Academy Award
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- noun
- /əˈkædəmi əˈwɔrd/
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Oscar
- Winning an Academy Award can significantly boost an actor's career and visibility in Hollywood.
- win an Academy Award
- nominated for an Academy Award
- Academy Award-nominated film
The Emmys, the Academy Award, the Grammys, the Tonys?
- The Emmys, the Academy Award, the Grammys, the Tonys?
- And Francis won the Academy Award that night for best actress.
- And his first film, he won an Academy Award.
- I sat in the audience where Raging Bull didn't win an Academy Award where I thought it should have.
- And then comes the performance that won him the Academy Award.
- I'd been nominated for an Academy Award who wanted to do this.
- And this won an Academy Award for best foreign films some years ago.
- We're happy when the Academy Award acknowledges, and that's fine.
Examples
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And Peter Finch won the Academy Award for playing Howard Beale 'cause he just got so real.
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The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.
Academic text (2006) -
Name a film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
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The three of them should all get Academy Awards if you ask me.
Blog text (18) -
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song of the Year.
Fiction book (1991) -
And Francis won the Academy Award that night for best actress.
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Jamie Fox is a great actor; he won an Academy Award for a reason.
Blog text (2) -
To win an Academy Award at such a young age is an enormous accomplishment.
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Oliver Stone won the Academy Award for the screenplay.
Fiction book (1996) -
Many talented filmmakers strive to win an Academy Award for their outstanding work.
Synonyms
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A prize given to someone for achievement or excellence
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An annual award given by the Academy for the best films and acting
An annual British award for film, television, and video games
How Prestigious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'academy' (an institutional society) + 'award' (a prize) yields 'a prize given by an academy', which a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer. While the specific cultural reference to the film 'Academy Awards' (the Oscars) is additional knowledge, the basic sense of an institutional prize is transparent and predictable.
Etymology
Academy Award comes from the Academy, a group of people who work in movies, and it is a small gold statue given each year as an award for the best work in films. The statue, often called 'Oscar', and the yearly prize make the name mean a top prize in the 'film industry' today.