query: Alphabet is the daughter company of GV, Verily, and X.

pos: Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate created in a corporate restructuring on October 2 , 2015 . It is the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries . The two founders of Google assumed executive roles in the new company , with Larry Page serving as CEO and Sergey Brin as President . The company is based in Mountain View , California .   Alphabet 's portfolio encompasses several industries , including technology , life sciences , investment capital , and research . Some of its subsidiaries include Google , Calico , GV , CapitalG , Verily , Waymo , X , and Google Fiber . Some of the subsidiaries of Alphabet have altered their names since leaving Google -- Google Ventures becoming GV , Google Life Sciences becoming Verily and Google X becoming just X. Following the restructuring Page became CEO of Alphabet while Sundar Pichai took his position as CEO of Google . Shares of Google 's stock have been converted into Alphabet stock , which trade under Google 's former ticker symbols of `` GOOG '' and `` GOOGL '' .   The establishment of Alphabet was prompted by a desire to make the core Google Internet services business `` cleaner and more accountable '' while allowing greater autonomy to group companies that operate in businesses other than Internet services .

pos: Subsidiary A subsidiary , subsidiary company or daughter company is a company that is owned or controlled by another company , which is called the parent company , parent , or holding company . The subsidiary can be a company , corporation , or limited liability company . In some cases it is a government or state-owned enterprise . In some cases , particularly in the music and book publishing industries , subsidiaries are referred to as imprints .   In the United States railroad industry , an operating subsidiary is a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity , locomotives and rolling stock . In contrast , a non-operating subsidiary would exist on paper only ( i.e. , stocks , bonds , articles of incorporation ) and would use the identity of the parent company .   Subsidiaries are a common feature of business life , and all multinational corporations organize their operations in this way . Examples include holding companies such as Berkshire Hathaway , Leucadia National Corporation , Time Warner , or Citigroup ; as well as more focused companies such as IBM or Xerox . These , and others , organize their businesses into national and functional subsidiaries , often with multiple levels of subsidiaries .

neg: Gramble Gramble is a game-focused social entertainment network connecting players , developers , and charities through interactive profiles and a suite of social features . Launched in open beta in April 2013 , the network is currently accessible via a mobile version for smartphones and tablets ( Gramble.com ) . Native ( downloadable ) versions of the Gramble network are also available for iOS and Android . An HTML5-based web version is also in development . Gramble 's stated mission is `` to improve over one billion lives by changing the way people donate to charity . ''

neg: History of the Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world . It is the standard script of the English language and is often referred to simply as `` the alphabet '' in English . It is a true alphabet which originated in the 7th century BC in Italy and has changed continually over the last 2500 years . It has roots in the Semitic alphabet and its offshoot alphabets , the Phoenician , Greek , and Etruscan . The phonetic values of some letters changed , some letters were lost and gained , and several writing styles ( `` hands '' ) developed . Two such styles , the minuscule and majuscule hands , were combined into one script with alternate forms for the lower and upper case letters . Due to classicism , modern uppercase letters differ only slightly from their classical counterparts . There are few regional variants .

neg: Cohesity Cohesity is a privately held enterprise storage company headquartered in Santa Clara , California .   Cohesity was founded in June 2013 by Mohit Aron , who previously co-founded Nutanix . Cohesity launched publicly in June 2015 , introducing a platform designed to consolidate and manage secondary data . Cohesity raised $ 70 million in venture funding in two rounds with Google Ventures , Qualcomm Ventures , and Sequoia Capital since its founding in 2013 .   In October 2015 , Cohesity announced the public launch of its products , Cohesity DataPlatform and DataProtect . DataPlatform is a platform designed to consolidate secondary storage and associated workflows . DataProtect provides a data protection solution converged on DataPlatform . The second generation of DataPlatform and DataProtect was announced in February 2016 with new capabilities and features including SMB Protocol Support , CloudArchive , and Site-to-Site Replication . In June 2016 , the launch of Cohesity 3.0 products ( DataProtect , DataPlatform ) expanded data protection to physical servers .   On April 4th , 2017 , Cohesity announced additional funding of $ 90 million . This was led by GV , the venture capital arm of Google parent Alphabet Inc. , and Sequoia Capital .

neg: A&E Networks A&E Networks ( branded as A+E Networks ) is an American media company that owns a group of television channels available via cable & satellite in the U.S. and abroad . A&E stands for Arts & Entertainment . The company is a joint venture with Hearst and Disney-ABC Television Group , a unit of the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company .

neg: Abkhaz alphabet The Abkhaz alphabet uses letters from the Cyrillic script for the Abkhaz language which consists of 62 letters .   Abkhaz did not become a written language until the 19th century . Up until then , Abkhazians , especially princes , had been using Greek ( up to c. 9th century ) , Georgian ( 9 -- 19th centuries ) , and partially Turkish ( 18th century ) languages . The Abkhaz word for alphabet is анбан ( anban ) , which was borrowed from Georgian ანბანი ( anbani ) .   The first dedicated Abkhaz alphabet was created in 1862 by the Russian general Peter von Uslar . It had 37 letters and was based on the Cyrillic script . In 1909 , it was expanded to 55 letters by Aleksey Chochua to adjust to the extensive consonantal inventory of Abkhaz .   In 1926 , during the korenizatsiya policy in the Soviet Union , the Cyrillic alphabet was replaced by a Latin alphabet devised by Nikolay Marr . It featured 76 letters and was called the `` Abkhaz analytical alphabet '' . In 1928 , this was replaced by another Latin alphabet . ( See illustration at right . ) From 1938 to 1954 the Abkhaz language was written in 3 Georgian alphabets : the Asomtavruli , Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli .   Since 1954 , the Abkhaz language has been written in a new 62-letter Cyrillic alphabet ( see chart below ) . Of these , 38 are graphically distinct ; the rest are digraphs with and which indicate palatalization and labialization , respectively . In 1996 , the most recent reform of the alphabet was implemented : while labialization had hitherto been marked with two additional letters , ә and у , since then only ә was retained in this function . Unusually , the Cyrillic plosive letters К П Т represent ejective consonants ; the non-ejectives ( pulmonic consonants ) are derived from these by means of a descender at the bottom of the letter . In the case of the affricates , however , the plain letter are pulmonic , and the derived letters ejective .   The modern Abkhaz orthography gives preference to the letters Г П with descender instead of hook . The characters Ԥ and ԥ are encoded in Unicode since version 5.2 .

neg: Sav-A-Center Sav-A-Center was a trade name owned by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company .

neg: SSV (band) SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW ( abbreviated to SSV ) was a short lived musical project formed by Sisters of Mercy singer Andrew Eldritch in 1997 . The band consisted of Andrew Eldritch and the Hamburg-based techno producers Peter Bellendir ( formerly of Xmal Deutschland ) and T. Schroeder .   The band served as a vehicle for Eldritch to record a ` spoiler ' album , in order to meet his long-standing contractual obligations with WEA . Following the release of the latest Sisters of Mercy studio album , Vision Thing , in 1990 , Eldritch had grown tired of the label and had postponed the production of two impending studio albums for several years .   It is `` hinted '' that the band 's full name stands for `` Screw Shareholder Value - Not So Much A Band As Another Opportunity To Waste Money On Drugs And Ammunition courtesy Of The Idiots At Time Warner '' .

neg: National Arts Holdings National Arts Holdings ( HKSE Stock Code : 8228 ) is the name , as of May 2010 for the company previously known as Vertex Group . The company now concentrates on film production and media .   National Arts Holdings subsidiaries include Network Engineering Limited , Vertex Systems Services Limited , VCTG Technology Limited , Great Wall Telecommunications Group Ltd. , Vertex Media Ltd. and Vertex Digital Media Limited . Vertex Media publishes the Chinese editions of Newsweek , ESPN Magazine and Technology Review in China .

