Hollywood Theme Party Supplies, Movie Award Decorations and Favors at 1st For Parties

Movie Award Party Supplies,Decorations, Accessories and Favors! Whether your planning a small gathering to watch the Academy Awards or a large corporate party with a Hollywood Theme, 1st For Parties carries, Award Statues, Hollywood Slate Boards, Plastic Martini Glasses, Admit One Tickets, Popcorn Containers and more. We also carry 75 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards.
Category: Academy Award Theme Party

Prizes: MacRobert Award 2005 Winner

MacRobert Award 2005 Winner CSR plc CSR plc, the Cambridge-based wireless silicon company, has won this year's Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award for its single chip BlueCore™ family, the revolutionary devices which have fuelled the inexorable rise of Bluetooth wireless products, from mobile phones to medical devices. The five-strong team of engineers, CEO John Hodgson, Commercial Director Dr Phil O'Donovan, Technical Director James Collier, Sales Director Glenn Collinson and VP of Operations Chris Ladas, receive a tax-free prize of Ј50,000 between them plus a gold medal for the company from HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace on Monday 6 June 2005. Prince Philip is the Academy's Senior Fellow and has presented the MacRobert Award every year since its inception in 1969. "From a standing start in 1999, CSR has established a leading position among the world's largest semiconductor companies," says Dr Robin Paul FREng, Chairman of the MacRobert Award judging panel. "They have achieved a remarkable breakthrough to meet the Bluetooth wireless standard proposed in 1998 on a single chip and have moved astutely to become the global market leader, with over 900 Bluetooth consumer products using their chips." "I'm delighted to see CSR winning this year's MacRobert Award," says Academy President Lord Broers. "They had a brilliant idea, gathered the best engineers to develop it - including nearly 300 people at their research headquarters in Cambridge - and have become a global success story by exploiting a totally new market opportunity. This is what the MacRobert Award is all about - seeking, seizing and securing commercial opportunities through outstanding engineering innovation". CSR's key technology breakthrough in the late 1990s was to pioneer a silicon chip with an integral radio transmitter. "It sounds easy but in fact the 'noise' of the electrical signals on a tiny electronic chip would normally swamp a radio receiver working with micro-volt signals, and at the time it was thought to be impossible," says Dr Phil O'Donovan, CSR's Commercial Director and Co-founder. But James Collier, CSR's Technical Director and Co-founder discovered that judicious frequency planning could enable the radio component to communicate through the din of the silicon chip's digital traffic. This is like the 'cocktail party' effect, where you can hear certain voices over the crowd. Critically, CSR's outstanding innovation performance has been matched by commercial success. They floated on the London Stock Exchange in March 2004 and entered the FTSE 250 just four months later. Since 1999 they have designed over 30 different BlueCore™ chips, which are manufactured in Taiwan, and the company is now ranked number one in every Bluetooth market segment.
Category: 2005 Academy Award Winner

BAFTA/LA - British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles

Latest News Inner City Cinema comes to Athens Park BAFTA/LA’s Inner City Cinema program came to South Los Angeles’ Athens Park for a special community screening of The Weinstein Company’s The Great Debaters in honor of fallen LAPD Officer Randall Simmons... Pamela Salem BAFTA/LA Member Pamela Salem's theater company is presenting Billy Roche's 'Poor Beast In The Rain' at the Matrix Theater... Orange British Academy Film Awards - Winners The winners of the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2008 have been announced... BAFTA/LA Student Film Award Presentation As part of the Academy’s award season, BAFTA/LA was honored to present Danielle Shamash and Vineet Dewan with their BAFTA/LA Student Film Awards at our recent screening of In Bruge... Screening and Events Page Visitors to our Screenings and Events page will now see that in order to view the full details of our Screenings, Members and Friends will first need to log in to the Web site using their Membership number and password... Screening Policies With our 2008 Screening Program now underway, BAFTA/LA would like to remind all Members and Guests of our standard policies and procedures for attending screenings... Heritage Archive Committee: Update BAFTA/LA Board Members Clare Baren and Gabrielle Kelly (pictured right with Ken Loach) recently visited London on behalf of the Academy’s Heritage Archive, a project that produces taped interviews with film and television professionals for posterity, research, and education...
Category: British Academy Film Award

Film Genres

By the end of the silent era, many of the main genres were established: the melodrama, the western, the horror film, comedies, and action-adventure films (from swashbucklers to war movies). Musicals were inaugurated with the era of the Talkies, and the genre of science-fiction films wasn't generally popularized until the 1950s. One problem with genre films is that they can become stale, cliche-ridden, and over-imitated. A traditional genre that has been reinterpreted, challenged, or subjected to scrutiny may be termed revisionist . There are obvious Genre Biases in the Selection of Best Picture Oscar Winners by AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). Non-Genre Film Categories : There are also many non-genre film categories that cross-over many traditional genre film types, such as:
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