Other triumphs include `` Random Harvest '', `` Madame Curie '', `` Pride and Prejudice '', `` The Forsythe Saga '' and `` Mrs. Miniver '' ( which won her the Academy Award in 1943 ).

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

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The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement in art direction on a film.

An Academy Award is an award bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers.

The Oscar statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit and is one of nine types of Academy Awards.

He had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier ; this made him the first Academy Award winner in history.

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

By automobile from New York, for example, you can take a one or two-day tour to Annapolis, Maryland to see the colonial homes and the U.S. Naval Academy ( where you can shoot the dress parade on Wednesdays ) ; ;

He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.

`` We're just real happy for the players '', Coach Bill Meek said of the 9-7 victory over the Air Force Academy.

The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures.

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

The Oscar itself was later initiated by the Academy as an award " of merit for distinctive achievement " in the industry.

Nobel was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1884, the same institution that would later select laureates for two of the Nobel prizes, and he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in 1893.

In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Finney is the only actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for playing Poirot, though he did not win.

He practiced as a surveyor and civil engineer for two years before entering the United States Military Academy in 1838.

A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.

Cuarón shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay with co-writer and brother Carlos Cuarón.

* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

The Academy for Science and Design in New Hampshire honored Albertus by naming one of its four houses Magnus House.

He founded the Academy of Naples under Giovanni Pontano and, for his entrance in the city in 1443, had a magnificent triumphal arch added to the main gate of Castel Nuovo.

* 1969 – At the U. S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1930 for its producer Carl Laemmle Jr., and an Academy Award for Directing for Lewis Milestone.

In the film he is played by F. Murray Abraham, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

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** won the Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Star Gary Busey received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Holly.

Lancaster won the 1960 Academy Award for Best Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and the New York Film Critics Award for his performance in Elmer Gantry.

)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).

The film won five Academy Awards at the 68th Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director, and was nominated for an additional five.

Attending three of them in rapid succession, the impoverished Capp was thrown out of each for nonpayment of tuition — the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Designers Art School in Boston — the latter before launching his amazing career.

The school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 as a merger of the Grand Ducal School of Arts and Crafts and the Weimar Academy of Fine Art.

After leaving the Academy, the 24-year-old Beaux decided to try her hand at porcelain painting and she enrolled in a course at the National Art Training School.

In 1890 she exhibited at the Paris Exposition, obtained in 1893 the gold medal of the Philadelphia Art Club, and also the Dodge prize at the New York National Academy of Design.

She won the Logan Medal of the arts at the Art Institute of Chicago, and became a member of the National Academy in 1902.

He was a member of the Arista-National Honor Society and also studied drawing and anatomy at the Saturday school of the National Academy of Art.

Elwes attended Harrow School in London and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Adams was named best international comic strip artist of 1995 in the Adamson Awards given by the Swedish Academy of Comic Art.

In addition large art galleries are found across the city, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, The City Arts Centre, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, The Project Arts Centre and The Royal Hibernian Academy.

The Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh was founded in 1760 – an institution that became the Edinburgh College of Art in 1907.

In recognition of the Set Decorator's importance, the Academy Award for Art Direction is given jointly to both the Production Designer and the Set Decorator.

Goya submitted entries for the Royal Academy of Fine Art in 1763 and 1766, but was denied entrance.

This marriage, and Francisco Bayeu's membership of the Royal Academy of Fine Art ( from the year 1765 ) helped Goya to procure work as a painter of designs to be woven by the Royal Tapestry Factory.

He also painted a canvas for the altar of the Church of San Francisco El Grande in Madrid, which led to his appointment as a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Art.

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In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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File: PunchingJacquardCardPoland. jpg | Following the pattern, holes are punched in the appropriate places on a jacquard card at The Department of Textile Art at Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź, Poland.

In 1974 the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a major retrospective of his work, and in 1983 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He applied for a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) in November 1950.

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Five higher education institutions are located in Kemerovo: Kemerovo State University, Kuzbass State Technical University, Kemerovo State Medical Academy, Kemerovo State Art Institute, Kemerovo Agricultural Institute and Kuzbass Economy and Justice Institute.

He taught at the Vitebsk Practical Art School in the USSR ( now part of Belarus ) ( 1919 – 1922 ), the Leningrad Academy of Arts ( 1922 – 1927 ), the Kiev State Art Institute ( 1927 – 1929 ), and the House of the Arts in Leningrad ( 1930 ).