The formal ceremony at which the Awards of Merit are presented is one of the most prominent award ceremonies in the world, and is televised live in more than 100 countries annually.

It is also the oldest award ceremony in the media ; its equivalents, the Grammy Awards ( for music ), Emmy Awards ( for television ), and Tony Awards ( for theatre ) are modeled after the Academy.

She had ceased to attend the meetings when she was nominated to be the first woman Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, but the nomination was withdrawn at the request of her husband, Thomas Reggie, who said that due to the Alzheimer's progress the award and ceremony would be at best confusing and likely upsetting to her.

He also won the 2001 Most Popular Driver award at the end of the year in the awards ' ceremony banquet.

He appeared at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese.

Such was her success that, by the time Cagney made a rare public appearance at his AFI Lifetime Achievement award ceremony in 1974, he had lost and his vision had markedly improved.

At the induction ceremony, the band's inner rift became apparent when Jones joked upon accepting his award, " Thank you, my friends, for finally remembering my phone number ", causing consternation and awkward looks from Page and Plant.

He boycotted the award ceremony, sending instead American Indian Rights activist Sacheen Littlefeather, who appeared in full Apache dress, to state Brando's reasons, which were based on his objection to the depiction of American Indians by Hollywood and television.

Crowe won the best actor award for A Beautiful Mind at the 2002 BAFTA award ceremony, as well as the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for the same performance.

Widely read and loved in the Soviet Union, Bradbury relates the following meeting with Sergei Bondarchuk, director of soviet 1967 epic War and Peace, at a Hollywood award ceremony in Bondarchuk's honor: " They formed a long queue and as Bondarchuk was walking along it he recognized several people:

The shapeshifter was successful at beginning the war with the Cardassians but inadvertently revealed himself to Odo ( who had been misled into believing that Chancellor Gowron was the shapeshifter ) at a Klingon award ceremony, and was quickly killed by the Klingons attending the ceremony.

She did not appear at the ceremony to receive her award.

* Special Award, Olivier Award, 2011, " in recognition of his contribution to London theatre "; the award was presented at the ceremony by Cameron Mackintosh and Angela Lansbury.

Many conventions also have an Artist, Editor, and Science guests, and most have a Toastmaster for major events such as the opening and closing ceremonies and the Hugo award ceremony.

The award ceremony was held on February 29, 1940 in Berkeley, California due to the war, in the auditorium of Wheeler Hall on the campus of the university with Lawrence receiving his medal from Carl E. Wallerstedt, Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.

In November 2004, Queen were among the inaugural inductees into the UK Music Hall of Fame, and the award ceremony was the first event at which Rodgers joined May and Taylor as vocalist.

Kathryn served as Miss Golden Globe at the 2005 ceremony where she presented Eastwood with an award for Million Dollar Baby.

Because of the large number of award categories ( 78 in 2012 ), and the desire to feature several performances by various artists, only the ones with the most popular interest are presented directly at the televised award ceremony.

At the 1999 ceremony Benigni received the award for Best Actor ( the first for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role, and only the third overall acting Oscar for non-English-speaking roles ), the score by Nicola Piovani won Best Original Dramatic Score, and the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which Benigni accepted as the film's director.

I look forward to spending an evening in the company of artists I admire at the award ceremony in May.

The Nobel prize is presented to the recipient ( s ) at an annual ceremony on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death, along with a diploma and a certificate for the monetary award.

-- The granting of the Jan Masaryk award August 13 to Senator Paul Douglas is a bitter example of misleading minorities.

In connection with any claim decided by the Commission pursuant to this Title in which an award is made, the Commission may, upon the written request of the claimant or any attorney heretofore or hereafter employed by such claimant, determine and apportion the just and reasonable attorney's fees for services rendered with respect to such claim, but the total amount of the fees so determined in any case shall not exceed 10 per centum of the total amount paid pursuant to the award.

Subject to the limitations hereinafter provided, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, as prescribed by Section 8 of this Title, an amount not exceeding the principal of each award, plus accrued interests on such awards as bear interest, certified pursuant to Section 5 of this Title, in accordance with the award.

Payments made pursuant to this Title shall be made only to the person or persons on behalf of whom the award is made, except that -- ( 1 )

if such person is deceased or is under a legal disability, payment shall be made to his legal representative: Provided, That if the total award is not over $500 and there is no qualified executor or administrator, payment may be made to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto, without the necessity of compliance with the requirements of law with respect to the administration of estates ; ;

in the case of a partnership or corporation, the existence of which has been terminated and on behalf of which an award is made, payment shall be made, except as provided in paragraphs ( 3 ) and ( 4 ), to the person or persons found by the Comptroller General of the United States to be entitled thereto ; ;

if a receiver or trustee for any such partnership or corporation, duly appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States, makes an assignment of the claim, or any part thereof, with respect to which an award is made, or makes an assignment of such award, or any part thereof, payment shall be made to the assignee, as his interest may appear ; ;

in the case of any assignment of an award, or any part thereof, which is made in writing and duly acknowledged and filed, after such award is certified to the Secretary of the Treasury, payment may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be made to the assignee, as his interest may appear.

