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  2. Why are the Academy Awards called the Oscars? 3 ... - AOL

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    That little gold man bestowed as filmmaking's highest honor at the Academy Awards has a name. It's Oscar. Yes, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the governing body for the glitzy ...

  3. Academy Awards - Wikipedia

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    The Oscar statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, [18] is given to winners of each year's awards. Made of gold-plated bronze on a black metal base, it is 13.5 in (34.3 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.9 kg) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes. The five spokes represent ...

  4. Stereotype (printing) - Wikipedia

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    A stereotype mold ("flong") being made Stereotype casting room of the Seattle Daily Times, c. 1900. In printing, a stereotype, [note 1] stereoplate or simply a stereo, is a solid plate of type metal, cast from a papier-mâché or plaster mould taken from the surface of a forme of type. [1]: stereotype The mould was known as a flong. [note 2]

  5. In memoriam segment - Wikipedia

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    To be included in the Oscars' In Memoriam segment, one may not have been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). [9] The final decision of whether or not a person is included depends on that person's level and quality of contributions to the movie industry. [ 7 ]

  6. Finding the ‘Origin’ of the Oscar Problem: Why Isn’t Ava ...

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    Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” is a masterpiece, but so far, the sprawling look at the roots of hate has failed to land some of the major film prizes. After watching the movie at this year’s ...

  7. Stolen, sold, not even solid gold. The story of Oscar

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    The Nobel Prize medal is rarer — something like a thousand of them awarded in 120-plus years, and made of actual gold — but not one person in a hundred would recognize Alfred Nobel’s ...

  8. Academy Honorary Award - Wikipedia

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    Bob Hope was the recipient of five Honorary Awards (one being the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award), between being an actor, Oscars host, etc. Ernst Lubitsch, a 1946 recipient Laurence Olivier, 1946, 1979 recipient Fred Astaire, 1949 and 1978 recipient Gene Kelly, 1951, recipient Louis B. Mayer, 1950 recipient Cecil B. DeMille was given two ...

  9. How Former Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis ... - AOL

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    TheWrap magazine: The longtime AMPAS head spoke with TheWrap about his new book, a deep dive into Oscar history How Former Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis Solved the Mystery of Oscar’s ...