In 1999, he took his girlfriend of several years to the Academy Awards, and thanked her during the acceptance speech for his Best Actor award.

In accepting the award, Gordon thanked the Academy by saying, " I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is ... And thank all of you who voted for me, and to everyone who didn't: please, excuse me ", which drew laughs because at the time she had been in theater for fifty years and was seventy-two years old.

Michael Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor and thanked Oliver Stone for " casting me in a part that almost nobody thought I could play ".

As Olivier thanked the Academy for inviting him, he was already opening the envelope.

At the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010, Bullock won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Blind Side, where she thanked her as " Helga B.

" Coppola won the Academy Award for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) and thanked Towne.

After the war, he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and started the Professional Actors Workshop in New York City, New York, whose students included Martin Sheen, James Earl Jones, and Mercedes Ruehl, who thanked Danielewski in both her Oscar and Tony acceptance speeches.

There is ' Melody Academy ' in Darjeeling established in the early 1980s by Mr. Jiwan Pradhan who single handedly has brought the western music in the hills of Darjeeling which is very rich in its musical heritage.

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.

* Academy Award for Directing-Robert Z. Leonard ( lost to Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town )

To this application, Mr. Webster says, " the trustees of Amherst Academy made no opposition and took no measures to defeat it.

Capra won his second Academy Award for Directing in 1936 for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, while Cooper received the first of his five nominations for Best Actor.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, winning for Best Original Story.

Following The Invisible Man, Universal Studios tried to typecast him in horror films, but he broke free, starting with the gleefully evil role of Prince John in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), then with his Academy Award-nominated performance as the conflicted corrupt US senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), and followed with probably his most famous role, the flexible French police Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

He was also nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Casablanca ( 1942 ), Mr. Skeffington ( 1944 ), and Notorious ( 1946 ).

He was taught French at home every morning by a succession of nursery maids, and exercised daily at Mr Macpherson's Gymnasium and Dancing Academy, around the corner from the family home in Cadogan Place.

He is best known for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps and Goodbye, Mr. Chips for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.

The last saw him win the Academy Award for Best Actor, over Clark Gable for Gone with the Wind, Laurence Olivier for Wuthering Heights, James Stewart for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Mickey Rooney for Babes in Arms.

It revitalized the acting career of Morita, previously known mostly for his comedic role as Arnold on Happy Days, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance as Mr. Miyagi.

The Islington Literary and Scientific Society was established in 1833 and first met in Mr. Edgeworth's Academy on Upper Street.

Though a poor student, Kovacs was influenced deeply by his Trenton Central High School drama teacher, Harold Van Kirk, and received an acting scholarship at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1937 with Mr. Van Kirk's help.

* Samuel Pickering, Professor at the University of Connecticut, inspiration for the character Mr. Keating in the Academy Award – winning film The Dead Poets Society

In the same year, Coraline and Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox ( also Academy Award nominated ) renewed interest in stop motion animation.

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 '.

Soon after his return from the continent Barry had been chosen a member of the Royal Academy of Arts ; and in 1782 he was appointed professor of painting in the room of Mr Penny with a salary of £ 30 a year.

For his portrayal of Mr. Will, Malkovich received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

She became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ) and received Academy Award nominations for Reds ( 1981 ) and Marvin's Room ( 1996 ).

He was referred to in the 1947 Academy Award-winning film Gentleman's Agreement ; a 1947 blues song " Bilbo is Dead " by Andrew Tibbs ; in Bob and Adrienne Claiborne's song, " Listen Mr. Bilbo " ( 1946 ); and in Lee Hays ' song, " Talking Bilbo ".

During that time Mr. Martínez became assistant and protégé of Maître Rohdes and was the only one of his pupils permitted to teach with full authorization at the Rohdes Academy.

The parents compromised, however, on a convent school and Paula went to Ursuline Academy in London, Ontario.

Sen. Case Aj, has received a nice `` thank you '' note from a youngster he appointed to the Air Force Academy in Colorado.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

`` Let me do the submitting to the Royal Academy '', he suggested.

Mr. Devey is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and attended the United States Naval Academy Post-Graduate School specializing in electronic engineering.

He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

He walked up to the lieutenant's office, leaned wearily against the gun rack that housed four rifles and a gas gun nobody remembered having used and a submachine gun that was occasionally tried out on the Academy Range.

`` We're just real happy for the players '', Coach Bill Meek said of the 9-7 victory over the Air Force Academy.

Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Robert F. McDermott will entertain at a black tie dinner Wednesday, May 3, in the Officers' Club at the Air Force Academy.

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 ''.

From early family portraits, painted before he entered the schools of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the chronology extends to a group of paintings executed in his last year ( 1951 ) and still part of his estate.

At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy.

Reference to them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's Royal Prussian Academy edition ( Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin, 1831 – 1870 ), which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.

Aristotele, Milano: Bruno Mondadori Editore ( Prize 2003 of the " International Academy of the History of Science ") ISBN 88-424-9737-1.

* Bekker's Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the complete works of Aristotle at Archive. org: volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, volume 4, volume 5

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

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

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