He served as President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, worked alongside the Screenwriters Guild, and was head of the Directors Guild of America.

** Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures

* History of Edison Motion Pictures: Litigation and Licensees

* 1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U. S., for the next thirty eight years.

Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ).

On December 11, 2005, The Paramount Motion Pictures Group announced that it had purchased DreamWorks SKG ( which was co-founded by former Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg ) in a deal worth $ 1. 6 billion.

Even as DreamWorks switches distribution of live-action films that are not part of existing franchises to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Paramount will continue to own the films released before the merger, and the films that Paramount themselves distributed ( including sequel rights ; such films as Little Fockers will be distributed by Paramount and DreamWorks, since it is a sequel to an existing DreamWorks film – in this case, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, though Paramount will only own international rights to this title, whereas Universal Studios will handle domestic distribution ).

* DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures ( Martin Scorsese )

With the financial and critical success of The Sixth Sense in August 1999, Shyamalan gave the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group a first look deal for Unbreakable.

One of the most influential silent films from the beginning of the twentieth century is Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), the first half of which established many conventions for War films and Motion Pictures in general.

* March 31 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted in the United States, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next 40 years.

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

Westroads Mall has opened a new multiplex movie theater with 14 screens, operated by Rave Motion Pictures.

* Adventures in Motion Pictures, UK ballet company

By the early 1970s, ABC had formed its first theatrical division, ABC Pictures, later renamed ABC Motion Pictures.

In 1983, via its revived theatrical division, ABC Motion Pictures, Silkwood was released in theaters, and The Day After ( again produced in-house by its by-then retitled television unit, ABC Circle Films ) was viewed on TV by 100 million people, prompting discussion of nuclear activities taking place at the time.

Thirty years experience as an actress in Motion Pictures.

* 1960: Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for " Lifetime Achievement in Motion Pictures "

As for the ABC-owned Selznick films, distribution is now the responsibility of Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures ( Disney Enterprises currently owns ABC ).

Dmytryk was also nominated for a Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures.

Sheen also developed an ongoing relationship with Wright State University, where he performed Love Letters as a benefit for scholarships in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures, and hosted a trip of donors to the set of The West Wing with the department's chair, W. Stuart McDowell, in September 2001.

* Operation TORCH Motion Pictures from the National Archives

In La Crosse, Wisconsin, a newspaper reviewer called it a " masterpiece " and the " Biggest Spectacle in History of Motion Pictures ," surpassing even D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation :" The photoplay and the spoken drama will be united for the first time in ... the million dollar masterpiece of Thomas H. Ince ... ' Civilization ' is an encyclopedia of the emotions.

Disney's film studio consortium, Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group assumed control of Miramax, which was projected to have a smaller annual production budget.

The Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America and the Independent Producers ' Association declared war in 1925 on what they termed a common enemy — the " film trust " of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, and First National, which they claimed dominated the industry by not only producing and distributing motion pictures, but by entering into exhibition as well.

* Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan ( includes film database, box office statistics )

So, on a Sunday evening, Mayer and three other studio big-wigs-actor Conrad Nagel, director Fred Niblo, and the head of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Fred Beetson-sat down and discussed these matters.

* Outstanding Motion Picture-Warner Bros. ( Hal B. Wallis and Jesse L. Lasky Producers )

According to a 1933 letter that Jack wrote to Will H. Hays, then president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Zanuck requested a higher salary and " indicated his desire to raise the salaries of the actors and personnel in the motion pictures we were producing ".

Consisting of animated clay shapes contorting to a jazz score, Gumbasia so intrigued Samuel G. Engel, then president of the Motion Pictures Producers Association, that he financed the pilot film for what became Clokey's The Gumby Show ( 1957 ).

The outcry prompted the Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers ( AMPTP ) to contractually authorize the AHA to monitor the use of all animals in all filmed media.

Hays, Postmaster General under Warren G. Harding and former head of the Republican National Committee, served for 25 years as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America ( MPPDA ), where he " defended the industry from attacks, recited soothing nostrum remedia, and negotiated treaties to cease hostilities.

The Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers was founded in 1941 by Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Orson Welles, Samuel Goldwyn, David O. Selznick, Alexander Korda, and Walter Wanger – many of the same people who were members of United Artists.

Hays, who had campaigned actively for Harding amongst industry leaders, was ultimately named to head the new Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America in early 1922.

Eirin was established on the model of the American Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America's Production Code Administration in June, 1949, on the instructions of the US occupation force.

* 2006 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy-The Producers

On January 28, 1925 it left the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America ( later MPAA ), the owner, Albert E. Smith explained:

Her second husband had recently resigned from the Chicago Tribune, and signed on with the Will H. Hays organization, the Motion Picture Producers of America.

After a year in office, he resigned to become the choice of the Hollywood movie studios to become the first president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America ( MPPDA ) ( 1922-45 ).

Hays resigned his cabinet position on January 14, 1922, to become President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America ( MPPDA ) shortly after the organization's founding.

The Motion Picture Association of America ( and the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America before it ) cooperated with censorship boards and grassroots organizations in the hope of preserving the image of a " clean " Hollywood, but the distributors of exploitation film operated outside of this circuit and often welcomed controversy as a form of free promotion.

Coincidentally, the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers a group led by Mary Pickford, Samuel Goldwyn, Walter Wanger, and others filed a lawsuit against Paramount Detroit Theaters in 1942, the first major lawsuit of producers against exhibitors.

He produced Apollo 13 ( 1995 ), for which he won the Producers ' Guild ’ s Daryl F. Zanuck Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Picture of 1995.

* 2001-Recipient of Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures

Wagner is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Cinematographers and has won the Producers Guild " Vision Award ".

* Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers