Academy Award

Trademark.

1. an annual award given to a performer, director, technician, etc., of the motion-picture industry for superior achievement in a specific category: judged by the voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and symbolized by the presentation of an Oscar.

Academy Award

noun

1. the official name for an Oscar

Word History and Origins

Origin of Academy Award¹

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

Example Sentences

Sally Kirkland, a prolific Golden Globe-winning star of stage and screen who was also nominated for an Academy Award, has died.

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“Sentimental Value,” which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, seems poised for a similarly warm reception and could bring Skarsgård his first Academy Award nomination.

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“Avatar” made more than $2.9 billion worldwide and took home three Academy Awards, while its sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” hauled in $2.3 billion globally and won one Academy Award for visual effects.

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This December, the Academy Award nominee and longtime blood donor will give one of his kidneys to a complete stranger, he said Thursday on the “Today” show.

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This man is from the top rung of New York society, his father a Columbia professor who lectures against colonialism and his mother a director whose films have had two Academy Award nominations.

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