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.

Shumway & Sons Foundry in Batavia, Illinois, which also contributed to casting the molds for the Vince Lombardi Trophy and Emmy Awards statuettes.

In 1973, Sony received an Emmy Award for its Trinitron television-set technology.

In 2008 Atari was honored at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for pioneering the development of handheld games with its Lynx game unit.

Bixby was nominated for the Emmy Award for Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 1971.

In 1976, he was honored with two Emmy Award nominations, one for Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in Drama or Comedy for The Streets of San Francisco and the other for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Comedy or Drama Series for Rich Man, Poor Man.

Hartley appears in the memorable double-length episode " Married " ( in which David finds another source of help with whom he falls in love and marries ), and subsequently won an Emmy Award for her guest appearance.

She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman, winning two Emmy Awards for her work.

Kane earned two Emmy Awards for her work in the series and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Hester Street.

* Daniel Schorr ( 1939 ), Emmy award winning broadcast journalist for CBS-TV and National Public Radio

In 2003, she reprised her role as Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in Olive, the Other Reindeer and appeared with Ben Stiller in Duplex in 2003.

He has since been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme.

In a year of recognition, he was also nominated for an Emmy for Best Performance in a Variety Special for his PBS special Swingin ' Out Live, which was also released as a video.

Voight played Major-General Juergen Stroop, the German officer responsible for the destruction of the Jewish resistance, and received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

She won a Grammy for " Best Music Video – Short Form " for " Opposites Attract " and twice won the " Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography ".

His films were also nominated at many other very important festivals all around the world: César Awards ( Aguirre, the Wrath of God ), Emmy Awards ( Little Dieter Needs to Fly ), European Film Awards ( My Best Fiend ) and Venice Film Festival ( Scream of Stone and The Wild Blue Yonder ).

She was nominated for a 1978 Primetime Emmy Award for Best Leading Actress in a Drama Series for her work on Little House on the Prairie and won the Emmy Award for her performance in Which Mother Is Mine ?, which aired as an ABC Afterschool Special in 1979.

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A recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards, Finney has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor four times, for Tom Jones ( 1963 ), Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 ), The Dresser ( 1983 ), and Under the Volcano ( 1984 ); and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Erin Brockovich ( 2000 ).

In 2002 his critically acclaimed portrayal of Winston Churchill in The Gathering Storm won him BAFTA and Emmy awards as Best Actor.

Not as worthwhile was 1977 Emmy Award winning mini-series The Best of Families.

Scott Stewart Bakula (; born October 9, 1954 ) is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards.

In addition, she won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-series, or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role in The Two Mrs. Grenvilles ( 1988 ), and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the same.

In her lifetime she also received a BAFTA, an Emmy, Golden Globe, Cannes Film Festival recognition and the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

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Her performance as a lesbian mourning the loss of her longtime partner in the HBO series If These Walls Could Talk 2 earned her a Golden Globe for “ Best TV Series Supporting Actress ” in 2000, as well as earning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a TV Film or Miniseries.

The first of these programs, 1958's An Evening with Fred Astaire, won nine Emmy Awards, including " Best Single Performance by an Actor " and " Most Outstanding Single Program of the Year.

Astaire personally won the Emmy for Best Single Performance by an Actor but the choice had a controversial backlash because many felt that his dancing in the special was not the type of " acting " the award was designed for.

* 1958: Emmy Award for " Best Single Performance by an Actor " for An Evening with Fred Astaire

* 1978: Emmy Award for " Best Actor — Drama or Comedy Special " for A Family Upside Down

In 2008 Unilever was honoured at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for " Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for Creation and Distribution of Interactive Commercial Advertising Delivered Through Digital Set Top Boxes " for its program Axe: Boost Your ESP.

In March 2012 the PBS network broadcast a feature length documentary about the life and music of Don McLean called " American Troubadour " produced by 4-time Emmy Award winning film maker Jim Brown.

PBS and the cable network Showtime aired a taping of the production, and Newman was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie.

No Maps on My Taps, the Emmy award winning PBS documentary of 1979, helped begin the recent revival of tap dance.

She confirmed this by having her head shaved in order to play Queen Elizabeth I of England in the BBC's 1971 blockbuster serial, Elizabeth R. The series was later shown on PBS in the US and Jackson received two Emmy Awards for her work.

A performance of her symphonic Gershwin program with the New Jersey Symphony in 1980 was broadcast on PBS and won her an Emmy Award in 1981 for " Individual Achievement-Special Class ".

From 1982 through 1987 he hosted the Emmy Award PBS science program Newton's Apple, which originated at KTCA in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Holm has been nominated for an Emmy Award twice, for a PBS broadcast of a National Theatre production of King Lear, in 1999 ; and for a supporting role in the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells opposite Judi Dench, in 2001.

John also provided the voice of the title character in the PBS animated children's show Clifford the Big Red Dog, a role for which he received two Emmy nominations.

He won an Emmy for the “ It ’ s a Farmer Jason !” video program running on PBS stations around the country.

* George Goodman, a. k. a. " Adam Smith ," hosted the Emmy award-winning program Adam Smith's Money World on PBS

1957 ) Emmy Award-winning news producer, former President of NBC News and Executive Producer of the PBS NewsHour

On October 20, 1999, the PBS series Great Performances broadcast a production directed by Matthew Diamond, who was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Direction of a Variety or Music Program.

MacNeil rose to fame during his coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings for PBS, which led to an Emmy Award.

The Elegant Universe was adapted into an Emmy Award winning three hour program in three parts for television broadcast in late 2003 on the PBS series NOVA.

MacNeil and Lehrer first teamed up to cover the United States Senate Watergate hearings for PBS in 1973, which led to an Emmy Award.

On September 27, 2010, PBS NewsHour was presented with the Chairman ’ s Award at the 31st News & Documentary Emmy Awards, with Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer, longtime executive producer Les Crystal, and current executive producer Linda Winslow receiving the award on the show's behalf.

" Shepard received two Emmy Award nominations for songs he composed for the PBS television show Between the Lions ( 2007 ).

for PBS in the US )-which went on to win a British Academy Award and an International Emmy.

NOW on PBS was also awarded a National Business EmmyAward in 2007 and a National News Emmy Award for best newsmagazine segment in 2004.

John also produced the Emmy Award Winning ' Music of Ireland ' companion CD to a two-part PBS documentary series ( Welcome Home and Welcome to America ) celebrating 50 years of contemporary Irish music, its impact on America and its influence throughout the world.

In 1992, Lamb Chop and Shari began their own PBS children's show, Lamb Chop's Play-Along, an Emmy Award winner for five consecutive years.

Daily recently recalled for PBS how one day, preparing for a Chicago-area Emmy Award telecast, he asked a young local comedian to come up with a routine about press agents.

In 1992, he recreated his performance for the PBS series " American Playhouse " and won the Emmy Award as Best Actor in a Miniseries or Special.