By 1931, despite the ailing economy, the total picture contest winnings had more than tripled.
Kodak advertised aggressively for its 1929 picture contest, spending hundreds of thousands to encourage "fortunate amateurs" to take part.
Johnston — presumably one of Earl's parents — signed a release that allowed Mr. Bernstein to submit the photo to a picture contest.
L. L. Martin submitted the grand-prize-winning picture for what was said to be "the largest prize contest in photographic history" — the Eastman Kodak Company's first-ever nationwide picture contest.
In New York State, as reported by The New York Times, one children's picture contest winner was Mrs. A. S. Richardson of 13 Parkway, Larchmont, who photographed her daughter, Patricia, in a garden.
The best picture contest is usually well defined by early December, at least for those who follow Hollywood's awards season as sport, and the strategists who seek to influence it.
But just how fierce is the rivalry between Dreamworks and Miramax, which goes back to the Best Picture contest between "Shakespeare in Love" from Miramax and "Saving Private Ryan" from Dreamworks in 2000?
At the Golden Globes in January, Lincoln suffered its first public reversal as Argo prevailed in the best dramatic picture contest and Affleck beat Spielberg in the directing category.
"I think that Life of Pi is going to be regarded as a major visual feast by the visual-delight-for-the-sake-of-visual-delight crowd," said Jeffrey Wells, of Hollywood Elsewhere, but "as a non-starter by a significant portion of the family audience … and as a respectable also-ran in the best picture contest".
First, I won a "caption this picture" contest.
