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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“Rocky” went on to become the highest-grossing film of 1976, winning best picture at the Academy Awards.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

He best known work, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, won nine Academy Awards, including best picture, and earned Thomas an Oscar as producer in 1988.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

In 2017, Altmayer received, together with his brother, the Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize for the best French producer of the year given by France's equivalent of the Academy Awards.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

VIllarreal: Before we delve further into “The Testaments,” I do want point out this moment onstage at the Academy Awards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

People probably would have remembered the St. Francis Dam better if its collapsing failure had caused the cancelation of an Academy Awards presentation, as opposed to just killing about five hundred innocent victims.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith