This follows on an earlier work, Burma VJ, which was nominated for an Oscar award last year.
The movie inspired the best-selling book "Black Hawk Down" by Mark Bowden and an eponymous, Oscar Award-winning movie directed by Ridley Scott.
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Despite the fact this was the first feature film by filmmaker Benh Zeitlin and starred unknown actors in all its roles, the film has gone to receive over 35 awards for both the director, the screenwriter Lucy Alibar, and most importantly, landing its leading lady the distinction of being the youngest nominee ever for an Oscar Academy Award for best actress.
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Another reason Oscar is the top award -- the Academy has long presented it as the top award.
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The historical drama, starring Colin Firth, had been up against the directors of four other Oscar frontrunners for the DGA award, including The Social Network's David Fincher.
Since her self-titled debut in 1971, she has released a long string of hits, earned a Grammy award, an Oscar, and induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame -and established herself as one of the most beloved singer-songwriters of her generation.
Her work gained her a special Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1993.
Halle Berry, the winner of the Best Actress award, showed up on Oscar night wearing Winston's Pumpkin diamond ring.
An award for best comedy gives Oscar's preening half the opportunity to recognize profound, well-crafted, seriously funny films that will go down as classics not just of the genre, but of the form.
Pixar's Up was the recipient of this year's animated feature Oscar, beating four other titles to the award.
Sony and Quantic Dream have finally confirmed the rumors that two-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe will join Oscar-nominee Ellen Page, along with actors like Kadeem Hardison and Eric Winter, in the October 8 PlayStation 3 exclusive, Beyond: Two Souls.
Streep outranks her by just one award, interestingly enough a Best Supporting Oscar.
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Oscar nods could help the film internationally since the award ceremony is watched by millions of people all around the world.
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Like most national award telecasts, the ratings for the Oscar ceremony have been spinning downward for a decade, losing 22% of household audiences since 1999.
And against all odds, I'll have correctly forseen, at least for my little group, that most remarkable of Academy Award miracles: a 90-minute Oscar telecast.
The French film about a literature teacher in inner-city Paris received glowing reviews and several other wins -- including an Independent Spirit Award for best foreign-language film -- though it came up short at the Oscars and at the Cesars (France's Oscar equivalent), taking home only a writing award at the latter.
Barbella says that the Web site and petition are their award: "The Academy gives an Oscar, " he said.
The Oscar-winning director picked up the outstanding British film award, for Bond's 23rd outing, alongside producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli at this year's Baftas.
While much of the Oscar set is still under wraps, an image of McLane's proscenium has been released and shows some typical touches: More than a thousand 1, 051, to be precise replica Oscar statuettes, each a little larger than the real award.
Neeson, 58, nominated for an Oscar for Schindler's List, will receive the Variety Award, previously won by JK Rowling and Helen Mirren.
Oscar-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren is to receive an honorary award for achievement in world cinema from the European Film Academy.
Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence presented Clinton with the inaugural Advocate for Change Award for his work campaigning to legalize same-sex marriage.
Five-time Oscar-winner John Williams is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Classic Brit awards in October.
Most Oscar odds-makers say Hawke is a long shot to win an award but the nomination alone has raised his profile.
Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro is to receive the Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes next year.
Caine has been widely praised for a performance which has brought the Oscar-winning actor - who will turn 70 next year - another Academy Award nomination.
"I think the way that we protect the image of our award and the way we protect the whole notion of the award -- we don't allow that icon, the Oscar statuette, to be used by anyone else in any other context, " says Unger.
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He won the Best Actor award at Cannes this year and he is being hotly tipped for another Oscar nod.
The event saw Oscar-winning actor and Grammy-winning artist Jamie Foxx receive the MTV Generation Award, the show's version of a lifetime achievement trophy.
In the 25 years since Rocky won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the top-grossing film has won the Oscar just five times.
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