Sentences with phrase «academy awards given»

If there were Academy Awards given for the best Internet dating sites, it would be at the annual Internet Dating Conference, held in Miami Beach, Florida on January 23 -30, 2012.

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The deal gives iQiyi streaming rights to a list of about 200 Warner Bros. movies, from the Harry Potter film franchise to Academy Award - winner Gravity.

The Academy really has to reach sometimes to give an award out in this category.

It turns out giving away a Jet Ski and surprising a theater full of people watching «A Wrinkle in Time» wasn't enough to suck people into watching the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday.

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Colbert later poked fun at Trump, calling him «the biggest TV star of the last year,» and criticizing the television academy for not previously giving Trump an Emmy award.

The peace prize has gotten around the limitation by awarding the prize to an organization rather than an individual, and Norden says that the «physicists have been tempted... to give it to a whole institution,» such as CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland, but the Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the physics and chemistry prizes, «will not allow that.»

A professor of physics at the University of Vienna and scientific director of the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Zeilinger was awarded the first Newton Medal, given by the British Institute of Physics, and the 2010 Wolf Prize in Physics.

Among his other awards, Scheller was made Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998, Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000, and given the Life Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award at the University of Wisconsin - Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in 2009.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in physics today to theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englert to recognize their work developing the theory of what is now known as the Higgs field, which gives elementary particles mass.

Held in Los Angeles, California, this award ceremony is more officially known as the Academy Awards, where again, 24 golden statues are given out by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for artistic and -LSB-...]

The stars dazzled in Hollywood at the Academy Awards last night, giving us an exciting sneak peak into beauty trends we can expect to see this spring.

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This database contains transcripts of the onstage acceptance speeches given by Academy Award winners and acceptors.

And he left something of a legacy to Hollywood through his actress daughter Jennifer Edwards and screenwriter son Geoffrey Edwards.In 2004, just when the world began to think it might never again hear from Edwards, the filmmaker gave a slapsticky acceptance speech in response to an honorary Academy Award.

Also in 1999, he could be seen playing a loan shark who gives Anjelica Huston a hard time in Huston's Agnes Browne.Winstone gained wide international notice for his starring role in 2000's Sexy Beast, holding his own opposite Ben Kingsley, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance.

The movie earned the first Academy Award ever given for Best Picture, and Wellman's career was made.

(As with Brokeback Mountain, it may be the case that the Academy is prepared to welcome films about gay politics and gay sexuality, but not to the extent of giving them the best picture award.)

Nominees for the Producers Guild Awards are endorsed as the predictor of eligibility for producing honors given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), and the Television Academy.

It's almost impossible to believe that the songwriter who gave us «Nothing's Gon na Stop Us Now» and «Don't Wan na Miss a Thing» has never won an Academy Award.

All four major acting category winners at the Academy Awards in 2010 were first Critics» Choice Movie Awards winners in the same categories and were present at the January 15, 2010 ceremony to graciously give their first acceptance speeches of the awards sAwards in 2010 were first Critics» Choice Movie Awards winners in the same categories and were present at the January 15, 2010 ceremony to graciously give their first acceptance speeches of the awards sAwards winners in the same categories and were present at the January 15, 2010 ceremony to graciously give their first acceptance speeches of the awards sawards season.

In any given year, Grauman's Chinese Theatre hosts over 40 red carpet film premieres and since it opened, it has hosted three Academy Award (R) ceremonies and numerous world premieres, including those for internationally - acclaimed film franchises, such as Star Wars and Harry Potter.

Even the customary Oscar gift bags given to top nominees before Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony indicated that this year's celebration would be anything but show business as usual.

Because the 90th edition of the Academy Awards might just be the mother of all Oscar telecasts, given how many potential female nominees are on the mommy track this year.

For his directorial debut, Andy Serkis brings to life the inspiring true love story between Robin and Diana Cavendish (Academy Award ® nominee Andrew Garfield, Golden Globe ® winner Claire Foy), an adventurous couple who refuse to give up...

Given that SAG treat the Best Ensemble category as their own Best Picture honor, the award has, in years past, been an indicator of shifting momentum in the Academy's top race: «Shakespeare in Love» and «Crash» both foreshadowed their Oscar night upsets in this category.

Far be it from me to insult a child, but this is a foolish nomination and luckily the Academy won't be foolish enough to follow through with giving her the award.

The awards will be given out, as usual, on Santa Monica Beach the night before the Academy Awards — this year on Feb. 27 — and aired live oawards will be given out, as usual, on Santa Monica Beach the night before the Academy Awards — this year on Feb. 27 — and aired live oAwards — this year on Feb. 27 — and aired live on IFC.

