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.

The trophy for award recipients is in the form of a bust of Thalberg rather than the familiar " Oscar " statuette.

Winners of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award are presented with an Oscar statuette.

The statuette, not yet known as the " Oscar ", was presented by Douglas Fairbanks to Clara Bow on behalf of the producers ; Adolph Zukor and B. P.

For example, the Oscar statuette won by the Canadian film The Barbarian Invasions ( 2003 ) was until recently on display at the Museum of Civilization in Quebec City.

The rules currently governing the Foreign Language Film category state that " the Academy statuette ( Oscar ) will be awarded to the picture and accepted by the director on behalf of the film's creative talents " ( emphasis added ).

Winners of this Academy Award of Merit currently receive the familiar Oscar statuette, depicting a gold-plated knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of film.

Despite having rejected the Oscar the previous year for his work in Patton, Scott was nominated for Best Actor, but the gold statuette went instead to Gene Hackman for The French Connection.

In 2001, Kevin Spacey purchased this Oscar statuette at a Butterfield & Butterfield estate auction and returned it to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

At the height of their popularity in 1938, Bergen was presented an Honorary Oscar ( in the form of a wooden Oscar statuette ) for his creation of Charlie McCarthy.

In 2002, Colman's Oscar statuette was sold at auction by Christie's for US $ 174, 500.

This led to Bruce Davis ' discovery that the statuette had resurfaced and, upon learning of the award's history, Nash and Neimand agreed to return the Oscar to O ' Brien.

They claimed that when she won her honorary Oscar in the 1970s she signed a contract covering the Coquette statuette as well.

The awarded trophy for the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is an Oscar statuette.

At the Academy Award presentation dinner, Brady's Oscar statuette was stolen by a man who came onstage to accept the award on the absent actress ' behalf.

Reluctant at first, Fernández was finally convinced to pose nude to create what today is known as the " Oscar ".

The only addition to the Oscar since it was created is a minor streamlining of the base.

* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

For Oscar Wilde the contemplation of beauty for beauty's sake was not only the foundation for much of his literary career but was quoted as saying " Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful.

Jonathan Tunick is the most prominent arranger, being one of only twelve people to have won Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony awards.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Probably the most noted film of the period is Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, for which Giuseppe Tornatore won a 1990 Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

Former Weismann performers at the reunion include Max and Stella Deems, who lost their radio jobs and became store owners in Miami ; Solange La Fitte, a coquette, who is still vibrant three decades later ; Hattie Walker, who has outlived five younger husbands ; Vincent and Vanessa, former dancers who now own an Arthur Murray franchise ; Heidi Schiller, for whom Franz Lehár once wrote a waltz ( or was it Oscar Straus?

Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

Despite the thrilling win and the recognition, Bogart later commented, " The way to survive an Oscar is never to try to win another one ... too many stars ... win it and then figure they have to top themselves ... they become afraid to take chances.

" Oscar Thompson also notes: " He is not the slightest bit an impressionist.

" Woodcock finds that " The most ambitious contribution to literary anarchism during the 1890s was undoubtedly Oscar Wilde The Soul of Man under Socialism " and finds that it is influenced mainly by the thought of William Godwin.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist Irish people | Irish writer of the decadent movement and famous dandyThe anarchist writer and bohemian Oscar Wilde wrote in his famous essay The Soul of Man under Socialism that " Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Oscar Lipps also presented a positive image of Carson in 1909: " The name of Kit Carson is to this day held in reverence by all the old members of the Navajo tribe.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist Irish people | Irish writer who published the libertarian socialist work titled The Soul of Man under SocialismThe anarchist writer and bohemian Oscar Wilde wrote in his famous essay The Soul of Man under Socialism that " Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Streeter officially became a city in 1950, and its first mayor was Oscar Seher.

Also, King Oscar is officially relaunched in Russia, where the brand was initially registered at the turn of the 20th century.

The duo was officially formed in 1993 by Erik Garcia a. k. a. Erk Aicrag ( lyrics and vocals ) and Oscar Mayorga a. k. a. Racso Agroyam ( Programming ), but both cousins had been experimenting with electronic music, mixing industrial and EBM, since they were fifteen years old.