neg: XRS Corporation XRS Corporation ( NASDAQ : XRSC ) ( Formally `` XATA Corporation '' ) provides on-demand software and services to the trucking industry . Based in Eden Prairie , Minn. , XRS 's software solutions and services deliver data on vehicle and driver performance . Fleet managers , dispatchers and drivers collect , sort , view and analyze the data to improve savings , safety and regulatory compliance .   XRS solutions include XataNet , a full fleet solution for private and for-hire fleets , and Turnpike , a solution that runs on drivers ' existing cell phones , smartphones and tablet computers .   On April 7 2009 , XRS Corporation was sued among some other defendants over patent infringement .   XRS introduced an all-mobile platform of the same name for trucking compliance , performance and fleet optimization . The announcements came on August 13 , 2012 during the Xata User Event ( XUE ) in Minneapolis , the same day that they announced the change from their former name `` XATA Corporation ''   In 2010 , XRS earned the rank of 363 on the Technology Fast 500 ( TM ) list , which is Deloitte LLP 's ranking of 500 of the fastest growing technology , media , telecommunications , life sciences and clean technology companies in North America . The Minnesota High Tech Association ( MHTA ) , in partnership with Enterprise Minnesota and LifeScience Alley , named Xata Corporation as the recipient of the 2009 Tekne Award in the Technology Services award category .

neg: Google Attribution Google Attribution is a monitoring program developed by Internet advertising company Alphabet Inc. .

neg: XYZ XYZ are the last three letters in the Latin script .   XYZ may also refer to :  The last three letters of the English Alphabet  Cartesian coordinate system ( x , y , z )  CIE 1931 color space , color coordinates called `` XYZ ''  The XYZ Affair , American -- French diplomatic incident  The XYZ Show , a Kenyan satirical puppet show  XYZ file format , a chemical file format  . xyz , an internet top-level domain released in 2014  XYZ ( UK band ) , an aborted rock project featuring Jimmy Page , Chris Squire and Alan White  XYZ ( US band ) , hard rock band  XYZ ( XYZ album ) , 1989 debut album  XYZ ( Andy Summers album ) , a 1987 solo album by Andy Summers  XYZ ( game show ) a British daytime TV quiz show  XYZ Records , a record label  XYZnetworks , an Australian production company  XYZ convention , a bidding convention in contract bridge  , Polish computer invention  WXYZ , a radio call sign  Xyz Monsters from Yu-Gi-Oh !

neg: Division (business) A division of a business , sometimes called a business sector , is one of the parts into which a business , organization or company is divided . The divisions are distinct parts of that business . If these divisions are all part of the same company , then that company is legally responsible for all of the obligations and debts of the divisions . However , in a large organization , various parts of the business may be run by different subsidiaries , and a business division may include one or many subsidiaries . Each subsidiary is a separate legal entity owned by the primary business or by another subsidiary in the hierarchy . Often a division operates under a separate name and is the equivalent of a corporation or limited liability company obtaining a fictitious name or `` doing business as '' certificate and operating a business under that fictitious name . Companies often set up business units to operate in divisions prior to the legal formation of subsidiaries .   Generally , only an `` entity '' , e.g. a corporation , public limited company ( plc ) or limited liability company , etc. would have a `` division '' ; an individual operating in this manner would simply be `` operating under a fictitious name '' .   An example of this would be to look at Hewlett Packard ( HP ) , the computer and printer company . HP has several divisions , with the printer division , that makes laser and inkjet printers , being the largest and most profitable division . The divisions of HP , like the Printing & Multifunction division , the Handheld Devices ( includes the old calculator ) division , the Servers division ( mini and mainframe computers ) , etc. , all use the HP brand name . But , Compaq ( a part of HP since 2002 ) , operates as a subsidiary , using the Compaq brand name .   Mack Trucks continues to run itself separately , but is a wholly owned subsidiary of AB Volvo . Volvo Trucks also sells trucks under the Volvo name . Within Mack , there is a division named Mack de Venezuela C.A. that does final assembly and sells trucks in South America .   Another less obvious example is that Google Video is a division of Google , and is part of the same corporate entity . But the YouTube video service is a subsidiary of Google because it remains operated as YouTube , LLC , a separate business entity even though it is owned by Google .

neg: Alphabetic Tower Alphabetic Tower is a 130-meter-high structure in Batumi , Georgia . The tower symbolizes the uniqueness of Georgian alphabet and people . The structure combines the design of DNA , in its familiar double helix pattern . Two helix bands rise up the tower holding 33 letters of the Georgian alphabet , each 4 meters tall and made of aluminum .   In the middle of the building is an exposed elevator shaft leading to very the top of the building , in the crown of the structure , where a colossal silver ball is located .

neg: 495 Communications 495 Communications is an advertising and content marketing company based in New York City and Santa Monica . The New York-based editorial team produces original travel-related editorial and video content under the company 's Travel Savvy brand , which was formerly a newsstand magazine title owned by Sidney Frank . The company 's West Coast division manages programmatic digital and video advertising . 495 Communications also owns and operates an HTML5 video player named SavvyGo and a Quality Exchange platform , 495 Qex .

neg: VID (company) VID ( ВИД , stylized as ВИD ) , lit . `` View '' ; acronym of Vzglyad i Drugiye , `` Glance and Others '' ) is a TV production company in Russia , started by Vladislav Listyev since 30 September 1990 . It is best known for producing the television programmes Wait for Me , designed to help people find loved ones and Pole Chudes which is a popular Russian version of Wheel of Fortune .   VID is known both for its logo , which has attracted controversy and popularity in equal measure for being visually creepy and austere and its wordmark , which uses the Latin D instead of the Cyrillic Д , so the logo appears as ВИD as opposed to ВИД .

neg: Graphiq Graphiq ( formerly FindTheBest ) is a semantic technology company that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly create interactive data-driven infographics . Its intent is similar to Wolfram Alpha which is designed to provide users with direct information on a variety of subjects rather than going through a search engine . Graphiq 's flagship product for online content creators , Graphiq Search , allows users to access it 's library of 10B + interactive visualizations . Additionally , Graphiq offers 22 vertically aligned research sites that allow consumers to research important topics . The company states that 33 million visitors use Graphiq research sites every month . The data from Graphiq is mined from a variety of public and private sources and presented to users in a visual table with filters and ratings .   Graphiq is based in Santa Barbara , California and has raised $ 32 million in total funding from venture funding companies by 2013 .

neg: Ruth Porat Ruth Porat ( born 1957 ) is a British-born American financial executive , who is the current Chief Financial Officer of Alphabet Inc ( of which Google is a subsidiary ) as of May 2015 . She was the CFO and Executive Vice President of Morgan Stanley from January 2010 to May 2015 .

neg: Interscope Geffen A&M Records Interscope Geffen A&M Records ( also known as IGA Records ) is an American record company . Its parent company is the Universal Music Group , a subsidiary of Paris-based media conglomerate Vivendi S.A.

neg: Shortlex order In mathematics , and particularly in the theory of formal languages , shortlex is a total ordering for finite sequences of objects that can themselves be totally ordered . In the shortlex ordering , sequences are primarily sorted by cardinality ( length ) with the shortest sequences first , and sequences of the same length are sorted into lexicographical order . Shortlex ordering is also called radix , length-lexicographic , military , or genealogical ordering .   In the context of strings on a totally ordered alphabet , the shortlex order is identical to the lexicographical order , except that shorter strings precede longer strings . E.g. , the shortlex order of the set of strings on the English alphabet ( in its usual order ) is -LSB- ε , a , b , c , ... , z , aa , ab , ac , ... , zz , aaa , aab , aac , ... , zzz , ... -RSB- , where ε denotes the empty string .   The strings in this ordering over a fixed alphabet can be placed into one-to-one correspondence with the non-negative integers , giving the bijective numeration system for representing numbers . The shortlex ordering is also important in the theory of automatic groups .


query: The main enemy in Kingdom Hearts is Xehanort.

