81st Academy Awards, the Glossary
The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2008 and took place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.[1]
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456 relations: A. R. Rahman, Abby Mann, ABC News (United States), Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film, Academy Award for Best Film Editing, Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Original Song, Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Production Design, Academy Award for Best Sound, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Academy Award for Technical Achievement, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Albert Wolsky, Alexandre Desplat, Alicia Keys, All That Jazz (song), Amanda Seyfried, American Broadcasting Company, Amy Adams, Andrew Stanton, Angelina Jolie, Angus Wall, Anjelica Huston, Anne Hathaway, Anthony Dod Mantle, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Minghella, AOL, Ari Folman, At Last, Australia (2008 film), Australians, ... Expand index (406 more) »
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A. R. Rahman
Allah Rakha Rahman (born A. S. Dileep Kumar; 6 January 1967) is an Indian music composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist, popular for his works in Indian cinema; predominantly in Tamil and Hindi films, with occasional forays in international cinema.
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Abby Mann
Abby Mann (December 1, 1927 – March 25, 2008) was an American film writer and producer.
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ABC News (United States)
ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.
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Academy Award for Best Actor
The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Award for Best Actress
The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material.
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Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for the best animated film.
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Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1931–32, to the present.
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Academy Award for Best Cinematography
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.
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Academy Award for Best Costume Design
The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for achievement in film costume design.
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Academy Award for Best Director
The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films.
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Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film
This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short film.
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Academy Award for Best Film Editing
The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film is an award presented at the annual Academy Awards ceremony.
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Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling is the Academy Award given to the best achievement in makeup and hairstyling for film.
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Academy Award for Best Original Score
The Academy Award for Best Original Score is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.
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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award (also known as an Oscar) for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material.
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Academy Award for Best Original Song
The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
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Academy Award for Best Production Design
The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film.
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Academy Award for Best Sound
The Academy Award for Best Sound is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing, recording, sound design, and sound editing.
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects
The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best achievement in visual effects.
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Academy Award for Technical Achievement
The Technical Achievement Award is one of three Scientific and Technical Awards given from time to time by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), often pronounced; also known as simply the Academy or the Motion Picture Academy) is a professional honorary organization in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy's corporate management and general policies are overseen by a board of governors, which includes representatives from each of the craft branches.
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Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), also colloquially known as the Television Academy, is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the television industry in the United States.
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Albert Wolsky
Albert Wolsky (born November 24, 1930) is an American costume designer.
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Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer and conductor.
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Alicia Keys
Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer and songwriter.
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All That Jazz (song)
"All That Jazz" is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago.
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Amanda Seyfried
Amanda Michelle Seyfried (born December 3, 1985) is an American actress, singer and songwriter.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.
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Amy Adams
Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress.
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Andrew Stanton
Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker and voice actor based at Pixar, which he joined in 1990.
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Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.
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Angus Wall
Angus Alexander Wall (born March 15, 1967) is a film editor and film title designer.
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Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, director and model known for often portraying eccentric and distinctive characters.
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Anne Hathaway
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress.
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Anthony Dod Mantle
Anthony Dod Mantle, (born 14 April 1955) is a British cinematographer and still photographer.
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Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor.
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Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella, (6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright, and screenwriter.
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AOL
AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City, and a brand marketed by Yahoo! Inc. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET.
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Ari Folman
Ari Folman (ארי פולמן; born December 17, 1962) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, animator, and film-score composer.
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At Last
"At Last" is a song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the musical film Sun Valley Serenade (1941).
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Australia (2008 film)
Australia is a 2008 epic adventure drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.
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Australians
Australians, colloquially known as Aussies or Antipodeans, are the citizens, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia.
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Baz Luhrmann
Mark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann (born 17 September 1962) is an Australian film director, producer, writer, and actor.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
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Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)
Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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Ben Burtt
Benjamin Burtt Jr. (born July 12, 1948) is an American sound designer, film director, film editor, screenwriter, and voice actor.
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Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor.
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Ben Schwartz
Benjamin Joseph Schwartz (born September 15, 1981) is an American actor and comedian.
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Ben Snow
Ben Snow is a special effects artist who has been nominated four times at the Academy Awards.
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Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, filmmaker, and comedian.
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Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink (born 6 July 1944) is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist.
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Bernie Mac
Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008), better known by his stage name Bernie Mac, was an American comedian and actor.
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Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Beverly Wilshire Hotel
The Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel, commonly known as the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, is a historic luxury hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
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Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (Knowles; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman.
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Big Spender
"Big Spender" is a song written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields for the musical Sweet Charity, first performed in 1966.
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Bill Condon
William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American director and screenwriter.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Block Communications
Block Communications Inc. (also known as Blade Communications) is an American privately held holding company of various assets, mainly in the print and broadcast media, based in Toledo, Ohio.
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Bolt (2008 film)
Bolt is a 2008 American animated action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.
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Brad Pitt
William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer.
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Brian Grazer
Brian Thomas Grazer (born July 12, 1951) is an American film and television producer.
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Bruce Cohen
Bruce L. Cohen (born September 23, 1961) is a film, television, and theater producer.
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Burt Dalton
Burt Dalton is a visual effects supervisor.
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Byron Howard
Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American animator, character designer, story artist, film director, producer, and screenwriter.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Carl Deal
Carl Deal is an American documentary filmmaker and journalist.
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Catherine Martin (designer)
Catherine Martin (born 26 January 1965) is an Australian costume, production, and set designer.
