academy award

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   an annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance

   SynonymsOscar

   Broaderaward

Questions about academy award

What does academy award mean?

academy award means "an annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance".

What is another word for academy award?

Close synonyms include Oscar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is academy award a common word?

academy award is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.