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.

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.

Finney is the only actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for playing Poirot, though he did not win.

* 1969 – At the U. S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.

It is the only Canadian university selected for inclusion in the Education and Academia category of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award.

In the film he is played by F. Murray Abraham, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award ( MVP ) is an annual Major League Baseball ( MLB ) award, given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League.

In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is annually given to one player from each league as voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ).

Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.

* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.

* The Babe Ruth Home Run Award is an annual award presented to the leading home run hitter in MLB.

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

The Award is a joint initiative of Dublin City Council and the productivity improvement company, IMPAC, and is administered by Dublin City Public Libraries.

He was awarded both the Washington Award, administered by the Western Society of Engineers and the Eta Kappa Nu Vladimir Karapetoff Award in 1999.

The nomination and selection process is administered by the World Science Fiction Society ( WSFS ) represented by the current Worldcon committee, and the award is presented at the Hugo Award ceremony at the Worldcon, although it is not itself a Hugo Award.

* In its first three years, the Baldrige Award was jointly administered by APQC and the American Society for Quality, which continues to assist in administering the award program under contract to NIST.

Since his death, the Writers ' Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors have jointly administered the annual Tinniswood Award in his memory, to honour the best original radio drama script broadcast in the UK during the previous year, with a prize of £ 1500 awarded to the winner.

Since 1991, ASQ has administered the United States ’ premier quality award, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, which annually recognizes companies and organizations that have achieved performance excellence.

The John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism was established in 1995 and administered by the Annenberg Public Policy Center until 2004.

The Vicky Metcalf Award for Children ’ s Literature has been administered by the Writers ’ Trust since 2002.

Hanrahan has won a number of awards for writing, including The Independent newspaper's inaugural student travel writing competition, the Lawrence Jackson Award for Writing ( administered by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council ).

Another " Naismith Award " is not administered by the Atlanta Tipoff Club, and is named after John Naismith's daughter-in-law Frances Pomeroy Naismith:

The Risner Award, created September 24, 1976, was donated by H. Ross Perot as a tribute to Risner and all Vietnam era Prisoners of War, and is administered by the Tactical Air Command ( now by Air Combat Command ).

* 2011: Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema ( Harry Potter series, joined by J. K. Rowling, David Heyman, David Barron, David Yates and Mike Newell, shared with Harry Potter cast and crew )

A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993 ( tied with Doomsday Book by Connie Willis ).

A Fire Upon the Deep shared the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel with Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis.

In 2008 she was awarded the Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award by the Ford Hall Forum.

In 1988, Sakharov was given the International Humanist Award by the International Humanist and Ethical Union.

His album Nederlands Grootste Nachtmerrie ( Holland's Biggest Nightmare ) won Best Album Award in 2007 and was fully produced by Dr. Dre's right hand man Focus ...

* Grace Murray Hopper Award, awarded by the ACM

* Ken Kennedy Award, awarded by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society

The film, panned by critics and fans alike, was nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst Picture, but lost to the Demi Moore film Striptease.

In 1976, he was honored with two Emmy Award nominations, one for Outstanding Lead Actor for a Single Appearance in Drama or Comedy for The Streets of San Francisco and the other for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Comedy or Drama Series for Rich Man, Poor Man.

Jasmuheen was awarded the Bent Spoon Award by Australian Skeptics in 2000 (" presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle ").

Category: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners

The film is also notable for its memorable theme by Greek composer Vangelis, who won an Academy Award for Best Original Score.

* Life Before Man ( 1979, finalist for the Governor General's Award )

Before Sunset was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Hawke's first screenwriting Oscar nomination.

Before his work with the Coen Brothers, he played a small but important role in Jim Jarmusch's independent anthology film Mystery Train, released in 1989, for which he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Male.

* American Book Award Before Columbus Foundation: Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude " Ma " Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, and ( separately ) Allison Hedge Coke, Dog Road Woman

She received critical acclaim for her performances in Unhook the Stars ( 1996 ), Slums of Beverly Hills ( 1998 ), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead ( 2007 ) and received Academy Award nominations for her performances in In the Bedroom ( 2001 ) and The Wrestler ( 2008 ).

* Nominated for the 1984 Governor General's Award ( The Sunday Before Winter )

Before that time, both plays and musicals were considered together for the Tony Award for Best Revival.

Before he was exposed, Schön had received the Otto-Klung-Weberbank Prize for Physics and the Braunschweig Prize in 2001 as well as the Outstanding Young Investigator Award of the Materials Research Society in 2002, which was later rescinded.

* First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim-1999 ( American Book Award 1999, Before Columbus Foundation )

Ted Joans was the recipient of the American Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001, from the Before Columbus Foundation.

In 1985, his memoir Living Up the Street received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award.

Later he formed the neo-folk group Anastasia which became internationally acclaimed with its soundtrack for the Milčo Mančevski's Academy Award nominated film Before the Rain.

Kelly received the Los Angeles Times First Annual Book Award ( 1980 ) for Kill the Messenger Who Brings Bad News and the American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation ( 1991 ) for In Time.

Her role in 1999's The Life Before This won her a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.

After being nominated for the National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip in 2002 and 2003, Pearls Before Swine won the award in 2004 and again in 2007.

In 1996, the comic was awarded the American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation.

The story " The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas " won the Hugo Award in 1974, while " The Day Before the Revolution " won the Locus and Nebula Awards in 1975.

" Before joining the network, she worked at KDFW-TV in Dallas, where she won an Emmy Award.

On the stage, she won the 1984 Obie Award for her performance in The Marriage of Bette and Boo and twenty years later, an Obie for Woman Before a Glass.

In 2005, Linklater was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film Before Sunset.

Before Game 4 of the 2008 World Series, he was named the winner of the AL Hank Aaron Award for the best offensive performance of the 2008 season.

Before America ’ s entry in World War II, young Bill was a prominent war correspondent, winning the Overseas Press Club Award.

Before 1961 these awards were combined into the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus.