81st Academy Awards

The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2008 and took place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. ^[1]

A. R. Rahman

Allahrakka Rahman (born A. S. Dileep Kumar, best known as A. R. Rahman, is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, and music producer. A. R. Rahman's works are noted for integrating Indian classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestral arrangements. Among his awards are six National Film Awards, two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, fifteen Filmfare Awards and seventeen Filmfare Awards South. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, in 2010 by the Government of India. In 2009, Rahman was included on the ''Time'' 100 list of the world's most influential people. The UK-based world-music magazine Songlines named him one of "Tomorrow's World Music Icons" in August 2011. South Indian fans of Rahman refer him with the nickname of "The Mozart of Madras", and "Isai Puyal" (the Musical Storm). With an in-house studio (Panchathan Record Inn in Chennai), Rahman's film-scoring career began during the early 1990s with the Tamil film Roja. Working in India's film industries, international cinema, and theatre, Rahman is one of the best-selling recording artists, with an estimated 200million units sold. In a notable two-decade career, he has been acclaimed for redefining contemporary Indian film music and contributing to the success of several films. Rahman has also become a notable humanitarian and philanthropist, donating and raising money for a number of causes and charities. In 2017, Rahman made his debut as a director and writer for the film Le Musk.

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Abby Mann

Abby Mann (December 1, 1927 – March 25, 2008) was an American film writer and producer.

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ABC News

ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Academy Award for Best Actor

The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United States.

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Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

The Academy Awards are given each year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS or the Academy) for the best films and achievements of the previous year.

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Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the Academy Awards annually since the 5th Academy Awards, covering the year 1931–32, to the present.

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Academy Award for Best Cinematography

The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work on one particular motion picture.

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Academy Award for Best Costume Design

The Academy Award for Best Costume Design is one of the Academy Awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for achievement in film costume design.

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Academy Award for Best Director

The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

This is a list of films by year that have received an Academy Award together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject.

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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is an award for documentary films.

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Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

This name for the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film was introduced in 1974.

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Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling

The Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling is the Academy Award given to the best achievement in makeup and hairstyling for film.

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Academy Award for Best Original Score

The Academy Award for Best Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.

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Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay not based upon previously published material.

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Academy Award for Best Original Song

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Production Design

The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film.

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Academy Award for Best Sound Editing

The Academy Award for Best Sound Editing is an Academy Award granted yearly to a film exhibiting the finest or most aesthetic sound design or sound editing.

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Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing

The Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most euphonic sound mixing or recording and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film.

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (often referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is an Academy Award given for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Academy Award for Technical Achievement

The Technical Achievement Award is one of three Scientific and Technical Awards given from time to time by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS (often pronounced as am-pas), also known as simply the Academy) is a professional honorary organization with the stated goal of advancing the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

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Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

The Television Academy, legally known as The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS), is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the television industry in the United States.

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Albert Wolsky

Albert Wolsky (born November 24, 1930) is an American costume designer.

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Alexandre Desplat

Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (born 23 August 1961) is a French-Greek film composer.

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Alicia Keys

Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter.

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All That Jazz (song)

"All That Jazz" (alternatively "And All That Jazz") is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago.

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Amanda Seyfried

Amanda Michelle Seyfried (born December 3, 1985) is an American actress, model, and singer-songwriter.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Amy Adams

Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an American actress.

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Andrew Stanton

Andrew Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and voice actor based at Pixar, which he joined in 1990.

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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight, June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian.

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Angus Wall

Angus Alexander Wall (born March 15, 1967) is a film editor and film title designer.

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Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston (born July 8, 1951) is an American actress, director, and former fashion model.

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Anne Hathaway

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress and singer.

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Anthony Dod Mantle

Anthony Dod Mantle, DFF, ASC, BSC (born 14 April 1955) is a British cinematographer.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937), better known as Anthony Hopkins, is a Welsh actor, widely considered to be one of the world's greatest living actors.

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Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 195418 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter.

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AOL

AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc., originally known as America Online, and stylized as Aol.) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York.

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Ari Folman

Ari Folman (Hebrew: ארי פולמן) (born December 17, 1962) is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer.

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At Last

"At Last" is a song written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the musical film Sun Valley Serenade (1941).

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Australia (2008 film)

Australia is a 2008 Australian-British-American romantic historical adventure drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman.

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Baz Luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann (born Mark Anthony Luhrmann, 17 September 1962) is an Australian writer, director, and producer with projects spanning film, television, opera, theatre, music, and recording industries.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)

Beauty and the Beast is a 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Ben Burtt

Benjamin "Ben" Burtt, Jr. (born July 12, 1948) is an American sound designer, film editor, director, screenwriter, and voice actor.

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Ben Kingsley

Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; 31 December 1943) is an English actor with a career spanning over 50 years.

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Ben Schwartz

Ben Schwartz (born September 15, 1981) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, director and producer.

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Ben Snow

Ben Snow is a special effects artist who has been nominated four times at the Academy Awards.

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Ben Stiller

Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director.

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Bernhard Schlink

Bernhard Schlink (born 6 July 1944 in Bielefeld) is a German lawyer, Professor of the Philosophy of Law and writer.

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Bernie Mac

Bernard Jeffrey McCullough (October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008), better known by his stage name Bernie Mac, was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and voice actor.

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Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood.

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Beverly Wilshire Hotel

The Beverly Wilshire Beverly Hills (A Four Seasons Hotel), commonly known as the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, is a historic luxury hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

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Beyoncé

Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman.

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Big Spender

"Big Spender" is a song written by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields for the musical Sweet Charity, first performed in 1966.

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Bill Condon

William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American screenwriter and director.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Block Communications

Block Communications (also known as Blade Communications) is an American privately held holding company of various assets, mainly in the print and broadcast media, based in Toledo, Ohio.

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Bolt (2008 film)

Bolt is a 2008 American computer animated comedy-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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Box Office Mojo

Founded in 1999, Box Office Mojo tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, and publishes the data on its website.

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Brad Pitt

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer.

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Brian Grazer

Brian Thomas Grazer (born July 12, 1951) is an American film and television producer.

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Bruce Cohen

Bruce L. Cohen (born September 23, 1961) is a film, television, and theater producer.

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Burt Dalton

Burt Dalton is a visual effects supervisor.

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Byron Howard

Byron P. Howard (born December 26, 1968) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, story artist and occasional voice actor at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carl Deal

Carl Deal is an American documentary filmmaker and journalist.

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Catherine Martin (designer)

Catherine Martin (born 26 January 1965) is an Australian costume designer, production designer, set designer, and film producer.

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CBS Corporation

CBS Corporation is an American mass media corporation focused on commercial broadcasting, publishing, and television production, with most of its operations in the United States.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS.

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Ceán Chaffin

Ceán Chaffin is an American film producer who has frequently collaborated with director and husband David Fincher.

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Changeling (film)

Changeling is a 2008 American mystery crime drama film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski, that explores child endangerment, female disempowerment, political corruption, mistreatment of mental health patients, and the repercussions of violence.

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Charles H. Joffe

Charles H. Joffe (July 16, 1929 – July 9, 2008) was an American film producer and comedy talent manager.

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Charles H. Schneer

Charles H. Schneer (May 5, 1920 – January 21, 2009) was a film producer most widely known for working with Ray Harryhausen, known for his work in stop motion model animation.

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Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter or Charlton John Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist.

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Chicago (2002 film)

Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy-drama film based on the stage-musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Chris Corbould

Christopher Charles Corbould, (born 1958) is a British special effects coordinator best known for his work on major blockbuster films and the action scenes on some 11 James Bond films since the early 1980s.

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Chris Dickens

Chris Dickens is a British film and television editor.

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Chris Harrison

Christopher Bryan Harrison (born July 26, 1971) is an American television and game show host, best known for his role as host of the ABC reality television dating show, The Bachelor since 2002, and its spin-offs The Bachelorette since 2003, Bachelor Pad from 2010 to 2012, Bachelor in Paradise since 2014, the first season of Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise in 2015, Bachelor Live in 2016, and The Bachelor Winter Games in 2018.

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Chris Jenkins (sound engineer)

Chris Jenkins is an American sound engineer.

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Chris Menges

Chris Menges BSC, ASC (born 15 September 1940) is an English cinematographer and film director.

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Chris Williams (director)

Chris Williams (born c. 1968/1969) is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and animator at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

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Christian Colson

Christian Colson (born 15 September 1968) is a British film producer.

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Christine Collins

Christine Ida Collins (December 14, 1888–December 8, 1964) was an American woman who made national headlines during the late 1920s and 1930s, after her 9-year-old son, Walter Collins, went missing in 1928.

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Christopher Boyes

Christopher Boyes is an American sound engineer.

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Christopher Walken

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943) is an American actor of screen and stage who has appeared in more than 100 films and television shows, including Annie Hall (1977), The Deer Hunter (1978), The Dogs of War (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), Batman Returns (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Antz (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Hairspray (2007), Seven Psychopaths (2012), the first three Prophecy films, The Jungle Book (2016), as well as music videos by many popular recording artists.

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Claude Berri

Claude Berri (1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.

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Claudio Miranda

Claudio Miranda (born March 1965 in Valparaíso, Chile) is a Chilean cinematographer best known as the Academy Award-winning director of photography on Ang Lee's film Life of Pi and as the director of photography on David Fincher's film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the first entirely digitally filmed movie nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and an American Society of Cinematographers Award.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel and an independent subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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Condé Nast

Condé Nast Inc. is an American mass media company founded in 1909 by Condé Montrose Nast, based at One World Trade Center and owned by Advance Publications.

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Conor O'Sullivan (make-up artist)

Conor O'Sullivan is a British Prosthetic makeup artist who has been nominated for two Academy Awards, who is perhaps best known for being one of the makeup artists in The Dark Knight who was involved in creating The Joker's makeup.

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Coordinated Universal Time

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Courtney Hunt

Courtney Hunt (born 1964) is an American director and screenwriter.

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Craig Barron

Craig Barron (born April 6, 1961)According to the State of California.

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Crain Communications

Crain Communications Inc is an American publishing conglomerate based in Detroit, Michigan.

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Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Michael Gooding Jr. (born January 2, 1968), is an American actor and comedian.

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Cyd Charisse

Tula Ellice Charisse (née Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008), known professionally as Cyd Charisse, was an American dancer and actress.

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Dan Harmon

Daniel Harmon (born January 3, 1973) is an American writer, producer, actor and voice actor.

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Dan Jinks

Dan Jinks is an American film and television producer.

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Dan Sudick

Dan Sudick is a special effects supervisor.

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Dan White

Daniel James White (September 2, 1946 – October 21, 1985) was a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who murdered San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, on Monday, November 27, 1978, at City Hall.

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Daniel P. Hanley

Daniel P. Hanley, A.C.E. (born 1955) is an American film editor with more than 30 feature film credits.

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Danny Boyle

Danny Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director, producer, screenwriter and theatre director, known for his work on films including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, The Beach, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, and Steve Jobs.

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Danny Elfman

Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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David Fincher

David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American director and producer of films, television, and music videos.

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David Hare (playwright)

Sir David Hare (born 5 June 1947) is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre and film director.

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David Letterman

David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer.

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David Parker (sound engineer)

David Parker (born 1951) is an American sound engineer.

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David Rockwell

David Rockwell (born 1956) is an American architect and designer.

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David Watkin (cinematographer)

David Watkin BSC (23 March 1925 – 19 February 2008) was a British cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, also known as Deadline.com and previously known as news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily, is an online magazine founded by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Debra Schutt

Debra Schutt (born 1955) is an American set decorator and art director.

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Defiance (2008 film)

Defiance is a 2008 American War film directed by Edward Zwick set during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany.

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Departures (2008 film)

is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Yōjirō Takita and starring Masahiro Motoki, Ryōko Hirosue, and Tsutomu Yamazaki.

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Dolby Theatre

The Dolby Theatre (formerly known as the Kodak Theatre) is a live-performance auditorium in the Hollywood and Highland Center shopping mall and entertainment complex, on Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue, in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, United States.

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Dominic Cooper

Dominic Edward Cooper (born 2 June 1978) is an English actor.

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Don't Cry for Me Argentina

"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" is a song recorded by Julie Covington for the 1976 concept album, Evita, and was later included in the 1978 musical of the same name.

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Donald Graham Burt

Donald Graham Burt is a film production designer.

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Donna Gigliotti

Donna Gigliotti (born 1955) is an American film producer.

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Doubt (2008 film)

Doubt is a 2008 American period drama film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning stage play Doubt: A Parable.

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Doubt: A Parable

Doubt, A Parable is a 2004 play by John Patrick Shanley.

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Doug Sweetland

Doug Sweetland is an American animator and film director.

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Down to Earth (Peter Gabriel song)

"Down to Earth" is a song co-written and performed by English rock musician Peter Gabriel for the 2008 computer-animated Pixar film, WALL-E. The song was released on June 10, 2008 by Walt Disney Records and Real World Records.

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Dreamgirls (film)

Dreamgirls is a 2006 American romantic musical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon and jointly produced and released by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures.

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Dustin Lance Black

Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist.

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E!

E! (originally an initialism of Entertainment Television) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, all owned by Comcast.

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands.

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Ed Novick

Ed Novick is an American sound engineer.

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Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, producer, and LGBT activist.

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Ellen Kuras

Ellen Kuras (born July 10, 1959 in New Jersey) is an American cinematographer whose body of work includes narrative and documentary films, music videos and commercials in both the studio and independent worlds.

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Elliot Graham

Elliot Graham (born 1976, Claremont, California) is an American film editor.

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Emud Mokhberi

Emud Mokhberi (born February 1978, Michigan) is an Iranian-American film director.

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Encounters at the End of the World

Encounters at the End of the World is a 2007 American documentary film by Werner Herzog.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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Eric Barba

Eric Barba is a visual effects supervisor for television, film, and commercial advertising.

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Eric Fellner

Eric Fellner, CBE (born 10 October 1959) is an English film producer.

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Eric Roth

Eric R. Roth (born March 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter.

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Eva Marie Saint

Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American actress.

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Evelyn Keyes

Evelyn Louise Keyes (November 20, 1916 – July 4, 2008) was an American film actress.

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Evita (1996 film)

Evita is a 1996 American musical drama film based on the 1976 concept album of the same name produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which also inspired a 1978 musical.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age.

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Forest Whitaker

Forest Steven Whitaker III (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Frank A. Montaño

Frank A. Montaño is an American re-recording mixer.

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Frank E. Eulner

Frank E. Eulner (born 1963) is a sound editor who is also a member of Skywalker Sound.

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Frank Langella

Frank A. Langella Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor.

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Frank Marshall (producer)

Frank Wilton Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director, often working in collaboration with his wife, Kathleen Kennedy.

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Freida Pinto

Freida Selena Pinto (born 18 October 1984) is an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in American and British films.

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Frost/Nixon (film)

Frost/Nixon is a 2008 British-American historical drama film based on the 2006 play of the same name by Peter Morgan, who also adapted the screenplay.

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Frost/Nixon (play)

Frost/Nixon is a 2006 British play by screenwriter and dramatist Peter Morgan based on a series of televised interviews that former U.S. President Richard Nixon granted broadcaster David Frost in 1977 about his administration, including his role in the Watergate scandal.

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Frozen River

Frozen River is a 2008 American crime drama film written and directed by Courtney Hunt.

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Gannett Company

Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC.

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Gary Fettis

Gary Fettis (born 1950) is an American set decorator.

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Gary Rizzo

Gary Rizzo (born January 31, 1972) is an American re-recording mixer.

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Götz Spielmann

Götz Spielmann (born January 11, 1961) is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.

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Glenn Freemantle

Glenn Freemantle is a British sound editor and sound designer.

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Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, producer, and occasional singer.

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Gordon E. Sawyer Award

The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is an Honorary Award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." The award is named in honour of Gordon E. Sawyer, the former Sound Director at Samuel Goldwyn Studio and three-time Academy Award winner who claimed that a listing of past Academy Awards, arranged both chronologically and by category, represents a history of the development of motion pictures.

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Grease (film)

Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film based on the musical of the same name.

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Greg Cannom

Greg Cannom is a Hollywood special makeup effects artist.

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Gulzar

Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1934), known popularly by his pet name Gulzar, is an Indian poet, lyricist, musician, composer and film director.

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Gus Van Sant

Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician and author who has earned acclaim as both an independent and more mainstream filmmaker.

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Hairspray (2007 film)

Hairspray is a 2007 musical romantic comedy film based on the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John Waters's 1988 comedy film of the same name.

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Hairspray (2007 soundtrack)

Hairspray: Soundtrack to the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album for the 2007 New Line Cinema musical film Hairspray.

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Happy-Go-Lucky

Happy-Go-Lucky is a 2008 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh.

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter (10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor.

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Harvey Milk

Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, where he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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Heath Ledger

Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 197922 January 2008) was an Australian actor and director.

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Hebrew language

No description.

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Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Hellboy II: The Golden Army is a 2008 American superhero film based on the fictional character Hellboy created by Mike Mignola.

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Henry Kaiser (musician)

Henry Kaiser (born September 19, 1952) is an American guitarist and composer, known as an idiosyncratic soloist, a sideman, an ethnomusicologist, and a film score composer.

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High School Musical 3: Senior Year

High School Musical 3: Senior Year is a 2008 American musical film and is the third installment in the ''High School Musical'' trilogy.

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High School Musical 3: Senior Year (soundtrack)

High School Musical 3: Senior Year is the soundtrack album for the Walt Disney Pictures film of the same name.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Hollywood and Highland Center

The Hollywood & Highland Center is a shopping mall and entertainment complex at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in the Hollywood district in Los Angeles.

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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer.

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I Don't Know How to Love Him

"I Don't Know How to Love Him" is a song from the 1970 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar written by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Tim Rice (lyrics), a torch ballad sung by the character of Mary Magdalene.

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I'll Be Seeing You (song)

"I'll Be Seeing You" is a popular song, with music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Irving Kahal.

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Ian Tapp

Ian Tapp is an English sound engineer.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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In Bruges

In Bruges is a 2008 black comedy crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh.

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Irene Taylor Brodsky

Irene Taylor Brodsky is an American documentary film maker.

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Iron Man (2008 film)

Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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Isaac Hayes

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. (August 20, 1942 – August 10, 2008) was an American singer-songwriter, actor, voice actor and producer.

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Jack Black

Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician.

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Jacqueline West

Jacqueline West is an American costume designer whose work has been recognized in numerous films such as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Quills, State of Play, The Tree of Life, Seventh Son, and The Revenant.

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Jai Ho (song)

"Jai Ho" is a song composed by A. R. Rahman for the 2008 film, Slumdog Millionaire.

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James Franco

James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor, filmmaker, and college instructor.

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James J. Murakami

James J. Murakami is a Japanese-American art director and production designer.

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James Marsh (director)

James Marsh (born 30 April 1963) is a British film and documentary director best known for his work on Man on Wire, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and The Theory of Everything, the multi-award winning biopic of physicist Stephen Hawking released in 2014.

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James Newton Howard

James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American composer, conductor, and music producer.

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James Poniewozik

James Poniewozik (born 1968) is an American journalist and television critic.

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James Whitmore

James Allen Whitmore Jr. (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American film, theatre, and television actor.

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Janusz Kamiński

Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński, A.S.C. (born June 27, 1959) is a Polish cinematographer and film director who started his career in the United States.

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Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is awarded periodically by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) at the Governors Awards ceremonies for an individual's "outstanding contributions to humanitarian causes".

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Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch, March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, singer, humanitarian, director, screenwriter, producer, headliner and author.

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Jessica Biel

Jessica Claire Timberlake (née Biel; born March 3, 1982) is an American actress, model, producer and singer.

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Jesus Christ Superstar (film)

Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1973 American musical drama film directed by Norman Jewison and co-written by Jewison and Melvyn Bragg based on the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera of the same name.

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Jim Reardon

Jim Reardon (born 1965) is an American animation director and storyboard consultant, best known for his work on the animated TV series The Simpsons.

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Jochen Alexander Freydank

Jochen Alexander Freydank is a German film director.

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Joel Grey

Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer.

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John Caglione Jr.

John Caglione Jr. (born c. 1958) is a make-up artist.

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John Legend

John Roger Stephens (born December 28, 1978), known professionally as John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter and actor.

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John Michael Hayes

John Michael Hayes (11 May 1919 – 19 November 2008) was an American screenwriter, who scripted four of Alfred Hitchcock's films in the 1950s.

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John Nelson (visual effects artist)

John Nelson (born July 21, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Visual effects supervisor and a 1976 graduate of the University of Michigan.

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John Patrick Shanley

John Patrick Shanley (born October 13, 1950) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and theater/film director.

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Joker (The Dark Knight)

The Joker is a fictional character who appears in Christopher Nolan's 2008 superhero film The Dark Knight.

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Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor, and television host.

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Josh Brolin

Josh James Brolin (born February 12, 1968) is an American actor.

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Judd Apatow

Judd Apatow (born December 6, 1967) is an American producer, writer, director, actor and stand-up comedian.

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Jules Dassin

Julius "Jules" Dassin (December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008) was an American film director, producer, writer and actor.

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Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet, (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress.

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Kathleen Kennedy (producer)

Kathleen Kennedy (born June 5, 1953) is an American film producer.

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Kevin Kline

Kevin Delaney Kline (born October 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor and singer.

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Kirk Baxter

Kirk Baxter (born 1972) is an Australian film editor.

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Kon Ichikawa

was a Japanese film director.

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Konstantin Bronzit

Konstantin Eduardovich Bronzit (born April 12, 1965) is a Russian animator and animation film director and nominated twice for Oscars.

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Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda is a 2008 American computer-animated action comedy martial arts film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

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Kunio Katō

(born 1977) is a Japanese animator known for the short film La Maison en Petits Cubes which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

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Kyle Cooper

Kyle Cooper (Born July 13, 1962) is an American designer known for his work creating title sequences for motion pictures.

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La Maison en Petits Cubes

is a 2008 Japanese animated short subject film created by Kunio Katō, with music by Kenji Kondo and produced by Robot Communications.

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Lady Marmalade

"Lady Marmalade" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Kenny Nolan.

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Laurence Mark

Laurence Mark (born ca. 1949) is an American producer of films such as Julie & Julia, Dreamgirls, I, Robot, As Good as It Gets and Jerry Maguire.

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Laurent Cantet

Laurent Cantet (born 15 June 1961) is a French director, cinematographer and screenwriter.

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Lavatory – Lovestory

Lavatory – Lovestory is a 2007 Russian animated short film directed by Konstantin Bronzit, about a lavatory attendant who finds a flower bouquet in her tip jar.

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Lee Smith (editor)

Lee Smith (born 1960) is an Australian film editor who has worked in the film industry since the 1980s.

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Leonard Rosenman

Leonard Rosenman (September 7, 1924 – March 4, 2008) was an American film, television and concert composer with credits in over 130 works, including Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Beneath the Planet of the Apes and the animated The Lord of the Rings.

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List of Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Austria has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1961.

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List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

France has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since the conception of the award in 1956.

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List of German submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Germany has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since the creation of the award in 1956.

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List of Israeli submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Israel has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1964.

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List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Japan has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since the inception of the award.

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List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees.

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List of submissions to the 81st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956.

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Lora Hirschberg

Lora Hirschberg (born 1963) is an American sound engineer.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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M.I.A. (rapper)

Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (born 18 July 1975), better known by her stage name M.I.A. (pronounced as distinct initials), is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and activist.

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Mahalakshmi Iyer

Mahalakshmi Iyer is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi and Tamil songs.

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Maila Nurmi

Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008), known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was a Finnish-American actress and television personality who created the campy 1950s character Vampira.

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Mamma Mia (song)

"Mamma Mia" is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA, written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson, with the lead vocals shared by Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

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Mamma Mia! (film)

Mamma Mia! (promoted as Mamma Mia! The Movie) is a 2008 jukebox musical romantic comedy film based on the 1999 musical of the same name, based on the songs of successful pop group ABBA, with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson.

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Man on Wire

Man on Wire is a 2008 British-American biographical documentary film directed by James Marsh.

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Manny Farber

Emanuel "Manny" Farber (February 20, 1917 – 18 August 2008) was an American painter, film critic and writer.

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Maria (Rodgers and Hammerstein song)

"Maria", sometimes known as "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, The Sound of Music. This song is sung by the nuns at Nonnberg Abbey, who are exasperated with Maria for being too frivolous and frolicsome for the decorous and austere life at the Abbey.

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Maria (West Side Story song)

"Maria" is a song from the Broadway musical West Side Story, sung by the lead character Tony.

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Marion Cotillard

Marion Cotillard (born 30 September 1975) is a French actress, singer-songwriter, musician, environmentalist, and spokesperson for Greenpeace who achieved international fame with the film La Vie en Rose (2007).

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Marisa Tomei

Marisa Tomei (born December 4, 1964) is an American-Italian actress.

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Mark Osborne (filmmaker)

Mark Randolph Osborne (born September 17, 1970) is an American film director, writer, producer and animator.

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Mark Weingarten

Mark Weingarten is an American production sound mixer.

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Martin McDonagh

Martin Faranan McDonagh (born 26 March 1970) is a British-Irish playwright, screenwriter, and director.

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Matthew Wood (sound editor)

Matthew Russell Wood (born August 15, 1972) is an American sound engineer and occasional voice actor.

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Megan Mylan

Megan Mylan (born 1969) is an American documentary film director, known for her films Lost Boys of Sudan.

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Melissa Leo

Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress.

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Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress.

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Michael Carlin (art director)

Michael Carlin is an Australian art director who was nominated at the 81st Academy Awards for the film The Duchess.

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Michael Crichton

John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter, film director and producer best known for his work in the science fiction, thriller, and medical fiction genres.

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Michael Douglas

Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer.

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Michael O'Connor (costume designer)

Michael O'Connor (born 27 October 1965) is an English costume designer.

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Michael Semanick

Michael Semanick (born 1963) is an American sound engineer, credited as a sound re-recording mixer.

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Michael Shannon

Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor and musician.

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Michelle Williams (actress)

Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress.

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Mickey Rourke

Philip Andre "Mickey" Rourke Jr. (born September 16, 1952), is an American actor, screenwriter, and retired boxer, who has appeared primarily as a leading man in drama, action, and thriller films.

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Mike Elizalde

Mike Elizalde (born 1960) is an American special make-up effects artist.

