Ngor and Harold Russell are the only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award in an acting category.

Harold John Russell ( January 14, 1914-January 29, 2002 ) was a Canadian-American World War II veteran who became one of only two non-professional actors to win an Academy Award for acting ( the other being Haing S. Ngor ).

Williams ’ resulting film, The Blood of Jesus ( 1941 ), was produced by his own company, Amnegro, on a $ 5, 000 budget using non-professional actors for his cast.

This commitment was reflected in the words of David Jayne Hill of the Class of 1874, and president of the university from 1879 to 1888: " We need in Pennsylvania, in the geographical centre of the state, a University, not in the German but in the American sense, where every branch of non-professional knowledge can be pursued, regardless of distinction of sex.

Astrophotographic hardware among non-professional astronomers varies widely, since the photographers themselves range from general photographers shooting some form of aesthetically pleasing images to very serious amateur astronomers collecting data for scientific research.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, young Steve received his first exposure to music from his mother, Bertha, whom he described as a remarkable non-professional jazz-influenced singer, and his physician father, George, known as " Sonny " who, in addition to his profession as a pathologist, was a jazz enthusiast and accomplished amateur recording engineer.

In 1896 the OHA moved to the modern age-limited, non-professional junior hockey concept, distinct from senior and intermediate divisions.

After that, Rahmanian wrote a public letter asking for forgiveness, saying that he couldn't confirm that the letter was actually from the MPs and signed by them, and that even in the case it was, it would have been a non-professional act to publish " offensive " texts.

However, nowadays non-professional cooks usually use much less expensive graters made from other metals, plastic, or ceramics.

Community radio stations are distinct from NPR stations ; most community-radio programming is locally produced by non-professional disc jockeys and producers ( although a few have honed their skills well enough to launch professional radio careers ), whereas NPR relies more on syndicated programming ( from its own sources and other outlets, such as PRI.

Like Watkins ' other films, Edvard Munch uses a docudrama approach ; scenes from Munch's life are re-enacted by a large cast ( mostly Norwegian non-professional actors ), but there is also a voiceover narration by Watkins, and there are moments when the characters speak directly to camera, as if being interviewed about their own lives or their opinions of Munch.

Watkins has said that network officials tried to suppress its distribution, and tried to bar it from competition in the Cannes Film Festival, because they disapproved of its use of non-professional actors and anachronistic dialogue.

Brora Rangers are a non-professional senior football club from the village of Brora, Sutherland, currently playing in Scotland's Highland Football League.

The Canadian Ball Hockey League is a non-professional Canadian league in which teams from across Canada play in the U. S. under rules variant to standard dek hockey.

Cross-gender casting was common, with players often recruited from non-professional sources, such as drag queens or other " street stars ".

His appointment marked a definite turning-point: from then on, the orchestra ’ s rise to its present eminence as one of the country ’ s leading non-professional orchestras was steady and assured.

The show often casts non-professional actors in minor roles, distinguishing itself from other television series by showing the " faces and voices of the real city " it depicts.

Over the three weeks, " the best non-professional groups from the UK and overseas compete for the International Champions title.

Due to the financial crisis, all the players in the 2004 / 05 season were non-professional, mostly upgraded players from the junior team.

Its portrayal of the Algerian resistance during the Algerian War, follows in the footsteps of neorealist pioneers such as de Santis and Rossellini, employing the use of newsreel-style footage and non-professional actors and focusing primarily on the disenfranchised population that seldom receives attention from the general media.

* Adult Amateur and Professional: these class divisions are designed to separate non-professional riders, called amateurs ( because they do not earn a living from equestrian activities ) from professional riders and trainers.

In 2000, the Jacket staff was named Journalist of the Year by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists, becoming the first-ever non-professional winner of the SPJ's highest honor.

To differentiate women who identify as a dominatrix but do not offer paid services, non-professional dominants are occasionally referred to as a " lifestyle " dominatrix or mistress.

As such, huge confusion continues to surround many key fluxus works ; Maciunas strived to uphold his stated aims of demonstrating the artist's ' non-professional status ... his dispensability and inclusiveness ' and that ' anything can be art and anyone can do it.

Maciunas strived to uphold his stated aims of demonstrating the artist's ' non-professional status ... his dispensability and inclusiveness ' and that ' anything can be art and anyone can do it.

Rossellini had started now his so-called Neorealistic Trilogy, the second title of which was Paisà ( 1946 ), produced with non-professional actors, and the third, Germany, Year Zero ( 1948 ), sponsored by a French producer and filmed in Berlin's French sector.

Vittorio De Sica's 1948 film Bicycle Thieves is also representative of the genre, with non-professional actors, and a story that details the hardships of working-class life after the war.

GT4 is another new category for non-professional drivers in production-based cars with very few racing modifications – for example, no aerodynamic aids or body modifications are permitted.

Zinnemann's penchant for realism and authenticity is evident in his first feature The Wave ( 1935 ), shot on location in Mexico with mostly non-professional actors recruited among the locals, which is one of the earliest examples of realism in narrative film.

His style can be detected through his use of sound, associating selected sounds with images or characters ; paring dramatic form to its essentials by the spare use of music ; and through his infamous ' actor-model ' methods of directing his almost exclusively non-professional actors.

MXF has been designed to address a number of problems with non-professional formats.

The Walloon-language theatre remains popular in the region ; theatre is flourishing with more than 200 non-professional companies playing in the cities and villages of Wallonia for an audience of over 200, 000 each year.

As reverse of DSLR cameras with high-definition video, in 2011 at least there are 2 Interchangeable lens camcorders which can capture Full HD video with full control of camcorder, Panasonic AG-AF100 and Sony NEX-VG10 both with big sensor, not as usual as non-professional camcorders.

Phagocytes of humans and other jawed vertebrates are divided into " professional " and " non-professional " groups based on the efficiency with which they participate in phagocytosis.

The Graduate School is administered by a dean, who with the advice an Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, coordinates the graduate offerings of all departments in the Arts and Sciences, the non-professional degree programs of the professional schools of divinity, law, business, environment and earth sciences, the basic science departments of the School of Medicine, and certain professionally oriented graduate programs as well.

There are certain rules of interaction that apply, a new cadet cannot socialize with a yearling and or old cadet in a non-professional manner or they may receive a " stick " for fraternization.

This led to several low-key and non-professional collaborations, including several aborted songwriting sessions and Becker's stint in 1991 with Fagen's New York Rock and Soul Revue, that would ultimately lead to their proper reunion two years later.

6 DOF modelling needs such elaborate input, knowledge of the employed projectiles and long calculation time on computers that it is impractical for non-professional ballisticians and field use where calculations generally have to be done on the fly on PDAs with relatively modest computing power.

At the same time it was also staged by a Czech non-professional theater group with Libor Ulovec in the role.

# Figure out how the contents of the data base would need to be presented — by asking experts, potential non-professional users and comparing that with existing databases

The K-League champions, runner-up and third place gain entry to the AFC Champions League the following season, with the exception of Sangmu, due to their unique status as an army team, and therefore non-professional.

It is filmed in a neorealist / documentary style with a troupe of non-professional actors who play characters with the same names and occupations as the actors have in real life, blurring the boundaries between drama and reality.

This simple principle resonates well with average non-professional investors who don't have time to learn complicated quantitative stock measures or read lengthy financial reports.

The club was slowly starved, with less and less money in a championship where the leading teams were competing at a European level ( in 1986, one was winning Champions Cup, although claiming non-professional status for their players ).

The camps are an opportunity for non-professional music enthusiasts to perform with professional musicians.