Other triumphs include `` Random Harvest '', `` Madame Curie '', `` Pride and Prejudice '', `` The Forsythe Saga '' and `` Mrs. Miniver '' ( which won her the Academy Award in 1943 ).

Just this April she was nominated for the seventh time for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Eleanor Roosevelt in `` Sunrise at Campobello ''.

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The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement in art direction on a film.

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

He had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier ; this made him the first Academy Award winner in history.

The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.

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.

In 1932, Disney received a special Academy Award for the creation of " Mickey Mouse ", a series which switched to color in 1935 and soon launched spin-offs for supporting characters such as Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto.

(; born Ubbe Eert Iwerks, March 24, 1901 – July 7, 1971 ) was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician, who co-created Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney.

Disney also campaigned for Baskett to be given an Academy Award for his performance, saying that he had worked " almost wholly without direction " and had devised the characterization of Remus himself.

This category is notable for giving Walt Disney 12 of his 22 Academy Awards, including a posthumous 1968 award, and also 10 of the first 12 awards awarded in the category.

The projector featured an automatic control mechanism designed by Disney engineers that was coupled to a variable anamorphic lens, which allowed the picture to switch between its Academy standard aspect ratio of 1. 33: 1 to the wide ratio of 2. 35: 1 in twenty seconds without a break in the film.

Fantasia was the subject of two Academy Honorary Awards on February 26, 1942 — one for Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their " outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia ", and the other to Stokowski " and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form ".

The Living Desert was the first feature-length film in Disney ’ s True-Life Adventures series of documentaries focusing on zoological studies ; the previous films in the series, including the Academy Award-winning Seal Island, were short subjects.

At the 26th Academy Awards, in addition to winning the Best Documentary Feature Oscar, Disney also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for The Alaskan Eskimo and the Academy Award for Best Short Subject ( Two-Reel ) for Bear Country.

* The song is referenced in the 1962 Academy Award nominated animated short Disney musical film, A Symposium on Popular Songs during the song, " Although I Dropped $ 100, 000 " written by Robert & Richard Sherman.

It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film but lost to Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom from Walt Disney Productions.

Disney hired Parks to arrange Terry Gilkyson's Academy Award nominated song " The Bare Necessities " for the 1967 feature The Jungle Book.

Puss Gets the Boot did not win the 1940 Academy Award for Best Cartoon, but another MGM cartoon, Rudolf Ising's The Milky Way did, making MGM cartoon studio the first studio to wrestle the Cartoon Academy Award away from Walt Disney.

Mermaid was a huge critical and commercial success, won two Academy Awards for its song score, and became the first of a series of highly successful new Disney animated features.

In 2002, he received a Fellowship of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ), their highest award, and was named a Disney Legend by The Walt Disney Company.

A hit version of the song, sung by Burl Ives, was featured in the Walt Disney movie, So Dear to My Heart ( 1948 ) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Disney studio bosses expressed fears that Zimmer would be killed if he went to South Africa, so the recording of the choirs was organized during a visit by Lebo M. Zimmer won numerous awards for his work on The Lion King, including an Academy Award for Best Original Score, a Golden Globe, and two Grammys.

Lilo & Stitch was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, which ultimately went to Hayao Miyazaki's film, Spirited Away, which was also distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, and featured a voice-over performance by Chase in the English dub.

On April 26, 2008, Disney received a honorary doctorate from the California Maritime Academy, for his many contributions to the state and the nation, including international sailing.

Famous alumni of Pomona College include Walt Disney Company Executive Roy E. Disney ( 1951 ), writer, actor, and musician Kris Kristofferson ( 1954 ), Civil Rights activist and NAACP chairman Myrlie Evers ( 1968 ), and New York Times executive editor Bill Keller ( 1970 ), and six-time Grammy Winning conductor Robert Shaw ( 1938 ), as well as several Academy Award-winning screenwriters.

Fleming went to Loudoun Moor School and Darvel School, and earned a two-year scholarship to Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London, where he attended the Royal Polytechnic Institution.

He graduated from Wichita High School East in 1970 and earned a bachelor of science in astronautical engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1974.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Kane earned two Emmy Awards for her work in the series and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Hester Street.

Brown's films gained a total of 38 Academy Award nominations and earned nine Oscars.

Parton earned her second Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song for " Travelin ' Thru ," which she wrote specifically for the feature film Transamerica ( 2005 ).

Her work has earned her four Grammy Awards and an Academy Award nomination.

This earned him his first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Another supporting role, Buck Barrow in 1967's Bonnie and Clyde, earned him an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor.

The movie earned Busey an Academy Award nomination and the National Society of Film Critics ' Best Actor award.

His performance earned him another Best Actor Academy Award nomination, 17 years after his first.

He had earned the enmity of some of the city's leading scientists at the Academy of Natural Sciences.

His short " Wrestling Swordfish " was awarded the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earned an Academy Honorary Award in 1937.

Gone with the Wind and Dark Victory both earned him Academy Award nominations, however, he lost to the score of The Wizard of Oz by Herbert Stothart.

Crowe's work has earned him several accolades, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Academy Award nominations in a row ( 1999 – 2001 ), one Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, one BAFTA and an Academy Award.

Moviegoers may recognize Sakamoto primarily through his score work on two films: Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), including the title theme and the duet " Forbidden Colours " with David Sylvian, and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor ( 1987 ), the latter of which earned him the Academy Award with fellow composers David Byrne and Cong Su.

Traffic became his most acclaimed movie since Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and earned him an Academy Award for Best Director.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

The film earned critical acclaim and went on to be nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Film Editing, Best Actor in a Leading Role ( for Rea ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Davidson ) and Best Director.

Richard Farnsworth earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his portrayal of Alvin Straight ; the oldest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar until Max von Sydow and Christopher Plummer were both nominated ( although Plummer and Von Sydow were nominated in the supporting category, where as Farnsworth was lead ) in 2012 at age 82 ( Plummer also won the award that year, being its oldest recipient ).

After graduation from high school, he was accepted to the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, where in 1952 he earned his Bachelor of Science degree and was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force.

* The Cardinal ( 1963 ): a drama set in the Vatican hierarchy which earned Preminger his second Best Director Academy Award nomination