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Mike Hill (film editor)

Michael J. "Mike" Hill, A.C.E. (born 1952) is an American film editor.

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Mike Leigh

Mike Leigh (born 20 February 1943) is an English writer and director of film and theatre.

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Milk (film)

Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! (from) is a 2001 Australian-American jukebox musical romantic comedy film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann.

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Moviefone

Moviefone is an American-based movie listing and information service.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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Nathan Crowley

Nathan Crowley (born 1966) is an English production designer and a former art director.

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Ned Tanen

Ned Stone Tanen (c. September 20, 1931 – January 5, 2009) was an American film studio executive behind films that included American Graffiti and Animal House.

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Network (1976 film)

Network is a 1976 American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings.

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New Boy (film)

New Boy is a 2007 Irish short film.

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Nick Davis (visual effects supervisor)

Nick Davis is a visual effects supervisor who has worked in visual effects since the early 1990s.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman, (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian actress and producer.

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Nielsen ratings

Nielsen ratings are the audience measurement systems operated by Nielsen Media Research that seek to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States.

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Nina Foch

Nina Foch (born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock; April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was a Dutch American actress.

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O... Saya

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Oktapodi

Oktapodi is a 2007 French computer-animated short film that originated as a Graduate Student Project from Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image.

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Ollie Johnston

Oliver Martin Johnston, Jr. (October 31, 1912 – April 14, 2008) was an American motion picture animator.

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One Night Only (song)

"One Night Only" is a song from the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls, with lyrics by Tom Eyen and music by Henry Krieger.

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Orchestra pit

An orchestra pit is the area in a theater (usually located in a lowered area in front of the stage) in which musicians perform.

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Orchestra Wives

Orchestra Wives is a 1942 American musical film by 20th Century Fox starring Ann Rutherford, George Montgomery, and Glenn Miller.

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Orlando Sentinel

The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida and the Central Florida region.

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Over the Rainbow

"Over the Rainbow" is a ballad, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg.

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Pat Hingle

Martin Patterson "Pat" Hingle (July 19, 1924 – January 3, 2009) was an American actor who appeared in hundreds of television shows and feature films.

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Paul Franklin (visual effects supervisor)

Paul J. Franklin is an English visual effects supervisor who has worked with visual effects since the 1990s.

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Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and activist.

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Paul Scofield

David Paul Scofield CH CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an English actor of stage and screen who was known for his striking presence, distinctive voice, and for the clarity and effortless intensity of his delivery.

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Penélope Cruz

Penélope Cruz Sánchez (born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress and model.

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Penske Media Corporation

Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American digital media, publishing, and information services company founded in 2003.

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Pete Docter

Peter Hans Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, producer, voice actor and chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios.

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Peter Finch

Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

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Peter Lando

Peter Lando is a set decorator, who has some art director credits as well.

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Peter Morgan

Peter Julian Robin Morgan, (born 10 April 1963) is a British film writer and playwright.

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Petr Forejt

Petr Forejt (born 18 February 1968) is a Czech sound engineer.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor, director, and producer.

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Pineapple Express (film)

Pineapple Express is a 2008 American stoner action comedy film directed by David Gordon Green, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and starring Rogen and James Franco.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG", is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Presto (film)

Presto is a 2008 American Pixar computer animated short film shown in theaters before their feature-length film WALL-E. The short is about a magician trying to perform a show with his uncooperative rabbit and is a gag-filled homage to classic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes, as well as the work of Tex Avery.

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PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers (doing business as PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, awarded to both the composer and lyricist.

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Prometheus Global Media

Prometheus Global Media was a New York City-based B2B media company.

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Q & A (novel)

Q & A is a novel by Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat.

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Queen Latifah

Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), known professionally as Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, songwriter, singer, actress, and producer.

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Rachel Getting Married

Rachel Getting Married is a 2008 drama film directed by Jonathan Demme, and starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin and Debra Winger.

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Rebecca Alleway

Rebecca Alleway is a set decorator.

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Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin

George Redmond Fitzpatrick Morris, 4th Baron Killanin (born 26 January 1947) is an Irish film producer.

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Ren Klyce

Ren Klyce is an American sound designer.

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Resul Pookutty

Resul Pookutty (born 30 May 1971) is an Indian film sound designer, sound editor and mixer.

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Revanche (film)

Revanche is a 2008 Austrian thriller film written and directed by Götz Spielmann.

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Revolutionary Road (film)

Revolutionary Road is a 2008 British-American romantic drama film directed by Sam Mendes.

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Ricardo Montalbán

Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican actor.

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Richard Jenkins

Richard Dale Jenkins (born May 4, 1947) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor.

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Richard King (sound designer)

Richard King is an American sound designer and editor who has worked on over 70 films.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Richard Pryke

Richard Pryke is a British sound engineer.

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Richard Widmark

Richard Weedt Widmark (December 26, 1914March 24, 2008) was an American film, stage, and television actor and producer.

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Rob Ashford

Rob Ashford (born November 19, 1959) is an American stage director and choreographer.

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Rob Schrab

Robby Christopher Schrab (born November 12, 1969) is an American comic book creator, actor, comedian, writer, and film and television producer.

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Robert De Niro

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, producer, and director.

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Robert DoQui

Robert DoQui (April 20, 1934 – February 9, 2008) was an American actor who starred in film and on television.

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Robert Downey Jr.

Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and singer.

