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  2. List of Academy Award–winning films - Wikipedia

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    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-competitive award will be shown in brackets next to the ...

  3. History of theatre - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Academy Awards - Wikipedia

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    The Oscars have been infamously known for selecting specific genres of movies to be awarded. The term "Oscar bait" was coined to describe such movies. This has led, at times, to more specific criticisms that the Academy is disconnected from the audience, e.g., by favoring "Oscar bait" over audience favorites or favoring historical melodramas ...

  5. Oscar Brockett - Wikipedia

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    The Theatre: An Introduction (1st edition, New York 1964) followed by several editions. Perspectives on Contemporary Theatre (Baton Rouge, 1971). Century of Innovation: A History of European and American Theatre and Drama Since 1870 with co-author Robert R. Findley (Prentice-Hall, 1973).

  6. Category:History of theatre - Wikipedia

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  7. Academy Award for Best Picture - Wikipedia

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    The Godfather series is the only film series with multiple Best Picture winners, with the first film winning the award for 1972 and the second film winning the award for 1974. [ 23 ] Another nominee, Broadway Melody of 1936 , was a follow-up of sorts to previous winner The Broadway Melody , but beyond the title and some music, the two films ...

  8. Theater in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. History of cinema in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Grandin Theatre (at night), an independent movie theater in the Grandin Village district of Roanoke, Virginia, established in 1932. In the next ten years, as movie revenues exploded, independent promoters and movie studios (who owned their own proprietary chains until an antitrust ruling in 1948) raced to build the most lavish, elaborate ...