academy awards

The Academy Awards is the annual ceremony where the American motion picture industry honors the top achievements in film for the year. Awards are handed out in numerous categories — including the top prizes for best motion picture, best director, best actor and actress, and best supporting actor and actress — by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences.

The awards, called Oscars for short, are the highest honor that a film can receive. The history of the Oscars reads like a veritable history of Hollywood royalty.

Each year, the nationally televised Oscars show is seen by millions of viewers, and draws some of the years biggest television ratings. Many tune in hoping just as much to see the outrageous antics of Hollywood celebrities on the red carpet — and who is wearing or saying what — as they do to cheer on their favorite movies and actors. For Hollywood itself, its biggest night is marked as much by glitzy parties as it is by the awards themselves.

In the blogosphere, Oscar is also a very big deal. Some bloggers will log their awards predictions, while others follow the action at the parties.

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• Oscars: Even More Animated

  
  Blog@Newsarama — Authority: 648
  Welcome to the new and current Academy Awards. Sure, there are your dramas and your foreign films, but this year, animation is where the action is. Twenty animated films from this lackluster year of film have been chosen and submitted to the Academy for consideration. These twenty films cover all aspects of ...
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• Mary and Max enters the Oscar race!

  
  QUICKFLIX BLOG — Authority: 131
  source: variety.com The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have announced the shortlist of films that will compete for Best Animated Feature at next years Oscar ceremony. Australias own Mary and Max is one of 20 films that are under consideration. One of the Academy rules is that if more than 16 ...
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• Twenty animated features submitted for Oscars

  
  The Pixar Blog — Authority: 120
  A record twenty animated feature films, including Pixars Up, have been submitted to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (A.M.P.A.S) for consideration in the Best Animated Feature Film category at the upcoming 82nd Academy Awards.According to A.M.P.A.S. rules, if at least sixteen of the films qualify for ...
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• Twenty Films Submitted for Best Animated Oscar, Resulting In Five Nominees Instead of Three

  
  /Film — Authority: 776
  The best animated feature Oscar is a category that has been limited in the past few years to only three nominees. At least sixteen films must be submitted each year to push the category to include five nominated films. This year, for the first time since the category was created in 2001, the Academy has twenty ...
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• Oscars get record 20 animation entries

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  The Disney film "Up" is among the record 20 films that have been submitted for best animated feature at next years Academy Awards.
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• 20 Animated Features Line Up for 2009 Oscar® Race

  
  We Are Movie Geeks — Authority: 585
    A huge embrace for animated movies was made by AMPAS today as 20 films made the cut in the Animated Feature film category, although I think 5 will be nominated for the final ballot. Even the Alvin Squeakquel was shown some love.  From AMPAS : Beverly Hills, CA (November 11, 2009) — Twenty features have ...
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• Academy Awards to Include Five Animated Nominations

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 754
  Im so pleased to learn from IndieWIRE that five animated features will probably be in the running for a 2009 Academy Award. If fewer than 16 films are eligible, then only three films end up on the list of nominees. But the shortlist released today by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences includes 20 ...
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• Up Leads List of 20 Potential Animated Nominees

  
  Get The Big Picture — Authority: 583
  Heres the list of the 20 films that have already been submitted for the Best Animated Feature category at the Academy Awards. Now, with Up a very likely Best Picture nominee, that kind of undercuts this category. Weve mentioned this before: If Up is in the running for Best Picture and, say, Ponyo wins Best ...
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• Oscar 2010: Animated Feature Semi-Finalists

  
  Alternative Film Guide — Authority: 443
  Up by Pete Docter (top); A Town Called Panic by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar (middle); Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson (bottom)Twenty features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 2010 Academy Awards. They are:Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel Astro Boy ...
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• 20 animated movies in running for Oscar noms

  
  Mad About the Movies — Authority: 122
  A particularly robust selection of animated movies, including "Up," are in contention for the Oscar for best animated feature. Twenty titles will be whittled to a maximum of five when nominations will be announced Feb. 2. Here is the press release from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Beverly Hills, ...
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• Ooops — strike 2012 off your Oscars best-picture list

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 660
  Since part of an Oscar pundits job is to jump off cliffs, bravely and spectacularly, we salute New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick for daring to forecast a best-picture nomination for " 2012 ," the upcoming apocalypse thriller from Roland Emmerich , director of "The Day After Tomorrow," "Godzilla" and ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines — Authority: 467
  By Dave Karger Dave Karger IDs front-runners and contenders in the acting, director, and Best Picture races as we head into the homestretch for eligibility
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• Oscars to arrive late at the Precious party?

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 660
  If all of us huffy Oscar "experts" remain so smug about " Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire " being a front-runner in many top categories, wheres the actual support within the academy , eh? Attendance was modest at its recent, official academy screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. By contrast, the ...
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• Slumdog Millionaire grabs 5 nods at European Film Awards

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 505
  LOS ANGELES: Slumdog Millionaire has not yet finished its victorious run at award ceremonies as the Mumbai-based potboiler has picked up five nods at the 2009 European Film Awards. While British director Danny Boyle has been nominated for the award of ‘Best European Director’, Dev Patel has been nominated to ...
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• Oscar Predictions Yearn for Surprises

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 164
  The Wrap’s Steve Pond runs down the predictions thus far . He does a good job, I think, of summing it all up and reminding his readers that there are still some big question marks left dangling. This is going to change within the next few weeks. Take a deep breath. We must once again invoke the great Iggy Pop ...
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• Up in the Air Songs Pulled from Oscar Race

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 754
  Well, its November, which means the awards contenders are steadily coming out of the woodwork, and just as we have the Academy Awards to look forward to, we also have their fine print to tolerate. The first of this years disqualifications naturally come from the music end of things, the same category that didnt see ...
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• The Year in Film: 1929 – 1930

  
  News from the Boston Becks — Authority: 119
  My Top 10: The final poignant moment in All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front City Girl Arsenal Hell’s Angels The General Line Under the Roofs of Paris The Great Gabbo Anna Christie Blackmail Diary of a Lost Girl Academy Awards: Best Production:   All ...
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• Mickey Rourke makes Oscar a must-win

  
  House Of Chatter — Authority: 132
  Mickey Rourke has made it one of his life’s goals to snare an Oscar. Rourke, 57, narrowly missed out on a Best Actor award at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony – to his great friend Sean Penn, who won for Milk. Rourke, who had been nominated for The Wrestler, said, “I knew I wasn’t going to win the Oscar ...
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• Precious star Gabby Sidibe sneaked in and was watching us!

  
  Gold Derby — Authority: 660
  Heres a great interview with the future best-actress Oscar winner — Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe , star of " Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire ." This chat aired this morning on CBS "The Early Show" and is noteworthy for several reasons. It reveals how vastly different Gabby is as a person from the ...
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• Paltrow Joins Kidman in Tranny Drama for Oscar Glory

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 727
  It was reported yesterday that Academy Award-Winner Nicole Kidman will be joined by Academy Award-Stealer-From-Cate-Blanchett Gwyneth Paltrow in The Danish Girl, a new movie about the first post-operative transsexual, Einar Wegener, directed by the man who brought us our favorite kiddie-vampire movie not starring ...
  3 days ago

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