Showing posts with label Grammy Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grammy Award. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade grant by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association identify excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are presented is a important part of the film industry's awards season, which culminate every year with the Academy Awards. The first Golden Globe Awards were held in Jan 1944 at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles. The 69th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the most excellent in film and television for 2011, will be presented on January 15, 2012, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, where they have been held yearly since 1961.

The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, normally ranks as the third most-watched awards show every year, behind only the Oscars and the Grammy Awards. Until Ricky Gervais hosted the 67th yearly Golden Globe Awards Ceremony in 2010, the award ceremony was one of two major Hollywood award ceremonies that did not have a usual host; each year a different presenter introduced the ceremony at the beginning of the broadcast. Gervais returned to host the 68th year Golden Globe Awards in 2011, and will return to host the 69th year Golden Globe Awards in 2012.

Golden Globe Award

Awarded for
Excellence in film and television

Presented by
Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Country
United States

First awarded
1944


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Friday, December 30, 2011

Harry Potter - film series

Harry Potter

The Harry Potter film series is a British-American film series base on the Harry Potter novels by the British novelist J. K. Rowling. The sequence is distributed by Warner Bros. and consists of 8 fantasy films start with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and culminate with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011). Each film is in the 35 highest-grossing films of all-time in rise unadjusted dollars. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the 7th and final novel in the series, is split into two feature-length parts. Part 1 was released in Nov 2010 and Part 2 was released on 15 July 2011. The series has get success in several other award ceremonies including the Saturn Awards, Art Directors Guild Awards and Grammy Awards. The series has also gain a sum of 28 nominations at the British Academy Film Awards presented at the annual BAFTAs.

The film also won a BMI Film Music award along with being selected at the Grammy Awards, Visual result Society Awards and the Amanda Awards. Goblet of Fire won a BAFTA award for Best Production Design as well as being nominated at the Saturn Awards, Critic's Choice Awards and the Visual things Society Awards. As of 2011, the Harry Potter film franchise is the top grossing film franchise of all time, with the eight films released grossing over $7.7 billion worldwide. Without adjust for inflation, this is superior to the 22 James Bond films and the six films in the Star Wars franchise. The series was produced by David Heyman and stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as the three primary characters, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Four director effort on the series: Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Newell and David Yates.

Harry Potter
Produced by
David Heyman

Based on
Harry Potter

Starring
Daniel Radcliffe
Rupert Grint
Emma Watson

Distributed by

Country
United Kingdom
United States

Language
English

Budget
$1,155,000,000 (8 films)

Box office
$7,701,234,647 (8 films)


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Monday, December 5, 2011

Emmy Award - television production award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award called as the Emmy, is a television productionaward, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused onentertainment, and is measured the television equivalent to the Academy Awards andthe Grammy Awards. A mass of Emmys are presented in various sectors of theAmerican television industry. As such, the awards are presented in differentarea-specific ceremonies held annually throughout the year. The two ceremoniesthat generally receive the most media coverage are the Primetime Emmys and theDaytime Emmys, primarily identify excellence in American primetime and daytimeentertainment programming, respectively. Other important Emmy Award ceremoniesinclude those honoring national sports programming, national news and documentaryshows and engineering success in television.



Regional Emmy Awardsare also presented throughout the country at different times through the year, identifyexcellence in local and state-to-state television. In addition, InternationalEmmys are awarded to know excellence in TV programming produced and originallyaired outside the United States. Three related but divide organization presentthe Emmy Awards: the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), theNational Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), and the globalAcademy of Television Arts & Sciences. Each is conscientious foradministering a particular set of Emmy award shows.

Emmy Award

Awarded for
Excellence in Television

Presented by
ATAS/NATAS

Country
United States

First awarded
1949

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Christina Aguilera - Singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, television personality,actress

Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera is a famous American recording artist andactress. Aguilera first appear on national television in 1990 as a competitoron the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's televisionseries The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993–1994. Aguilera sign to RCA Records afterrecording "Reflection", the theme song for the animated film Mulan. In1999, Aguilera came to fame following her debut album Christina Aguilera, whichwas a commercial victory spawning three number one singles on the Billboard Hot100 "Genie in a Bottle", "What a Girl Wants", and"Come On Over Baby."