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Robert Mulligan

Robert Patrick Mulligan (August 23, 1925 – December 20, 2008) was an American film and television director best known as the director of humanistic American dramas, including To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Summer of '42 (1971), The Other (1972), Same Time, Next Year (1978) and The Man in the Moon (1991).

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Robert Osborne

Robert Jolin Osborne (May 3, 1932 – March 6, 2017) was an American actor, film historian, television presenter, and author, best known for more than twenty years as the primary host of the cable channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

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Robin Roberts (newscaster)

Robin René Roberts (born November 23, 1960) is an American television broadcaster.

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Robin Swicord

Robin Stender Swicord (born October 23, 1952) is an American screenwriter and film director.

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Roger Deakins

Roger Alexander Deakins, (born May 24, 1949) is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Roger Goodman (director)

Roger Goodman is an independent television and live event producer, specializing in event production.

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Ron Howard

Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Roy Scheider

Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor and amateur boxer.

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Samuel Goldwyn Theater

The Samuel Goldwyn Theatre is a screening-only movie theater named after filmmaker Samuel Goldwyn.

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Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress, producer, and designer.

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Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Scott Hamilton Kennedy (born 1965) is an American film director, producer, writer and editor primarily known for his work in directing documentary films.

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Sean Penn

Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Seth Rogen

Seth Aaron Rogen (born April 15, 1982) is a Canadian-American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director.

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Shane Mahan

Shane Patrick Mahan (born September 22, 1964) is an American special effects creator, creature designer, puppeteer and producer known for his work at Stan Winston Studio and its successor, Legacy Effects.

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Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine (née Beaty; born April 24, 1934) is an American film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author.

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Sid Ganis

Sidney (Sid) Ganis (born January 8, 1940) is an American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as Big Daddy, Deuce Bigalow, Mr. Deeds, The Master of Disguise and Akeelah and the Bee.

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Simon Beaufoy

Simon Beaufoy (born 1967) is a British screenwriter.

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Simon Chinn

Simon Chinn is a double Academy Award-winning British film producer, founder of Red Box Films and co-founder of Lightbox.

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Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds.

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Singin' in the Rain (song)

"Singin' in the Rain" is a song with lyrics by Arthur Freed and music by Nacio Herb Brown, published in 1929.

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Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson.

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Smile Pinki

Smile Pinki (2008) is a 39-minute documentary directed by Megan Mylan.

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Somewhere (song)

"Somewhere", sometimes referred to as "Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)" or simply "There's a Place for Us", is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story that was made into a film in 1961.

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Sophia Loren

Sofia Villani Scicolone, known as Sophia Loren, Dame of the Grand Cross, O.M.R.I. (born 20 September 1934) is an Italian film actress and singer.

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Soweto Gospel Choir

The Soweto Gospel Choir is a South African gospel group.

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Spirit of Troy

The Spirit of Troy, also known as the University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band (TMB) represents USC at various collegiate sports, broadcast, popular music recording, and national public appearance functions.

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Stan Winston

Stanley "Stan" Winston (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special make-up effects creator.

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Stephen Daldry

Stephen David Daldry, CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television.

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Steve Martin

Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician.

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Steve Preeg

Steve Preeg is an American Academy Award-winning special effects artist.

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Steven Okazaki

Steven Toll Okazaki (born March 12, 1952 in Venice, California) is an American filmmaker.

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Sun-Times Media Group

Sun-Times Media Group (formerly Hollinger International) is a Chicago-based newspaper publisher.

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Sweet Charity (film)

Sweet Charity (full title: Sweet Charity: The Adventures of a Girl Who Wanted to Be Loved) is a 1969 American musical comedy-drama film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse, written by Neil Simon, and featuring music by Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields.

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Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor.

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Taraji P. Henson

Taraji Penda Henson (born September 11, 1970) is an American actress, singer, and author.

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Thavisouk Phrasavath

Thavisouk Phrasavath is a New York-based Lao-American film director/editor, writer and visual artist.

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The Baader Meinhof Complex

The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) is a 2008 German film by Uli Edel in his first non-TV directorial project since 2000's The Little Vampire.

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The Betrayal – Nerakhoon

The Betrayal — Nerakhoon is a 2008 documentary film directed by Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath.

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The Class (2008 film)

The Class (Entre les murs) is a 2008 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau.

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The Conscience of Nhem En

The Conscience of Nhem En is a 26-minute documentary directed by Steven Okazaki, telling the stories of three survivors of the Tuol Sleng Prison.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy romantic drama film directed by David Fincher.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story)

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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The Dark Knight (film)

The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed, produced, and co-written by Christopher Nolan.

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The Duchess (film)

The Duchess is a 2008 British drama film directed by Saul Dibb.

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The Final Inch

The Final Inch is a short documentary about the effort to eradicate polio.

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The Garden (2008 film)

The Garden is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New York Times Company

The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times.

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The Reader

The Reader (Der Vorleser) is a novel by German law professor and judge Bernhard Schlink, published in Germany in 1995 and in the United States in 1997.

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The Reader (2008 film)

The Reader is a 2008 German-American romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by David Hare, based on the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink.

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The Sound of Music (film)

The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn and Eleanor Parker.

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The Visitor (2007 drama film)

The Visitor is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Tom McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California.

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The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306

The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 is a 2008 documentary short film created to honor the 40th annual remembrance of the life and death of Martin Luther King Jr. The film received a 2008 Academy Award Nomination in the "Documentary Short Subject" Category at the 81st Academy Awards.

