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The Academy Awards ceremonies are commonly named after their according year of eligibility of films. E.g. the ceremony which took place in March 1997 is referred to as the 1996 Academy Awards.
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Hayao Miyazaki's "Spirited Away" became the first anime to win an Academy Award, winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. This is only the second year for the category, which was won last year by "Shrek."
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Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley announce the nominations for the Academy of Country Music Awards on Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee. The Country superstars announced the nominations at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Kenny Chesney led the pack with 11 nominations, including entertainer of the year and top male vocalist. Rodney Atkins followed [...]
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There have been a number of people nominated for Academy Awards after their death. However, the first person to be nominated posthumously and actually win was screenwriter Sidney Howard for Gone With the Wind (1939). James Dean, on the other hand, has been the only actor to be nominated twice after death; once for Best Actor in East of Eden (1955) and again the following year for Best Actor in Giant (1956).
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If, like much of the country, you didn’t get a chance to see all the animated shorts nominated for this year’s Academy Awards, the Times Cinema has made it easy for you to catch up. Tonight through March 6, it will screen a program of all five nominees, including Peter and the Wolf, the Polish adaptation of the classical Prokofiev story that ultimately took home the Oscar. Screenings tonight are at 7 and 9 p.m.
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This year, 30 million Americans watched the Academy Awards live on the ABC Network, while an additional 2 million people viewed the telecast later in the same evening on DVR, Nielsen Media Research reports (See Table 4). The telecast averaged an 18.7 household rating.
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