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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Barbella says that the Web site and petition are their award: "The Academy gives an Oscar, " he said.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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It was closely followed by the Oscar-winning short Great, which satirised Victorian attitudes and the decline of the British Empire, won him the Academy Award and a Bafta in 1976.

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