as Will Shakespeare.
		An original screenplay from award-winning writers Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love is a passionate yet fun-filled movie that centers around Shakespeare's most popular love story, Romeo and Juliet.
		The film also stars Academy Award® winner Judi Dench, Ben Affleck (Good Will Hunting, Armageddon), and Geoffrey Rush (Shine).
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	Academy Awards Best Directors
		In the first year of the Academy Awards, there were two awards for directorship: one for direction of a dramatic film, another for comedy direction.
		The latter award was dropped the following year.
		Nominated: The Yearling (1946), National Velvet (1944), The Human Comedy (1943), A Free Soul (1941), Anna Christie (1929/30) and Romance (1929/30)
	www.filmsite.org /bestdirs.html (888 words)

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