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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Example Sentences

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

Russell Crowe, who starred in the 2001 movie, which won four academy awards including best picture, tweeted his condolences Sunday morning.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2015

"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

Goodfellas was nominated for six academy awards including best director and best picture, but picked up just one for Joe Pesci in the supporting actor role of Tommy DeVito, based on real-life mobster Thomas DeSimone.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2012