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Carl Laemmle (/ ˈ l ɛ m l i / ⓘ; born Karl Lämmle German:; January 17, 1867 – September 24, 1939) was a German-American film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. He produced or worked on over 400 films.
The Africa Movie Academy Awards, popularly known as AMAA and The AMA Awards, are presented annually to recognize excellence among professionals working in, or non-African professionals who have contributed to, the African film industry. It was founded by Peace Anyiam-Osigwe and is run through the Africa Film Academy. The awards are aimed at ...
Awards have been divided into four major categories: critics' awards, voted on (usually annually) by a group of critics; festival awards, awards presented to the best film shown in a particular film festival; industry awards, which are selected by professionals working in some branch of the movie industry; and audience awards, which are voted ...
2013–14 film awards season; 2014–15 film awards season; 2015–16 film awards season; 2016–17 film awards season; 2017–18 film awards season; 2018–19 film awards season; 2019–20 film awards season; 2020–21 film awards season; 2021–22 film awards season
The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast, where, at one time, Fort Lee, New Jersey, was the motion-picture capital of America. The American film industry began at the end of the 19th century, with the construction of Thomas Edison's "Black Maria", the first motion-picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
William D. Foster, sometimes referred to as Bill Foster (1884 – 15 April 1940), [1] was a pioneering African-American film producer who was an influential figure in the Black film industry in the early 20th century, along with others such as Oscar Micheaux.
The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) is an American film critic organization founded in 1966 in the New York City apartment of the Saturday Review critic Hollis Alpert, one of several co-founding film critics who was refused membership to the New York Film Critics Circle due to it preferred critics who worked for mainstream newspapers ...
In 2002, Bill and Melinda Gates received the Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged. [269] Gates was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005. [270] He was given the 2006 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award from the Tech Awards. [271]