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NEW YORK, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/—Magnolia Pictures and Shorts International announced today a partnership which will bring the Academy Award(R) nominated live action and animated short films to select U.S. theatres before the award ceremony is held on March 5th. The films will later be available through HDNet and Magnolia’s new Home Entertainment division. The series will ... be available across other platforms that include ShortsTV on mobile phones.
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The Academy Awards®, affectionately known as the Oscars®, are the oldest, best known, most influential, most prestigious, and famous of film awards. The awards (and gold-plated statuettes) have been presented annually (the first awards ceremony was held in May of 1929) by a non-profit professional organization - the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), based in Beverly Hills, California, and founded in 1927. Pricewaterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) has managed the Academy Awards balloting process since 1935 - all but the first six years of the Oscars. Ever since 1941, when their now-famous confidential envelope system was introduced, marking the first year of complete secrecy, "the Envelope Please" has become a familiar phrase that evokes the thought of the Academy Awards® ceremony.
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The Academy Award winners by year for the 80s presents an interesting list. While there are around 20 award categories in total, here are the big three: Best film, Best actor in a leading role and Best actress in a leading role. Each year the Oscars are presented as the official trophy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards, but interestingly very few of the 80s blockbusters appear. The only film from the top 20 box office list to score in these categories was Rain Man (for more information see the Top 100 box office hits of the 80s). Neither of the Star Wars films (Empire or Jedi) picked up an award in these categories, but they did scoop many of the technical awards. Likewise ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Aliens all failed to pick up Best Picture or Best Actor/Actress.
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In addition to Lionsgate's five Oscar (R) nominations, Mandate Pictures, which was acquired by Lionsgate in August 2007, earned four Academy Award (R) nods for the sleeper hit Juno, released by Fox Searchlight. The nominations included Best Picture, Best Actress (Ellen Page), Best Director (Jason Reitman) and Best Original Screenplay (Diablo Cody).
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The 2007 Academy Award winners were announced on Sunday, February 24. The nominees for the major award categories are listed below with winners indicated with an *. Check out the previous winners for Motion Picture, Animated Feature, Documentary Feature, and Foreign Language Film.
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The Academy Awards are the most prominent film award in the United States. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2002 had over 6000 members.
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