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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)

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		Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject This is a list of films that have received an documentary short subject.
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	Ferry Tales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ferry Tales was a 2002 American short documentary film produced and directed by Katja Essonin.
		It followed the conversations of women in the powder room of the Staten Island Ferry during the morning commute from Staten Island to Manhattan.
		It was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferry_Tales (76 words)

	Academy Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Academy Awards, commonly known as The Oscars, are the most prominent film awards 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.
		The greatest number of Academy Awards won by a film is 11, this distinction is shared by 3 films: Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Academy-Award.htm (974 words)

	KTWU Television Schedule (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Documentary: Winner of the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary - Short Subject, A STORY OF HEALING tells of a volunteer American medical team that travels to the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, where they change the lives of 100 children forever.
		This 30-minute documentary is the record of their January 1997 journey and the effect it had on the 110 children they treated.
		Kim, a beautiful girl who had endured a lifetime with an enormous tumor on her lower lip, tearfully expresses her gratitude for the surgery and the transformation of her life.
	ktwu.wuacc.edu /schedules/ds72768.htm (135 words)

	Cinemax Documentary BIG MAMA, Debuting This May,Receives Academy Award® for Documentary Short Subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		NEW YORK - The "CINEMAX Reel Life" documentary BIG MAMA received an Academy Award(r) in the category of Documentary Short Subject when the 73rd annual Academy Awards(r) were presented at the 2001 ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on March 25.
		The poignant documentary BIG MAMA depicts the struggle of Viola Dees, an African-American 89-year-old grandmother, to raise her orphaned grandson Walter under the watchful eye of a complex and difficult child welfare system.
		Academy Award® and Oscar(r) are registered trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
	www.timewarner.com /corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,668605,00.html (222 words)

	Tolerance.org: 'Children's March' Wins Oscar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The 40-minute documentary, co-produced by the SPLC and Home Box Office, tells the story of how the young people of Birmingham, Ala., braved fire hoses and police dogs to help end segregation in 1963.
		Made by Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston of Tell the Truth Pictures, "The Children's March" is one of five SPLC films that have been nominated for the Academy Award.
		The kit includes the documentary film, available in VHS or DVD format, with closed-captioning, and a teacher's guide with nine standards-based lesson plans for social studies, language arts and music.
	www.tolerance.org /news/article_tol.jsp?id=1169 (334 words)

	SPLCenter.org: 'The Children's March' wins Oscar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The documentary joins A Time for Justice, which captures the struggle and heroism of the Civil Rights Movement, as the second Southern Poverty Law Center film to win the coveted Academy Award.
		The 40-minute documentary, co-produced by the Center and Home Box Office, tells the story of how, in 1963, the young people of Birmingham, Ala., braved fire hoses and police dogs to help end segregation in a city notoriously resistant to change.
		In 2003, the documentary from another Teaching Tolerance kit, Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks, also was nominated in the Documentary Short Subject category.
	www.splcenter.org /news/item.jsp?aid=95 (364 words)

	“Oscar’s Docs” Begin to Shift Focus Beyond WWII
		The winner of the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject in 1947 focuses on physical therapy for ailing children.
		The U.S. Navy’s “Operation Highjump” was the subject of “The Secret Land,” the 1948 Documentary Feature winner, which explored the military possibilities of Antarctica.
		The October 17 installment of “Oscar’s Docs” will be a panel discussion on nature documentaries featuring documentarians Paul Kenworthy, Roy Disney and Alec Lorimore, along with film historian and documentary camerman Robert Dickson, who will present a historical overview of nature film documentaries from 1898 to 1948.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2005/05.10.04.html (316 words)

	Calhoun Community College
		The award-winning documentary chronicles the civil rights movement as it unfolded in Huntsville during the 60s.
		Hereford, who captured the original footage using an 8mm camera, said he had no idea these scenes would become the subject of a documentary over 40 years later.
		Footage from those films has recently been included in a larger documentary entitled " Mighty Times: The Children's March " that is currently nominated for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short Subject category.
	www.calhoun.cc.al.us /Prelations/releases2005/Hereford.htm (199 words)

