Category: Silver Bear for Best Director recipients

* 2005: Best Director ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )

* 2005: Best Director ( Children of Men, nominated )

** won the Cinema for Peace 2007 Best Director Award

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.

Chaplin had originally been nominated for Best Production, Best Director in a Comedy Picture, Best Actor and Best Writing ( Original Story ) for The Circus.

* Anna Christie ( 1930 )-Academy Award nomination for Best Director ( see NOTE below )

* Romance ( 1930 )-Academy Award nomination for Best Director ( see NOTE below )

* A Free Soul ( 1931 )-Academy Award nomination for Best Director

* The Human Comedy ( 1943 )-Academy Award nominations for Best Director and for Best Picture

* National Velvet ( 1944 )-Academy Award nomination for Best Director

* The Yearling ( 1946 )-Academy Award nomination for Best Director

Over his career, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director and a nomination for best screenplay.

* 2009 Nadolig Plentyn yng Nghymru / A Child's Christmas in Wales, 2009 BAFTA Best Short Film, animation, soundtrack in Welsh and English, Director: Dave Unwin.

* Lady for a Day ( 1933 )— Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title " Madame La Gimp ," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director ( Frank Capra ), Best Actress ( May Robson ), and Best Adaptation for the Screen ( Riskin ).

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing in a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

Heathers brought director Michael Lehmann and producer Denise Di Novi the 1990 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.

Starring Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, and featuring Michael Keaton as the obnoxious bio-exorcist Beetlejuice, the film grossed $ 80 million on a relatively low budget and won an Academy Award for Best Makeup.

* The Deer Hunter ( 1978 ) — winner of five Academy Awards, including Academy Award for Best Picture, directed by Michael Cimino.

WarGames was nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Cinematography ( William A. Fraker ), Sound ( Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton ), and Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ( Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes ).

* MTV Award for Best Choreography in a Video: Praise You ( Richard Koufey and Michael Rooney ) ( 1999 )

* MTV Award for Best Choreography in a Video: Weapon of Choice ( Michael Rooney, Spike Jonze and Christopher Walken ) ( 2001 )

Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

The studio lobbied hard to get Michael Biehn nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The Andromeda Strain appeared in the The New York Times Best Seller list, establishing Michael Crichton as a genre writer.

Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor and thanked Oliver Stone for " casting me in a part that almost nobody thought I could play ".

It was also nominated in the categories " Best Picture " ( Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ), " Best Writing, Motion Picture Story " ( Emeric Pressburger ) and " Best Film Editing " ( Reginald Mills ).

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and, despite not being nominated, Michael Curtiz received the second-greatest number of votes for Best Director, solely as a write-in candidate.

* Win for Best Original Screenplay ( Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr .)

Spellbound won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Michael Chekhov ); Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ; Best Director ; Best Effects, Special Effects ; and Best Picture.

In Britain's Best Sitcom, Bernard Ingham says that he wrote it ; other sources give Thatcher sole credit, while Michael Cockerell says that she wrote it with Ingham's help.

It was directed by Michael Campus and nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design.

It was also nominated for several Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Michael Caine ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Vivien Merchant ), Best Song ( Burt Bacharach and Hal David for " Alfie ") ( a UK hit record for Cilla Black, but performed by Millicent Martin in the original UK release and Cher in the American print of the movie ), Best Picture and Best Writing ( Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium ).

A 2004 London stage production, directed by Michael Grandage, featured Diana Rigg and Victoria Hamilton, who won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance.

Sturley's allusion probably explains why Greville took out the patent in the names of Best and Wells, for Sir Anthony Ashley described Best as `` a scrivener within Temple Bar, that deals in many matters for my L. Essex '' through Sir Gelly Merrick, especially in `` causes that he would not be known of ''.

Also, it has been suggested that the source of all or part of the dust may not be the same as that for visual or radar meteorites ( Best, 1960 ), and the same distribution would not be expected.

Best Bet for Tonight: That darlin' dazzler from Paree, Genevieve, opening in the Empire room.

# REDIRECT Academy Award for Best Picture

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

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

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.

The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.

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.

Category: Hugo Award for Best Novella winning works

Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

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

* 2005: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )

* 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.

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

Best known for his play Ubu Roi ( 1896 ), which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles.

A Fire Upon the Deep shared the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel with Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis.

The book was nominated for the 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the 1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.