pos: Kingdom Hearts is a series of crossover action role-playing games owned by Disney Interactive Studios and developed and published by Square Enix ( originally by Square ) . It is a collaboration between Disney Interactive and Square Enix , and is under the direction of Tetsuya Nomura , a longtime Square Enix character designer .   Kingdom Hearts is a crossover of various Disney settings based in a universe made specifically for the series . The series primarily centers on the main character Sora and his journey and experiences with various Disney , Final Fantasy and The World Ends with You characters , whilst stopping the various incarnations of the primary antagonist Xehanort throughout the series . All characters original to the Kingdom Hearts franchise are owned by The Walt Disney Company .   The series consists of eight games across multiple video game consoles , and future titles are planned . Most of the games in the series have been both critically acclaimed and commercially successful . As of October 2013 , the Kingdom Hearts series has sold over 25 million copies worldwide . A wide variety of related merchandise has been released along with the games , including soundtracks , figurines , companion books , novels and manga series .

neg: Shadow Keep Shadow Keep is a role-playing video game created in 1991 by Glenn Seemann , though an earlier version of the game existed in the early 1980s for the PET and TRS80 computers ( credits unknown ) . The black and white Macintosh game takes place in a fictional kingdom with the player beginning just outside the castle . The plot of the game involves recovering the Ankh stolen from the Temple of Life by the Evil One .   The main quest involves traveling to the Far Land through the Labyrinth to get the Black Sword to defeat the Evil One , though there are numerous side quests to obtain items that are instrumental in accomplishing this . The gameplay is non linear , with the player left to explore the large world . Unlike many modern games , it is possible to kill characters who are needed to advance the plotline . Any creature encountered in the game may be spoken to , though conversation attempts with hostile characters will be ignored .

neg: List of Final Fantasy media Final Fantasy is a series of role-playing video games developed and published by Square Enix ( formerly Square ) . Its first game premiered in Japan in 1987 , and Final Fantasy games have subsequently been localized for markets in North America , Europe and Australia , on nearly every video game console since its debut on the Nintendo Entertainment System . Final Fantasy is Square Enix 's most successful franchise , having sold over 97 million units worldwide to date . In addition to traditional role-playing games , the series includes tactical role-playing games , portable games , massively multiplayer online role-playing games , and games for mobile phones . Its popularity has placed it as the sixth-best-selling video game franchise , and the series has won multiple awards over the years .   In addition to the 15 games released as part of the main ( numbered ) series and their many spin-offs and related titles , the Final Fantasy series has spawned many works in other media including anime , movies , novels and manga , and radio dramas . Final Fantasy : Unlimited , originally a stand-alone anime series , now has its own sub-franchise which includes video games . Many games , particularly the main series , have soundtrack album releases featuring their music in different arrangements . Square Enix has also consistently released companion books for its games which provide additional backstory and plot information , as well as detailed walkthroughs for the game . Since the announcement of Compilation of Final Fantasy VII , Square Enix has focused on `` polymorphic content '' , expanding each game world with material on many video game platforms , as well as other forms of media .

neg: Aqua (Kingdom Hearts) , also known as , is a fictional character from Square Enix 's video game franchise Kingdom Hearts . Having first made cameo appearances in Kingdom Hearts II and its updated version Final Mix , Aqua is one of the three protagonists who is introduced in the 2010 prequel Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep . She is one of the Keyblade apprentices training under Master Eraqus alongside her friends Terra and Ventus . As Eraqus ' friend Master Xehanort leaves , Aqua and Terra are assigned to find him and defeat creatures known as the Unversed . She also appeared in other Kingdom Hearts titles , most notably Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue .   Unlike Terra and Ventus , Aqua is the only protagonist who did not have a point of reference for Tetsuya Nomura to design from , and thus was designed from scratch . Later in the design process , Nomura became concerned that Aqua would not be popular , and this drove his decision to make her very distinct in her personal bravery and combat abilities . While her outfit design was based on Terra 's , her movements were chosen to distinguish her from other characters by having her specialize in magical combat . Aqua is voiced by Megumi Toyoguchi in Japanese and Willa Holland in English .   Aqua received mixed reviews from game critics , citing boring plot lines and unenthusiastic voice acting combined with weak combat skills . With fans , Aqua was well received , and is one of Kingdom Hearts most popular characters . Nevertheless , her return in Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue has received positive response by critics .

neg: Mortal Kombat Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise originally developed by Midway Games ' Chicago studio in 1992 . Following Midway 's bankruptcy , the Mortal Kombat development team was acquired by Warner Bros. and turned into NetherRealm Studios . Warner Bros. . Interactive Entertainment currently owns the rights of the franchise and rebooted it in 2011 .   The development of the first game was originally based on an idea that Ed Boon and John Tobias had of making a video game starring Jean-Claude Van Damme , but as that idea fell through , a fantasy-horror themed fighting game titled Mortal Kombat was created instead . The original game has spawned many sequels and has spun a media franchise consisting of several action-adventure games , films ( animated and live-action with its own sequel ) , and television series ( animated and live-action ) . Other spin-offs include comic book series , a card game and a live-action tour . Along with Capcom 's Street Fighter and Bandai Namco 's Tekken , Mortal Kombat has become one of the most successful fighting franchises in the history of video games . , the franchise had generated $ 5 billion in revenue , making it one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time .   The series has a reputation for high levels of bloody violence , including , most notably , its Fatalities ( finishing moves , requiring a sequence of button inputs to perform ) . The Fatalities , in part , led to the creation of the ESRB video game rating system . The series name itself is also known for using the letter `` K '' in place of `` C '' for the hard C sound , thus intentionally misspelling the word `` combat '' , as well as other words with the hard C sound within later games in the series . Early games in the series were also noted for its realistic digitized sprites ( which differentiated it from its contemporaries ' hand-drawn sprites ) and an extensive use of palette swapping to create new characters .

neg: Carnage Heart is a video game for the PlayStation , developed by Artdink . Its gameplay is a mecha-based , turn-based strategy game , where the player takes the role of a commander in a war fought by robots . The robots , called Overkill Engines ( OKEs ) , can not be directly controlled in battle ; they must be programmed beforehand to behave in a certain way under certain conditions using a flow diagram system .

neg: Kazuma Kiryu is a fictional character and main protagonist in Sega 's 2005 action-adventure JRPG series , Yakuza . Kiryu is a yakuza who takes the blame for his boss ' death to protect his best friend , resulting in his expulsion from the clan and a ten-year stay in prison . After leaving prison , Kiryu realizes the crime world has changed and fights against the new threats in his life . Kiryu is the protagonist of the following Yakuza games which follow his attempts to aid his former family . He is voiced by Takaya Kuroda in Japanese and by Darryl Kurylo in the English version of the first game .   Kiryu was created to appeal to a broad audience as a result of being the series ' only playable character during its first three games . Critical reception to Kiryu has been generally positive , and he is often recognized as a PlayStation mascot . Several have praised how despite him identifying as a yakuza , Kiryu stood out because of his kindness and character development across the series ' story . On the other hand , he has also been viewed as a somewhat typical gaming protagonist .

neg: Minsc Minsc -LSB- ˈmɪnsk -RSB- is a fictional character in the Baldur 's Gate series of Dungeons & Dragons role-playing video games developed by BioWare . He originated from the pen-and-paper Dungeons & Dragons sessions held by the lead designer of Baldur 's Gate , James Ohlen , and was expanded upon by the game 's lead writer , Lukas Kristjanson . His video game debut was in Baldur 's Gate as a companion character who can join the player 's party . He also appears in the sequel , Baldur 's Gate II : Shadows of Amn , the expansion , Baldur 's Gate II : Throne of Bhaal , and the 2015 game Baldur 's Gate : Siege of Dragonspear , as well as in promotions relating to the titles . Minsc is voiced by Jim Cummings in his video game appearances .   In the storyline , Minsc is a ranger , originally tasked with serving as a bodyguard to the witch Dynaheir as part of a `` dajemma '' ( rite of passage ) . When Dynaheir is captured by gnolls , Minsc asks the player to help free her , after which both characters are available to assist the player . Eventually , the player 's party is captured and when Dynaheir is killed by the mage Jon Irenicus , Minsc teams with the player in the pursuit of justice . A berserker , he has a strong desire to uphold good and be heroic , though with an extreme fervor that causes those around him to regard him as possibly insane . His animal companion is a hamster named Boo , with whom he often consults .   Since his introduction , Minsc has been regarded as one of the best and most popular elements of the Baldur 's Gate games because of his demeanor and attachment to Boo , according to reviewers from IGN , GameSpot , and Eurogamer . Other reviewers from publications such as CVG have regarded him as one of the greatest aspects of PC gaming , while game developers have noted a preference for him . The web comic Megatokyo added Boo as a character in their publication , while the protagonist took on aspects of Minsc . His absence from subsequent gaming titles has also been lamented by sources such as UGO.com .