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CBS Corporation
The second incarnation of CBS Corporation (the first being a short-lived rename of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation) was an American multinational media company with interests primarily in commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
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Ceán Chaffin
Ceán Chaffin (born June 26, 1957) is an American film producer who has frequently collaborated with her husband, director David Fincher.
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Changeling (film)
Changeling is a 2008 American mystery crime drama film directed, produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski.
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Charles H. Joffe
Charles H. Joffe (July 16, 1929 – July 9, 2008) was an American film producer and comedy talent manager.
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Charles H. Schneer
Charles Hirsch Schneer (May 5, 1920 – January 21, 2009) was an American film producer, best known for working with Ray Harryhausen, the specialist known for his work in stop motion model animation.
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Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist.
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Chicago (2002 film)
Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name which in turn originated in the 1926 play of the same name.
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Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.
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Chris Corbould
Christopher Charles Corbould, (born 1958) is a British special effects coordinator best known for his work on major blockbuster films and the action scenes on 15 James Bond films since The Spy Who Loved Me.
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Chris Dickens
Chris Dickens (born February, 1967) is a British film and television editor.
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Chris Harrison
Christopher Bryan Harrison (born July 26, 1971) is an American television and game show host, best known for his role as the host of the ABC reality television dating show The Bachelor from 2002 to 2021.
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Chris Jenkins (sound engineer)
Chris Jenkins is an American sound engineer.
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Chris Menges
Chris Menges BSC, ASC (born 15 September 1940) is a British cinematographer and film director.
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Chris Williams (director)
Chris Williams (born December 19, 1968) is an American-Canadian animation film director, screenwriter and voice actor who is best known for directing the films Bolt (2008) and Big Hero 6 (2014) and co-directing the film Moana (2016) for Walt Disney Animation Studios, and for directing the film The Sea Beast (2022) for Netflix Animation.
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Christian Colson
Christian Patrick Colson (born 15 September 1968) is a British film producer.
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Christopher Boyes
Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer.
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Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken; March 31, 1943) is an American actor.
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Claude Berri
Claude Berri (1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.
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Claudio Miranda
Claudio Miranda, is a Chilean cinematographer.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
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Condé Nast
Condé Nast is a global mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast (1873–1942) and owned by Advance Publications.
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Conor O'Sullivan (make-up artist)
Conor O'Sullivan is a British prosthetic makeup artist who has been nominated for two Academy Awards, who is perhaps best known for being one of the makeup artists in The Dark Knight who was involved in creating The Joker's makeup.
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Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.
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Courtney Hunt
Courtney Hunt (born 1964) is an American Film director and screenwriter.
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Craig Barron
Craig Barron (born April 6, 1961)According to the State of California.
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Crain Communications
Crain Communications Inc is an American multi-industry publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan, United States, with 13 non-US subsidiaries.
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Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Mark Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968) is an American actor.
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Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American dancer and actress.
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Dan Harmon
Daniel James Harmon (born January 3, 1973) is an American screenwriter and producer.
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Dan Jinks
Dan Jinks is an American film and television producer.
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Dan Sudick
Dan Sudick is a special effects supervisor.
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Dan White
Daniel James White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was an American politician who assassinated George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco, and Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, inside City Hall on November 27, 1978.
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Daniel P. Hanley
Daniel P. Hanley, A.C.E. (born 1955) is an American film editor with more than 30 feature film credits.
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Danny Boyle
Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director and producer.
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Danny Elfman
Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American film composer, singer, songwriter, and musician.
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Danny Glicker
Danny Glicker is an American costume designer.
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David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director.
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David Hare (playwright)
Sir David Rippon Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director.
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David Letterman
David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host, comedian, writer and producer.
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David Parker (sound engineer)
David Parker (born 1951) is an American sound engineer.
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David Rockwell
David Rockwell (born July 21, 1956) is an American architect and designer.
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David Watkin (cinematographer)
David Watkin BSC (23 March 1925 – 19 February 2008) was an English cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source.
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Deadline Hollywood
Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.
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Debra Schutt
Debra Schutt (born 1955) is an American set decorator and art director.
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Defiance (2008 film)
Defiance is a 2008 American war film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski, Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski, Jamie Bell as Asael Bielski, and George MacKay as Aron Bielski.
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Departures (2008 film)
is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Yōjirō Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki.
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Disappearance of Walter Collins
Walter B Collins was a nine-year-old boy who went missing in 1928.
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Dolby Theatre
The Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre) is a live-performance auditorium in the Ovation Hollywood shopping mall and entertainment complex, on Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Dominic Cooper
Dominic Cooper (born 2 June 1978) is an English actor known for his portrayal of comic book characters Jesse Custer on the AMC show Preacher (2016–2019) and young Howard Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with appearances in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and the ABC series Agent Carter (2015–2016), among other Marvel productions.
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Don't Cry for Me Argentina
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" is a song recorded by Julie Covington for the 1976 concept album Evita, later included in the 1978 musical of the same name.
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Donald Graham Burt
Donald Graham Burt is an American production designer.
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Donna Gigliotti
Donna Gigliotti is an American film producer.
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Doubt (2008 film)
Doubt is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning 2004 stage play Doubt: A Parable.
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Doubt: A Parable
Doubt, A Parable is a dramatic stage play written by American playwright John Patrick Shanley.
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Doug Sweetland
Doug Sweetland is an American animator and filmmaker.
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Down to Earth (Peter Gabriel song)
"Down to Earth" is a song co-written and performed by English rock musician Peter Gabriel for the 2008 animated Disney-Pixar film WALL·E.
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Dreamgirls (film)
Dreamgirls is a 2006 American musical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures.
