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3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing. The award used to go to the studio sound departments until a rule change in 1969 said it should be awarded to the specific technicians.
1 day ago · 06/28/2024. Chuck Berry 'Revival69' Courtesy of Greenwich Entertainment. Ron Chapman thought making a documentary about the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival concert in 1969 would be “a no ...
3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film.
4 days ago · Martha Raye received a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1969; Kay Rose received a Special Achievement Academy Award for Sound Effects Editing of The River in 1985; Kathleen Kennedy received an Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2018; First non-English language film to win Best Picture. Parasite (2019), in Korean
1 day ago · After producing the successful Toronto Pop Festival in June 1969, concert promoter John Brower decided to organize a sequel of sorts, this time leaning towards the rock genre. He initially booked classic rock acts such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, and Chuck Berry, but also added a newcomer: Alice Cooper, who also backed Gene Vincent.
4 days ago · What was unusual about Midnight Cowboy winning the Best Picture Oscar for 1969? Midnight Cowboy, American dramatic film, released in 1969, that depicted the squalid lives and desperate friendship of two broken drifters and became the only X-rated (meaning that only adults could see it) movie to win an Academy Award for best picture (the movie's rating was later changed to R).
3 days ago · As part of its long-term effort to update and diversify its membership, the Recording Academy — home of the Grammy Awards — has extended membership invitations to more than 3,900 established music professionals spanning diverse backgrounds, genres and disciplines. According to the announcement, the 2024 class of invitees is 45% women, 57% people of color and …
