Digital Trends

APRIL 25, 2021

The 93rd Academy Awards have arrived. Here are our predictions for the winners in the biggest categories, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Kuaishou, Chinas second-largest short video platform, has launched a campaign with nine well-known film directors to produce nine short films of around three minutes in length using the Kling model, the companys text-to-video model that is freely available for the public to use. Kuaishou, in Chinese ]

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The uptick in interest comes just after WarnerMedia announced its 17 movies planned for 2021 will premiere on HBO Max the same day they hit theaters. Currently, most movies play in theaters for up to 90 days exclusively. But I also promise you it’s a great day for the movie.”. That has actually worked very well for us.”.

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The Verge

MARCH 28, 2022

Coda’s stars after winning big at the awards. CODA has become the first film from a streaming service to win Best Picture at the Oscars, in a sign of the growing dominance of streamers like Apple, Netflix, and Amazon at Hollywood’s most prestigious awards ceremony. Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Her standout role in this summer’s Barbie movie—including a very memorable monologue—is only the most recent accomplishment in her career as an actress, producer, and author. We aim to streamline student applications and enable simpler awarding through AutoMatch. Our luminary panel includes: Susan Baldridge, Ph.D.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder. 9) Movie screenings. The winner can be awarded a ticket to the following week’s action, as well as a prize. 22) Awards ceremony.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

per month (save $22.99) Get Deal After another year of movie magic, the 97th Academy Awards are upon us. The one and only Conan O’Brien is set to host the Oscars ceremony, with many of your favorites from years past presenting the biggest awards of the night. per month and stream the Academy Awards live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Image from Gasland The Movie. This year’s Academy Award winning film – Inside Job – is one of the most powerful descriptions of what went wrong leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Together, Fox and Fledgling developed an intensive outreach strategy through more than 500 community screenings.

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The Verge

APRIL 26, 2021

Chloé Zhao accepts the Directing award for ‘Nomadland’ | Photo by Todd Wawrychuk/A.M.P.A.S. The news of Chloé Zhao’s Oscar win for Best Director has been censored on social media and search engines in China at the direction of the country’s propaganda ministry, The Wall Street Journal reported. via Getty Images.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

The New Zealand actor turned writer/director awed critics in 2021 with Coming Home in the Dark , a movie so scary that it literally knocked me out of my seat. This makes for a movie that is in turn manic, eerie, disturbing, and shocking. It's time for horror fans to get to know James Ashcroft.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 21, 2022

Each spring, Hollywood pauses for one night to celebrate the movie industry’s finest artistic achievements of the past year. Here at Digital Trends, we […].

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 16, 2013

Courtney, a new executive director of a relatively small nonprofit, was anxious to learn as much as possible in order to manage her work. So Courtney enrolled in a workshop entitled “Volunteer and Board Development” at the community college nearby, and networked ferociously with her fellow directors. John Scola, CFRE , President.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2021

Other options to consider could be a Movie at the Park Event with a giant screen and projector, an outdoor Block Party with festival games and food, a Scavenger Hunt set up through the city, or an outdoor Dance Marathon. . Author information Madison Gonzalez Advancement Director at Morning Light, Inc.

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The Verge

JUNE 21, 2021

Netflix announced a new feature film deal with Amblin Partners on Monday, the film studio started by acclaimed director Steven Spielberg. Amblin Partners will produce multiple feature films per year for the streaming service, some of which could theoretically be produced, developed, and directed by Spielberg.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

While our community is busy from March 6 – 12 picking their favorites for the Audience Choice Awards , our panel of expert judges will be selecting the top digital stories from among hundreds of entries. All winners will be announced on March 28 at an awards ceremony and screening party in San Francisco and on streamed to the web.

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Digital Trends

APRIL 5, 2022

Author Charles Elton talks about his new book, Cimino, and what he discovered about the acclaimed The Deer Hunter director, Michael Cimino.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Virtual Awards Ceremony. If you’re struggling to think of content for a livestream fundraiser, a great option is to make it an awards ceremony. Awards ceremonies are a wonderful way to draw your community in by highlighting individuals who have made an impact. Virtual Movie Night. But, this doesn’t have to be done alone.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The movie was released to commercial and critical acclaim in 2018, and its success helped similar projects like Kukua secure investments. The show — executive produced by Lupita Nyong’o — received an NAACP Image Awards nomination for Outstanding Animated Series this January. Until “Black Panther.” The company raised $2.5

