** Oscar Micheaux, African-American filmmaker ( b. 1884 )

* Oscar Micheaux

Within Our Gates ( 1920 ) is a silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and the emergence of the " New Negro ".

Produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux, it is the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director.

Still from the 1919 Oscar Micheaux film Within Our Gates featuring actress Evelyn Preer

Category: Films directed by Oscar Micheaux

* Oscar Micheaux, pioneering African-American filmmaker and author

* Oscar Micheaux, author, film director

* Body and Soul ( 1925 film ), the best-known silent film of pioneer African-American filmmaker Oscar B. Micheaux

* Alice B. Russell ( 1892 – 1984 ) – singer and actress married to Oscar Micheaux.

In 1939, Julian was the producer for the motion picture Lying Lips, directed by Oscar Micheaux.

( film ), a 1938 American film directed by Oscar Micheaux

* Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, starring pioneering African-American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture.

* Oscar Micheaux — Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer

* Oscar Micheaux — The Homesteader

* Oscar Micheaux – The Case of Mrs. Wingate

Two of his books were adapted as silent films in 1926 and 1927 by the director and producer Oscar Micheaux.

* 1926, The Conjure Woman ( film version by Oscar Micheaux was entitled The Spider's Web )

* 1927, The House Behind the Cedars ( film version by Oscar Micheaux was entitled The Millionaire )

* The Conjure Woman ( film version by Oscar Micheaux )

* The House Behind the Cedars ( film version by Oscar Micheaux )

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux ( January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951 ) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.

Grave of Oscar Micheaux in Great Bend, Kansas | Great Bend being decorated during the 2005 Oscar Micheaux festival.

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

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.

Perhaps the outstanding standard bearer of Mr. Brown's tradition for accuracy was Mr. Oscar J. Beale, whose mechanical genius closely paralleled that of Mr. Brown, and whose particular forte was the development of the exceedingly accurate measuring machinery that enabled Brown & Sharpe to manufacture gages, and therefore its products, with an accuracy exceeding anything then available elsewhere in the world.

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 films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999.

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

Algeria had also won an Oscar for the movie Z, a political thriller directed by Costa Gavras.

For Oscar Wilde the contemplation of beauty for beauty's sake was not only the foundation for much of his literary career but was quoted as saying " Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

There was praise for Diana Rigg's performance, and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick received an Oscar for his work on the score.

The film won all of its nine Oscar nominations, a record at that point in time, and a special Oscar for co-star Maurice Chevalier.

He suggested the Irish Feast of Bricriu as a source for Beowulf — a theory that was soon denied by Oscar Olson.

The first documented bouldering advocate may have been Oscar Eckenstein, a British engineer and innovative climber who wrote about bouldering, and in the 1890s conducted an informal bouldering competition for natives in Askole, a village in the Karakoram mountains.

It garnered Spacek and Piper Laurie Oscar nominations for their performances.

Chaplin also received his only competitive Oscar for his composition work, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for Limelight ( along with Raymond Rasch and Larry Russell ) in 1973.

Also representative of his penchant for the spectacular was the 1952 production of The Greatest Show on Earth which gave DeMille an Oscar for best picture and a nomination for best director.

Large submarines ( for example, Echo and Oscar classes ) were developed to carry these weapons and shadow US battle groups at sea, and large bombers ( for example, Backfire, Bear, and Blackjack models ) were equipped with the weapons in their air-launched cruise missile ( ALCM ) configuration.

He was nominated five times ( see below ) for the Academy Award as a director, and once as a producer, but never received an Oscar.

Jones ' animated short film The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics won the 1965 Oscar for Best Animated Short.

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.