Academy Awards

...episode "Zombies! Science of the Undead," Williams meets Garrett Brown, the Oscar-winning inventor of the cutting-edge Steadicam and Skycam, which were used in the movies "Rocky," "The Shining" and "Star Wars: Episode VI." Nar also gets a...

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...won numerous awards for its work through the years. The second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, won an Oscar for Best Sound and a Special Achievement award for Visual Effects. Return of the Jedi also won a Special Achievement award...

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...Star Wars film was composed by John Williams. He has won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award for his work in all six Star Wars movies between 1977 and 2005. The soundtrack from Star Trek II: The Wrath of...

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...and Chorus, conducted by Mark Watters. Throughout the evening, pieces from the grand and popular "Star Wars" saga score, written by the Academy Award-winning composer John Williams, was performed. But the performance didn't stop at the...

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..."Star Wars" concert? Williams has won five Oscars, a boatload of Grammys and, at 77, still stands atop Hollywood's movie score food chain -- he shares a screen credit on the new "Harry Potter" blockbuster. So when the producers of...

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...generation. Unable to raise money for an epic tragedy set against the feudal wars of 16th-century Japan, Kurosawa went to the Soviet Union to make "Dersu Uzala," a surprising winner of the 1976 foreign-language Oscar. At the Academy...

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...and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. Guinness later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. His most prominent role in his later career was as Obi-Wan...

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...can." </p><p>The Oscar-nominated tale of Woody, Buzz Lightyear and their toy box full of friends isn't the only beloved film getting a 3-D retrofit: Cameron's company, Lightstorm, reportedly has a 3-D rerelease of "Titanic" in the works. "Star...

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...Brawny paper towels and the Jolly Green Giant. Tippett and his longtime friend Dennis Muren, a six-time Oscar winner, were recruited by George Lucas in the mid-1970s to work on "Star Wars." Lucas made two sequels, science fiction directors...

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