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Dustin Lance Black
Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and LGBT rights activist.
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E!
E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable television network.
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Eastern Time Zone
The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.
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Ed Novick
Ed Novick is an American sound engineer.
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Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, television host, and writer.
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Ellen Kuras
Ellen Kuras (born July 10, 1959) is an American cinematographer whose work includes narrative and documentary films, music videos and commercials in both the studio and independent worlds.
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Elliot Graham
Elliot C. Graham is an American film editor and producer known for his work on ''Milk'' (2008), ''Steve Jobs'' (2015), ''Captain Marvel'' (2019), and No Time to Die (2021).
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Emud Mokhberi
Emud Mokhberi (born February 1978, Michigan) is an Iranian-American film director.
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Encounters at the End of the World
Encounters at the End of the World is a 2007 American documentary film by Werner Herzog about Antarctica and the people who choose to spend time there.
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.
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Eric Barba
Eric Barba is a visual effects supervisor for television, film, and commercial advertising.
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Eric Fellner
Eric Nigel Fellner, (born 10 October 1959) is a British film producer.
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Eric Roth
Eric R. Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter.
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Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American retired actress of film, theatre, radio and television.
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Evelyn Keyes
Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film actress.
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Evita (1996 film)
Evita is a 1996 American musical-historical film based on the 1976 concept album of the same name produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which also inspired a 1978 musical.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
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Forest Whitaker
Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer and director.
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Frank A. Montaño
Frank A. Montaño is an American re-recording mixer.
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Frank E. Eulner
Frank E. Eulner (born 1963) is a sound editor who is also a member of Skywalker Sound.
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Frank Langella
Frank A. Langella Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen.
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Frank Marshall (filmmaker)
Frank Wilton Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director.
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Freida Pinto
Freida Selena Pinto (born 18 October 1984) is an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in American and British films.
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Frost/Nixon (film)
Frost/Nixon is a 2008 historical drama film based on the 2006 play of the same name by Peter Morgan, who also adapted the screenplay.
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Frost/Nixon (play)
Frost/Nixon is a 2006 British historical play by Peter Morgan.
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Frozen River
Frozen River is a 2008 American crime drama film written and directed by Courtney Hunt in her feature directorial debut.
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Gannett
Gannett Co., Inc. is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City.
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Gary Fettis
Gary Fettis (born 1950) is an American set decorator.
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Gary Rizzo
Gary Rizzo (born January 31, 1972) is an American re-recording mixer.
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Götz Spielmann
Götz Spielmann (born 11 January 1961) is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.
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Glenn Freemantle
Glenn Freemantle is a British sound editor and sound designer.
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Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress.
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Gordon E. Sawyer Award
The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is an Honorary Award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." The award is named in honour of Gordon E. Sawyer, the former Sound Director at Samuel Goldwyn Studio and three-time Academy Award winner who claimed that a listing of past Academy Awards, arranged both chronologically and by category, represents a history of the development of motion pictures.
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Grease (film)
Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Bronté Woodard and an adaptation by co-producer Allan Carr, based on the stage musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
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Greg Cannom
Greg Cannom (born 1951) is an American special make-up effects artist.
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Gulzar
Gulzar (born Sampooran Singh Kalra; 18 August 1934) is an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema.
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Gus Van Sant
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American filmmaker, photographer, painter, and musician who has earned acclaim as an independent filmmaker.
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Hairspray (2007 film)
Hairspray is a 2007 musical romantic comedy film based on the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John Waters's 1988 comedy film of the same name.
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Hairspray (2007 soundtrack)
Hairspray: Soundtrack to the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album for the 2007 New Line Cinema musical film Hairspray.
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Happy-Go-Lucky (2008 film)
Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh.
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Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.
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Harvey Milk
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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Heath Ledger
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor.
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Hebrew language
Hebrew (ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family.
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Dark Horse Comics character of the same name, created by Mike Mignola.
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Henry Kaiser (musician)
Henry Kaiser (born September 19, 1952) is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer.
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year
High School Musical 3: Senior Year is a 2008 American teen musical film directed by Kenny Ortega and written by Peter Barsocchini.
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year (soundtrack)
High School Musical 3: Senior Year is the soundtrack to the 2008 Walt Disney Pictures film of the same name.
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Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.
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Hugh Jackman
Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor.
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I Don't Know How to Love Him
"I Don't Know How to Love Him" is a song from the 1970 album and 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar written by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics), a torch ballad sung by the character of Mary Magdalene.
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I'll Be Seeing You (song)
"I'll Be Seeing You" is a popular song about missing a loved one, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal.
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Ian Tapp
Ian Tapp is an English sound engineer.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
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In Bruges
In Bruges is a 2008 black comedy-drama crime thriller film directed and written by Martin McDonagh in his feature-length debut.
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Irene Taylor (filmmaker)
Irene Taylor (born June 15, 1970) is a film director and producer.
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Iron Man (2008 film)
Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name.
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Isaac Hayes
Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, and actor.
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Jack Black
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician.
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Jacqueline West
Jacqueline West is an American costume designer.
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Jai Ho (song)
"Jai Ho" is a song composed by A. R. Rahman for the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire.
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James Franco
James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker.
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James J. Murakami
James J. Murakami (June 4, 1931 – December 15, 2022) was an American art director and production designer.
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James Marsh (director)
James Marsh (born 30 April 1963) is a British film and documentary director best known for his work on Man on Wire, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and The Theory of Everything, the multi-award-winning biopic of physicist Stephen Hawking released in 2014.
