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Albert Wolsky

He won his second Academy Award for Bugsy in 1991 and has been nominated five other times, most recently for his work on Julie Taymor's Beatles-inspired musical Across the Universe (2007) and Sam Mendes's Revolutionary Road (2008).

Andrew MacLeish

Their grandson is Bruce MacLeish Dern, (b. 1936), an Academy Award-nominated American film actor, and their great-granddaughter is Academy Award-nominated actress Laura Elizabeth Dern.

Angelica Page

Supporting roles include Vitka in Amos Kollek's Fast Food Fast Women (2000), Dierdre in the Academy Award-nominated The Contender (2000), Patty opposite John Travolta in Domestic Disturbance (2001), and Roberta in Michael Imperioli's The Hungry Ghosts (2009).

Angus Strathie

Strathie went on to design the costumes for a TV production of the famous Puccini opera La Boheme before his work on the famous Moulin Rouge an achievement that won him an Academy Award in 2001 for Best Costume Design.

Anne Frank House

On display at the museum is the Academy Award that Shelley Winters won, and later donated to the museum, for her performance as Auguste van Pels in The Diary of Anne Frank.

Birds Anonymous

Birds Anonymous won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1957 beating Tabasco Road starring Speedy Gonzales and his drunk friends; both shorts were eventually given Blue Ribbon reissues.

Bob Gaudio

DeVito's name was subsequently procured for Pesci's Academy Award winning character from Goodfellas.

Camille Thoman

In 2006, she directed Falling Objects, starring Tony nominee Mireille Enos, Oscar winner Timothy Hutton and Oscar nominee Melissa Leo.

Cynthia Clawson

In 1985, Cynthia's rendition of "Softly and Tenderly" was included in the soundtrack of the Academy Award winning movie The Trip to Bountiful.

David Newsom

In April 2006, "Mother" won the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Short at the Florida Film Festival, a victory which automatically qualified the film for a potential Academy Award nomination.

Dean DeBlois

He co-wrote and co-directed the Oscar-nominated animated films Lilo & Stitch for Walt Disney Feature Animation and How to Train Your Dragon for DreamWorks Animation, and directed the Sigur Rós documentary/music film Heima.

Emily Deschanel

Deschanel was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Academy Award–nominated cinematographer and director Caleb Deschanel and actress Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir).

Harry Kusnick

He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects at the 17th Academy Awards for work on the film Secret Command.

Haskell Wexler

He won a second Oscar for Bound for Glory (1976), a biography of Woody Guthrie (whom Wexler had met during his time in the Merchant Marine).

Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults

The success of Children of Heaven in many International festivals and its candidacy for the Best Foreign Language Film of academy awards (Oscar) in 1999, was a significant achievement for Kanoon productions.

James A. Moorer

In 1999, he won an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award for his pioneering work in the design of digital signal processing and its application to audio editing for film.

Johnny Lange

Lange's most popular composition was 'Mule Train' which earned him an Academy Award nomination in 1950 (it was featured in the film "Singing Guns").

Josh Greenfeld

Josh Greenfeld (born 1928) is an author and screenwriter mostly known for his screenplay for the 1974 film Harry and Tonto along with Paul Mazursky, which earned them an Academy Award nomination and its star, Art Carney, the Oscar itself for Best Actor.

Killings

The film starred Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, and Marisa Tomei, and was nominated for five Academy Awards – Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role (Wilkinson), Actress in a Leading Role (Spacek), Actress in a Supporting Role (Tomei), and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Published (Robert Festinger & Field).

Lives of Style

The show reports on New York, Paris, Milan, and London fashion weeks, the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Emmys, Hollywood Premieres, Fashion’s Night Out, Concours d’Elegance, Napa Wine Auction and the Cannes Film Festival.

Louise Dahl-Wolfe: Painting with Light

It was written and directed by Tom Neff, and produced by Neff and Madeline Bell, who previously collaborated on the Oscar nominated short-documentary Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse (1986).

Maurice Seezer

In 1993, he co-wrote "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart" along with Friday and Bono, which was performed by Sinéad O'Connor for the Jim Sheridan Academy Award-nominated film In the Name of the Father.

Megan Kalmoe

The 5'10" athlete would also like to travel to all of the U.S. National Parks, hike the Appalachian Trail, coach college rowing, and write an Academy Award-winning screenplay before earning an English PhD, writing a novel, and moving to South Africa.

