The Academy's official reason for eliminating the polka award was “ to ensure the awards process remains representative of the current musical landscape .” The Academy's decision stems from the declining number of popular polka albums considered for an award in recent years.

The Golden Globes and BAFTA Awards have followed the Academy's example, both now presenting similar awards.

Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.

The restructuring of these categories was a result of the Recording Academy's wish to decrease the list of categories and awards.

It was the consequence of the Recording Academy's wish to decrease the list of categories and awards and to eliminate the distinctions between solo and duo or group performances.

Previously, CFM has won numerous industry awards including the Radio Academy's North West Station of the Year 2005 and Emap Station of the Year 2006.

" In every subsequent Academy Awards, these two awards categories were eliminated, replaced by a single award to honor the Best Picture of the year, usually seen as the Academy's top prize.

San Dieguito Academy's speech team has received multiple awards and achievements over the past years.

The Fellowship program was created in 1946, and was the first of the Academy's current portfolio of awards ; the Academy's website describes it as " the first of its kind in the United States.

Unlike other awards which are voted on by the Academy's board of directors, the recipient of the John Drainie Award is selected by a committee of previous winners.

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Four university fight songs commonly used by high schools are the University of Michigan's " The Victors ", The University of Illinois ' " Illinois Loyalty ", the University of Notre Dame's " Victory March ", and the United States Naval Academy's " Anchors Aweigh ".

The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a Board of Governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.

The Academy's main building in Beverly Hills houses two galleries that are open free to the public.

They are re-united several years later when the soldier is about to graduate from West Point and the general becomes the Academy's Commandant.

This requirement had previously prevented countries from submitting films where the majority of the dialogue was spoken in a language that was non-native to the submitting country, and the Academy's executive director explicitly cited as a reason for the rule change the case of the Italian film Private ( 2004 ), which was disqualified simply because its main spoken languages were Arabic and Hebrew, neither of which are indigenous languages of Italy.

Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by year of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually ( but not always ) the film's year of release.

While nominations for Best Director are made by members in the Academy's Directing branch, the award winners are selected by the Academy membership as a whole.

Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by the years of their Los Angeles qualifying run, which is usually ( but not always ) in the year of release ; for example, the Oscar for Best Director of 1999 was announced during the award ceremony held in 2000.

Graduates of the Academy's four-year program receive a Bachelor of Science degree, and most are commissioned as second lieutenants in the United States Air Force.

The Academy's Association of Graduates ( AOG ) accepts rings of deceased graduates which are melted down to form an ingot of white gold from which a portion of all future rings are made.

Chambers played an important role in the events that lead up to the Academy's foundation, the Minutes of the General Assembly of the Royal Academy 14 December 1768 record ' That some time towards the latter end of November 1768, Mr Chambers waited upon the King and informed him that many artists of reputation together with himself are very desirous of establishing a Society that should more effectively promote the Arts of Design '.

The Academy's current facilities are situated on Marylebone Road in central London adjacent to Regent's Park.

A few original papers appear in the Royal Irish Academy's Transactions ( 1824 ), in the Royal Society's Proceedings ( 1831 – 1836 ) and in the Astronomical Society's Monthly Notices ( 1852 – 1853 ); and two Reports to the British Association on railway constants ( 1838, 1841 ) are from his pen.

The Academy's four major program areas are:

These are fed by eight primary schools within the town ( Boclair Academy's fourth feeder primary is located outside Bearsden in Torrance ) and a small number of placing requests from other areas.

Qualified DTRs possess a specialized Associate Degree from community college programs which are accredited by the Academy's Commission on Accreditation of Dietetics Education ( CADE ).

Worcester Academy's middle school student assemblies are held in the 350-seat Hervey S. Ross Auditorium in Warner Theater.

Foster Hall and ' the Circle ' are at the center of Marin Academy's San Rafael campus

Marin Academy's varsity soccer teams, of which the boys ' was ranked as high as fourth in the country among schools of all sizes, are coached by Josh Kalkstein.

The Academy's collections and systematics research are presented below.

Once free of the constraints of the Academy's conventions, Schiele began to explore not only the human form, but also human sexuality.

But as the Jedi's re-enforcements arrive — in the form of Lando Calrissian and his GemDiver Station — the Emperor panics and engages the Shadow Academy's self-destruct.

Another disqualifying factor is a film's television or Internet transmission prior to its theatrical release, hence the Academy's rejection of the Dutch film Bluebird ( 2004 ).

Cardinal Richelieu asked the newly formed Académie française to investigate and pronounce on the criticism ( it was the Academy's first official judgement ), and the controversy reveals a growing attempt to control and regulate theater and theatrical forms.

Prior to their freshman ( fourth-class, or MUG-an acronym meaning " Midshipmen Under Guidance " or " Mariner Under Guidance ") year, incoming students attend a two-week indoctrination period, similar to the United States Naval Academy's " plebe summer ," which is designed to introduce them to the regimental lifestyle.

The Academy's petition to the city government for the additional land anticipated that if acquired, the space would be used to create perspective scenery ; it explains that the extra land would be used to build a theatre " along the lines laid out by our colleague Palladio, who has designed it to permit perspective views.

Describing the work as " 57 seconds of growth and fire, and three seconds of vomit ", Lynch played the film on a loop at the Academy's annual end-of-year exhibit, where it shared joint first prize with a painting by Noel Mahaffey.

David, however, made his career precisely by challenging what he saw as the earlier rigidity and conformity of the French Royal Academy's approach to art.

As noted before, his first attempt was refused by Cauchy, but in February 1830 following Cauchy's suggestion he submitted it to the Academy's secretary Fourier, to be considered for the Grand Prix of the Academy.

On October 16, 1997, Engdahl became a member of the Swedish Academy, elected to seat number 17 vacated by the death of Johannes Edfelt ; on June 1, 1999, he succeeded Sture Allén as the Academy's permanent secretary, i. e. its executive member and spokesperson.

The Cracow Academy's development stalled upon the death of King Casimir, but the institution was re-founded in 1400 by King Władysław Jagiełło and his wife Saint Jadwiga, the daughter of the King Louis of Hungary and Poland.

The Academy's new building opened in September 2011, and the demolition of the old school site, making way for new playing fields to be laid out, will be completed by Spring 2012.

Another object of controversy is the Academy's " one-country-one-film " rule, which has been criticized by filmmakers.

The Academy's decisive actions of zero tolerance were praised by officials and experts.

Owing to Eakins ' devotion to working from life, the Academy's course of study was by the early 1880s the most " liberal and advanced in the world ".

A nearby private estate, built in 1928 by steel industrialist James E. Lewis, became the Academy's standalone middle school campus in 1958.

In 1462 Cosimo gave Ficino a villa at Careggi for the Academy's use, situated where Cosimo could see it from his own villa, and drop by for visits.

In 1773 she was appointed by the Academy with others to decorate St Paul's Cathedral ; and it was she who, with Biagio Rebecca, painted the Academy's old lecture room at Somerset House.

The last academic honors bestowed upon him were the French Academy's Bordin Prize ( 1977 ) and the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, granted by the University of Washington ( 1985 ).

The liaison was effected by the Academy's Norman Rosenthal, even though there was strong opposition from some of the Academicians, three of whom resigned.

The song eventually received the Grammy Hall Of Fame Award, which was established by the Recording Academy's National Trustees to honor recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.

Phillips Academy's traditional opponent is Phillips Exeter Academy, which was established three years later in Exeter, New Hampshire by Samuel Phillips ' uncle, Dr. John Phillips.

The decision was taken to continue the Academy's work until the five-year period, originally specified by Bennett, had been completed.