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3 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 .
3 days ago · Most awards or nominations. Most awards won by a single film: 11. Three films have won 11 Academy Awards: Ben-Hur (1959): nominated in 12 of the 15 possible categories. Titanic (1997): nominated in 14 of the 17 possible categories. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003): nominated in 11 of the 17 possible categories.
2 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
1 day ago · Most critics and scholars agree that the Golden Age of Hollywood reigned between 1915 and the mid-1960s. However, the true height of this period, when the "Big Five" major film studios maintained their greatest display of power, lasted from the end of the silent era in the late 1920s to the birth of the New Hollywood movement in the mid to late 1960s.
5 days 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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3 days ago · At the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, previously known as the Australian Film Institute Awards, Gallipoli received 12 nominations, winning Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor in a Lead Role, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted, Best Achievement in Sound, Best Achievement in Editing, and Best Achievement in Cinematography.
15 hours ago · Though Russell Crowe, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Maximus in "Gladiator," won't be returning for "Gladiator II" (he kinda died in the first one), cinematographer John ...