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James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American film composer and music producer.
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James Poniewozik
James Poniewozik (born July 12, 1968) is an American journalist and television critic.
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James Whitmore
James Whitmore (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American actor.
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Janusz Kamiński
Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński (born June 27, 1959) is a Polish cinematographer and director of film and television.
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Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is awarded periodically by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at the Governors Awards ceremonies for an individual's "outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes".
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Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian and entertainer, who was famously nicknamed "The King of Comedy" throughout the United States.
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Jessica Biel
Jessica Claire Timberlake (née Biel; born March 3, 1982) is an American actress.
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Jesus Christ Superstar (film)
Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1973 American musical drama film directed by Norman Jewison, and co-written by Jewison and Melvyn Bragg, based on the 1970 concept album of the same name written by Tim Rice and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, which in turn inspired a 1971 musical.
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Jim Reardon
Jim Reardon is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, and film and television director.
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Jochen Alexander Freydank
Jochen Alexander Freydank is a German film director.
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Joel Grey
Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, photographer, and theatre director.
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John Caglione Jr.
John Caglione Jr. (born c. 1958) is a make-up artist known for his work in film and television.
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John Legend
John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, and actor.
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John Michael Hayes
John Michael Hayes (11 May 1919 – 19 November 2008) was an American screenwriter, who wrote four of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s.
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John Nelson (visual effects artist)
John Nelson (born July 21, 1953) is an American visual effects supervisor.
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John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley (born October 13, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director.
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Joker (The Dark Knight)
The Joker is a character portrayed by Heath Ledger and the main antagonist in Christopher Nolan's 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight.
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Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor and television host.
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Josh Brolin
Josh James Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor.
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Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow (born December 6, 1967) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian, best known for his work in comedy films.
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Jules Dassin
Julius Dassin (December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008) was an American film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor.
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Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress.
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Kathleen Kennedy (producer)
Kathleen Kennedy (born June 5, 1953) is an American film producer who has been president of Lucasfilm since 2012.
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Kevin Kline
Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American actor.
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Kirk Baxter
Kirk Baxter (born 1972) is an Australian film editor.
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Kon Ichikawa
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
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Konstantin Bronzit
Konstantin Eduardovich Bronzit (Константи́н Эдуа́рдович Бронзи́т; born 12 April 1965) is a Russian animator and animation film director and nominated twice for Oscars.
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Kristi Zea
Kristina Gwyn Zea (born October 24, 1948) is an American production designer, costume designer, art director, director and producer in film and television.
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Kung Fu Panda (film)
Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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Kunio Katō
(born 1977) is a Japanese animator known for the short film La Maison en Petits Cubes which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
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Kyle Cooper
Kyle Cooper is an American designer known for his main title sequence work.
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La Maison en Petits Cubes
is a 2008 Japanese animated short subject film created by Kunio Katō, with music by Kenji Kondo and produced by Robot Communications and animated by Oh! Production.
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Lady Marmalade
"Lady Marmalade" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan that is famous for the French refrain of "Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?", which is a sexual proposition that translates into English as: "Do you want to sleep with me, tonight?" The song first became a popular hit when it was recorded in 1974 by the American funk rock group Labelle and held the number-one spot on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart for one week, and also topped the Canadian RPM national singles chart.
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Laurence Mark
Laurence Mark is an American film and television producer.
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Laurent Cantet
Laurent Cantet (11 April 1961 – 25 April 2024) was a French director, cinematographer and screenwriter.
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Lavatory – Lovestory
Lavatory – Lovestory (Уборная история — любовная история) is a 2007 Russian animated short film directed by Konstantin Bronzit, about a lavatory attendant who finds a flower bouquet in her tip jar.
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Lee Smith (film editor)
Lee Smith, ACE, (born June 10, 1960) is an Australian film editor who has worked in the film industry since the 1980s.
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Leonard Rosenman
Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Barry Lyndon, Race with the Devil, and the animated The Lord of the Rings.
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List of Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Austria has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1961.
List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
France has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the conception of the award in 1956.
List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Germany has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the creation of the award in 1956.
List of Israeli submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Israel has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1964.
List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Japan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since the inception of the award.
List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees
Throughout the history of the Academy Awards, several individuals have died prior to the ceremony and were posthumously nominated or have won the award following their deaths.
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List of submissions to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956.
Lora Hirschberg
Lora Hirschberg (born 1963) is an American sound engineer.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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M.I.A. (rapper)
Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (மாதங்கி 'மாயா' அருள்பிரகாசம்; born 18 July 1975), known by her stage name M.I.A. (எம்.ஐ.ஏ.; an initialism for both "Missing in Action" and "Missing in Acton"), is a British rapper, record producer, and singer.
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Mahalakshmi Iyer
Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi, Assamese and Tamil songs.
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Maila Nurmi
Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008), known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was an American-Finn actress who created the campy 1950s character Vampira.
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Mamma Mia (ABBA song)
"Mamma Mia" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA, written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with the lead vocals shared by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
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Mamma Mia! (film)
Mamma Mia! (promoted as Mamma Mia! The Movie) is a 2008 jukebox musical romantic comedy film directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson, based on her book from the 1999 musical of the same name.
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Man on Wire
Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh.
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Manny Farber
Emanuel Farber (February 20, 1917 – August 18, 2008) was an American painter, film critic and writer.
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Maria (Rodgers and Hammerstein song)
"Maria", sometimes known as "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. This song is sung by the nuns at Nonnberg Abbey, who are exasperated with Maria for being a "flibbertigibbet"; they say that she is frolicsome for the decorous and austere life at the Abbey.