neg: List of Fist of the North Star chapters The manga Hokuto no Ken ( known as Fist of the North Star in its English editions ) by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara was originally published by Shueisha in the magazine Weekly Shonen Jump from 1983 to 1988 , and the series was subsequently reprinted in 27 collected editions ( tankōbon ) under the Jump Comics imprint . During the 1990s , Shueisha reprinted Hokuto no Ken in 15 hardcover aizōban editions , as well as 15 corresponding economy-sized bunko editions .   After Tetsuo Hara left Shueisha , other companies started reprinting the manga under license from Hara 's new employer Coamix . A 31-volume tankōbon was published by Shinchosha under the Bunch World imprint from 2001 to 2002 , followed by a 12-volume conbini comic edition published by Tokuma Shoten under the Tokuma Favorite Comics imprint in 2004 . A 14-volume Kanzenban edition was published by Shogakukan in 2006 under the Big Comics Selection imprint , featuring the original water-colored artwork and opening pages from the Weekly Shōnen Jump serialization . It has also been released in 27-volume e-book edition .   In 2013 , the kyūkyokuban or `` Extreme Edition '' began publication by Tokuma Shoten under the `` Zenon Comics DX '' imprint . This 18-volume edition , in addition to featuring all the pages from both , the tankōbon and kanzenban edition , has new cover artwork by Tetsuo Hara himself for each volume , as well as a new 30th anniversary-themed chapter titled Hokuto no Ken : Last Piece , which is included in Volume 11 .   Viz Communications published the first sixteen chapters of Fist of the North Star in English as an eight-issue monthly comic in 1989 , which were later reprinted in a single graphic novel collection in 1995 . During that same year , Viz resumed publication of the series as a monthly comic until 1997 , lasting eighteen issues ( spanning chapters 17-44 ) , which were subsequently reprinted in three additional graphic novels . The license was later acquired by Gutsoon ! Entertainment , which published a new translation of the series in the form of a `` Master Edition '' featuring newly colorized artwork and retained the original right-to-left orientation of the art , as well as new cover artwork by Tetsuo Hara from the fourth volume and onward . Fist of the North Star : Master Edition was published from 2002 to 2003 , lasting only nine volumes , due to Gutsoon ! 's withdrawal from the North American market .

neg: Realm of the Mad God Realm of the Mad God is a massively multiplayer online shooter video game created by Wild Shadow Studios ( acquired by Kabam in June 2012 , and later sold to Deca Games in July 2016 ) and Spry Fox . It was in public beta from January 2010 and the browser version launched on June 20 , 2011 . On February 20 , 2012 the game was made available on the digital distribution platform Steam for Microsoft Windows and OS X.   The game has been described as a `` massively-multiplayer cooperative bullet hell shooter '' with an 8 bit pixelated art style . Players control characters who have been transported to the realm of Oryx ( the titular Mad God ) to become food for his many minions and abominations , which the players must dispatch . Central to the design of the game is the fact that character death is permanent . Upon death , the player 's character is lost along with all carried equipment , although the player may store a number of items for safekeeping in a limited capacity vault away from danger . Different character choices in class also help make the game more diverse and help to support teamwork .   The game is free-to-play with optional in-game micro-transactions . Items which can be bought with optional transactions vary from high-level equipment , pets that provide aid to the player ( by attacking enemies , paralyzing enemies , healing the character , restoring the character 's magic points , and acting as a decoy ) , increased storage space , and aesthetic features such as skins , cloths and dyes .   This game client is written in Flash and can be played in-browser on the official site , on Kongregate , or it can be downloaded from the Google Chrome Web Store .

neg: Recurring enemies in The Legend of Zelda series This article describes several types of fictional enemy creatures encountered in The Legend of Zelda series of video games .   While many enemies can be killed solely with Link 's sword , others require the use of specific items to eliminate . In addition , starting with The Wind Waker , some enemies wield weapons such as swords or lit torches that can be used by Link after destroying the enemy . These items serve a single use and eliminate other obstacles by means such as smashing open a doorway or burning down a blocked passage . Specific enemies also hold key items that can be obtained by either killing the monster or using the grappling hook .

neg: The Maze of Galious , is the sequel to Konami 's MSX game Knightmare . While the first game was an overhead , vertical scrolling shooter , The Maze of Galious is a side-view , flick-screen platform game . The player controls Popolon and Aphrodite , entering the evil priest Galious ' castle to free their yet-to-be-born son Pampas from the priest 's evil clutches . Being able to control Popolon and Aphrodite means the player can switch between two characters that have slightly different abilities . For example , Popolon can push stones and open heavy doors . On the other hand , Aphrodite survives longer under water and she can shoot more projectiles . Should either character die , the other can visit a shrine and pay for resurrection . Unlike typical platform games , both characters can survive some damage as they have hit point bars .   The game has several types of enemies , each with strengths and weaknesses . Some monsters are immune to frontal attacks , some are more vulnerable to fire and so on . Ten different bosses are to be fought too . Defeating a boss will give the player a key that is used to unlock doors to other boss areas . In-game saving is provided by giving player an encoded password .

neg: Mega Man Xtreme 2 Mega Man Xtreme 2 , known as in Japan , is a video game developed by Capcom for the Game Boy Color handheld game console . It is a spin-off title in the Mega Man X series and is a follow-up to Mega Man Xtreme , released the previous year . Mega Man Xtreme 2 takes place during the 22nd century , in an unknown year 21XX , between the events of Mega Man X3 and Mega Man X4 . The DNA souls of robots known as `` Reploids '' all around the world are being stolen by a pair of villains in order to create an army of undead `` Mavericks '' . The `` Maverick Hunters '' Mega Man X and Zero quickly spring into action , now with the help of their young ally Iris .   Mega Man Xtreme 2 is a similar take on the series action and platforming gameplay formula while combining elements from home console versions of the Mega Man X series . The player may choose to play each of a series of stages as either protagonist , X or Zero . Defeating the stage 's boss will earn that player character its special weapon . Critical reception for Mega Man Xtreme 2 was lightly positive , with most reviewers giving the game praise typical of the long-running series and noting a general improvement over the first Mega Man Xtreme title . In 2013 , Mega Man Xtreme 2 was made available on the Virtual Console of Japan 's Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS . It was later released in the North American eShop the following year and was released in the PAL region eShop in September 11 , 2014 .

neg: Little King's Story is a real-time strategy life simulation role-playing video game co-developed by Cing and Town Factory for the Wii . The game was published by Rising Star Games in Australia on April 22 , 2009 and Europe on April 24 , 2009 , by Xseed Games in North America on July 21 , 2009 , and by Marvelous Entertainment in Japan on September 3 , 2009 .   The player character is a timid boy who has found a mysterious crown which gives him the power to charm people and make them follow orders . As king of the village his goal is to expand the village and make his subjects happy . The design of the game combines various simulation elements as well as real time and adventure elements . Yasuhiro Wada told CVG that the game would be a `` single-player life-sim set in Europe . '' An enhanced re-imagining of the game was released on the PlayStation Vita under the title of New Little King 's Story . The Microsoft Windows version of the game has been released on August 5 , 2016 . The game is published by North American version of the game publisher Xseed Games .

