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Drama and Its Elements

On May 5, 2011, in Arts and Entertainment, by admin

Drama is a literary term derived from Greek language means action. It can be defined, “drama is an action that is performed on the stage along with characters before the audience. ” Its beginning is adhered to Greek religion as acting before god for making him pleasant. They mostly wrote tragedies and comedies. In English literature, its beginning is, too, linked to religious drama____liturgy plays, mystery plays, miracle plays, morality plays, tragedies, comedies and the modern plays. The modern era divides it into full length plays and short plays.

The following are the most important elements of drama:

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Choosing Oscar Nominees and Winners

On April 25, 2011, in Arts and Entertainment, by admin

Over the years, the Academy Awards have some to carry significant influence throughout the film industry – often, simply being nominated for an award boosts profits for both studios and performers. For that reason, studios dedicate massive amounts of funding each year to marketing and public relations campaigns that they hope will earn them more votes, in spite of the Academy’s efforts to stifle the impact of such promotional efforts among its voters. In addition, the Academy aims, with varying amounts of success, to limit votes driven by sentimentality, atonement, popularity, prestige, and personal loyalties.

Today, in order to be eligible for a given year’s Academy Award nominations, films must have been:

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History of the Oscar Statuette

On April 15, 2011, in Arts and Entertainment, by admin

The Academy Award of Merit, or the Oscar Statuette, designed to symbolize film achievement, is constructed of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, stands at over a foot tall, and weighs eight and a half pounds. It is designed as an Art Deco styled knight poised with a sword in hand, standing upon a film reel with five spokes, each of which symbolize the original five branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Producers, Directors, Writers, Actors, and Technicians. (Now the Academy is divided into fifteen branches: actors, directors, cinematographers, producers, executives, writers, art directors, musicians, sound, visual effects, make up artists and hairstylists, public relations, documentary, feature animation, and short film.)

The Academy did not officially nickname the trophy as the Oscar until 1939, but the beginnings of the statuette’s nickname, Oscar, are dubious. Battling stories include:

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The Beginnings of the Academy Awards

On March 30, 2011, in Arts and Entertainment, by admin

The man behind the establishment of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927 was Louis B. Mayer, boss of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studios. The organization’s goals were defined as developing a means of honoring notable achievements in film in order to encourage even greater efforts and achievements in the future of the industry.

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, have been distributed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence and achievement within the film industry since 1929, making it the oldest awards ceremony in the history of all media. These awards established the paradigm upon which the Grammys, Emmys, and Tonys are based (its music, television, and theatre industry equivalents, respectively).