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Movies for Impact. Summer blockbuster season could offer the opportunity to partner with a local movie theater to screen a relevant film with proceeds going to your cause (some movie theaters are even nonprofits themselves ). The summer is also a time for superhero movie franchises to take over. Superhero Fundraisers.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 1, 2022

This may mean abandoning “traditional” newsletter content (like an update letter from your Executive Director) in favor of content that engages and inspires your audience to action. Movie releases, viral posts or articles, award show moments and social media trends are all places you can look for your non-profit’s pop culture moment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

” It’s worth noting that Soul Machines’ other co-founder, Mark Sagar, has won Academy Awards for his AI engineering efforts creating the characters in the films “Avatar” and “King Kong.” ” Perhaps the skill behind producing such realistic digital humans is why Soul Machines reported a 4.6x

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2015

It will probably end in frustration, some ice cream and a good movie. But foundations and corporations award roughly $50 billion dollars annually. Our Executive Director, Randy Hawthorne’s Fresh Ideas for Your Next Nonprofit Grant Writing Session. You go on many dates—some are duds and some are worth further investigation.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Board fundraisers – Your nonprofit board of directors is the governing body of your organization. The winners are then awarded with their prizes! You can even center your questions around your specific mission or choose a theme like Pop Culture or Movie Trivia. Then, put each slip into a balloon and fill them with helium.

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Digital Trends

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Some talents cannot be contained by borders, and the legacy that these Hispanic Americans have left on the big screen irrefutably proves this.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

He’s also won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award. He said, “My God, I want to give you $450,000 to help you expand the program, and I’m going to produce a movie about this.” In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. And he’s featured all over the place.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

See the typeface in a film, and you know exactly who the director is. For director Sean Baker , whose comedy-drama Anora won the 2025 Oscar for Best Picture and netted him the Academy Award for Best Director, his font of choice is the tall, narrow, decorative Aguafina Script.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

At last nights Academy Awards, the standout star proved to be the indie film Anora , which raked in a whopping five awards on a budget of only $6 million. When director Sean Baker took the stage to accept his Oscar for best director, he used the moment to issue a call to action: a plea to the industry to reinvest in movie theaters.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 8, 2025

On a very superficial level, both movies are about spies and marriage. Credit: 20th Century Studios If this premise sounds familiar, it might be because The Amateur is based on the 1981 Robert Littell novel of the same name, or because that book was adapted into a movie that same year.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2012

I don''t usually review movies on my blog, but here''s a second in a row. I think if I''d seen a more balanced set of views on this movie before I saw it, I''d not bother to write this (then again, I probably would not have bothered to see the film.) Perhaps that is what most people judge the movie on. .

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Another busy night It’s that time of the year: The Game Awards, a three hour-long event where the awards take backstage to trailers and reveals. We don’t know much about it, but creative director Sam Lake says the series will be moving in a survival horror direction. Photo by JC Olivera/Getty Images. We even got a new Alan Wake.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

Its shimmering, nested “V” of metallic ribbons that taper inward like a cinematic illusion played before dozens of movies that collectively spawned 34 No. 1opening weekends, 19 Academy Awards, and $19 billion in worldwide box office gross. Russells breakthrough, Three Kings , and the culture-shifting sci-fi epic The Matrix.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Plaque or award. Name an award after them. For example, time with the founders, or executive director or board chair, or the keynote in the photo booth. Meetings with the executive director (small group sessions with other donors too or individualized meetings). Hand-written note from a person served by the organization.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Premiered at this year’s Game Awards, the interactive experience stars Reeves along with Matrix co-star Carrie-Anne Moss and was written by Lana Wachowski, the co-writer/director of the original The Matrix trilogy and director of the upcoming sequel. It’s part of Epic’s goal to help build the metaverse.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2012

I don't usually review movies on my blog, but here's a second in a row. I think if I'd seen a more balanced set of views on this movie before I saw it, I'd not bother to write this (then again, I probably would not have bothered to see the film.) Perhaps that is what most people judge the movie on. .

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

shouts the assistant director. Kulash spent two years directing the Apple TV movie The Beanie Bubble with his wife; bassist Tim Nordwind made an independent film. OK Go performed the act live on stage at the MTV’s Video Music Awards later that year and bagged a Grammy for their performance. Three people just died!

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The charge alleges that Cuties , a movie about a group of young girls who form a dance troupe, “depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created,” according to the indictment filing.

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