Academy Awards

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1. Prizes given annually in Hollywood by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for excellence in film performance and production. The symbol (see also symbol) of the award is a small statue called an Oscar. The academy's top awards are for best picture, best director, best actor and actress, and best supporting actor and actress.

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Flashy moments at the Academy Awards tend to go to “topliners” — actors, directors, writers and best picture.

From Los Angeles Times

Both premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, which their producers credit as a key part of their pathway to the Academy Awards.

From Los Angeles Times

Nominated for Academy Awards on seven occasions, he won best actor for his role as a troubled country singer in 1983's Tender Mercies.

From BBC

Despite the awkward persona Amelia Dimoldenberg projects in her decade-old YouTube interview show “Chicken Shop Date,” the 32-year-old Londoner expresses wonderment that her little web series that could has taken her all the way to the Academy Awards red carpet, where she’ll be returning as a correspondent next month for the third year in a row.

From Los Angeles Times

For over three decades, it was held the Saturday afternoon right before the Academy Awards.

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