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.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter.

The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese filmmakers.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

If the film industry was becoming a director's medium, Woolfson felt the music business might well become a producer's medium.

Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.

This is the primary recording format used in many professional audio workstations in the television and film industry.

Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy, Bardot was one of the few European actresses to have the mass media's attention in the United States, an interest which she did not reciprocate by rarely, if ever, going to Hollywood.

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay ), Maharashtra, India.

The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema ; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centres producing films in regional languages.

The name " Bollywood " is a portmanteau derived from Bombay ( the former name for Mumbai ) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.

Dating back to 1932, " Tollywood " was the earliest Hollywood-inspired name, referring to the Bengali film industry based in Tollygunge, Calcutta, whose name is reminiscent of " Hollywood " and was the center of the cinema of India at the time .< ref name = Sarkar >

Campbell maintained a blog on his official website, where he posts mainly about politics and the film industry.

From the film industry, Chaplin drew upon the work of French comedian Max Linder, whose films he greatly admired.

Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity.

The British film industry produced a number of highly successful film series, however, including the Doctor series, the St. Trinian's films and the increasingly bawdy Carry On films.

Actors sometimes alternate between theater, television and film or even branch into other occupations within the entertainment industry such as becoming a singer, comedian, producer, or a television host in order to be monetarily diversified, as doing one gig pays comparatively very little.

The Golden Globe's annual Cecil B. DeMille Award recognizes lifetime achievement in the film industry.

Fineman's position becomes compromised by a string of flops, and Manheim attempts to convince Harrington, a Wall Street banker representing the film company's financiers, that Fineman is still the right man for the job.

Romy and Michele's High School Reunion is a 1997 comedy film starring Lisa Kudrow, Mira Sorvino, Janeane Garofalo, Camryn Manheim, and Alan Cumming directed by David Mirkin.

Based on a play by Ivan Acosta, the film was broadly distributed in the U. S. and won awards at film festivals in Manheim, Biarritz and Venice.

Joseph also appears in the film David Searching opposite Camryn Manheim.

They also warned that Hays Code enforcer Joseph Breen might not allow the film to pass the censors, as he had been known to make disparaging remarks about Jews.

Walt Disney made introductory remarks, introduced the cast, then quietly left for his room at the Georgian Terrace Hotel across the street ; he had previously stated that unexpected audience reactions upset him and he was better off not seeing the film with an audience.

Grant makes several other " inside " remarks in the film.

" Evidence discovered during the investigation included antisemitic remarks, official sponsorship of a showing of the film The Passion of the Christ and a locker room banner that said academy athletes played for " Team Jesus.

Lou Gehrig's speech at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939 was not reproduced verbatim in the film ; the script condensed and reorganized Gehrig's actual spontaneous and unprepared remarks, and moved the iconic " luckiest man " line from the beginning to the end for heightened dramatic effect.

At 29, McQueen got a significant break when Frank Sinatra removed Sammy Davis, Jr., from the film Never So Few after Davis supposedly made some mildly negative remarks about Sinatra in a radio interview, and Davis's role went to McQueen.

And Lord notes that the film shows, but does not challenge Torvalds or Stallman about their equally disingenuous remarks about the " Linux " vs " GNU / Linux " naming issue.

In the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell and the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler decides to call his newborn daughter " Bonnie Blue Butler " when Melanie Wilkes remarks that her eyes are " as blue as the Bonnie Blue

In a trailer for ( not in ) Smith's 2001 film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Graves remarks on the series, saying to Hicks: " If you were funnier than that, ABC wouldn't have canceled us.

* In Dodie Smith's novel, I Capture the Castle ( 1940 ), the book's protagonist remarks that Debussy's Clair de Lune reminds her of " Dover Beach " ( in the film adaptation of the novel, the character quotes ( or, rather, misquotes ) a line from the poem ).

The film opens near the fictional town of Lahood, California, in the 1880s ( based on remarks in the film about outlawing hydraulic mining ), where a group of struggling miners and their families are panning for gold.

Believing earlier remarks made by Griffith, that The Andy Griffith Show would soon be ending after five seasons, Knotts began to look for other work, and signed a five film contract with Universal Studios.

Since then, Everett has participated in public activities ( leading the 2007 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ), played a double role in the film St. Trinian's, and has appeared on TV several times ( as a contestant in the special Comic Relief Does The Apprentice, as a presenter at Live Earth and as guest host at Channel 4 show The Friday Night Project among others ), but has made much news for making shocking comments and remarks at interviews that have caused public outrage.

" Of the negative remarks, Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress referred to the film as " Okay, but wildly overrated and predictable.

Conversely, Leonard Maltin disapproved of the film, and his view was made clear in remarks he made on the television show Entertainment Tonight.

" In a conversation with director Monte Hellman called " Somewhere Near Salinas ", available in the supplements to the Two-Lane Blacktop Criterion Collection DVD release ( a film in which Kristofferson's version is used on the soundtrack ), Kristofferson states that the film La Strada was an inspiration for the song and remarks on the irony of how a song inspired by a classic " road movie " should come to be used in another.

* In the 2007 film American Gangster New York mob boss Frank Lucas, played by Denzel Washington frustratingly remarks twice with the insult:

Also, the reviewer remarks that the film weighs heavily in favor of public ownership as a solution to the evils depicted, while failing to acknowledge the magnitude of evils committed by governments in the name of public ownership, such as those of the Communist Party in the former Soviet Union or by Monarchies and the Church.

In the film The Iron Lady is a scene in which the retired Margaret Thatcher is shown reading Eye of the Needle while her husband Denis Thatcher remarks " In the end she kills him, you know.

( credited as such, though a character in the film remarks " maybe Marilyn Monroe ".

The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review 1990 writeup of the film remarks that Hopkins appears stiff in the lead role, but praised the supporting cast: " Ann-Margaret ... invests her role with a considerable sparkle.

Hitchens contends that the film does not mention Clarke's remarks so that it can criticize Bush for not going after Bin Laden's family, while holding up Clarke as a heroic, anti-war figure.