The Academy Honorary Award is given irregularly by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to celebrate motion picture achievements that are not covered by existing Academy Awards. In the early years of the academy, it was often used to reward significant achievements of the year that did not fit in existing categories. This subsequently led to several new categories. In recent years the academy has awarded ...

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The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and arguably the world. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5,816. Actors (with a membership of 1,311) make up the largest voting bloc. The most recent awards were the 77th Academy Awards. Academy Award - Oscar Statuette. The official name of the Oscarreretre statuette is the "A ...

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Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American film and television actress. Born Ruby Katherine Stevens in New York City to Byron Stevens (the son of English immigrants) and Catherine McGee (whose parents were Irish). Her mother died when she was four, not long before her father abandoned the family. She was raised by an elder sister but began working at age 1 ...

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Blake Edwards (b. July 26, 1922) is a American film director and producer. Born William Blake McEdwards in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of a stage director. He was originally an actor and script-writer (seven Richard Quine film scripts). His most popular films have been comedies, the alcoholism-themed melodrama Days of Wine and Roses being a notable exception. His most fruitful collaboration has been with Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther movies. Efforts to revive the Panther franchise after the death of Sel ...

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He won the Academy Award as Best Actor in 1957 for his role in Bridge on the River Kwai. He was nominated again in 1958 for his screenplay adapted from Joyce Cary's novel The Horse's Mouth. He also received an Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievements in 1980. He was appointed CBE in 1955, and was knighted in 1959. He became a Companion of Honour in 1994 at the age of 80. He also has a sta ...

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Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey. He was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. It was his father, Gerard Kerr Olivier, an Anglican priest, who decided that Laurence - or Kim as the family called him - would become an actor. His stage breakthrough was as in Noel Coward's Private Lives (in 1930), and in Romeo and Juliet (in 1935) alternating the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with John Gielgud. His film breakthrough was his portrayal of Heathcliff in ...

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Born Michael Sinnott in Richmond, Quebec, Canada Sennett was a son of Irish Catholic immigrant farmers; his father was a blacksmith in the small Eastern Townships village. At age seventeen his family moved to Connecticut. In New York City, Sennett became a singer, dancer, clown, actor (mostly playing low comedy parts, usually oafish rural types), set designer and director for Biograph. With financial backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman of the New York Motion Picture Company, in 1912 Sennett founded Keystone Studios i ...

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Laurence Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey. He was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. It was his father, Gerard Kerr Olivier, an Anglican priest, who decided that Laurence - or Kim as the family called him - would become an actor. His stage breakthrough was as in Noel Coward's Private Lives (in 1930), and in Romeo and Juliet (in 1935) alternating the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with John Gielgud. His film breakthrough was his portrayal of Heathcliff in ...

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Kolkata has been regarded since ages as the cultural capital of India. It is famous for the book-fairs every winter. The International Book Fair held by the Publishers and Booksellers Guild every year is the biggest fair in Kolkata, one of the biggest festivals in Kolkata, and the only truly secular one. People from every walk of life converge on the Fair Grounds to buy books, eat food and celebrate the spirit of books. It is a cultur ...

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The "Academy Award of Merit" is given in many categories, including the following: Best Picture – 1928 to present Best Actor – 1928 to present Best Actress – 1928 to present Best Supporting Actor – 1936 to present Best Supporting Actress – 1936 to present Best Animated Feature – 2001 to present Best Art Direction – 1928 to present (also called Interior or Set Decoration) Best Assistant Director – 1933 to 1937See also:

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One Reels 1. The Violin Maker of Cremona. 6/7/09. 2. The Lonely Villa. 6/10/09. 3. The Son's Return. 6/14/09. 4. Faded Lilies. 6/14/09. 5. Her First Biscuits. 6/17/09. 6. The Peach-Basket Hat. 6/24/09. 7. The Way of Man. 6/28/09. 8. The Necklace. 7/1/09. 9. The Country Doctor. 7/8/09. 10. The Cardinal's Conspiracy. 7/12/09. 11. The Renunciation. 7/19/09. 12. Sweet and Twenty. 7/22/09. 13. The Slave. 7/29/09. 14. A Strange Meeting. 8/2/09. 15. They Would Elope. 8/9/09. 16. His Wife's Visitor. 8/19/ ...

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Academy Award - Academy Award of Merit. Best Picture – 1928 to present Best Actor – 1928 to present Best Actress – 1928 to present Best Supporting Actor – 1936 to present Best Supporting Actress – 1936 to present Best Animated Feature – 2001 to present Best Art Direction – 1928 to present (also called Interior or Set Decoration) Best Cinematography – 1928 to present Costume ...

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In March 1938 Mack Sennett was presented with an Academy Honorary Award, For his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a special award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius, Mack Sennett. For his contribution to the motion picture industry Sennett was given a star on the Hollywo ...

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Sennett occasionally experimented with color and was the first to get a talkie short subject on the market in 1928. In 1932 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film in the comedy division for producing The Loud Mouth and won in the novelty division for Wrestling Swordfish. Less successful films such as Hypnotized (with blackface comedians Mack and Moran) were produced in the early 1930s near the end of his career, when he sold his catalog of films to Warner Brothers. As moviegoers' tastes changed ...

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The major awards are given out at a ceremony usually in March following the relevant calendar year. This is an elaborate extravaganza, with the invited guests walking up the red carpet in the creations of the most prominent fashion designers of the day. The ceremony and extravagant afterparties, including the Academy's Governors Ball, are televised around the world. The ceremony has consecutively aired on ABC since 1976. ...

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The "Academy Award of Merit" is given in many categories, including the following: Best Picture – 1928 to present Best Actor – 1928 to present Best Actress – 1928 to present Best Supporting Actor – 1936 to present Best Supporting Actress – 1936 to present Best Animated Feature – 2001 to present Best Art Direction – 1928 to present (also called Interior or Set Decoration) Best Assistant Director – 1933 to 1937See also:

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Pickford married three times. She first married Owen Moore (1886 - 1939), an Irish-born silent-film actor, on January 7, 1911. The couple had numerous marital problems, notably Moore's alcoholism, and Pickford became secretly involved in a romantic relationship with Douglas Fairbanks, an action-adventure film-star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and Fairbanks was discussing the ...

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In 1921, the Motion Picture Relief Fund (MPRF) was incorporated with Joseph Schenck voted its first president and Mary Pickford as its vice president. In 1932, Pickford spearheaded the "Payroll Pledge Program," a payroll deduction plan for studio workers who gave one-half of one percent of their earnings to the MPRF. As a result, in 1940 the Fund was able to purchase the land and build the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital. Mary Pickford also became one of the film industry's most successful producers. According to her Foundat ...

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For the last 50-odd years of her life, Pickford suffered from alcoholism, which also afflicted her first husband and both of her parents. She became somewhat of a recluse, remaining at Pickfair in her final decades, only allowing visits from Lillian Gish, her stepson Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and a few select others. The "Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study" at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood, constructed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, opened in 1948 as a radio and television studio facility. The "Mary Pickford Theater" at the United State ...

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Acting soon became a family enterprise, as Charlotte, Gladys, and her two younger siblings Jack and Lottie, toured the United States by rail in rag-tag melodramas. After six impoverished years of touring, Gladys gave herself a single summer to land a leading role on Broadway (she planned to quit acting if she failed). She landed a supporting role in a 1907 Broadway play, The Warrens of Virginia. The play was written by William C. de Mille, whose brother, the then-unknown Cecil B. DeMille, also appeared in the cast. David Belasco, the ...

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