In 2003, he had his last name officially changed to Bruel-Benguigui, his stage name with his birthname, before his partner, the writer and playwright, Amanda Sthers gave birth to his first child, Oscar, on August 19.

The name of the airport was officially changed on July 6, 2006 in honor of The Right Honourable Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling ( 22 March 1930 – 25 August 2000 ), first Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

The Wilde Theatre was officially opened by The Princess Anne on 15 May 1984 which due to the local association with Oscar Wilde was named after him and the first performance being The Importance of Being Earnest.

" Cleveland admitted to paying child support in 1874 to Maria Crofts Halpin, the woman who claimed he fathered her child named Oscar Folsom Cleveland.

Halpin was involved with several men at the time, including Cleveland's friend and law partner, Oscar Folsom, for whom the child was also named.

* Beast of Busco, a North American cryptid turtle named Oscar

Winning the " Oscar " also gave her another unique distinction — since she won two " Razzies " the day before, for her performance in All About Steve, she is the only performer ever to have been named both " Best " and " Worst " for the same year.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

The following two offspring were similarly named after awards ; Oscar, born July 18, 1969, and Toni, on December 28, 1971.

In 1984, again under the Andrew Macdonald pen name, William Pierce published another novel, Hunter, which tells the story of a man named Oscar Yeager, a veteran of the Vietnam War and F-4 Phantom pilot who assassinates mixed-raced couples.

When a fire destroyed the costume in 1988, a decade after he debuted, he and American segments of Oscar were both replaced by a Grouch named Rumpel.

Davis – Monthan AFB was established in 1925 as Davis-Monthan Landing Field, and is named in honor of World War I pilots Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis and Oscar Monthan, both Tucson natives.

The base was named in honor of Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis and Oscar Monthan, two Tucsonans and World War I – era pilots who died in separate military aircraft accidents.

Brackettville was founded in 1852 originally as the town of Brackett and named for Oscar B. Brackett, who came to set up a stage stop and opened the town's first dry-goods store.

It was named after Oscar M. Towner ( b. 1842, d. 1897 ), a businessman and member of the 15th territorial legislature.

To the rear of the intersection of 24th and Guadalupe Street, Whitman targeted two 21-year-olds named Oscar Royvela and Irma Garcia as the pair walked towards the university's biology laboratory.

In May 1909, the Kihlberg Hotel opened, built by the Sulphur Springs Sanitarium Hotel and Bath Company and named for Oscar Kihlberg, a city promoter.

Many have tried to catch the monster turtle named Oscar but no successful attempt have ever been recorded.

So named for Oscar J. Oubre, the Loreauville branch of the OJ Oubre lumber company operated from the present location of the Judice Building Supplies store.

A post office named " Mill Station " was established on October 9, 1867, with Oscar A. Williams as the first postmaster.

Oskarshamn was named after King Oscar I of Sweden.

While there he became a First Team Consensus All-American selection in 1958 ( Elgin Baylor, Bob Boozer, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Guy Rodgers and Don Hennon comprised the first team selections ) and a Second Team Consensus All-American in 1959, while being named to the United Press International and Helms Foundation first teams that season.

Later the town was named Brackett after Oscar B. Brackett, the owner of the first dry goods store in the area, and in 1873 when a post office was awarded " ville " was appended to the name to differentiate from another town.

* Bunbury Music Festival, named after an Oscar Wilde character, this three day independent music festival premiers July 2012 in Cincinnati, Ohio

The American War-Dog, a 1916 political cartoon by Oscar Cesare, with the dog named ' Jingo '

She gained an Oscar nomination for her role and was named the year's best actress by the New York Film Critics Circle.

The most famous exposition of the theory is in Oscar Wilde's short story " The Portrait of Mr. W. H .," in which Wilde, or rather the story's narrator, describes the puns on " will " and " hues " in the sonnets, ( notably Sonnet 20 among others ), and argues that they were written to a seductive young actor named Willie Hughes who played female roles in Shakespeare's plays.