Word: prize
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...magic phrase that brings luster to any career, sells tickets at the box office, moves millions of dvds. It's the gold standard for the film industry, pop culture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Get one, and when you die, the headline on your obit will proclaim oscar winner...
...potential employers. In addition, lobbying in Hollywood at Oscar time is as pervasive as it is in Washington anytime. Harvey Weinstein was so expert at campaigning when he and his brother Bob ran Miramax Films that, the prevailing wisdom has it, he cajoled his way to a Best Picture prize for the modest Shakespeare in Love over Steven Spielberg's odds-on favorite, Saving Private Ryan...
...Best Picture--from the 1933 King Kong (just a trick movie) to Psycho (just an exercise in sadism from a director, Alfred Hitchcock, who should know better) to 2001 (what was that about?). Jaws and Star Wars did get Best Picture nominations but didn't take the top prize. See, these weren't people movies; they were simply the sum of their monster or sci-fi special effects...
...winner of the prestigious Crafoord Prize for his work on the behavioral patterns of animals, Trivers will deliver a seminar tomorrow afternoon entitled “The Logic of Self Deception and Recent Israeli Behavior...
...According to Trivers, he showed up in Cambridge but was told only hours before he was due to speak that the event had been cancelled. A party to honor his recent receipt of the Crafoord Prize was also cancelled...