neg: List of To Heart episodes To Heart is a 1999 Japanese anime television series based on the visual novel To Heart by the Japanese software company Leaf . The episodes , produced by the animation studio Oriental Light and Magic , are directed by Naohito Takahashi and aired in Japan between April 1 and June 24 , 1999 compiling thirteen episodes . Six short bonus broadcasts were produced and aired after selected episodes . They lasted around five minutes and followed the general style of the main anime , although the characters are drawn super deformed . The overall story centers on Akari Kamigishi 's blossoming relationship with the protagonist Hiroyuki . Three pieces of theme music were used for the episode ; one opening theme and two ending themes . The opening theme is `` Feeling Heart '' by Masami Nakatsukasa ; the first ending theme is `` Yell '' by Ayako Kawasumi , and the second ending theme is `` Access '' by Spy . Different ending themes were used depending on the location of the broadcast . The DVD and VHS releases used `` Yell '' as the ending theme . A set of six DVDs , videotapes and laserdiscs were sold in Japan for the To Heart anime .   To Heart was licensed for North American release by The Right Stuf International at Anime Expo 2004 on July 3 , 2004 at their panel . Volume one was scheduled for late 2005 , but the master copies Right Stuf received from Japan were in bad shape , delaying the release . Because To Heart was animated in the process of cel animation , it was captured onto film prior to conversion to video , and the video master showed dirt , glue marks , and other artifacts as a result of the process . Normally the original film would be restored to create a new master , but in this case the original film had been destroyed . As a result , the only choice was to digitally restore and remaster the video . All thirteen episodes and the six bonus extra was released on four DVD volumes between March 27 and August 28 , 2007 .   A sequel anime series entitled To Heart : Remember My Memories is set a year after the conclusion of the first anime and completes the anime 's storyline ( deviating from the visual novel ) . The future of Akari , Hiroyuki , and Multi are also shown . The Himeyuri twins from To Heart 2 make their debut appearances in To Heart : Remember My Memories as speaking cameos . The anime , which was produced by AIC and Oriental Light and Magic , and directed by Keitaro Motonaga , aired in Japan between October 2 and December 25 , 2004 compiling thirteen episodes . The episodes were released on seven DVD compilation volumes in Japan . Seven short omake episodes titled Heart Fighters were released with the consumer DVD versions of To Heart : Remember My Memories ; they are not available on rental DVDs . Unlike the bonus shorts of the first season , the characters are not drawn super deformed and there is an overall arching mini-story . The humor comes from its parodies of popular Japanese culture .   An anime television series for To Heart 2 was produced by Oriental Light and Magic and directed by Norihiko Sudō . Conisch and Kei Haneoka provided the soundtrack for the series . The episodes aired between October 3 , 2005 and January 2 , 2006 consisting of thirteen episodes . A three-episode original video animation series was produced by Aquaplus and Chaos Project with a new , original story . It was released on three DVDs between February 28 and September 28 , 2007 . A second OVA series titled To Heart 2 : Another Days , was released on two DVDs , each containing an episode , between March 26 and August 8 , 2008 .

neg: Final Fantasy XIII is a science fiction role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles and later for the Microsoft Windows operating system . Released in Japan in December 2009 and worldwide in March 2010 , it is the thirteenth title in the mainline Final Fantasy series . The game includes fast-paced combat , a new system for the series for determining which abilities are developed for the characters called `` Crystarium '' , and a customizable `` Paradigm '' system to control which abilities are used by the characters . Final Fantasy XIII includes elements from the previous games in the series , such as summoned monsters , chocobos , and airships .   The game takes place in the fictional floating world of Cocoon , whose government , the Sanctum , is ordering a purge of civilians who have supposedly come into contact with Pulse , the much-feared world below . The former soldier Lightning begins her fight against the government in order to save her sister who has been branded as an unwilling servant to a god-like being from Pulse , making her an enemy of Cocoon . Lightning is soon joined by a band of allies , and together the group also become marked by the same Pulse creature . They rally against the Sanctum while trying to discover their assigned task and whether they can avoid being turned into monsters or crystals at the completion .   Development began in 2004 , and the game was first announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo ( E3 ) 2006 . Final Fantasy XIII is the flagship title of the Fabula Nova Crystallis collection of Final Fantasy games and is the first game to use Square Enix 's Crystal Tools engine . Final Fantasy XIII received mostly positive reviews from video game publications , which praised the game 's graphics , presentation , and battle system . The game 's story received a mixed response from reviewers , and its linearity compared to previous games in the series was mostly criticized . Selling 1.7 million copies in Japan in 2009 , Final Fantasy XIII became the fastest-selling title in the history of the series . As of January 2013 , the game has sold over 6.6 million copies worldwide . The Microsoft Windows version has sold over 700,000 copies according to SteamSpy . A sequel , titled Final Fantasy XIII-2 , was released in December 2011 in Japan and in February 2012 in North America and PAL regions . A second sequel , titled Lightning Returns : Final Fantasy XIII , which concludes Lightning 's story and the Final Fantasy XIII saga , was released in November 2013 in Japan and in February 2014 in North America and PAL regions . In September 2014 , Square Enix announced the Final Fantasy XIII series has been widely successful and has shipped over 11 million copies worldwide .

neg: List of Square Enix video game franchises Square Enix is a Japanese video game development and publishing company formed from the merger of video game developer Square and publisher Enix on April 1 , 2003 . The company is best known for its role-playing video game franchises , which include the Final Fantasy series , the Dragon Quest series , and the action role-playing Kingdom Hearts series . Since its inception , the company has developed or published hundreds of titles in various video game franchises on numerous gaming systems . Of its properties , the Final Fantasy franchise is the best-selling , with a total worldwide sales of over 110 million units . The Dragon Quest series has shipped over 66 million units worldwide and is one of the most popular video game series in Japan , while the Kingdom Hearts series has shipped over 22 million copies worldwide .   Square Enix has owned Taito , which continues to publish its own video games , since September 2005 , and acquired game publisher Eidos Interactive in April 2009 , which was merged with Square Enix 's European publishing wing and renamed as Square Enix Europe . This list includes franchises in which Square Enix , or its original components Square and Enix , or its subsidiaries , were the primary developer or publisher , even if the series was begun prior to the subsidiary 's acquisition . Franchises are defined as any set of interconnected media consisting of more than one release , and video game franchises are defined as franchises which were initially created as a video game or series of video games .   For a list of all individual games developed or published by Square Enix , see the list of Square Enix video games and mobile games . For games released before the merger , see the Square and Enix video games . For games released by Taito , both before and after the acquisition , see the list of Taito games , and for games published by Eidos prior to acquisition see the list of Eidos games .

neg: Virtual Magic Kingdom Virtual Magic Kingdom , also known as VMK , was a massively multiplayer online game developed by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts and Sulake Corporation and published by The Walt Disney Company . It was a virtual representation of the Disneyland style theme parks , containing areas and minigames which were based on real park scenery and attractions . It was launched as part of the Happiest Celebration on Earth promotional campaign to commemorate fifty years of Disney theme parks .   The beta version opened publicly on May 23 , 2005 , with three virtual lands to explore : Main Street USA , Fantasyland , and Adventureland . This `` beta '' designation was removed on June 27 . The Tomorrowland game area was made available on October 5 , and Frontierland opened on December 12 . The rest of Tomorrowland opened on April 4 , 2006 , and New Orleans Square , the final land added , opened on January 8 , 2007 .   VMK initially launched as an attachment to the Disneyland 50th-anniversary celebration , without long-term intentions , but it gained popularity and eventually became a long-term venture on its own . The target audience of the game was children between the ages of 8 and 14 , although VMK was designed to be enjoyed by guests of all ages . Due to the young age of the game 's target users , it was patrolled by paid staff who watched out for inappropriate behavior and language . Because of the need for human monitors , the time that the game was open had to be limited ; it was open to the public daily between 7:00 am -- 10:00 pm PST ( 10:00 am -- 1:00 am EST , 3:00 pm -- 6:00 am UTC ) .   On May 21 , 2008 , the Virtual Magic Kingdom game was closed by Disney . Many fans asked Disney if VMK was going to reopen . This prompted Disney to post a message on the VMK homepage that the game was a promotion , and was closed , and that there were `` no plans '' to reopen VMK in any form . The VMK homepage now redirects to the main Disney games site .

