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.

While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.

Raimi ran into further troubles with the Motion Picture Association of America over the film's rating.

Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface and Body Double, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.

They had been there six months when Chaplin's manager received a telegram, asking " Is there a man named Chaffin in your company or something like that " with the request that that this comedian contact the New York Motion Picture Company.

Some rare comic books include copies of the unreleased Motion Picture Funnies Weekly No. 1 from 1939.

The Motion Picture Association successfully obtained a UK ruling enforcing ISPs to use content-control software to prevent copyright infringement by their subscribers.

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, " As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films.

Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.

the Extra-Terrestrial, which made her one of the most famous child stars of the time and earned her the Young Artist Award as Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1982.

She received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences, in which she starred as a young girl divorcing her parents.

He has since been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme.

* ( 1987 ) Nominated – Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture / Hoosiers

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers began work on standards for digital cinema in 2000.

While much of the specification codifies work that had already been ongoing in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ( SMPTE ), the specification is important in establishing a content owner framework for the distribution and security of first-release motion picture content.

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* Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture, from the Mystery Writers of America, for The Thin Blue Line ( 1989 )

But she was also a hit with the critics ; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.

On 13 November 2010, at the age of 94, Wallach received an Honorary Academy Award for his contribution to the film industry at the 2010 Governor's Awards ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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.

In 2010, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to honor him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award at the 2nd Governor's Awards in November.

* Motion Picture Editors Guild ( MPEG )

Austin Film Festival is accredited by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ®, making all Jury Award-winning Narrative Short and Animated Short films eligible for an Academy Award ®.

The George Eastman company, the only manufacturer of film stock in the United States, was also part of the combine, which was called the Motion Picture Patents Company ( MPPC ), and Eastman Kodak agreed to only supply the members with film stock.

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.

The Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors Association ( MPPDA ), which later became the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ), adopted the code in 1930, began enforcing it in 1934, and abandoned it in 1968, in favor of the subsequent MPAA film rating system.

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