" Studio attorney Edwin Loeb, who also worked to create AMPAS, explained that " the real foundation of Irving's success was his ability to look at life through the eyes of any given person.

AMPAS deemed that the film was unsuitable to represent the Netherlands.

Raoul Walsh ( March 11, 1887December 31, 1980 ) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh.

" An AMPAS official quickly went onstage to confirm the winner and signaled that all was well, before Olivier then presented the award to producer Saul Zaentz.

In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) was established by Louis B. Mayer, originator of Louis B. Mayer Pictures Corporation, which then would be joined into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), to unite the five branches of the film industry, including actors, directors, producers, technicians and writers.

However, according to the American director King Vidor, the voting for the Academy Award for Best Picture was in the hands of the AMPAS founders Douglas Fairbanks, Sid Grauman, Mayer, Mary Pickford and Joseph Schenck.

More recently, she was photographed next to an image of herself on the poster for The Strange Love of Martha Ivers at the AMPAS Centennial Celebration for Barbara Stanwyck on 16 May 2007.

He was one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ).

* Earth was India's official entry for the 2000 72nd Academy Award for Best Foreign film, but was not included among the final five nominees selected by the AMPAS.

In 2012, the manufacturer of the Arrilaser was honored with an " Scientific and Engineering Award " ( Oscar Academy Awards ) from the " Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences " ( AMPAS ) in Hollywood: " The Arrilaser film recorder demonstrates a high level of engineering resulting in a compact, user-friendly, low-maintenance device while at the same time maintaining outstanding speed, exposure ratings and image quality.

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.

* Academy Award or Oscar, presented by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) for cinematic film achievements

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is awarded periodically by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) at the Academy Award ceremonies for an individual's outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes.

This rule would be changed three years later by AMPAS.

Both effects were created by Industrial Light & Magic using grid warping techniques developed by Tom Brigham and Doug Smythe ( AMPAS ).

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to artists working in the motion picture industry.

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U. S .- based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ).

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry.

Currently, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, and Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role constitute the four Academy Awards of Merit for acting annually presented by AMPAS.

The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) for achievement in film costume design.

The Academy Award for Best Directing ( Best Director ), usually known as the Best Director Oscar, is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to directors working in the motion picture industry.

The Academy Honorary Award, instituted in 1948 for the 21st Academy Awards ( previously called the Special Award ), is given by the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards, although prior winners of competitive Academy Awards are not excluded from receiving the Honorary Award ( e. g. Mary Pickford, Maurice Chevalier, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, James Stewart, Sophia Loren, Sidney Poitier, et al ).

Note: A press release issued by AMPAS in 2005 states that " Documentary Short Subject winners Benjy ( 1951 ) and Neighbours ( 1952 ) are among a group of films that not only competed, but won Academy Awards in what were clearly inappropriate categories.

The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ), honored the best films of 2001 and took place March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5: 30 p. m. PST / 8: 30 p. m. EST.

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ), honored the best films of 1927 and 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

The notion of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) began with Louis B. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ).

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

Unlike the Academy Award of Merit, the nomination and voting for this award are restricted to members of the Board of Governors of AMPAS.

He also served as president of AMPAS from 1945 to 1949.

The film went on to win the first Academy Award for Best Picture at the first annual AMPAS award ceremony in 1929.

On June 14, 2011, AMPAS announced that the number of nominees would vary between five and ten films starting with the 2012 ceremony, provided that the film earned 5 % of first-place votes during the nomination process.

Throughout the past 76 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 76 Best Supporting Actress awards to 74 different actresses.

Throughout the past 83 years, accounting for ties and repeat winners, AMPAS has presented a total of 85 Best Director awards to 65 different directors.

: Years for which the Special Award and Honorary Award recipients received their awards and the annual Academy Awards ceremonies at which they received them provided within parentheses throughout ( as pertinent ) follow this information for recipients listed in the Official Academy Award Database and World Wide Web | Web-based official AMPAS documents.

AMPAS executive director Bruce Davis cited Fawcett's recognition at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards for her " remarkable television work ," and said of all the exclusions: " There's nothing you can say to people, particularly to family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all.

In 2007, Keane donated memorabilia relating to Cromwell's film career and ceramics work to the AMPAS Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

Even so apparently impartial a critic as W. H. Frohock has taken for granted that the book was originally intended as a piece of Loyalist propaganda ; ;

The solution reached in the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally included in a series of union demands.

First of all there was the parsonage, an utterly impossible place for civilized people to live in, originally poorly conceived, apparently not repaired for years, with no plumbing or sewage, with rat-holes and rot.

The work program, as it was originally proposed, was to take five years to complete.

The word marina was coined by NAEBM originally to describe a waterfront facility where recreational boats could find protection and basic needs to lay over in relative comfort.

A long book heavily weighted with military technicalities, in this edition it is neither so long nor so technical as it was originally.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

In Europe, the discipline originated as ethnology and was originally defined as the study of social organization in non-state societies, later redefined as social anthropology.

TWX originally used the earlier five-bit Baudot code, which was also used by the competing Telex teleprinter system.

The " elf-shot " originally indicated disease or death attributed to the elves, but it was later attested denoting arrow-heads which were used by witches to harm people, and also for healing rituals.

Here we have an apotropaic situation, where a god originally bringing the plague was invoked to end it.

The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.

In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.

Ward had originally written the music, Materna, for the hymn O Mother dear, Jerusalem in 1882, though it was not first published until 1892.

In Cyrillic originally the letters were given names based on Slavic words ; this was later abandoned as well in favor of a system similar to that used in Latin.

The ampere was originally defined as one tenth of the CGS system electromagnetic unit of current ( now known as the abampere ), the amount of current that generates a force of two dynes per centimetre of length between two wires one centimetre apart.

The word archipelago was originally applied specifically to the Aegean Sea and its islands.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.