"The competition for awards in every possible category, I don't think it's ever been stiffer in history.
But now, the competition for awards takes place in the public eye, and even (as with the wrangling over the authenticity of the script of "Zero Dark Thirty") in the public arena.
Children and young teens — bent over screens and things like Raspberry Pies — get together from all round the world to showcase their projects and go into competition for awards.
Reforms such as "core and margin", simplified accreditation and more competition for awarding powers all need to be delivered with both types of relationship in mind.
In the competition for award of Noyce Scholarship projects, the NSF looks closely at the quality of the program for the STEM majors, the quality of the teacher preparation program, and the interaction between the STEM and education faculty.
It will have question-and-answer sessions with filmmakers and actors after most films; "A Conversation With... .. a surprise celebrity; special presentations, like a master class with the critic Roger Ebert on Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane"; showings of archival films, this time dealing with "Women and Films"; and competitions for awards in fiction features, documentaries and short films.
Competition for the awards is fierce.
Other films in competition for the awards given out on Saturday include Roman Polanski's Carnage, David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method and George Clooney's The Ides of March.
The festival, housed at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, will present 57 new documentaries in competition for 6 awards and 54 films addressing themes and issues, as in "2001: Fast Forward," a study of people and technology.
FARE is an annual competition at the NIH in which fellows and students submit abstracts of their research in a competition for travel awards.
Still, competition for the award and the $50,000 Canadian in prize money was stacked: This year's ten diverse shortlisted records included Carly Rae Jepsen's pop blockbuster EMOTION, Jessy Lanza's electro-R&B odyssey Oh No, and Kaytranada's own debut album, 99.9%, a melting pot of neo-soul, R&B, hip-hop, and dance music.