Frances McDormand gave a powerful acceptance speech at the 90th Academy Awards when she won the Oscar for Best Actress, asking all the women nominees at the awards show to stand and be recogAwards when she won the Oscar for Best Actress, asking all the women nominees at the awards show to stand and be recogawards show to stand and be recognized.

I admit my outrage with the film grew in direct proportion to the accolades it got, so when I saw her get the award, I just had had enough (correction: that was when the Academy snubbed 86 - year - old Emmanuelle Riva to give the Oscar to Jennifer Lawrence, but that's a whole other story).

Brie Larson walked away from the 88th Academy Awards with a Best Actress statuette for her devastating, widely praised performance in Room as a young woman who spends years confined in a filthy shed, cut off from the outside world before finally being given her freedom.

The screenplay categories are where the Academy often gives an award to a multi-nominated film that isn't going to pick up one of the top prizes — see Alexander Payne.

Working from an adaptation of James Sallis» eponymous novel by Academy Award nominee Hossein Amini, director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson) delivers a movie that pulses with an unwavering, premium - unleaded sense of purpose, giving its no - frills story a sense of supremely heightened stakes.

The Director's Guild Of America awards have already been handed out, giving Guillermo del Toro one of several major victories on his path to potentially (and seemingly likely) winning Best Director at the Academy Aawards have already been handed out, giving Guillermo del Toro one of several major victories on his path to potentially (and seemingly likely) winning Best Director at the Academy AwardsAwards.

In an effort to do right where the Academy effed up, I give you the Travers Awards — my own personal version of the Alt - Oscars.

Eddie Murphy has threatened to relieve himself onstage at the Oscars if the big show's bosses don't give him an Academy Award for achievement soon.

, prompting the Academy to give him the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award — an honorary Oscar that, like most such prizes, was really a consolation prize to a master who deserved far more.

But by that point the Board had already given Spielberg two Best Picture awards, for 1985's «The Color Purple» (the Academy chose «Out of Africa») and 1987's «Empire of the Sun» (the Academy went with «The Last Emperor»), both of which have aged quite well and were not properly appreciated by critics upon first release.

You do see some overlap between the NBR awards and the Oscars, of course — the awards in 1980 and 1982, to name but two years, were pretty close to those of the Academy, and the Board gave their award for Best Picture of 1989, the year of «Do the Right Thing,» to «Driving Miss Daisy,» for crying out loud; like the Oscars, they have a weakness for White Elephant - type biopics and costume dramas — but there are more years when the winners (not the nominees!)

The goodie bags are not officially endorsed by the Academy Awards - the board was forced to stop giving out gifts themselves in 2006 after a dispute with the US Internal Revenue Service.

Academy Award - winning actress Kate Winslet, in a recent interview given to the Hollywood Reporter, has branded disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein as «horrible to deal with».

Academy Award ® nominee Gary Oldman gives a «towering performance» (Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair) in acclaimed director Joe Wright's soaring drama Darkest Hour.

In 1969, the Academy saw fit to give «Midnight Cowboy» the award for Best Picture — a first ever for an X-rated film.

SHOWTIME has given a pilot order to WHITE FAMOUS, a half - hour comedy executive produced by Academy Award (R) winner Jamie Foxx and Tom Kapinos.

«She gave Steven Spielberg a cookie and he ate it, which just goes to show you that even when you're 50 years old and hosting the Academy Awards, you can still be embarrassed by mommy at work.»

Even though he believed he would never win an Academy Award, Clint Eastwood finally received the Academy's attention, even if, as he had stated, he really didn't give a damn about the whole ceremony.

After months and months of lead up and speculation (not to mention an endless string of precursor awards), the Academy Awards were finally given out, and the results were almost as unpredictable as we'd all been sawards), the Academy Awards were finally given out, and the results were almost as unpredictable as we'd all been sAwards were finally given out, and the results were almost as unpredictable as we'd all been saying.

Emmy - winning actress Viola Davis says she would not blame the Academy for the lack of diversity at the upcoming awards but the Hollywood filmmaking system, which gives less opportunities to a colour artists.

The season two finale of Wayward Pines airs tomorrow (Wednesday, June 27th), and to whet your appetite we've got our hands on two tracks from the final score by Charlie Clouser; give them a listen here... SEE ALSO: Exclusive: Composer Charlie Clouser talks Wayward Pines season 2 Starring Jason Patric («Rush,» «Narc»), two - time Academy Award -LSB-...]

The beginning of the Oscars telecast, Jimmy Kimmel's introductory bit about the old Hollywood giving way to the new, featured a symbolic transformation: the Hollywood of the past — black and white, but so deeply monochromatic — transitioning, just as the 90th Academy Awards ceremony began, to a depiction in full and vibrant color.