Mission to Moscow

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration in a Black-and-White film (Carl Jules Weyl, George James Hopkins).

Monckton Hoffe

Hoffe was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story for the Preston Sturges comedy The Lady Eve.

Monty Woolley

Woolley was nominated twice for an Academy Award, as Best Actor in 1943 for The Pied Piper and as Best Supporting Actor in 1945 for Since You Went Away.

Now's the Time to Fall in Love

The song is referenced in the 1962 Academy Award nominated animated short Disney musical film, A Symposium on Popular Songs during the song, "Although I Dropped $100,000" written by Al Sherman's songwriter sons, Robert & Richard Sherman.

Parti Québécois leadership election, 2007

Pierre Curzi, a very popular MNA newcomer, former Union des artistes president and famous actor (known notably for his role in the oscarized The Barbarian Invasions), was a third name often mentioned by the media for a possible candidacy.

Peter Herman Adler

He made only one foray into movies, adapting the music for "The Great Caruso" in 1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

Pumpkin Diamond

Halle Berry wore the ring to the 2002 Oscars where she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Monster's Ball.

R. C. Sherriff

He wrote several plays, novels, and screenplays, and was nominated for an Academy award and two BAFTA awards.

Randolph L. Braham

In the 1998 Oscar-winning Academy Award for Documentary Feature film The Last Days, Professor Braham provided overviews of the Hungarian Holocaust.

Resources about Martin Luther

Academy Award nominations for black & white cinematography and art/set direction.

Rubina Ali

Rubina Ali (born January 21, 1999), also known as Rubina Qureshi, is an Indian child actress who played the child version of Latika in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Ryan Larkin

Walking was nominated for an Academy Award in 1970 in the category Best Short Subject, Cartoon, but lost to It's Tough to Be a Bird by director Ward Kimball.

Serge Silberman

Silberman produced all of Buñuel's late films, including the Academy Award winner The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in 1972 and the director's very last film That Obscure Object of Desire in 1977.

Short Cuts

Altman was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director (but lost to Steven Spielberg for Schindler's List) and shared a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay with Barhydt (lost to Steven Zaillian for Schindler's List).

Simona Lisi

Simona Lisi works also as an actress: in 2005 she played the mother of the leading character (played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno) in the Academy Award-nominated La bestia nel cuore (The Beast in the Heart), directed by Cristina Comencini.

Sun Valley Serenade

It features The Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge, performing "Chattanooga Choo Choo", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996, and was awarded the first Gold Record for sales of 1.2 million.

Susan Strasberg

She later starred in the Italian Holocaust film Kapò which was nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign film of 1960.

Sybil Danning

In 1977, she was praised for her role as a sadistic terrorist headed for Entebbe in the Best Foreign Film Oscar nominated Operation Thunderbolt with Klaus Kinski.

Take a Letter, Darling

It was nominated for three Academy Awards; Best Cinematography, Best Score and Best Art Direction (Hans Dreier, Roland Anderson, Samuel M. Comer).

The Big Pond

Maurice Chevalier was nominated for a 1930 Academy Award for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" for his performance in The Big Pond as well as his performance in The Love Parade (1929).

Todd Walton

The film, with a screenplay by Barry Levinson, was directed by Richard Donner and starred John Savage, David Morse, and Diana Scarwid, who received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Louise.

True-Life Adventures

The series won eight Academy Awards for the studio including three Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature awards for Vanishing Prairie, Living Desert and White Wilderness and five Best Two Reel Live Action Short awards for Seal Island, In Beaver Valley, Nature's Half Acre, Water Birds and Bear Country.

Waterkloof

It is the home of the noted South African soprano Mimi Coertse, and the location of the upmarket Dube-house in the Academy Award winning film Tsotsi.

West Leyden High School

He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1982, in the category Best Original Song for co-writing the song Eye of the Tiger from the film Rocky III.

William O. Wallace

He was Oscar-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda, and also worked on Young Man with a Horn (1950), Battle Cry (1955) and Nicholas Ray’s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956.

Women in War

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (Howard Lydecker, William Bradford, Ellis J. Thackery, Herbert Norsch).


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Alan Splet

He did not attend the Academy Award ceremony, and became the butt of a series of jokes by Johnny Carson.

Amber Sainsbury

In 2007 she convinced Academy Award winning film director Danny Boyle as well as the Shakespearian actor Sir Antony Sher to come on board as trustees.

