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5 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film. The category's original name was Best Art Direction, but was changed to its current name in 2012 for the 85th Academy Awards. [1] This change resulted from the Art Directors' branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) being ...
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3 days ago · Films with the most nominations: All About Eve , Titanic , and La La Land each earned 14 Academy Award nominations. Film with the highest clean sweep: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ) won all 11 Academy Awards from its 11 nominations.
1 day ago · The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) won in every category for which it was nominated: Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Makeup, Costume Design, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects; Most total awards won by a person: 22 Walt Disney
Apr 22, 2024 · The Academy's decision to award Roman Polanski the Oscar at the 75th Academy Awards for Best Director was a controversial one. In their 2023 Los Angeles Times article , Justin Chang and Glenn Whipp referred to 2003 as “the Harvey Weinstein Oscars.”
Apr 30, 2024 · The film was critically acclaimed, and Lee’s direction won him an Oscar. Life of Pi Suraj Sharma and a digitally created tiger in Life of Pi (2012), directed by Ang Lee.
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Apr 19, 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 .
3 days ago · 2005: Jamie Foxx. Foxx won his Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of legendary soul musician Ray Charles in Ray. “Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy,” Foxx said in his speech ...
