Academy Awards summary

winners of the Academy Awards

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Academy Award: Oscar statuettes
The Oscar statuettes presented at the 76th Academy Awards ceremony, 2003.

Academy Awards, Annual awards of merit in the U.S. presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy was formed in 1927 by Louis B. Mayer and others to raise the standards of film production, and its first awards were presented in 1929. The awards (nicknamed Oscars) recognize excellence in acting, directing, screenwriting, and other activities related to film production.

David Lynch Summary

David Lynch American filmmaker and screenwriter who was known for his uniquely disturbing and mind-bending visual work. His films juxtapose the cheerfully mundane with the shockingly macabre and often defy explanation. Lynch’s father was a research scientist with the U.S. Forest Service, and the

Mel Gibson Summary

Mel Gibson American-born Australian actor who became an international star with a series of action-adventure films in the 1980s and later earned acclaim as a director and producer. When he was 12 years old, Gibson’s family moved to Australia. In 1974 he enrolled in the National Institute of

Tom Stoppard Summary

Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter whose work is marked by verbal brilliance, ingenious action, and structural dexterity. Stoppard’s father was working in Singapore in the late 1930s. After the Japanese invasion, his father stayed on and was killed, but Stoppard’s

Jane Fonda Summary

Jane Fonda is an actress and political activist who first gained fame in comedic roles but later established herself as a serious actress, winning Academy Awards for her work in Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978). Jane Fonda is the daughter of actor Henry Fonda; her younger brother, Peter Fonda,