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Maria (West Side Story song)
"Maria" is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story, sung by the lead character Tony.
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Marion Cotillard
Marion Cotillard (born 30 September 1975) is a French actress.
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Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an American actress.
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Mark Osborne (filmmaker)
Mark Randolph Osborne (born September 17, 1970) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator.
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Mark Weingarten
Mark Weingarten is an American production sound mixer.
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Martin McDonagh
Martin Faranan McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright and filmmaker.
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Matthew Wood (sound editor)
Matthew Russell Wood (born August 15, 1972) is an American sound editor and voice actor.
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Megan Mylan
Megan Mylan is an Oscar-winning documentary film director, known for her films Simple as Water, Lost Boys of Sudan.
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Melissa Leo
Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress.
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Meryl Streep
Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress.
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Michael Carlin (art director)
Michael Carlin is an Australian art director who was nominated at the 81st Academy Awards for the film The Duchess.
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Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker.
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Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and film producer.
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Michael O'Connor (costume designer)
Michael O'Connor (born 27 October 1965) is an English costume designer.
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Michael Semanick
Michael Semanick (born 1963) is an American sound engineer, credited as a sound re-recording mixer.
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Michael Shannon
Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor.
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Michelle Williams (actress)
Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress.
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Mickey Rourke
Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (born September 16, 1952) is an American actor and former professional boxer who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.
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Mike Elizalde
Mike Elizalde (born 1960) is a Mexican-American special make-up effects artist.
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Mike Hill (film editor)
Michael J. Hill (March 24, 1949 – January 5, 2023) was an American film editor.
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Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer-director with a career spanning film, theatre and television.
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Milk (2008 American film)
Milk is a 2008 American biographical drama film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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Moulin Rouge!
Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann.
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Moviefone
Moviefone is an American-based moving pictures listing and information service.
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MTV
MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.
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Nathan Crowley
Nathan Crowley (born 28 February 1966) is an English production designer and a former art director, who is best known for his collaborations with Christopher Nolan.
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Ned Tanen
Ned Stone Tanen (c. September 20, 1931 – January 5, 2009) was an American film studio executive.
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Network (1976 film)
Network is a 1976 American satirical black comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Paddy Chayefsky.
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New Boy (film)
New Boy is a 2007 Irish short film based on the short story by Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter, Roddy Doyle.
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Nick Davis (visual effects supervisor)
Nick Davis is an American visual effects supervisor who has worked in visual effects since the early 1990s.
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Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian and American actress, model and producer.
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Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers.
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Nina Foch
Nina Foch (born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock; April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was an American actress who later became an instructor.
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O... Saya
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Oktapodi
Oktapodi is a 2007 French animated short film that originated as a Graduate Student Project from Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image.
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Ollie Johnston
Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator.
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One Night Only (song)
"One Night Only" is a song from the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics written by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger.
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Orchestra pit
An orchestra pit is an area in a theatre (usually located in a lowered area in front of the stage) in which musicians perform.
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Orchestra Wives
Orchestra Wives is a 1942 American musical film by 20th Century Fox starring Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, and Glenn Miller.
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Orlando Sentinel
The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida, and the Central Florida region, in the United States.
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Ovation Hollywood
Ovation Hollywood (formerly Hollywood & Highland) is a shopping center and entertainment complex at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow", also known as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", is a ballad by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip Harburg.
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Pacific Time Zone
The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.
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Paramount Media Networks (founded as MTV Networks in 1984 and known under this name until 2011; thereafter known as Viacom Media Networks until 2019; then known as ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks until 2022) is an American mass media division of Paramount Global that oversees the operations of many of its television channels and online brands.
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Pat Hingle
Martin Patterson Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films.
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Paul Franklin (visual effects supervisor)
Paul J. Franklin is an English visual effects supervisor who has worked with visual effects since the 1990s.
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Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.
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Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor.
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Penélope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress.
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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.
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Pete Docter
Peter Hans Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American filmmaker and animator.
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Peter Finch
Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio.
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Peter Gabriel
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist.
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Peter Lando
Peter Lando is a set decorator, who has some art director credits as well.
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Peter Morgan
Peter Julian Robin Morgan, (born 10 April 1963) is a British screenwriter and playwright.
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Petr Forejt
Petr Forejt (born 18 February 1968) is a Czech sound engineer.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor.
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Pineapple Express (film)
Pineapple Express is a 2008 American buddy stoner action comedy film directed by David Gordon Green, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and starring Rogen and James Franco.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
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Presto (film)
Presto is a 2008 American animated short film by Pixar, shown in theaters before their feature-length film WALL-E. The short is about Presto, a magician who is trying to perform a show, but his rabbit, Alec, would not cooperate with him until he gets his carrot.
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics
The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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Prometheus Global Media was a New York City–based B2B media company.
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PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited is a multinational professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand.
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Q & A (novel)
Q & A was published in 2005 and is the first novel of Indian diplomat Vikas Swarup.
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Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, singer, and actress.
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Rachel Getting Married
Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 American drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, and Debra Winger.
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Rebecca Alleway
Rebecca Alleway is an English set decorator.
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Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin
George Redmond Fitzpatrick Morris, 4th Baron Killanin (born 26 January 1947), is an Irish film producer.
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Ren Klyce
Ren Klyce is a Japanese-American sound designer and sound mixer.
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Resul Pookutty
Resul Pookutty (born 30 May 1971) is an Indian film sound designer, sound editor and audio mixer.
