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The Academy Award's honor is the third major award for Maya in 2008. -- National Television Academy Awards: Autodesk 3ds Max software and Autodesk Maya software received National Television Academy awards on January 7, 2008 at the 59th Annual Technology and Engineering Awards ceremony in the Gaming Category of Visual Digital Content Creation Tools and Their Impact. Now in its fourth year, this category award recognizes pioneering efforts and breakthroughs in the gaming world. -- Game Developer Hall of Fame Award: In the January 2008 issue of Game Developer Magazine, Autodesk Maya was announced as the recipient of the 2007 Front Line Hall of Fame Award. Each year, honour is bestowed upon a product that has made an outstanding contribution to the game development industry for five years or more. Autodesk 3ds Max was inducted in 2005.
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The Academy Awards were the brainchild of MGM executive Louis B. Mayer in 1927. The industry was in need of a touch of a class and a public-relations coup. The awards served this purpose. The awards were first given at a banquet in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on May 16, 1929. The evening included a banquet, dancing and the presentation of awards. The winners had been announced three months prior, eliminating all suspense.
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The Oscar statuette's official name is the "Academy Award of Merit." The name "Oscar" is actually a nickname that has been around for decades with unclear beginnings. Though there are several different stories that claim to tell the origin of the nickname "Oscar," the most common attributes the nickname to a comment made by Margaret Herrick. Herrick, as the story goes, worked as a librarian at the Academy and upon first seeing the statuette, commented that the statuette looked like her Uncle Oscar. No matter how the nickname started, it became increasingly used to describe the statuette in the 1930s and was officially used by the Academy beginning in 1939.
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The statue was named as the Oscar, in the year 1934, after Academy Award committee secretary, Margret Herrick mentioned the possibly identical appearance of the knight to her late uncle named Oscar. The statue portrays a knight holding a crusader’s sword. The knight is standing upon a movie film reel with five distinct spokes; each representing the basic divisions of movie production: Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians. It is made of Britannium with electronically plated gold. It measures 13 1/2 inches in height and weighs 8 1/2 pounds. It is built in a factory in Chicago by the R.S.
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An Academy Award(TM)-winning director, Warren Beatty has been nominated 14 times for acting, directing and producing. As a producer, his films have earned him 53 nominations. He is the only person to have twice been nominated in four categories, as actor, director, writer and producer on both "Heaven Can Wait" and "Reds," an honor shared only by Orson Welles for "Citizen Kane." He is the winner of five Golden Globes for acting, producing and directing.
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The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held on Thursday, May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928. It was hosted by actor Douglas Fairbanks and director William C. DeMille. The 80th Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles to honor outstanding film achievements of 2007. It was hosted by Comedy Central's The Daily Show host, Jon Stewart.[2]
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