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Academy Awards (IMDb)
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The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has compiled this informative site on the Academy Awards (Oscars), prestigious motion picture industry awards, with lists of winners in many categories, dating back to 1927. A wonderful feature of the IMDb are the links to performer biographies, movie descriptions, trivia, etc.
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Academy of Country Music
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This official country music Web site provides information on everything about the Academy of Country Music and the ACM Awards.
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BookWeb
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This site links to literary award sites listing the winners of awards and prizes such as the Caldecott and Newbery Medals, Nobel, Booker, and Pulitzer Prizes.
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Congressional Gold Medals
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Congressional Gold Medals are the highest honor Congress can bestow upon civilians. This is a listing of all the Medals given over the period between 25 March 1776 through to the present day.
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Emmy Awards
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The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences bestows the Emmy awards for the arts and science of television. [Also available is the site for Daytime and Sports Emmy Awards.]
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Golden Globe Awards
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The Golden Globe Awards are given out each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The awards are sort of a cross between the Oscars and the Emmys, with awards honoring accomplishments in both motion pictures and television.
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Grammy Awards
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A Grammy is the Recording Academy's award to honor excellence in the recording arts and sciences (mainly music), awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or chart positions.
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National Book Award
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The National Book Awards have become the nation's preeminent literary prizes. The Awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature.
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Nobel Prizes
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The Nobel Prizes have been awarded since 1901 for accomplishments in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Economics, and Peace. This is a searchable Web site.
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Oscar.com
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Here is the site for comprehensive coverage of the Academy Awards (the motion picture industry awards also known as the Oscars): the winners, nominees, history of the awards, trivia, and all the glitz surrounding the annual event telecast.
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Pulitzer Prize Archive
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Begun in 1904, Pulitzer Prizes are awarded as an incentive to excellence in journalism, letters, drama, and music.
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Wisconsin Writers Wall of Fame
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Mounted on a wall in the Central Library, this list pays tribute to a spectrum of literary talents--novelists, poets, journalists, playwrights, historian--whose work has been influenced by their life and experiences in Wisconsin.
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