Academy of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences Certificate, presented to Irving Berlin
date: label: presentation date
content: 1954
name: label: presenter
content: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
label: recipient
content: Berlin, Irving
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This certificate of nomination was presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Irving Berlin on December 31, 1954. It is made of wood with a laminated paper certificate. The certificate is printed:</p>
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content: <p>Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences<br>CERTIFICATE<br>OF<br>NOMINATION FOR AWARD<br>Be it known that<br>Irving Berlin<br>was nominated for an Academy Award of Merit<br>for Outstanding Achievement<br>Song<br>"Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep"<br>from<br>"White Christmas"<br>This judgement being rendered with reference to<br>Motion Pictures First Regularly Exhibited in<br>the Los Angeles district during the<br>year ending December 31, 1954<br>[signatures of President and Secretary]</p>
label: Description
content: <p>”Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” was featured in the 1954 Paramount Pictures musical film, <i>White Christmas</i>, directed by Michael Curtiz and starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, and Dean Jagger. “Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep” received an Academy Award Best Original Song nomination in 1955.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Awards and Prizes
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Ewen, David. All The Years Of American Popular Music
label: Related Publication
content: Wilder, Alec. American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Elizabeth I. Peters, Linda Louise Emmet, and Mary Ellin Barrett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.3198.09
label: nonaccession number
content: 1991.3198
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3198.09
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plaque
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 12 in x 13 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 30.48 cm x 34.29 cm