Artists Repertory Theatre

The production features a stellar cast including Academy-Award winning actor William Hurt, Australian star of stage and screen Robyn Nevin, Artists Rep Company Member Todd Van Voris, and Sydney Theatre Company Members Luke Mullins and Emily Russell.

Atossa Leoni

The film, which also starred Academy Award nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo, followed a group of immigrants in Los Angeles during the unfolding of the 1979 Iran hostage crises.

Beach Channel High School

Perry Kivolowitz (Class of 1977) - Academy Award (SCITECH) winner, business person, teacher

Beautiful Maria of My Soul

This song received an Academy Award nomination, finally won by "A Whole New World", from Aladdin.

Bernhard Droog

He would appear in two comedy films, Kleren Maken de Man and Fanfare, followed by a leading role in the 1958 Academy Award-nominated Dorp aan de rivier.

Boyd Estus

An Academy Award winner, Boyd Estus has received numerous awards including the CINE Golden Eagle (Where the Galaxies Are, Arthur Fiedler--Just Call Me Maestro, Flight of the Gossamer Condor), Melbourne International Film Festival Kino Award (So Many Galaxies...So Little Time), the Peabody Award (NOVA, Tender Places), the Cindy, Emmy, Telly, Hugo Award, and many others.

Dan Carlin

Carlin is the son of Academy Award nominated actress Lynn Carlin and film producer Ed Carlin.

Dan K. McNeill

McNeill was featured in the Academy award-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side (2007).

Danielle Fishel

The film, written and directed by the Ashmawey brothers under AshmaweyFilms, also stars Academy Award-winner Louis Gossett Jr., Keith David, M. Emmet Walsh, and John Heard.

David Snyder

In 1982, Snyder worked with Ridley Scott on Blade Runner, for which he shared an Academy Award nomination with production designer Lawrence G. Paull.

Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957), Academy-Award winning and Golden Globe-award nominated actor

Deacons for Defense and Justice

Produced by Showtime starring academy-award winner Forest Whitaker, Ossie Davis, and Jonathan Silverman, the film is based on the struggle of the actual Deacons for Defense against the Jim Crow South in a powerful area of Louisiana controlled by the Ku Klux Klan.

Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter, a 1978 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture

Eugenio Caballero

In 2006 before winning his academy award he worked as a production designer in the film Resident Evil: Extinction with Russell Mulcahy.

Freida Lee Mock

She has also produced the documentaries Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember (Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short in 1991), To Live or Let Die (Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short), and Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper about Vienna-born composer and musician Herbert Zipper that was also an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short in 1996.

Gene Milford

Milford won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Lost Horizon (with Gene Havlick) and for On the Waterfront; he was also nominated for an Academy Award for One Night of Love (directed by Victor Schertzinger - 1934).

Harold Hughes

A number of people in recovery testified, including Academy Award-winning actress Mercedes McCambridge, National Council on Alcoholism founder Marty Mann, and AA co-founder Bill W. In his autobiography, The Man from Ida Grove: A Senator's Personal Story, Hughes writes that he asked a dozen other well-known people in recovery to present public testimony, but all declined.

Here Media

He is best known for producing Academy Award winner Gods and Monsters.

It Started with Eve

The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Music Score (Charles Previn and Hans J. Salter).

Jack Gilford

He was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor in (1973) for his role as Phil Green in Save the Tiger (his co-star Jack Lemmon won for Best Actor).

Jake Whittenberg

Highlights include reading lines with Academy Award-winner Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard on the film, “Don't Come Knocking,” and serving as an assistant to Dave Matthews on a music video, “Gravedigger.” Jake made several films of his own, and earned "Best Fiction Film of the Year" in 2004 at the Montana Tracy Awards.

Jeffrey Sharp

Sharp has produced a series of Academy Award winning and Golden Globe nominated films over the past ten years like Boys Don't Cry, You Can Count on Me, Nicholas Nickleby and Proof.

John Knatchbull

John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne (1924–2005), British peer, television producer and Academy-award nominated film producer

Judit Selymes

She directed Iván Darvas (as a lead) in a version of Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and collaborated with many other well-known Hungarian artists, including: Academy Award nominee Lajos Koltai, Zoltán Latinovits, Miklós Gábor, Éva Ruttkai, Lajos Básti, Tamás Major, György Bárdy, ibor Bitskey, Erzsi Máté and Itala Békés.