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Revanche (film)
Revanche is a 2008 Austrian thriller film written and directed by Götz Spielmann.
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Revolutionary Road (film)
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 romantic drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Justin Haythe, based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates.
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Ricardo Montalbán
Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican and American film and television actor.
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Richard Jenkins
Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is an American actor.
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Richard King (sound designer)
Richard King is an American film sound designer and editor who has worked on over 70 films.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
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Richard Pryke
Richard Pryke is a British sound engineer.
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Richard Widmark
Richard Weedt Widmark (December 26, 1914March 24, 2008) was an American film, stage, and television actor and producer.
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Rob Ashford
Rob Ashford (born November 19, 1959) is an American stage director and choreographer.
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Rob Schrab
Robby Christopher Schrab (born November 12, 1969) is an American comic book creator, screenwriter, director, and producer.
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Robert De Niro
Robert Anthony De Niro (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor and film producer.
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Robert DoQui
Robert DoQui (April 20, 1934 – February 9, 2008) was an American actor who starred in film and on television.
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Robert Downey Jr.
Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor.
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Robert Mulligan
Robert Patrick Mulligan (August 23, 1925 – December 20, 2008) was an American director and producer.
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Robert Osborne
Robert Jolin Osborne (May 3, 1932 – March 6, 2017) was an American film historian, author, actor and the primary television host for the premium cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) for over twenty years.
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Robin Roberts (newscaster)
Robin Roberts (born November 23, 1960) is an American television broadcaster who co-anchors ABC's Good Morning America.
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Robin Swicord
Robin Stender Swicord (born October 23, 1952) is an American screenwriter, film director, and playwright, best known for literary adaptations.
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Roger Deakins
Sir Roger Alexander Deakins (born 24 May 1949) is an English cinematographer.
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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.
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Roger Goodman (director)
Roger Goodman is an independent television and live event producer specializing in event production.
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Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
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Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer.
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Samuel Goldwyn Theater
The Samuel Goldwyn Theatre is a screening-only movie theater named after filmmaker Samuel Goldwyn.
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Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and television producer.
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Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Scott Hamilton Kennedy (born 1965) is an Academy Award nominated documentary director, as well as a writer, producer, cameraman, and editor.
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Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and film director.
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Seth Rogen
Seth Aaron Rogen (born April 15, 1982) is a Canadian actor, comedian and filmmaker.
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Shane Mahan
Shane Patrick Mahan (born September 22, 1964) is an American special effects creator, creature designer, puppeteer and producer known for his work at Stan Winston Studio and its successor, Legacy Effects.
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Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty on April 24, 1934) is an American actress and author.
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Sid Ganis
Sidney (Sid) Ganis (born January 8, 1940) is an American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as Big Daddy, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Mr. Deeds, The Master of Disguise and Akeelah and the Bee, Bang: The Bert Berns Story and Olympia. On August 23, 2005, Ganis was elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, serving a total of four consecutive one–year terms.
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Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy (born 26 December 1966) is a British screenwriter.
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Simon Chinn
Simon Chinn is a British film producer, founder of Red Box Films and co-founder of Lightbox.
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Singin' in the Rain
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, and featuring Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Rita Moreno and Cyd Charisse in supporting roles.
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Singin' in the Rain (song)
"Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown.
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Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup.
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Smile Pinki
Smile Pinki is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Megan Mylan which won the 81st Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).
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Somewhere (song)
"Somewhere", sometimes referred to as "Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)" or simply "There's a Place for Us", is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story that was made into films in 1961 and 2021.
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Sophia Loren
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren, is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States.
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Soweto Gospel Choir
The Soweto Gospel Choir is a South African gospel group.
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Stan Winston
Stanley Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special make-up effects artist, best known for his work in the ''Terminator'' series, the first three Jurassic Park films, Aliens, The Thing, the first two Predator films, Inspector Gadget, Iron Man, and Edward Scissorhands.
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Steph Green
Steph Green (born 1979) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, and executive producer best known for her work on The Book of Boba Fett (2022), Watchmen (2019), Run & Jump (2013), and New Boy (2007).
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Stephen Daldry
Stephen David Daldry CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television.
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Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician.
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Steve Preeg
Steve Preeg is an American Academy Award-winning special effects artist.
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Steven Okazaki
Steven Toll Okazaki (born March 12, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker known for his raw, cinéma vérité-style documentaries that frequently show ordinary people dealing with extraordinary circumstances.
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Sun-Times Media Group (formerly Hollinger International) is a Chicago-based newspaper publisher.
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Sweet Charity (film)
Sweet Charity (full title: Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved) is a 1969 American musical comedy-drama film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse in his feature directorial debut, written by Peter Stone, and featuring music by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields.
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Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor.
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Tanvi Shah
Tanvi Shah, (born 1 December 1985) is an Indian singer and songwriter from Tamil Nadu, India.
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Taraji P. Henson
Taraji Penda Henson (born September 11, 1970) is an American actress.
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TelevisionWeek
TelevisionWeek was an American trade magazine delivering news, analysis, and data on television and media, owned by Crain Communications Inc. It was founded in 1982 as Electronic Media and published under that title until 2003; the print magazine ceased publication in 2009.
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Thavisouk Phrasavath
Thavisouk Phrasavath is a New York-based Lao-American film director/editor, writer and visual artist.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) is a 2008 German drama film directed by Uli Edel.
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The Betrayal – Nerakhoon
The Betrayal — Nerakhoon is a 2008 documentary film directed by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath.
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The Class (2008 film)
The Class (lit) is a 2008 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau.
