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3 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.
Sep 3, 2024 · Quick Facts. Born: January 5, 1941, Tokyo, Japan (age 83) Founder: Studio Ghibli. Awards And Honors: Academy Award (2015) Notable Works: “Howl’s Moving Castle” “My Neighbor Totoro” “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” “Ponyo” “Princess Mononoke” “The Wind Rises” (Show more) Recent News. Sep. 2, 2024, 3:59 AM ET (Daily Star)
3 days ago · He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Directing—Thelma & Louise, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down—as well as three British Academy Film Awards for Best Director, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Director, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
2 days ago · David Lean holds the record for the director with the most films that won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography at the Oscars with five wins out of six nominations for Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and Ryan's Daughter.
1 day ago · Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly called Oscar.
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4 days ago · CAMBRIDGE.Mass. – On Friday, September 20, Lori Pourier, tribal member and past executive director of the First People’s Fund was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences during a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass.; since 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honored excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together, as expressed in our charter, “to ...
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Sep 19, 2024 · If there is one major Oscar race that has changed the most due to the Academy’s push to become more globally-minded, it is the Best Director race.
