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4 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 . The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was ...
- Excellence in Cinematic Direction Achievement
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- ((John Ford)) (5)
3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and even other films and film characters.
1 day ago · Until the Academy Awards for 1945 (awarded in 1946) any number of songs could be nominated for the award. For the 1945 awards, 14 songs were nominated. From 1946 to 2011, each member of the Music Branch of the Academy was asked to vote using a points system of 10, 9.5, 9, 8.5, 8, 7.5, 7, 6.5 or 6 points.
- United States
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
3 days ago · The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer. [1] Some pre-existing music is allowed, though, but a contending film must ...
- February 27, 1935; 88 years ago
- Alfred Newman (9)
1 day ago · Nichols was the first EGOT winner to win the Grammy as their first award, the first winner to have won multiple awards for directing (an Oscar, several Tonys, and two Emmys) . When counting all awards won—not just the first of each type—Nichols has the longest timespan of awards among EGOT winners, at 51 years. Academy Awards:
2 days ago · Cooper received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay for directorial film debut A Star is Born (2018). Cooper then received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture for Todd Phillips' Joker (2019), and Guillermo del Toro's Nightmare Alley (2021).
1 day ago · Among them, she has won an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award and a BAFTA Award. She is the first Australian to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2003, Kidman received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the motion picture industry.