neg: March Hare The March Hare ( called Haigha in Through the Looking-Glass ) is a character most famous for appearing in the tea party scene in Lewis Carroll 's Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland .   The main character , Alice , hypothesizes ,   `` The March Hare will be much the most interesting , and perhaps as this is May it wo n't be raving mad -- at least not so mad as it was in March . ''   `` Mad as a March hare '' is a common British English phrase , both now and in Carroll 's time , and appears in John Heywood 's collection of proverbs published in 1546 . It is reported in The Annotated Alice by Martin Gardner that this proverb is based on popular belief about hares ' behaviour at the beginning of the long breeding season , which lasts from February to September in Britain . Early in the season , unreceptive females often use their forelegs to repel overenthusiastic males . It used to be incorrectly believed that these bouts were between males fighting for breeding supremacy .   Like the character 's friend , the Hatter , the March Hare feels compelled to always behave as though it is tea-time because the Hatter supposedly `` murdered the time '' whilst singing for the Queen of Hearts . Sir John Tenniel 's illustration also shows him with straw on his head , a common way to depict madness in Victorian times . The March Hare later appears at the trial for the Knave of Hearts , and for a final time as `` Haigha '' ( which is pronounced to rhyme with `` mayor '' , according to Carroll ) , the personal messenger to the White King in Through the Looking-Glass .

neg: Key the Metal Idol is an original video animation ( OVA ) anime series that was released in Japan from 1994 to 1997 . The series consists of fifteen episodes divided into four parts . First Program consists of episodes 1 through 7 . Second Program is 8 through 13 . Third Program and Final Program are films 1 and 2 ( a.k.a. episodes 14 and 15 ) respectively . Key is a serious and somewhat dark drama with elements of science fiction , supernatural , and action .   The central character of the story is Tokiko Mima ( nicknamed `` Key '' ) , who believes herself to be a robot crafted by her scientist grandfather , Murao Mima . Every year , on her birthday , Key believes Dr. Mima builds her a new body , each one size larger . Upon his deathbed , Mima records his will on audio tape , revealing that Key can become human with the aid of 30,000 friends . Key believes she must do this quickly before her battery runs down . The series details the slow unraveling of Key 's identity and a secret conspiracy bent on controlling her unique supernatural abilities she develops over the course of the narrative .

neg: King's Quest V King 's Quest V : Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder ! is a 1990 graphic adventure game by Sierra On-Line . Originally released in November 1990 , it featured a significant improvement in graphics ( achieved through the introduction of VGA into the series ) . It was also the first King 's Quest installment to replace the typing user interface with a point-and-click user interface . The title is a spoof on the proverb , `` Absence makes the heart grow fonder . ''   King 's Quest V sold over half million copies and won several awards . It was later released as a fully voiced `` talkie '' CD-ROM , done by members of the Sierra staff .


query: Helen Mirren was a winner of the Academy Fellowship.

pos: Helen Mirren Dame Helen Lydia Mirren ( née Mironoff ; born 26 July 1945 ) is an English actor . Mirren began her acting career with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1967 , and is one of the few performers who have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting , having won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2007 , after two previous nominations , for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen . She received an Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2013 for her West End performance in The Audience , in which she also portrayed Elizabeth II , and in 2015 she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her Broadway performance in the play . The Audience was written by Peter Morgan , who also wrote The Queen . Mirren won three consecutive BAFTA Awards for Best Actress between 1992 and 1994 and her first of several Emmy Awards in 1996 for her performance as police detective Jane Tennison on the British television series Prime Suspect , which ran for seven seasons between 1991 and 2006 .   Some of her other notable film roles include Marcella in the 1984 film Cal , for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress , 2010 ( 1984 ) , The Cook , the Thief , His Wife & Her Lover ( 1989 ) , The Madness of King George ( 1994 ) , Teaching Mrs. Tingle ( 1999 ) , Gosford Park ( 2001 ) , Calendar Girls ( 2003 ) , The Last Station ( 2009 ) , Hitchcock ( 2012 ) , and The Hundred-Foot Journey ( 2014 ) . She played Victoria Winslow in the action-comedy films Red and Red 2 .   In 2003 , she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( DBE ) for Services to the Performing Arts . In 2013 , Mirren was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , and in 2014 , BAFTA announced that Mirren would be the recipient of the Academy Fellowship .

neg: List of Malaysian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Malaysia is one of more than a hundred countries that have sent films to compete for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 2004 . The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue .   As of 2016 , a total of four films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film , but none has yet received an Oscar nomination . The Princess of Mount Ledang was the first film to be submitted in 2003 , since then no other films that was submitted until 2012 , a film directed by Dain Said Bunohan was sent to compete , but it failed to set out as the nominee .   For the 88th Academy Awards , Men Who Save the World was decided by National Film Development Corporation Malaysia ( FINAS ) to be submitted , affiliated with Malaysian Ministry of Communications and Multimedia .

neg: The Hours (film) The Hours is a 2002 British-American drama film directed by Stephen Daldry , and starring Meryl Streep , Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman . Supporting roles are played by Ed Harris , John C. Reilly , Stephen Dillane , Jeff Daniels , Miranda Richardson , Allison Janney , Toni Collette and Claire Danes . The screenplay by David Hare is based on Michael Cunningham 's 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title .   The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf . These are Clarissa Vaughan ( Streep ) , a New Yorker preparing an award party for her AIDS-stricken long-time friend and poet , Richard ( Harris ) in 2001 ; Laura Brown ( Moore ) , a pregnant 1950s California housewife with a young boy and an unhappy marriage ; and Virginia Woolf ( Kidman ) herself in 1920s England , who is struggling with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel .   The film was released in Los Angeles and New York City on Christmas Day 2002 , and was given a limited release in the United States and Canada two days later on December 27 , 2002 . It did not receive a wide release in North America until January 2003 , and was then released in British cinemas on Valentine 's Day that year . Critical reaction to the film was mostly positive , with nine Academy Award nominations for The Hours including Best Picture , and a win for Nicole Kidman as Best Actress .

neg: Ronald Neame Ronald Elwin Neame CBE BSC ( 23 April 1911 -- 16 June 2010 ) was an English film cinematographer , producer , screenwriter and director . As cinematographer for the British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing ( 1943 ) , he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Special Effects . During a partnership with director David Lean , he produced Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) , Great Expectations ( 1946 ) , and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ) , receiving two Academy Award nominations for writing .   Neame then moved into directing , and some notable films included , I Could Go On Singing ( 1963 ) , Judy Garland 's last film , The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 ) , which won Maggie Smith her first Oscar , Scrooge ( 1970 ) , starring Albert Finney , and the action-adventure disaster film The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ) .   For his contributions to the film industry , Neame was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) , and received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award , the highest award the British Film Academy can give a filmmaker .

neg: Limelight (1952 film) Limelight is a 1952 comedy-drama film written , produced , and directed by Charlie Chaplin . Unlike his earlier films , the score was composed by Chaplin and arranged by Ray Rasch , marking this as the first film that he did not musically arrange .   The film stars Chaplin as a washed-up comedian who saves a suicidal dancer from killing herself , played by Claire Bloom , and both try to get through life ; additional roles are provided by Nigel Bruce , Sydney Chaplin as Sydney Earl Chaplin , Wheeler Dryden , and Norman Lloyd with an appearance from Buster Keaton . In dance scenes , Bloom is doubled by Melissa Hayden .   Upon the film 's release , critics ' reception was divided ; it was heavily boycotted in the United States , and commercially failed . However , the film was re-released the United States in 1972 which included its first screening in Los Angeles . This allowed the decades-old film to be in contention for the 45th Academy Awards where Chaplin won his only competitive Academy Award . Today , the film is sometimes regarded as one of Chaplin 's best and most personal works , and has since attained a cult following .