Her sophomore and her entrance Latin-pop album, Mi Reflejo(2000), a Christmas third studio album, My Kind of Christmas (2000), and manycollaborations followed which garnered Aguilera worldwide success, though shewas displeased with her require of input in her music and image. After partingfrom her management, Aguilera took imaginative control over her fourth studioalbum, Stripped (2002). Aside from being known for her vocal skill, musicvideos and image, musically, she include themes of dealing with publicscrutiny, her childhood, and female empowerment in her music. Apart from herwork in music, she has also committed much of her time as a philanthropist for charity,human rights and world issue which include her work as a UN ambassador for theWorld Food Programme.

Christina Aguilera


She made her feature film debut in the musical Burlesque(2010), earning Aguilera a Golden Globe suggestion for Best Original Song.Aguilera's work has earn her numerous awards and accolades, including a star onthe Hollywood Walk of Fame, four Grammy Awards and one Latin Grammy Award, amongfifteen and three nominations respectively.  She was ranked the 20th Artist of the 2000–09decade by Billboard and is the second top selling single performer of the 2000sbehind Madonna. Aguilera's albums sales are predictable at around 50 millionunits worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time.

Birth name
Christina María Aguilera
Date Of Birth
December 18, 1980
Place Of Birth
Staten Island, New York, US
Origin
Wexford, Pennsylvania, US
Genres
Pop, R&B, soul, dance
Occupations
Singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, television personality,actress

Monday, November 21, 2011

Jennifer Hudson - Singer, actress, spokesperson

Jennifer Hudson


Jennifer Hudson is an famous American recording artist,actress and spokesperson. She came to importance in 2004 as one of thefinalists on the 3rd season of American Idol coming in seventh place. She completedher film debut in the 2006 film Dreamgirls, which win her an Academy Award for greatestSupporting Actress, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, an NAACP Image Awardand a Screen Actors Guild Award.

She won a Grammy Award for her eponymous debut album, JenniferHudson, which was released in 2008 on Arista Records and was expert gold by theRIAA for selling over 800,000 copies in the US; sales exceed 1 million copiesworldwide. Additionally, it spawn the hit single Spotlight. Her 2nd album IRemember Me was released in March 2011, and has reach number two on theBillboard 200, sold 165,000 copies in its first week of release.

In late 2008, after Hudson's mother, brother and nephew werekilled in a shooting, she stepped out of the limelight for three months. Sheresumed her public appearances in 2009, and has since perform at the Super BowlXLIII, the Grammy Awards, American Idol, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has been described as a friend of President Barack Obama, who invite her to appearwith him at a benefit in Beverly Hills in May 2009. She also performs at theWhite House at the "Celebration of Music from the Civil RightsMovement" occasion. Her vocal choice is mezzo-soprano.

Jennifer Hudson


Birth name
Jennifer Kate Hudson
Date of Birth
September 12, 1981
Place of Birth
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres
R&B, soul
Occupations
Singer, actress, spokesperson
Instruments
Vocals

Friday, April 22, 2011

Carole King - American singer, songwriter, and pianist

http://the-american-history.blogspot.com/Carole King is an one of the American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen plan hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, several of which have become standards. As a singer, King's album Tapestry topped the U.S. album chart for 15 weeks, in 1971, and remain on the charts for further six years. She was most successful as an artist in the first half of the 1970s, although she was a winning songwriter long before and long after. She had her first No. 1 hit as a songwriter in 1961, at age 18, with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", which she write down with Gerry Goffin. In 2000, Joel Whitburn, a Billboard Magazine pop music researcher, named her the most winning female songwriter of 1955-99, because she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100.

King has complete 25 solo albums, the most successful being Tapestry. Her most current non-compilation album is Live at the Troubadour, teamwork with James Taylor, which reached #4 on the charts, in its first week, and has sold over 400,000 copies. She has won four Grammy Awards and was introduce into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting. In 2009, Carole King was inducted into the "Hit Parade" Hall of Fame. She holds the record for the greatest time for an album by a female to remain on the plan and the longest time for an album by a female to hold the #1 position, both for Tapestry.

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Birth name

Carol Klein

Date Of Birth

February 9, 1942

Place Of Birth

New York City, New York, United States

Genres

Folk rock Pop

Occupations

Singer-songwriter

Instruments

Piano, Vocals, Guitar