The team at Studio AKA found out about the Oscar nomination by checking the Academy Awards website.
For the vast majority of films up for Academy Awards on Sunday night, an Oscar nod means only a small bump in box office earnings.
Nearly every American 18 and older is eligible to vote for president, but only the Academy's members have a say in Oscar awards.
On a night when the acting awards had a distinctly international flavor, a quintessentially American story of violence No Country for Old Men made the deepest impression on Oscar voters at the 80th annual Academy Awards.
Its Oscar prospects are still uncertain because the Academy Awards are famously unkind to comedies.
Nominated for 12 Academy Awards, the film has already seen an Oscar bump at theaters.
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Later that evening, at the 42nd Academy Awards, John Wayne won the Best Actor Oscar for True Grit.
The pair have both won Academy Awards before - Dame Helen nabbed a best actress Oscar in 2007 for The Queen, while Sir Anthony won best actor for his portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs in 1992.
Waltz picked up his second best supporting actor Oscar for that role at this year's Academy Awards.
Singer, actress and double Oscar-winner Barbra Streisand is to perform at the Academy Awards for the first time in 36 years, organisers have announced.
"The one-page agreement that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences enters into with the recipients of Oscar awards raises enough tricky questions of property and contract law to pique the interest of property and contract scholars, " says Richard A. Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago.
Oscar winning actress Emma Thompson, the only person ever to receive Academy Awards for both acting and writing, claims just such a bed cured her insomnia, according to Savoir, the manufacturer of the pricey mattresses.
It won seven Academy Awards, including one for cinematography, and Mr. Kaminski gained a second Oscar five years later, for Mr. Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" (1998).
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For years, he made "million-dollar Oscar shoes, " diamond-covered footwear that a celebrity would wear to the Academy Awards.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- The first Palestinian filmmaker nominated for an Oscar was briefly detained by U.S. officials who questioned the validity of his Academy Awards invitation as he and his family arrived in Los Angeles for this weekend's event, his publicist told CNN on Wednesday.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- The Palestinian maker of a film nominated for an Oscar was briefly detained by U.S. officials who questioned the validity of his Academy Awards invitation as he and his family arrived in Los Angeles for this weekend's event, his publicist told CNN on Wednesday.
"Zero Dark Thirty's" Bigelow, "Les Miserables' " Hooper and "Argo's" Affleck were all nominated for Directors Guild of America Awards , usually a sure sign of an Oscar nomination, but all fell short with the academy.
So good is this Batman film, that the Academy Awards had to change the way movies are nominated in order to make up for the perceived shortcomings in Oscar balloting that resulted in The Dark Knight failing to get a Best Picture nomination.
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