	NARA - Press - National Archives to Host Academy Award® Documentary Film Retrospective, November 11-12
		The first documentary Oscar was awarded to this short film, which portrayed England's struggle against the Nazis during the Battle of Britain.
		A brutal battle from the war in the Pacific was the basis of this unusually graphic documentary short.
		This controversial short, a look at the history of German aggression and a warning about its future, was directed by Don Siegel and written by Theodor Geisel ("Dr. Seuss").
	www.archives.gov /press/press-releases/2005/nr05-135.html (411 words)

	King Gimp section: The Filmmakers
		Whiteford and Hadary received an Academy Award® this year in the category of Documentary Short Subject for KING GIMP, which debuts June 5 on HBO.
		Whiteford and Hadary began exploring their passion for subjects focusing on children with disabilities early in their careers.
		Academy Award® and Oscar®; are registered trademarks and service marks
	www.hbo.com /kinggimp/king/cmp/filmmakers_body1.html (190 words)

	A Celebration of Motion Pictures
		Richard Kaplan, curator and coordinator of this commemorative series, titled "50 Years of Documentary," said: "This is an opportunity for the public to see films that are rarely shown, particularly in their original film form on a large screen.
		It is also a reflection of the Academy's commitment to the importance of the documentary genre and its recently announced plans for broadening the selection process for the documentary awards."
		Considered controversial in its time because of the subject matter and because of the filmmakers' intervention in the community.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss3/record2103.16.html (755 words)

	Czechoslovakia 1968 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Czechoslovakia 1968 is a 1969 short documentary film which tells about the "Prague Spring", a failed Czech and Slovak uprising against Soviet rule.
		Information Agency under the direct direction of Robert M. Fresco and Denis Sanders.
		It won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Czechoslovakia_1968 (107 words)

	OSCAR.com - 77th Annual Academy Awards - Nominees: Documentary Short Subject (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This film by the son of former Harlem Globetrotter Mel Davis tells the story of Davis's complicated relationships with two women, one fl and one white, and the sons he fathered with each of them.
		These are the first Academy Award nominations for Hubert Davis and Erin Faith Young.
		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.
	www.oscar.com /nominees/nom_34042.html (150 words)

	WPL - Academy Award® Nominated Shorts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The short films will feature the best animation, live action, and documentary shorts of 2004, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
		Many previous nominees and winners in the animated, live action, and documentary shorts categories are also available for checkout at the Wichita Public Library.
		The Academy Award® Short Programs at the Wichita Public Library are made possible by the Friends of the Wichita Public Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Wichita Public Library Foundation, the estate of Olive Ann Beech, and the estate of James E. Studebaker.
	www.wichita.lib.ks.us /press/2005/shorts.html (279 words)

	Alaskan Eskimo - Disney Movies History
		his short documentary utilized footage shot in Alaska by the team of Alfred and Elma Milotte, depicting the everyday home life of the families in a typical Eskimo village.
		The building and hunting activities of the summer, the winter activities underground when the blizzards come, and the celebration of spring with the "mask dance" are all shown.
		The project was as successful as "Seal Island" had been, for" The Alaskan Eskimo" also won an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject.
	disney.go.com /vault/archives/movies/eskimo/eskimo.html (162 words)

	CNN’s Oscar®-Nominated Film ‘Autism Is a World’ Makes TV Debut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Nominated for an Academy Award, "Autism Is A World" is a rare look at autism through the words of a young woman who lives with it.
		(ET) The film, nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short Subject by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in February, is a candid and compelling look into the mind of Sue Rubin, a 26-year-old Los Angeles woman living with autism.
		By typing into a handheld communication device, Rubin explains her feelings and her actions, such as her need to clutch spoons or why she finds comfort in falling water; her relationships with other people; and how she copes with the tasks of daily living and the challenges of college.
	www.tash.org /tashpr/cnn.htm (799 words)

