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By contrast, ceremonies honoring films that have not performed well at the box office tend to show weaker ratings, despite how much critical acclaim those films have received. The 78th Academy Awards, which awarded a low-budget independent film (Crash with a pre-Oscar gross of $53.4 million) generated an audience of 38.64 million with a ...
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture , its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non ...
Oscar Gross Brockett (March 18, 1923 – November 7, 2010) was president of the American Theatre Association. An American Theater historian, he was Dean of the ...
The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years. While performative elements are present in every society, it is customary to acknowledge a distinction between theatre as an art form and entertainment, and theatrical or performative elements in other activities. The history of theatre is primarily concerned ...
RKO Pantages Theatre — 1952: RKO Pantages Theatre and NBC International Theatre — 1953 to 1956: RKO Pantages Theatre and NBC Century Theatre — 1957 to 1959: RKO Pantages Theatre — 1960 to 1967: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium: Hosted the Academy Awards for 7 consecutive years 1968 to 1986: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: Hosted the Academy ...
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
At the 1st Academy Awards ceremony held in 1929 (for films made in 1927 and 1928), there were two categories of awards that were each considered the top award of the night: "Outstanding Picture" and "Unique and Artistic Picture", the former being won by the war epic Wings, and the latter by the art film Sunrise. Each award was intended to honor ...
At this theatre : 100 years of Broadway shows, stories and stars (2002) online; Brockett, Oscar G., and Robert R. Findlay. "Century of Innovation: A History of European and American Theatre and Drama Since 1870." (1973). online; Brown, Gene. Show time: a chronology of Broadway and the theatre from its beginnings to the present (1997) online ...