neg: BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language The BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language is given annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and presented at the British Academy Film Awards . The award was first given at the 36th British Academy Film Awards , recognising the films of 1982 , and until 1990 was known as the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Film . Prior to this , films recorded in a language other than English were often recognised in the category BAFTA Award for Best Film , known between 1949 and 1969 as Best Film from any Source .   In the following lists , the titles and names in bold with a dark grey background are the winners and recipients respectively ; those not in bold are the nominees . The years given are those in which the films under consideration were released , not the year of the ceremony , which always takes place the following year .

neg: 11th Irish Film & Television Awards The 11th Irish Film & Television Awards took place on Saturday 5 April 2014 in Dublin . The nominations were announced on 27 February 2014 . The Awards Ceremony took place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Burlington Road Dublin , and was broadcast on RTÉ One at 9.45 pm .  The Annual Irish Film & Television Awards are the highlight of Ireland 's entertainment and cultural calendar celebrating the very best of Irish screen talent across film and television . Guests in attendance included Michael Fassbender , Colin Farrell , Jamie Dornan , Steve Coogan , Will Forte , Jeremy Irons , Fionnula Flanagan , Brendan Gleeson , Neil Jordan , Amy Huberman , Colm Meaney , Jack Reynor , Killian Scott , Eva Birthistle , Victoria Smurfit and Outstanding Contribution Honorary Award Winner President Michael D Higgins .   Simon Delaney and Laura Whitmore co-hosted the event .   The President of Ireland , Michael D. Higgins , received an honorary award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Irish film and television industry .   The big winners on the night were the films Calvary , Byzantium and Philomena which all picked up three awards each . Calvary took the highest accolade , Best Film , along with Best Actor for Brendan Gleeson and Best Script for its writer-director John Michael McDonagh . Touching true story Philomena won the award for Best International Film and Actress ( for Judi Dench ) along with Costume Design for Consolata Boyle . Philomena Lee , whose true life story inspired the film was in attendance at the Ceremony . Vampire horror Byzantium 's awards included the prestigious Best Director for Neil Jordan , Best Actress for Saoirse Ronan and Makeup & Hair .

neg: 15th Academy Awards The 15th Academy Awards was held in the Cocoanut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles . Best Picture honors went to the film Mrs. Miniver . The ceremony is most famous for the speech by the film 's Oscar-winning actress Greer Garson . Garson 's acceptance speech as Best Actress ran nearly 6 minutes and is generally considered to be the longest acceptance speech at an Academy Awards ceremony .   Mrs. Miniver was the second film ( after My Man Godfrey in 1936 ) to receive nominations in all four acting categories , as well as the first film to garner five acting nominations .   Also notable at the ceremony , Irving Berlin presented the Academy Award for Best Song , which he ended up winning for `` White Christmas '' .   Best Documentary had four winners , something that has not happened before or since .   A portion of the ceremony was broadcast by CBS Radio .

neg: My Fair Lady (film) My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adapted from the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw . With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor , the film depicts a poor Cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor , Henry Higgins , as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak `` proper '' English , thereby making her presentable in the high society of Edwardian London .   The film stars Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison as Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins respectively , with Stanley Holloway , Gladys Cooper and Wilfrid Hyde-White in supporting roles . A critical and commercial success , it won eight Academy Awards , including Best Picture , Best Actor , and Best Director . In 1998 , the American Film Institute named it the 91st greatest American film of all time .

neg: 48th Academy Awards The 48th Academy Awards were presented March 29 , 1976 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion , Los Angeles . The ceremonies were presided over by Walter Matthau , Robert Shaw , George Segal , Goldie Hawn , and Gene Kelly . This year , ABC took over broadcast rights from NBC , and continues to broadcast them today . ( NBC 's coverage of the 1976 NCAA Final Four aired opposite the ceremony ; during the presentation of the Best Film Editing award , the winner was jokingly announced ( by presenter Elliott Gould ) as `` Indiana , 86 -- 68 '' ; the Indiana Hoosiers had won the NCAA Final Four that night . )   Miloš Forman 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest made a `` clean sweep '' of the major categories : Best Picture , Best Actor , Best Actress , Best Director and Best Screenplay ( Adapted ) . It was the second of three films to date to accomplish the sweep , following It Happened One Night in 1934 and preceding The Silence of the Lambs in 1991 .   French actress Isabelle Adjani received her first nomination for Best Actress this year , making Adjani , 20 at the time , the youngest actress to be nominated in the leading actress category , breaking the record set by 22-year-old Elizabeth Hartman in 1967 . This record would later be surpassed by 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes in 2004 , and again in 2013 by nine-year old Quvenzhane Wallis . Adjani also presented the Best Film Editing award that night along with Gould who delivered the Indiana joke during the presentation .   At age 80 , George Burns became the oldest acting and Best Supporting Actor awardee , a record which stood until Jessica Tandy won Best Actress in 1989 . For males , Burns was succeeded by Christopher Plummer , who won Best Supporting Actor in 2012 for Beginners at the age of 82 .   Jaws was followed 25 years later by Traffic for a film that won all its nominations except Best Picture . Jaws is one of the few films to be nominated for Best Picture but not for directing , acting , or writing .

neg: List of submissions to the 85th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 85th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film . The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since the award was created in 1956 . The award is presented annually by the Academy to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue . The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films . Nine shortlisted contenders will be revealed a week before the announcement of the Oscar nominations .   The submitted motion pictures must be first released theatrically in their respective countries between 1 October 2011 , and 30 September 2012 .   On 8 October 2012 , the Academy announced the final list of eligible submissions , with a record number of 71 films . Nine finalists were announced in December 2012 , which were shortlisted in January , with the final five nominees announced on 10 January 2013 . The Austrian entry Amour directed by Michael Haneke was the eventual winner .   Kenya submitted its first film in the Foreign Language category with Nairobi Half Life . Cambodia made its first submission in 18 years ( and its second overall ) with Lost Loves .

neg: 78th Academy Awards The 78th Academy Awards ceremony , presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , took place on March 5 , 2006 , at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood , Los Angeles beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST. . The ceremony was scheduled one week later than usual to avoid conflicting with the 2006 Winter Olympics . During the ceremony , AMPAS presented Academy Awards ( commonly referred to as Oscars ) in 24 categories honoring films released in 2005 . The ceremony , televised in the United States by ABC , was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Louis J. Horvitz . Actor Jon Stewart hosted the show for the first time . Two weeks earlier in a ceremony at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills , California held on February 18 , the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Rachel McAdams .   Crash won three awards including Academy Award for Best Picture . Other winners included Brokeback Mountain , King Kong , and Memoirs of a Geisha also with three awards apiece , and Capote , The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe , The Constant Gardener , Hustle and Flow , March of the Penguins , The Moon and the Son : An Imagined Conversation , A Note of Triumph : The Golden Age of Norman Corwin , Six Shooter , Syriana , Tsotsi , Walk the Line , and Wallace & Gromit : The Curse of the Were-Rabbit with one each . The telecast garnered nearly 39 million viewers in the United States .

neg: Helen Hayes Helen Hayes MacArthur ( née Brown ; October 10 , 1900 -- March 17 , 1993 ) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years . She eventually garnered the nickname `` First Lady of American Theatre '' and was one of 12 people who have won an Emmy , a Grammy , an Oscar and a Tony Award ( an EGOT ) . Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom , America 's highest civilian honor , from then-President Ronald Reagan in 1986 .   In 1988 , she was awarded the National Medal of Arts . The annual Helen Hayes Awards , which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in greater Washington , DC , since 1984 , are her namesake . In 1955 , the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City 's Broadway Theater District was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre . When that venue was torn down in 1982 , the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor . Helen Hayes is regarded as one of the Greatest Leading Ladies of the 20th century theatre .

