Reference Resources & Quick Facts
Awards
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - You may search a database of Academy Awards from 1927 to date. Also has the history of the Oscar, the procedure for voting, etc.
- Emmy Awards - This site from the Academy of Television Arts and Science includes a database where you may search all the nominations from the first Primetime Emmys in 1949 to last year's contest.
- GRAMMY Awards - The GRAMMY Search database lets you find GRAMMY winners by name of the award recipient, by categories within a genre, by year, by title of work and/or by the artist performing the work.
- The Nobel Foundation - Announcements of the latest Nobel prizes as well as background information on the winners and their research. Includes a searchable database of past laureates and the history of the Nobel prize.
- The Pulitzer Prizes - Columbia University has given the prestigious Pulitzer Prize since 1917 in journalism, letters, music and drama. This site includes a searchable archive, an interactive timeline of all winners since 1917, an archive of the full-text of winning articles, photos, editorial cartoons, and music clips for the last 3 years, and interactive search capability.
- Tony Awards Online - The section on History includes the voting procedures, a brief history of the Tony award and a gallery covering awards from 1947-present. You may also search the Tonys database which contains winners and nominees in all categories awarded since 1947. You may search the database on any combination of the following criteria: Year, Category, Artist and Show.