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SHOWTIME AT THE ACADEMY: MIKE THOMAS REPORTS ON SOME EXCITING HAPPENINGS AT A.M.P.A.S.

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2008-05-02 15:13:55 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...ACADEMY by Mike Thomas When Gregory Peck was President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences he inaugurated a policy of public outreach programs, apolicy that that continues to this day. The once-private organization became a beacon of film education; awarding grants and fellowships, and holding screenings for the public In the...
 
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Oscar This!: My 2006 Academy Award Predictions!

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2006-03-02 01:40:00 by Ken Knox in The Ken Knox Movie Review Blog
...Academy-standards to win an Oscar for anything major), and Capote isn't as lofty as most Oscar-winning films usually are. In another year, Paul Haggis might have walked off for managing several interweaving storylines in Crash, but there is simply no beating Ang Lee, who not only delivered the year's most genuinely heartbreaking love story,...
 
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Predicting the Academy Awards? Nobody Knows Anything

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2008-02-22 21:28:00 by Admin in Week in Rewind--Movie Reviews, DVD Reviews, HD DVD & Blu-ray Reviews by Christopher Smith
...Academy Awards, which air Sunday night at 8 p.m. on ABC, William Goldman said it best--nobody knows anything--which is why some of us age visibly and develop ulcers while trying to predict the unpredictable But aging and ulcers be damned! In the spirit of the season, it's time to go for it, throw caution to the wind and fearlessly predict...
 
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Academy Awards Recap

2008-02-26 00:16:00 by The Sly Fox in The Sly Fox Film Reviews
 
...Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem). Curiously, the movie with the next most Oscars was The Bourne Ultimatum, which took home statuettes in a trio of technical categories There Will Be Blood, Juno and La Vie en Rose won two each, while much ballyhooed flicks like...
 
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If Box Office Strongly Correlated With Academy Award Nods

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2008-02-24 23:29:00 by RC in Strange Culture
...Academy Award nominees for best Actor strongly correlated with the domestic box office That led last year's best actor nominees based on box-office stats something like Johnny Depp (Pirates 2), Ben Stiller (Night at The Museum), Hugh Jackman (X-Men: The Last Stand, unless he was campaigned supporting), Brandon Routh (Superman Returns), and...
 
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Shorts Films & The Academy -- Last Year for Example

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2007-12-05 23:51:00 by RC in Strange Culture
...Academy Awards. Not that I think the medium of short films is bad, but because it lacks relevancy The comments in the post below already are illuminating. Sure some people want to champion the genre and even want to broaden it's scope but as far as the Motion Pictures Academy is concerned, I don't know how they can continue to present this...
 
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Short Films & Their Current Presence at the Academy Awards

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2007-12-05 13:32:00 by RC in Strange Culture
...academy awards I know that I am missing some history in understanding this award's importance. Walt Disney has the record for the most academy award wins with 22...most of those wins and handful of additional nominations come from short films, some of which although older I can name and you will know exactly what short film I am referring...
 
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Give Eli Wallach an Academy Award!

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2007-12-08 17:47:41 by admin in Film Forno
...Academy give the guy a career Academy Award! He deserves it! Hes a National Treasure. His portrayal of Tuco in Sergio Leones The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is one of the greatest in the History Of Cinema! He should have won back then. Lets show the man how much we appreciate him while hes still here! Who deserves it more than him? Hes never...
 
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Academy Awards: fun game of trivial pursuit

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2008-02-24 14:12:46 by Glenn Abel in DVD blog reviews home video news -- DVD Spin Doctor
...Academy Awards down; that for once, in a year of such cinematic bounty and variety, appreciation for the best movies could be liberated from the pomp and tedium of Hollywood spectacle Like anyone else Im glad when my favorites win and dismayed when they fall short. So I am not against the Oscars, any more than Im dismissive of the Salesman of...
 
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