	Academy Award : Academy award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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).
		All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
		He paused, and then said their arms gathered to their sides they ran for quite two miles without a suddenly.
	www.termsdefined.net /ac/academy-award.html (994 words)

	Filmography \| Guggenheim Productions, Inc.
		This is the story of the brilliant, mystical, and unpredictable contrarian who built an industrial empire from an abandoned factory and then put it aside to assemble the greatest art collection west of Chicago.
		In personal terms, this film explores the legal, medical and ethical issues facing the parents of Becky, a mentally disabled child, when they wish to donate her organs to save another child dying of kidney failure.
		This docudrama chronicles the life of a young girl and her brother who come from the Detroit “projects.” The film examines how teachers and adminstrators at the Franklin Elementary School work with the children and their family to break the cycle of poverty.
	www.gpifilms.com /filmography.html (3345 words)

	Program to feature civil rights filmmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Hereford's award-winning documentary chronicles the civil rights movement as it unfolded in Huntsville during the 1960s.
		Hereford, who captured the original footage using an 8mm camera, said he had no idea these scenes would become the subject of a documentary more than 40 years later.
		Footage from those films was recently included in a larger documentary entitled "Mighty Times: The Children's March" that is nominated for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short Subject category.
	www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/news/050213/film.shtml (182 words)

	Days of Waiting - Farallon Films
		"DAYS OF WAITING is a poignant documentary about an extraordinary woman, artist Estelle Ishigo, one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 110,000 Japanese Americans in 1942.
		When internment came, she refused to be separated from her Japanese American husband and lived with him for four years behind barbed wire in the desolate Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming.
		During her internment, the artist recorded the rigors and deprivations of camp life with unusual insight, her sketches and watercolors forming a moving portrait of the lives of the internees, the struggle to keep their health, digniy and hope alive."
	www.farfilm.com /films/days/days.htm (109 words)

	NCBuy: Oscars - Academy Awards for Documentary: Short Subject (1970's)
		Oscar's decade review of Academy Award winners and nominations for Documentary: Short Subject - winners are highlighted.
		Award Decades: • 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.
	www.ncbuy.com /entertainment/oscars/doc_short_1970.html (260 words)

	SDSC Colliding Galaxies Simulation Nominated for Computerworld Smithsonian Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The awards recognize innovative uses of information technology, and nominees' entries become part of the Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection in Washington, D.C. Hernquist and Mihos's galaxy collision represents the largest such simulation to date, requiring 750 CPU-hours on SDSC's CRAY C90.
		Established in 1989, the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards program was created to search out and publicly honor those men and women whose visionary use of information technology produces social, economic, and educational progress.
		In celebrating their achievements, the awards help to demystify technology and empower others to use technology as a tool for positive change.
	www.sdsc.edu /SDSCwire/v3.5/galaxies_cwsa.html (637 words)

	77th Annual Academy Awards Presentation \| Academy Press Photo Area \| AMPAS
		Hilary Swank accepts the Academy Award for Best Actress during the 77th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 27, 2005.
		Academy Award nominee Natalie Portman presents the nominees for the Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award during the 77th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 27, 2005.
		Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston accept the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject during the 77th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, February 27, 2005.
	photos.oscars.org /listanevent.php?events=414&pg=9 (503 words)

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		Since graduating from SHSU in 2003, Sutton has already gotten his break, getting a role in "Mighty Times: The Children's March," which is up for an Academy Award for best documentary - short subject, at the annual awards ceremony today.
		Producers Robert Houston and Robert Hudson were also nominated for the Academy Awards in 2002 for "Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks." Bill Guttentag and Robert David Port's "Twin Towers" won that year.
		Sutton started his film ambitions in 2003, when he took some classes in Houston which gave actors the opportunity to perform in a showcase that would be seen by talent agencies and casting directors.
	www.itemonline.com /articles/2005/02/26/news/local/news2.prt (604 words)

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