Academy Award

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Trademark.

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.

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Origin of Academy Award

An Americanism dating back to 1940–45

Words nearby Academy Award

Académie Goncourt, academism, academize, Academus, academy, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy, French, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy, Plato's, Acadia

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Andy Serkis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Do you want to be on the wrong side of history, Academy?
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But I had won the British Award, Best Foreign Actor, so I went.
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He spoke of the present-day tragedies and turmoil that struck the city while he and his classmates were in the academy.
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From Ann Coulter on Ebola to evangelicals on climate change, 2014 was full of award-worthy science denialism.
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Ramos just missed being called for one police academy class.
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The collection in the Academy I thought much better, but still far enough behind similar galleries in Rome.
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He was distinguished as an oriental scholar, and died while delivering an oration at the academy of Caen.
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I issued my award, with the usual result that while each party was fairly well pleased neither was altogether satisfied.
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These men composed a self-constituted tribunal to award life or instant death to those brought before them.
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Ladies and gentlemen, he falteringly said, Signor Diotti left his hotel at seven oclock and was driven to the Academy.
The Fifth String |John Philip Sousa

British Dictionary definitions for Academy Award

Academy Award

noun

the official name for an Oscar

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