neg: List of actors nominated for two Academy Awards in the same year The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has had occurrences of actors and actresses nominated for two different Academy Awards in acting categories in a single year , with the first instance in 1938 . Provided that they receive enough votes from the Academy in both categories to earn a nomination , there are no restrictions on actors being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor or actresses being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress in any given year . The sole rule with regard to multiple nominations is that an actor or actress can not receive multiple nominations for the same performance . This rule was introduced in 1944 after Barry Fitzgerald received a Best Actor nomination and a Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance in Going My Way .   As of 2015 , 11 actors and actresses have been nominated for two different Academy Awards in the same year . The first of these actors and actresses was Fay Bainter , who received nominations for her performances in White Banners and Jezebel at the 11th Academy Awards . The most recent occurrence was during the 80th Academy Awards , in which Cate Blanchett received nominations for Elizabeth : The Golden Age and I 'm Not There . Seven of these actors and actresses received an Academy Award in one of the categories they were nominated in , and none have won two Academy Awards in the same year . Four did not receive an Academy Award in either category : Sigourney Weaver ( nominations for Gorillas in the Mist and Working Girl ) , Emma Thompson ( nominations for The Remains of the Day and In the Name of the Father ) , Julianne Moore ( nominations for Far from Heaven and The Hours ) , and Cate Blanchett ( nominations for Elizabeth : The Golden Age and I 'm Not There ) .

neg: 25th Academy Awards The 25th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 19 , 1953 . It took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood , California , and the NBC International Theatre in New York City .   It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be televised , and the first ceremony to be held in Hollywood and New York City simultaneously . It was also the only year that the New York ceremonies were to be held in the NBC International Theatre on Columbus Circle , which was shortly thereafter demolished and replaced by the New York Coliseum convention center .   A major upset occurred in the category of Best Picture . The heavily favored High Noon lost to Cecil B. DeMille 's The Greatest Show on Earth , eventually considered among the worst films to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture . The American film magazine Premiere placed the movie on its list of the 10 worst Oscar winners and the British film magazine Empire rated it # 3 on their list of the 10 worst Oscar winners . It has the lowest spot on Rotten Tomatoes ' list of the 81 films to win Best Picture . Of all the films nominated for the Oscar this year , only High Noon and Singin ' in the Rain would show up 46 years later on the American Film Institute list of the greatest American films of the 20th Century . For a film that only received two nominations , Singin ' in the Rain went on to be named as the greatest American musical film of all time and in the 2007 American Film Institute updated list as the fifth greatest American film of all time , while High Noon was ranked twenty-seventh on the same 2007 list , as well .   The Bad and the Beautiful won five awards , the most wins ever for a film not nominated for Best Picture . It was also the second Academy Awards in which a film not nominated for Best Picture received the most awards of the evening , excluding years where there were ties for the most wins . The only other film to do this was The Thief of Bagdad at the 13th Academy Awards ; as of the 87th Academy Awards , it has not happened since .   Until Spotlight won only Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 88th Academy Awards , this was the last year in which the Best Picture winner won just two Oscars . It was also the second of three years to date in which two films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner ( The Bad and the Beautiful and Hans Christian Andersen , both with six ) . This occurred again at the 79th Academy Awards .   Shirley Booth also became the last person to win an Oscar in a Leading Role to be born in the 19th century . She also holds the distinction of being the first woman in her 50s to win the award , at the age of 54 ( the second woman in her 50s to win , Julianne Moore , was 54 when awarded at the 87th Academy Awards ) .   John Ford 's fourth win for Best Director set a record for the most wins in this category that remains unmatched to this day .   For the first time since the introduction of Supporting Actor and Actress awards in 1936 , Best Picture , Best Director , and all four acting Oscars went to six different films . This has happened only three times since , at the 29th Academy Awards for 1956 , the 78th for 2005 , and the 85th for 2012 .

neg: Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts Each year since 1988 The Critics ' Circle has presented an award for Distinguished Service to the Arts , voted for by all members of the Circle , embracing Dance , Drama , Film , Music , Visual Arts and Architecture .   This performing arts Award takes the form of an engraved crystal rose bowl , presented at a celebratory luncheon . The recipients were :   1988 Sir Peter Hall  1989 Dame Ninette de Valois  1990 Sir Michael Tippett  1991 Sir David Lean  1992 Sir John Mills  1993 Sir Peter Ustinov  1994 Sir John Drummond  1995 Sir Peter Wright  1996 Sir Richard Eyre  1997 Dame Judi Dench  1998 Sir Edward Downes  1999 Harold Pinter  2000 Dame Alicia Markova  2001 Paul Scofield  2002 Sir Alfred Brendel  2003 Sir Ian McKellen  2004 Mike Leigh  2005 Alan Bennett  2006 Dame Helen Mirren  2007 Sir Tom Stoppard  2008 Peter Brook  2009 Sir Alan Ayckbourn  2010 Ken Loach  2011 Stephen Sondheim  2013 Grayson Perry  2014 Sir Nicholas Hytner  2015 Dame Maggie Smith   Category : Performing arts awards

neg: Lindsay Anderson Lindsay Gordon Anderson ( 17 April 1923 -- 30 August 1994 ) was a British feature film , theatre and documentary director , film critic , and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave . He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film if ... , which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and was Malcolm McDowell 's cinematic debut . He is also notable , though not a professional actor , for playing a minor role in the Academy Award winning film Chariots of Fire . Malcolm McDowell produced a 2007 documentary about his experiences with Lindsay Anderson , Never Apologize .

neg: The Theory of Everything (2014 film) The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British biographical romantic drama film directed by James Marsh and adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity : My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking , which deals with her relationship with her ex-husband , theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking , his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS , also known as Lou Gehrig 's disease or motor neurone disease ) , and his success in physics .   The film stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones with Charlie Cox , Emily Watson , Simon McBurney , Christian McKay , Harry Lloyd and David Thewlis featured in supporting roles . The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2014 .   The film was acclaimed critically worldwide , with praise for the musical score , cinematography and the performance of Felicity Jones and especially Eddie Redmayne , which earned him nominations for a variety of accolades in award shows and film festivals , including the Academy Award for Best Actor . The film received four Golden Globe Award nominations , winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor -- Motion Picture Drama for Redmayne and Best Original Score for Jóhannsson . It received three Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations , winning one for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Redmayne . It received 10 British Academy Film Awards nominations and won Outstanding British Film , Best Leading Actor ( for Redmayne ) and Best Adapted Screenplay ( for McCarten ) .

neg: List of Belgian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Belgium has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1967 . The award is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue . It was not created until the 1956 Academy Awards , in which a competitive Academy Award of Merit , known as the Best Foreign Language Film Award , was created for non-English speaking films , and has been given annually since .   Seven Belgian films have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . Of these films , two have been directed by Gérard Corbiau : The Music Teacher and Farinelli . The five other Belgian directors to have films accepted as nominees are Jacques Boigelot , Stijn Coninx , Dominique Deruddere , Michaël R. Roskam and Felix Van Groeningen . Boigelot 's Peace in the Fields was accepted as a nominee at the 43rd Academy Awards , Stijn Coninx 's Daens was a nominee in 1993 , Deruddere 's Everybody 's Famous ! was a nominee at the 73rd Academy Awards , Roskam 's Bullhead for the 84th and Van Groeningen 's The Broken Circle Breakdown for the 86th .

neg: Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor (Russia) The Golden Eagle Award for Best Leading Actor is one of twenty award categories presented annually by the National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia . It is one of the Golden Eagle Awards , which were conceived by Nikita Mikhalkov as a counterweight to the Nika Award established in 1987 by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences .   Each year the members of the academy choose three leading actors and the film as a perception . The first actor to be awarded was Viktor Bychkov for the film The Cuckoo . The most recent award was made to Aleksandr Zbruyev for Film About Alekseyev . Sergei Garmash is the most successful artists , winning twice out of three nominations . Other noteworthy actors who were nominated at least twice are Fedor Bondarchuk , Nikita Mikhalkov , Aleksei Petrenko , Danila Kozlovsky , Vladimir Mashkov , Yevgeny Mironov , Bohdan Stupka , Viktor Sukhorukov and Aleksandr Baluev .

neg: The Passion of Ayn Rand The Passion of Ayn Rand is a biography of Ayn Rand by writer and lecturer Barbara Branden , a former friend and business associate . Published by Doubleday in 1986 , it was the first full-length biography of Rand , and was the basis for the 1999 film of the same name with Helen Mirren playing the part of Rand .