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3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry.
2 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material. It was created in 1940 as a separate writing award from the Academy Award for Best Story.
2 days ago · The Good Shepherd was nominated for Best Art Direction at the 79th Academy Awards. [162] Finally in 2006, he voiced the character Emperor Sifrat XVI in Arthur and the Invisibles . [ 163 ]
1 day ago · Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly called Oscar.
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Sep 10, 2024 · award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. It honors the film deemed the best of a given year—as determined by the academy’s voting members—and is typically regarded as the most prestigious of the various Academy Awards.
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4 days ago · Titanic was nominated for 14 Academy Awards, tying the record set by All About Eve (1950), and it won 11, equaling the record set by Ben-Hur (1959), which was later matched by Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
3 days ago · The nine awards were: Best Picture, Best Director for Bernardo Bertolucci, Best Writing: Based On Material From Another Medium, Best Cinematogrophy, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing and Best Scoring: Original Music.
