Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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- proper noun
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Academia de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas
- Museums have recently started to increase their involvement: in July, London's Tate Modern opened its Tanks, which are dedicated to film and performance, while the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has joined forces with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to plan a museum of film.
- president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts the annual Oscars ceremony to honor outstanding films.
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Frank Woods, the secretary of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which clearly saw the situation as a crisis, sent out to exhibitors around the country a special "Memorandum on the Problem of Aperture Shape" in August 1929.
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That great big actorly voting bloc in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...?
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He would have warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that James Franco was a bad idea if only someone had asked.
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Mike Pogorzelski, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
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Beverly Hills, CA -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 85th Academy Awards.
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James Bond and Abraham Lincoln both were very impressive at the box office this weekend, but they also killed at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences with packed turnaway crowds, certainly among the biggest of the year there and a good omen for their Oscar chances.
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In recent years, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has acknowledged and recognized such cinematographic practice by bestowing the Academy Award for Best Cinematography on works that are predominantly green-screened or whose images compete with visuals that are not created by a camera.
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Each year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognizes exceptional talent in the film industry.
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Filmmakers eagerly await the nominations from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences every January.
Surface Forms
Morphology
academy + of + motion + picture + arts + and + science
The phrase is fully compositional: 'academy' (an organization) combined with 'motion picture' (film) and 'arts and sciences' yields an obvious meaning as an organization concerned with the film arts and related sciences. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words can thus infer the referent as an academy for film/art/science matters (though institutional specifics like awarding the Oscars are extra-world knowledge).
Etymology
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began in 1927 when people who make movies formed an 'academy' — a group to share skills and improve the 'arts' and 'sciences' of film. They also started the gold awards called the 'Oscars', so today the name means the organization that supports movies and gives those awards.