• A:academy, acceptance, achievement, accolades, accommodate, actor, actress, adaptation, admire, agent, animation, announcement, anticipation, anxiety, appreciation, artistry, atrocious, attraction, audience, award, awesome
• B:backlash, backstage, ballot, banner, best-director, black-&-white, box-office, brilliant, broadcast, buzz
• C:camera, capacity, category, catwalk, celebration, celebrities, ceremony, chemistry, charisma, charm, choreograph, cinematographer, cinematography, comedy, commercial, commercialism, commitment, conference, confidence, console, consolation, conspicuous, contribution, costuming, craft, craftmanship, credit(s), cynicism
• D:debut, decoration, deft, demeanor, designer, dialogue, dignify, dignity, direction, documentary, documentaries, drama, dramatize, dynamic
• E:ecstasy, ecstatic, editing, editor, ego, electrifying, emotion(al), enigmatic, entertainment, envelope, epic, esteem, exclusive, experience
• F:failure, famous, fans, feature, festival, fierce, film, filming, filmmaker, fracas, fuddy-duddy, fuss
• G:gander, gendre, genial, genius, greed, gross, gruff, gutsy
• H:hatred, host, hostess, hubbub
• I:insight, intense
• J:jealousy, jokes, journalists, joy, judge
• K:keen
• L:laugh
• M:magical, makeup, media, melodramatic, members, mezzanine, miffed, mixed media, moment, motion picture, musical
• N:neckline, nomination, nominee, nostalgia
• O:official, opening night, original, Oscar, overlook, overrated
• P:panel, passionate, payroll, perfectionism, performance, performer, perform, picture, pinnacle, podium, popular, popularity, portray, portrayal, pose, predict, premiere, presenter, pressure, prize, procession, proclaim, production, profession, prognosticator, program, programming, projector, projection
• Q:quail, quest, quiet
• R:recipient, recognition, record, recording, red-carpet, rehearsal, rendition, replica, reserve, resilience, respected, revenues, revival, role
• S:salute, scenario, score, screenplay, screen, scriptwriter, seats, seatings, sentiment, sequence, shoo-in, shooting, shrine, smash, smear, speculation, speech, spiel, splendid, spotlight, stage, star, stardom, stare, starlet, statue, statuette, stress, studio, stunning, style, stylistically, success, supporting, surprise, sweepstakes, synergy
• T:talent, tears, technique, telecast, television, tension, theatre, tickets, treatment, tribute, triumph, trumpet
• U:ultimate, underdog, uplifting, upstage
• V:venue, versatile, verve, vivid, visible, vision, visual-effects, vote
• W:wardrobe, winner, wisecrack, world-class, writer
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• Y:yore
• Z:zealous

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• 1. Discuss three well-known festivals and/or awards that are given annually in the world.
• 2. Discuss the motion picture industry and the distribution of films.
• 3. In addition to motion pictures, what are other popular forms of art and entertainment?
• 4. Why are motion pictures a source of information as well as entertainment?
• 5. Discuss four differences between motion pictures and stage plays.
• 6. How are the roles of a producer and director dissimilar?
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