Amazon.com: The Academy Awards Hit List.Business & Entertainment Editors SEATTLE--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 27, 2002 The Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, www.amazon.com) The largest online shopping site and one of the most widely known e-commerce sites on the Web. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995, it had 11 employees by year's end. Within four years, it had more than 1,600 employees and four million customers. (Nasdaq:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ) "Hit List" provides biweekly bi·week·ly adj. 1. Happening every two weeks. 2. Happening twice a week; semiweekly. n. pl. bi·week·lies A publication issued every two weeks. adv. 1. Every two weeks. information from the No. 1 online retailer to supply entertainment media with regular, interesting industry facts, trends and numbers. Based on purchasing information from Amazon.com's more than 25 million active customer accounts, this list represents real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. consumer data that only Amazon.com can provide. For more information about any of these trend stories or to interview an Amazon.com editor, contact Amazon.com Media Relations, 206/266-7180. The Amazon.com Movers & Shakers Shakers, popular name for members of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, also called the Millennial Church. Members of the movement, who received their name from the trembling produced by religious emotion, were also known as Alethians. lists, located at www.amazon.com/movers-and-shakers, feature the biggest gainers in sales rank over the past 24 hours. The lists are organized by product type: books, music, video, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , electronics, software, toys and games, video games See video game console. , kitchen and housewares house·wares pl.n. Cooking utensils, dishes, and other small articles used in a household, especially in the kitchen. , outdoor living, and tools and hardware. Amazon.com also features hourly updated bestseller lists found on each store's home page. Oscar Winners Top Amazon.com's Sales Charts Denzel Washington Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a two-time Academy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" -- DVDs and videos weren't the only formats that experienced sales increases at Amazon.com following Sunday's Academy Awards -- music titles got a boost from the show as well. -- A win for Best Original Score pushed A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score to No. 2 on the Amazon.com Music Movers & Shakers list following Sunday's show, jumping from No. 397 to No. 58. -- Nominated for Best Soundtrack, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring original compositions and performances by Enya, is currently at No. 9 on Amazon.com's Music bestseller list. -- Other soundtracks ranking among Amazon.com's top-selling CDs include Moulin Rouge (Music from the Motion Picture), Vol. 2 at No. 8 and Moulin Rouge (Soundtrack) Vol. 1 at No. 12.; I Am Sam -- Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture also topped the list at No. 11 on Amazon.com's Music bestseller list. Halle Berry Halle Maria Berry (IPA: /ˈhæliː ˈbɛriː/) (born August 14, 1966[1]) is an American actress. -- DVDs and videos weren't the only formats that experienced sales increases at Amazon.com following Sunday's Academy Awards -- music titles got a boost from the show as well. -- A win for Best Original Score pushed A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score to No. 2 on the Amazon.com Music Movers & Shakers list following Sunday's show, jumping from No. 397 to No. 58. -- Nominated for Best Soundtrack, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring original compositions and performances by Enya, is currently at No. 9 on Amazon.com's Music bestseller list. -- Other soundtracks ranking among Amazon.com's top-selling CDs include Moulin Rouge (Music from the Motion Picture), Vol. 2 at No. 8 and Moulin Rouge (Soundtrack) Vol. 1 at No. 12.; I Am Sam -- Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture also topped the list at No. 11 on Amazon.com's Music bestseller list. A Beautiful Mind -- While not yet available for pre-order in DVD or video formats, the book, A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate Noun 1. Nobel Laureate - winner of a Nobel prize Nobelist laureate - someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath John Nash, by Sylvia Nasar Sylvia Nasar (born 1947 in Rosenheim, Germany, she is the John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism at Columbia University, and best known as the author of A Beautiful Mind. Early life and history Nasar was born to a German mother and Uzbek father. , moved into the No. 18 spot on the Amazon.com's Books bestseller list following A Beautiful Mind's multiple wins at the Academy Awards. Movie Fans Rediscover Re`dis`cov´er v. t. 1. To discover again. Verb 1. rediscover - discover again; "I rediscovered the books that I enjoyed as a child" Early Works of Honorary Award Winners Sidney Poitier Noun 1. Sidney Poitier - United States film actor and director (born in 1927) Poitier -- Sales of Sidney Poitier's 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner surged as the title shot to No. 1 on Amazon.com's DVD Movers & Shakers list, jumping from No. 602 to No. 76, following the Academy Awards tribute to the legendary actor. Robert Redford Noun 1. Robert Redford - United States actor and filmmaker who starred with Paul Newman in several films (born in 1936) Charles Robert Redford, Redford -- An honorary award was also given to Robert Redford for his lifetime achievement in film. Following Sunday's Academy Awards broadcast, The Natural was No. 8 on Amazon.com's DVD Movers & Shakers list. Additionally, The Way We Were, in which Redford costarred with Oscar presenter Barbra Streisand, was No. 10 on Amazon.com's DVD Movers & Shakers list, moving from No. 898 to No. 232. Even Without an Oscar, Nominees Strike Gold -- DVDs and videos weren't the only formats that experienced sales increases at Amazon.com following Sunday's Academy Awards -- music titles got a boost from the show as well. -- A win for Best Original Score pushed A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score to No. 2 on the Amazon.com Music Movers & Shakers list following Sunday's show, jumping from No. 397 to No. 58. -- Nominated for Best Soundtrack, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring original compositions and performances by Enya, is currently at No. 9 on Amazon.com's Music bestseller list. -- Other soundtracks ranking among Amazon.com's top-selling CDs include Moulin Rouge (Music from the Motion Picture), Vol. 2 at No. 8 and Moulin Rouge (Soundtrack) Vol. 1 at No. 12.; I Am Sam -- Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture also topped the list at No. 11 on Amazon.com's Music bestseller list. Academy Awards Boost Soundtrack Sales -- DVDs and videos weren't the only formats that experienced sales increases at Amazon.com following Sunday's Academy Awards -- music titles got a boost from the show as well. -- A win for Best Original Score pushed A Beautiful Mind: Original Motion Picture Score to No. 2 on the Amazon.com Music Movers & Shakers list following Sunday's show, jumping from No. 397 to No. 58. -- Nominated for Best Soundtrack, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring -- Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring original compositions and performances by Enya, is currently at No. 9 on Amazon.com's Music bestseller list. -- Other soundtracks ranking among Amazon.com's top-selling CDs include Moulin Rouge (Music from the Motion Picture), Vol. 2 at No. 8 and Moulin Rouge (Soundtrack) Vol. 1 at No. 12.; I Am Sam -- Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture also topped the list at No. 11 on Amazon.com's Music bestseller list. |
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