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.

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

The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.

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 ).

In order to promote the re-releases, Chaplin travelled to the US in 1972 for the first time in twenty years to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Lincoln Center Film Society and an Academy Honorary Award for " the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century ".

The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ( Taiwan ) and three other Academy Awards, and was nominated for six other Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

It won a Special Jury Award at the Cannes International Film Festival for best short film, and received an Academy Award nomination ( for best animated short film ), both in 1978.

She received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Pillow Talk, won three Henrietta Awards ( World Film Favorite ), a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Legend Award from the Society of Singers, Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures.

He directed and starred in Easy Rider ( 1969 ), winning an award at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Austin Film Festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ®, making all Jury Award-winning Narrative Short and Animated Short films eligible for an Academy Award ®.

* Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears ( 1979 ) won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.

4 of his films were nominated for Best Foreign Language Film award at Academy Awards with 5 other Polish directors receiving one nomination each: Roman Polański, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Hoffman, Jerzy Antczak and Agnieszka Holland.

Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film four times, again more than any other country in Asia.

The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.