Lifeline Energy

Since 2003, Academy Award winner Tom Hanks has served as Lifeline Energy's American ambassador.

Lincoln O'Barry

It was on this trip that the family made its first visit to Taiji, the birthplace of Japanese whaling, and also the site of the Academy Award-winning film, The Cove, where thousands of dolphins are slaughtered each year.

Maxime Rémillard

Initially focusing on film distribution, Remstar ensured the Canadian success of a number of productions, including Karakter (Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film); Monster (Academy Award for Best Actress/Charlize Theron); The Triplets of Belleville (Genie Award for Best Film); The Beat That My Heart Skipped (César for Best Film); Tanguy; and the mega-production Napoléon.

Mental Images

The first versions of the rendering software were influenced, tested and used for production by Mental Images' then operating large commercial computer animation division, led by the visual effects supervisors John Andrew Berton (1986-1989), 2000 Academy Award winner John Nelson (1987-1989), and 1996 and 2000 Academy Award nominee Stefen Fangmeier (1988-1990).

Michael Gunther

Gunther started out in feature films after a career as a commercials director in Europe that spanned almost a decade, and included collaborations with Hollywood A-listers such as Academy Award winning DP Russell Boyd (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Liar Liar).

New Day Films

Its has also distributed nine Academy Award nominated films including The Collector of Bedford Street, and four Emmy Award-winning titles, as well as films that have been broadcast on P.O.V., Independent Lens, HBO and other national programs.

New South China Mall

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Sam Green made a short film about the South China Mall called "Utopia Part 3: the World's Largest Shopping Mall." The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS's documentary series POV.

Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa

In 1992, the Orchestra's CD "合奏協奏曲第1番(シュニトケ)、カルメン組曲(ビゼー)" (Concerto grosso No.1 by Schnittke and Carmen by Bizet) received Japan Record Academy Award.

Paul Brodie

Warren Beatty featured his saxophone playing on the soundtrack of his academy award winning film Heaven Can Wait.

Paul Colichman

Gods and Monsters received three Academy Award nominations (winning for Best Adapted Screenplay), four Golden Globe nominations (winning for Best Supporting Actress), three Independent Spirit Awards, and the National Board of Review’s Best Picture honor.

Paul Pellicoro

He first came to national attention in the early 1990s as the dance choreographer for the film "Scent of a Woman", where he trained Academy Award winner Al Pacino for the notable (and arguably, most memorable) scene of the film where he dances the Argentine Tango with actress Gabrielle Anwar.

Pothuval

Neralattu Rama Poduval - ( Sopanam artist, recipient of Kendra Sahitya Academy award)

Rebecca Horn

She has also collaborated with Jannis Kounellis and produced some films, including the film Buster's Bedroom (1990) which was shot by the Academy Award-winning Sven Nykvist and stars Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Chaplin, and Martin Wuttke.

Slawomir Grünberg

Grünberg's director of photography credits include: HBO’s Legacy, which received an Academy Award Nomination for the best documentary feature in 2001, and HBO's Sister Rose's Passion, which won Best in Documentary Short at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004 and received an Academy Award Nomination for best documentary short in 2005.

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Notable guest stars who went on to find success in entertainment included Vera Miles, costar of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Psycho, Bob Fosse, later a noted choreographer and director who won multiple Tonys and an Academy Award for his work, and even a child-age Christopher Walken, who became an Oscar-winning actor and screen star, appeared alongside Jerry Lewis in a sketch (albeit under his given name, Ronald).

Tim Leaton

From 2007 to 2008 he worked with Ben Stiller at DreamWorks Pictures on the Academy Award-nominated film Tropic Thunder in the editing department, and received a letter of recommendation from Ben Stiller.

Timothy Dwight College

Nathaniel Kahn, 1984: Academy Award-nominated for his documentary "My Architect," about his father, Louis Kahn.

Tomandandy

Oliver Stone, Academy Award winning writer/director, additional music for feature films JFK, Warner Brothers 1991 and Natural Born Killers, Warner Brothers 1994

Welcome Change Productions

Alice Elliott is an Academy Award® nominated director, a writer, producer, university level teacher, advocate for the disabled, cinematographer, and the recipient of 2012 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

William C. Campbell

Campbell was also the stepfather of Academy Award-nominated actor Brad Dourif.

Yōjirō

Yōjirō Takita (born 1955), Academy Award-winning Japanese filmmaker