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The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

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The Wrestler (2008 film)

The Wrestler is a 2008 American sports drama film produced and directed by Darren Aronofsky, written by Robert D. Siegel, and starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Evan Rachel Wood.

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This Way Up (film)

This Way Up is a 2008 short film directed by Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes.

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Thomas Newman

Thomas Montgomery Newman (born October 20, 1955) is an American composer best known for his many film scores.

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Tia Lessin

Tia Lessin is an American documentary filmmaker.

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Tilda Swinton

Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress, model, and artist.

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Tim Gunn

Tim Gunn is an American fashion consultant, television personality, actor, voice actor and author.

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Tim Webber

Tim Webber is an English visual effects supervisor.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Tom Myers (sound engineer)

Tom Myers is an American sound engineer.

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Tom Sayers (sound editor)

Tom Sayers is a sound editor.

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Tom Stern (cinematographer)

Thomas Evans Stern (born December 16, 1946) is an American cinematographer.

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Tony Award

The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre.

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Top Hat

Top Hat is a 1935 American screwball musical comedy film in which Fred Astaire plays an American dancer named Jerry Travers, who comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick (Edward Everett Horton).

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Top Hat, White Tie and Tails

"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1935 film Top Hat, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire.

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Toyland (film)

Toyland (Spielzeugland) is a German 2007 short film directed and co-written by Jochen Alexander Freydank.

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Tribune Media

Tribune Media, also known as Tribune Media Company and formerly known as the Tribune Company, is an American conglomerate that is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Tronc

Tronc, Inc. (stylized as tronc; formerly Tribune Publishing) is an American newspaper print and online media publishing company based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder is a 2008 action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller.

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Trouble the Water

Trouble the Water is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, producers of Fahrenheit 9/11.

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TVLine

TVLine is a website devoted to information, news, and spoilers of television programs.

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Uli Edel

Uli Edel (born 11 April 1947) is a German film and television director, best known for his work on films such as ''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' and Body of Evidence.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Van Johnson

Charles Van Dell Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American film and television actor and dancer.

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Vanessa Hudgens

Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14, 1988) is a Filipino-American actress and singer.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Viacom Media Networks

Viacom Media Networks, formerly known as MTV Networks, is an American mass media division of Viacom that oversees the operations of many of its television channels and Internet brands.

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a 2008 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen.

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Victor J. Zolfo

Victor J. Zolfo is a set decorator who has worked in the film industry since the late 1980s.

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Vikas Swarup

Vikas Swarup (born 1963) is an Indian writer and diplomat who formerly served as the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs of India and currently the High Commissioner of India to Canada.

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Viola Davis

Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and producer.

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WALL-E

WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.

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Wally Pfister

Walter C. "Wally" Pfister, A.S.C., (born July 8, 1961) is an American cinematographer and director, who is best known for his work with Christopher Nolan.

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Waltz with Bashir

Waltz with Bashir (ואלס עם באשיר, translit. Vals Im Bashir) is a 2008 Israeli animated war documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman.

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Wanted (2008 film)

Wanted is a 2008 action thriller film directed by Timur Bekmambetov and written by Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, and Chris Morgan.

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WarnerMedia

Warner Media, LLC (formerly Time Warner Inc.), doing business as WarnerMedia, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in New York City and owned by AT&T.

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Warren Cowan

Warren Cowan (March 13, 1921 – May 14, 2008) was a prominent American film industry publicist.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director.

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West Side Story (film)

West Side Story is a 1961 American romantic musical tragedy film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.

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William Ross (composer)

William Ross (born 1948) is an American composer, orchestrator, arranger, conductor and music director.

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World Socialist Web Site

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is an international socialist news site that is the online news and information center of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

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Wylie Stateman

Wylie Stateman is an American supervising sound editor, sound designer, and post production media entrepreneur.

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Yōjirō Takita

Yōjirō Takita (滝田洋二郎 Takita Yōjirō, born December 4, 1955) is a Japanese filmmaker.

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You're the One That I Want

"You're the One That I Want" is a song written by John Farrar for the 1978 film version of the musical Grease.

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Zac Efron

Zachary David Alexander "Zac" Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American actor.

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15th Screen Actors Guild Awards

The 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Award, honoring the best achievements in film and television performances for the year 2008, were presented on January 25, 2009.

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2008 in film

The year 2008 involved many major movie events.

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29th Golden Raspberry Awards

The 29th Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies, ceremony was held by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation to honor the worst films the film industry had to offer in 2008.

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51st Annual Grammy Awards

The 51st Annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, on February 8, 2009.

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57th Tony Awards

The 57th Annual Tony Awards was held at Radio City Music Hall on June 8, 2003, and broadcast by CBS television.

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59th Tony Awards

The 59th Annual Tony Awards ceremony was held on June 5, 2005 at Radio City Music Hall and broadcast by CBS television.

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61st Primetime Emmy Awards

The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 20, 2009.

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62nd British Academy Film Awards

The 62nd British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 8 February 2009 and honoured the best films of 2008.

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63rd Tony Awards

The 63rd Annual Tony Awards, which recognized Broadway productions of the 2008-2009 season, were presented on June 7, 2009 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

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66th Golden Globe Awards

The 66th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, was broadcast on January 11, 2009, from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States on the NBC TV network.

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80th Academy Awards

The 80th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2007 and took on place February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.

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