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The Conscience of Nhem En
The Conscience of Nhem En is a 26-minute documentary directed by Steven Okazaki, telling the stories of three survivors of the Tuol Sleng Prison.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy romantic drama film directed by David Fincher.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story about a man who ages in reverse, from senescence to infancy, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, from a screenplay co-written with his brother Jonathan.
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The Duchess (film)
The Duchess is a 2008 historical drama film directed by Saul Dibb, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jeffrey Hatcher and Anders Thomas Jensen, based on the 1998 book Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, about the late 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
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The Final Inch
The Final Inch is a short documentary about the effort to eradicate polio.
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The Garden (2008 film)
The Garden is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Reader
The Reader (Der Vorleser) is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997.
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The Reader (2008 film)
The Reader is a 2008 German-American romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, written by David Hare on the basis of the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink, and starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Karoline Herfurth.
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The Sound of Music (film)
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker.
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The Visitor (2007 feature film)
The Visitor is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Tom McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.
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The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 is a 2008 documentary short film created to honor the 40th annual remembrance of the life and death of Martin Luther King Jr. Directed by Adam Pertofsky, the film received a 2008 Oscar nomination in the "Best Documentary Short Subject" Category at the 81st Academy Awards.
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The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
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The Wrestler (2008 film)
The Wrestler is a 2008 American sports drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Robert Siegel.
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This Way Up (film)
This Way Up is a 2008 short film directed by Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes.
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Thomas Floutz
Thomas Floutz is an American make-up artist and special effects artist.
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Thomas Newman
Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores.
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Tia Lessin
Tia Lessin is an American documentary filmmaker.
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Tilda Swinton
Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress.
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Tim Gunn
Timothy MacKenzie Gunn (born July 29, 1953) is an American author, academic, and television personality.
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Tim Webber
Tim Webber is a Welsh visual effects supervisor and is chief creative officer at visual effects studio Framestore.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Tom Myers (sound engineer)
Tom Myers is an American sound engineer.
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Tom Sayers (sound editor)
Tom Sayers is a sound editor.
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Tom Stern (cinematographer)
Thomas Evans Stern,, (born December 16, 1946) is an American cinematographer.
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Tony Awards
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.
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Top Hat
Top Hat is a 1935 American musical screwball comedy film in which Fred Astaire plays an American tap dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton).
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Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire.
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Toyland (film)
Toyland (Spielzeugland) is a German 2007 short film directed and co-written by Jochen Alexander Freydank.
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Tribune Media Company, also known as Tribune Company, was an American multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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Tribune Publishing
Tribune Publishing Company (briefly Tronc, Inc.) is an American newspaper print and online media publishing company.
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Tropic Thunder
Tropic Thunder is a 2008 satirical action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen.
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Trouble the Water
Trouble the Water is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal.
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TVLine
TVLine is a website devoted to information, news, and spoilers of television programs.
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Uli Edel
Ulrich "Uli" Edel (born 11 April 1947) is a German film and television director, best known for his work on films such as ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'', Body of Evidence and The Baader Meinhof Complex. His Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture made for TV.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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USC Trojan Marching Band
The USC Trojan Marching Band, also known as the Spirit of Troy and nicknamed The Greatest Marching Band in the History of the Universe, Ever (TGMBITHOTUE), represents the University of Southern California (USC) at various collegiate sports, broadcast, popular music recording, and national public appearance functions.
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Van Johnson
Charles Van Dell Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American actor and dancer.
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Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988) is an American actress and singer.
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Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a 2008 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen.
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Victor J. Zolfo
Victor J. Zolfo is a set decorator who has worked in the film industry since the late 1980s.
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Vikas Swarup
Vikas Swarup (born 22 June 1961) is a retired Indian diplomat and writer.
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Viola Davis
Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and film producer.
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WALL-E
WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 American animated romantic science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
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Wally Pfister
Walter C. Pfister (born July 8, 1961) is an American director and former cinematographer, who is best known for his work with filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
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Waltz with Bashir
Waltz with Bashir (ואלס עם באשיר, translit. Vals Im Bashir) is a 2008 Israeli adult animated war docudrama film written, produced, and directed by Ari Folman.
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Wanted (2008 film)
Wanted is a 2008 action thriller film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Michael Brandt, Derek Haas and Chris Morgan, loosely based on the comic book miniseries by Mark Millar and J. G. Jones.
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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.
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Warren Cowan
Warren Cowan (March 13, 1921 – May 14, 2008) was an American film industry publicist.
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Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog (né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author.
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West Side Story (1961 film)
West Side Story is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, written by Ernest Lehman, and produced by Wise.
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Western Australian Museum
The Western Australian Museum is a statutory authority within the Culture and the Arts Portfolio, established under the Museum Act 1969.
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William Ross (composer)
William Ross (born July 20, 1948) is an American composer, orchestrator, arranger, conductor and music director.
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The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is the website of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).
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Wylie Stateman
Wylie Stateman (born November 20, 1957) is an American sound director, supervising sound editor, sound designer, and post production media entrepreneur.
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Yōjirō Takita
Yōjirō Takita (滝田 洋二郎 Takita Yōjirō, born December 4, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker.
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You're the One That I Want
"You're the One That I Want" is a song performed by American actor and singer John Travolta and Anglo-Australian singer and actress Olivia Newton-John for the 1978 film version of the musical Grease.
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Zac Efron
Zachary David Alexander Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American actor.
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15th Screen Actors Guild Awards
The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2008, were presented on January 25, 2009. 81st Academy Awards and 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards are 2008 film awards.
