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2 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 .
3 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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4 days ago · Clint Eastwood won Academy Awards for best picture and best director for Unforgiven (1992), a film that takes an unsentimental look at frontier violence, and Million Dollar Baby (2004), about an aspiring female boxer.
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5 days ago · Its breathtaking photography and its many memorable songs, among them “My Favorite Things” and the title song, helped it to become an enduring classic. The nearly three-hour-long movie was nominated for 10 Academy Awards and won five, including those for best picture and best director.
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3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films. In 1941, the first awards for feature-length documentaries were bestowed as Special Awards to Kukan and Target for Tonight. [ 1] They have since been bestowed competitively each year, with the exception of 1946. [ 2]
1 day ago · The 21st Academy Awards were held on March 24, 1949, honoring the films of 1948. The ceremony was moved from the Shrine Auditorium to the Academy's own theater, primarily because the major Hollywood studios had withdrawn their financial support in order to address rumors that they had been trying to influence voters. [ 2]
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3 days ago · Jeffrey C. Stewart is Professor of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he served as department chair from 2008-2016. His book The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke won several awards, including the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction, the 2019 James A. Rawley Prize for History from the Organization of American Historians and the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for ...
