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.

While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.

Raimi ran into further troubles with the Motion Picture Association of America over the film's rating.

Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and Body Double, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.

They had been there six months when Chaplin's manager received a telegram, asking " Is there a man named Chaffin in your company or something like that " with the request that that this comedian contact the New York Motion Picture Company.

Some rare comic books include copies of the unreleased Motion Picture Funnies Weekly No. 1 from 1939.

The Motion Picture Association successfully obtained a UK ruling enforcing ISPs to use content-control software to prevent copyright infringement by their subscribers.

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, " As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films.

Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.

the Extra-Terrestrial, which made her one of the most famous child stars of the time and earned her the Young Artist Award as Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1982.

She received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences, in which she starred as a young girl divorcing her parents.

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.

* ( 1987 ) Nominated – Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture / Hoosiers

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers began work on standards for digital cinema in 2000.

While much of the specification codifies work that had already been ongoing in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ( SMPTE ), the specification is important in establishing a content owner framework for the distribution and security of first-release motion picture content.

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* Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture, from the Mystery Writers of America, for The Thin Blue Line ( 1989 )

But she was also a hit with the critics ; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.

On 13 November 2010, at the age of 94, Wallach received an Honorary Academy Award for his contribution to the film industry at the 2010 Governor's Awards ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America and the Independent Producers ' Association declared war in 1925 on what they termed a common enemy — the " film trust " of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, and First National, which they claimed dominated the industry by not only producing and distributing motion pictures, but by entering into exhibition as well.

In 2010, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to honor him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the 2nd Governor's Awards in November.

* Motion Picture Editors Guild ( MPEG )

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 ®.

The George Eastman company, the only manufacturer of film stock in the United States, was also part of the combine, which was called the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ), and Eastman Kodak agreed to only supply the members with film stock.

* 1961: Voted Champion of Champions — Best Television performer in annual television critics and columnists poll conducted by Television Today and Motion Picture Daily

According to Motion Picture Daily, " opening day business at the Music Hall was close to capacity.

Motion Picture Daily, April 8, 1953.

* Daily Motion, a video sharing website

# " A Motion Picture City ... " Daily Advocate, October 2, 1914 Page 6

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In November 2008 a parliamentary Early Day Motion and Kevin Maguire of the Daily Mirror called for Smith to be stripped of his knighthood.

# " A Motion Picture City ... " Daily Advocate, October 2, 1914 Page 6

Articles published in the Los Angeles Times, the Daily News and online by The Wrap. com and Nikki Finke's Hollywood Daily continually hammered the Motion Picture and Television Fund with new found facts, reporting of resident deaths, and other facts that flew in the face of what the MPTF was claiming.

According to news items in Hollywood Citizen-News and Motion Picture Daily, director Clarence Brown had told McWade, " Well, Bob, you played your last scene.

But she was also a hit with the critics ; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.

In addition to the 1948-49 poll of Radio Mirror listeners and the 1949 poll of Motion Picture Daily critics, Arden's notices soon expanded beyond her media.

The names of the forty-eight men who attended the meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel Waldorf were printed in the Motion Picture Herald and Daily Variety, the film industry's primary trade publications.

This campaign is focusing on viral videos on video sharing sites like YouTube, MySpace, Break. com, and Daily Motion.

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Fetchit appeared in 54 films between 1925 and 1976, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category " Motion pictures ".

Merle Oberon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ( at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard ) for her contributions to Motion Pictures.

Mabel Normand has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6821 Hollywood Boulevard.

* The Three Stooges have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1560 Vine Street in Hollywood, dedicated on August 30, 1983, with ex-stooge Joe Besser in attendance.

Today, the wheelchair and many other items associated with the Man In Motion World Tour are preserved by the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6922 Hollywood Boulevard.

Grahame has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6522 Hollywood Boulevard for her contribution to Motion Pictures.

Raft has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for contributions to Motion Pictures at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard, and for Television at 1500 Vine St.

Ann Dvorak has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6321 Hollywood Boulevard.

Glenda Farrell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6524 Hollywood Boulevard.

Woody Van Dyke has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6141 Hollywood Boulevard.

Merkel, whose final film role was in the Elvis Presley film Spinout ( 1966 ), has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 6230 Hollywood Boulevard.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard.

Together with fellow artists Harrison Fisher and Neysa McMein he constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine's, " Fame and Fortune " contest jury of 1921-22, who discovered the It-girl, Clara Bow.

In February 1960, O ' Brien was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6606 Hollywood Boulevard, and for television at 1634 Vine St.

Pola Negri has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard.

Dolores Costello has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1645 Vine Street.

White has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 1501 Vine Street.

Sidney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6245 Hollywood Boulevard.

Furness has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution Motion Pictures, and to Television.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of her contribution to Motion Pictures at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.

Elissa Landi has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to Motion Pictures, at 1615 Vine Street.

In 1996, she became the first woman named Pioneer of the Year by the Foundation of the Motion Picture Pioneers, and the first woman studio head to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Together with artists Howard Chandler Christy and Harrison Fisher, McMein constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine's, " Fame and Fortune " contest jury of 1921 / 1922, who discovered the It-girl, Clara Bow.