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2008 in film
The year 2008 involved many major film events.
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29th Golden Raspberry Awards
The 29th Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies, ceremony was held by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation to identify the worst films the film industry had to offer in 2008, according to votes from members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation. 81st Academy Awards and 29th Golden Raspberry Awards are 2008 film awards, 2009 in American cinema, 2009 in Los Angeles and February 2009 events in the United States.
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51st Annual Grammy Awards
The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on February 8, 2009, honoring the best in music for the recording year beginning October 1, 2007, through September 30, 2008. 81st Academy Awards and 51st Annual Grammy Awards are 2009 awards in the United States, 2009 in Los Angeles and February 2009 events in the United States.
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57th Tony Awards
The 57th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2003, and broadcast by CBS television.
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59th Tony Awards
The 59th Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 5, 2005 at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast by CBS television.
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61st Primetime Emmy Awards
The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 20, 2009 on CBS. 81st Academy Awards and 61st Primetime Emmy Awards are 2009 awards in the United States and 2009 in Los Angeles.
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62nd British Academy Film Awards
The 62nd British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, took place on 8 February 2009 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2008. 81st Academy Awards and 62nd British Academy Film Awards are 2008 film awards.
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63rd Tony Awards
The 63rd Annual Tony Awards, which recognized Broadway productions of the 2008-2009 season, were presented on June 7, 2009 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. 81st Academy Awards and 63rd Tony Awards are 2009 awards in the United States.
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66th Golden Globe Awards
The 66th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, was broadcast on January 11, 2009, from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States on the NBC television network. 81st Academy Awards and 66th Golden Globe Awards are 2008 film awards.
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80th Academy Awards
The 80th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2007. 81st Academy Awards and 80th Academy Awards are academy Awards ceremonies.
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See also
2009 awards in the United States
- 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
- 2009 American Society of Cinematographers Awards
- 2009 Country Music Association Awards
- 2009 Kids' Choice Awards
- 2009 Latin Billboard Music Awards
- 2009 MTV Movie Awards
- 2009 MTV Video Music Awards
- 2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2009 Origins Award winners
- 2009 Ovation Awards
- 2009 Pulitzer Prize
- 2009 Soul Train Music Awards
- 2009 Teen Choice Awards
- 2009 Webby Awards
- 20th GLAAD Media Awards
- 21st Lambda Literary Awards
- 30th Golden Raspberry Awards
- 35th People's Choice Awards
- 36th People's Choice Awards
- 36th Saturn Awards
- 37th Annie Awards
- 40th GMA Dove Awards
- 44th Academy of Country Music Awards
- 51st Annual Grammy Awards
- 61st Primetime Emmy Awards
- 62nd Directors Guild of America Awards
- 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards
- 63rd Tony Awards
- 67th Golden Globe Awards
- 81st Academy Awards
- BET Awards 2009
- Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2009
- Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2009
- St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2009
2009 in American cinema
- 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards
- 2009 American Society of Cinematographers Awards
- 2009 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2009 MTV Movie Awards
- 2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2009 Sundance Film Festival
- 29th Golden Raspberry Awards
- 30th Young Artist Awards
- 62nd Directors Guild of America Awards
- 62nd Writers Guild of America Awards
- 81st Academy Awards
- American Cinema Editors Awards 2009
- Art Directors Guild Awards 2008
- Cinema Audio Society Awards 2008
- Costume Designers Guild Awards 2008
- List of 2009 box office number-one films in the United States
- List of 81st Academy Awards In Memoriam tribute honorees
- List of American films of 2009
- List of films at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival
- List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- National Board of Review Awards 2009
- New York Film Critics Online Awards 2009
- Production of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Production of Watchmen (film)
- San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2009
2009 in Los Angeles
- 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 2008–09 Cal State Northridge Matadors men's basketball team
- 2009 Kids' Choice Awards
- 2009 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- 2009 Los Angeles mayoral election
- 2009 MTV Movie Awards
- 2009 Teen Choice Awards
- 20th GLAAD Media Awards
- 29th Golden Raspberry Awards
- 30th Young Artist Awards
- 35th People's Choice Awards
- 36th Daytime Emmy Awards
- 51st Annual Grammy Awards
- 61st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
- 61st Primetime Emmy Awards
- 7th Visual Effects Society Awards
- 81st Academy Awards
- American Music Awards of 2009
- Battle of Los Angeles (2009)
- Death of Michael Jackson
- Dynamite Duumvirate Tag Team Title Tournament (2009)
- E3 2009
- Michael Jackson memorial service
- SummerSlam (2009)
- X Games XV
- XPW Ten Year Anniversary Spectacular
February 2009 events in the United States
- 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
- 2009 Daytona 500
- 2009 USS Port Royal grounding
- 29th Golden Raspberry Awards
- 51st Annual Grammy Awards
- 61st Writers Guild of America Awards
- 7th Visual Effects Society Awards
- 81st Academy Awards
- Against All Odds (2009)
- Colgan Air Flight 3407
- FIL World Luge Championships 2009
- February 2009 Barack Obama speech to a joint session of Congress
- February 2009 North American storm complex
- First 100 days of the Barack Obama presidency
- List of United States tornadoes from January to March 2009
- Marvin L. Maple
- Morristown UFO hoax
- No Way Out (2009)
- Travis (chimpanzee)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/81st_Academy_Awards
Also known as 81st Academy Awards nominees and winners, 81st Academy Awards presenters, 81st Oscars, List of films nominated at the 81st Annual Academy Awards, Oscar winners 2009.
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