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The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (AMPAS)
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Named for the famed MGM head of production who died in 1936, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presents the Thalberg Award on an irregular basis "to creative producers whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production." Unlike lifetime achievement Oscars -- which are usually presented to people at or after the end of their careers -- the Thalberg is usually awarded to producers who are at the apex of their careers. Darryl F. Zanuck received three Thalbergs; Hal B. Wallis received two; and Zanuck's son, Richard, and his production partner, David Brown, received the award jointly. Recipients are listed in order of the year of their awards.
Oscar Presenters - Best Picture
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To date, Jack Nicholson has presented eight Oscars for Best Picture. Audrey Hepburn, the second most-prolific presenter, presented four Best Picture Oscars. Steven Spielberg and Warren Beatty have each presented three times.
Academy Award winners for Best Picture set mostly or completely outside the United States
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The 36 Founding Members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
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In 1926, Louis B. Mayer wanted to short-circuit the growing labor union movement in Hollywood. He decided to create an umbrella organization whose membership would be open to all employees of the film industry, but which would actually be controlled by producers to serve their needs overall. Mayer and Fred Beetson -- the secretary-treasurer of the Association of Motion Picture Producers (the West Coast branch of the Hays Code organization, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America) -- got together with actor Conrad Nagel and director Fred Niblo to develop the groundwork for what would become the Academy. One of the earliest decisions was to divide the Academy into five branches: Actors, Directors, Producers, Technicians, and Writers. Dozens of Hollywood dignitaries were invited to attend an organizing banquet at the Ambassador Hotel on January 11, 1927. Anybody who attended would be listed as founding members of the Academy. Thirty-six people attended and, in what would become an Academy tradition, were permanently locked into the one branch they chose for themselves that night, even though some of them were qualified to join multiple branches. Four founding members have no IMDb pages; Beetson and Paramount Pictures executive Milton E. Hoffman, who both joined the Producers Branch; and lawyers George W. Cohen and Edwin Loeb.
Academy Award winners for Best Picture set within the United States and its territories, but where most or all of the action takes place outside the New York City area
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) First Year Membership Roll Call (from The Film Daily 1928 Year Book)
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In January, 1928, "The Film Daily" (aka, "Wid's Film Daily") published its annual yearbook of the previous year's activities. Included was the first roster of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who had joined by the end of 1927. Below is an alphabetical list of the 358 members listed, including their branch affiliations, plus two more who were committee members but were not listed until the following year. Also included are the offices and committee memberships some members held. Those who were among the 36 founding members are also noted. Some of the names on the list have no IMDb profiles: Fred W. Beetson, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association (MPPDA) - Producers Branch; Frank A. Brandow - Technicians Branch; Nathan Burkan, a copyright lawyer - Special Branch; Lawyers and Founding Members George W. Cohen and Edwin Loeb - Special Branch; John W Fingerlin, a theater chain accountant hired to manage Paramount's Long Island studio in preparation for a merger that never happened - Technicians Branch; John Froehlich - Technicians Branch; John J. Gain, a vice-president for the Catholic Motion Picture Guild of America - Producers Branch; Lee K Gaines - Technicians Branch; M.E. Greenwood, a manager at MGM - Producers Branch; Milton E. Hoffman, Paramount Pictures executive and Founding Member - Producers Branch; F.E. Pelton, who developed a system for moving and storing sets on a soundstage - Technicians Branch, Board of Directors and Technicians Class Executive Committee; J.D. Peter - Technicians Branch; Samuel Spring - Special Branch; W.T. Strohm, an electrician and lighting specialist - Technicians Branch; George A. Volck - Technicians Branch.
Academy Award winners for Best Picture set in and around New York City
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KFC's Colonel Sanders
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The founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, the late "Kentucky Colonel" (that's a real honorific with its own website - kycolonels.org) Harland Sanders, and those who have recently portrayed him on American TV commercials for KFC. Randy Quaid, who voiced the Colonel in animated ads that ran 1998-2001, is not part of the present ad campaign that began in 2015.
Best Picture Oscar winners that didn't win any Oscars for acting
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Including eleven with zero nominations for acting.
Presidents of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
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The Academy was organized by 36 Hollywood dignitaries at a banquet on January 11, 1927.
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Cast Away (2000)
Tennyson's "Enoch Arden" updated for the jet age.
26 November 2003
Tom Hanks gives another great performance in a pretty good movie, although I think UPS should sue for equal time. I give it an A for the first and second sections, a B+ for the final section.
However, this ISN'T an updated version of "Robinson Crusoe." It's an update of Lord Tennyson's mini-epic poem "Enoch Arden" which was filmed a half-dozen times during the silent film era.
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