Good workmanship is important in the installation, so if you're doing your own contracting, don't award the job on the basis of price alone.

Publicity is given to the award of patents to our engineers and financial support is provided for individual membership in technical societies.

The award is the first such honor in the 11-year history of JA activities in Portland, according to Ralph Scolatti, local executive director for Junior Achievement.

As a Neiman-Marcus award winner the titian-haired Miss Garson is a personification of the individual look so important to fashion this season.

In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

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.

He then switched from physics to mathematics, and in 1960 he received his bachelor of science degree, simultaneously receiving his master of science degree by a special award of the faculty who considered his work outstanding.

This seven-judge procedure has been modified as of the 2012 London Olympics: rather than eliminating one high and one low award and then reducing the total by as in previous international events, the two highest awards and the two lowest are disregarded, leaving three to be summed and multiplied by the difficulty rating.

The decision to award so much of Romania to the Hungarians was Hitler's, as Ribbentrop himself spent most of the Vienna conference loudly attacking the Hungarian delegation for their coolness towards attacking Czechoslovakia in 1938 and then demanding more than their fair share of the spoils.

Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.

In some styles ( such as fencing and some styles of Taekwondo sparring ), competitors score points based on the landing of a single technique or strike as judged by the referee, whereupon the referee will briefly stop the match, award a point, then restart the match.

In 1973 and 1974, North's wingman Keith Greig won consecutive Brownlow Medals ; forward Malcolm Blight then won the award in 1978.

The band then spent much of 2004 touring throughout Brazil, Europe, Japan, and the U. S. The group won the Act-of-the-Year award in the 2004 Boston Music Awards.

An added complication is that a number of field commanders would engage in bedside presentations of the Purple Heart which would typically entail a general entering a hospital with a box of Purple Hearts, pinning them on the pillows of wounded service members, and then departing with no official records kept of the visit or the award of the Purple Heart.

While the Pacific Railroad Act was to award the eastern contract to the newly formed Union Pacific, it was left up to then President Lincoln to formally choose the location for the railroad to start and Lincoln in 1862 was to follow the advice of his former client.

She appeared in the 1975 screen adaptation of the Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone directed by Alfred Vohrer, released in English as Everyone Dies Alone in 1976 and for which she won an award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Carlsbad, then in Czechoslovakia.

If a member of the United States Army or Air Force earns multiple awards of the same medal, then instead of wearing a ribbon or medal for each award, he or she wears one metal representation of an " oak leaf cluster " attached to the appropriate ribbon for each subsequent award.

Guilhem Molinier, a member of the Consistori del Gay Saber, which was the first literary academy in the world and held the Floral Games to award the best troubadour with the violeta d ' aur top prize, gave a definition of the syllable in his Leys d ' amor ( 1328 – 1337 ), a book aimed at regulating the then flourishing Occitan poetry:

Heydon JA ( as he then was ) said there is no power to give punitive damages in respect of a claim in equity, although he was content to decide the case on the narrower ground that there is no power to award punitive damages for the specific equitable wrong in issue.

The award, given annually to an FDA staff member, came 50 years after Kelsey, then a new medical officer at the agency, first reviewed the application from the William S. Merrell Company of Cincinnati.

Gullit's exploits with first PSV and then Milan helped him win the European Footballer of the Year award in 1987 which he dedicated to Nelson Mandela.

InfoWorld magazine editor Stewart Alsop helped popularize its use in this way by lampooning Bill Gates, then CEO of Microsoft, with a Golden Vaporware award for the 18-month late release of Microsoft's first version of Windows in 1985.

Only one horse since then, Favorite Trick in 1997, has won that award as a two-year-old.

Scott did not turn down the New York Film Critics Award for his performance ( of which his then wife Colleen Dewhurst said, " George thinks this is the only film award worth having ").

He then returned to New York to attend Columbia Law School where he won the Moot Court award.

In 1848, however, the populace rose against Austria, more violently then in any other Italian centre apart from Milan and Brescia ( the city would receive the highest award for military valour for the courage displayed by revolutionaries in this period ).

Post Office Department officials, realizing the need for faster mail service, had begun drawing up a contract to award to either the Plant System ( then known as the Savannah, Florida and Western ) or the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, both of which operated south of the ACL termination point of Charleston, South Carolina.

If the judgment is for the plaintiff, then the defendant must comply under penalty of law with the judgment, which will usually be a monetary award.

The HFPA has had a lucrative contract with NBC for decades, which began broadcasting the award ceremony locally in Los Angeles in 1958, then nationally in 1964.