He often appeared at fantasy conventions and in 1992 received a special award from the Motion Picture Academy.
And, if you'll recall, "The Deer Hunter" was also rewarded by the Motion Picture Academy -- as the best picture of the year.
The motion picture academy and its longtime accountants, PricewaterhouseCoopers, partnered with the electronic voting firm Everyone Counts Inc. to develop the new system.
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Nuance and accuracy are, sadly, not currently strong suits of the popular media or, evidently, of the films the Motion Picture Academy chooses to celebrate.
The most flagrant of these miscarriages of justice occurred in 1981, when the Motion Picture Academy chose Robert Redford's plodding direction of "Ordinary People" over Mr. Scorsese's bravura work in "Raging Bull, " which is the most powerful of the four films in this new DVD box.
This evening at the red carpet gala of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present its scientific and technical Academy Awards.
Over recent years, marketing films to the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has become a multi-million dollar industry.
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Here's a complete list of the 79th Annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The world-wide social networking site features a very different group of users than the voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who tend to be white, older and male.
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Chastain will also be up for best actress at the Oscars, one of five nominations the film has received from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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"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.
More than 1, 000 original movie posters from the golden age of Hollywood have been donated to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Multiple newspapers, including The Chicago Sun-Times and The New York Post, are reporting that sources in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences count Oprah Winfrey as the top candidate to host the 2012 Oscars next February.
The five film SAG awards traditionally set the stage for the Oscars, voted by about 8, 000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to be handed out four weeks later.
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The nominations are selected by a ballot of 6, 000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
"The Academy's Board of Governors believes that the home for our awards is in Hollywood, " said Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, producers of the 2013 Oscars ceremony, have been invited back to produce next year's event, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced.
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The song featured in the motion picture of the same name was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Exactly one dollar, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hosts the annual awards show.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said there would be five nominees in the category in 2013.
This public relations challenge began just as Oscar ballots were mailed to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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Of course, members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences don't look at a film's balance sheet before they cast their votes.
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominations Tuesday morning for this year's Oscars, there was a predictable lack of blockbusters.
Last week the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named Wreck-It Ralph as one of 21 features eligible for next year's best animated film Oscar.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said the move would "provide members and the public a longer period of time to see the nominated films".
Last year the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expanded the Best Picture category from five to ten films in the hopes of including more populist hits.
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We scoured the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences database and found 14 car-centric films, highlighted in the accompanying slide show, that were awarded Oscars in assorted categories.
Shortly after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made their announcement, MacFarlane posted a self-deprecating video on YouTube, in which his father appeared underwhelmed by the news.
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