Academy Awards

Cultural

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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Like Lee did four decades earlier, he applied to the student academy awards while studying at NYU.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

The series won three Israeli television academy awards, including one for Best Documentary Series.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022

Previous openly gay winners of academy awards include Elton John, Stephen Sondheim and director Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar in 2009 for his film Milk.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2016

"The book illustrates how blacks have been portrayed in film and how, moving into the 21st century, blacks are now winning academy awards," says Separate Cinema founder John Kisch.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2014

There were more than a hundred short films made in this original series, winning seven academy awards.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2014

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