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2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

Best Picture:Brokeback MountainBest Actor:Philip Seymour Hoffman, CapoteBest Actress:Reese Witherspoon, Walk the LineBest Supporting Actor:Paul Giamatti, Cinderella ManBest Supporting Actress…

Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of

(Encyclopedia) Surrey, Henry Howard, earl of, 1517?–1547, English poet; son of Thomas Howard, 3d duke of Norfolk. His irascibility and continuous vaunting of his descent from Edward I resulted in his…

Farrar, Edgar Howard

(Encyclopedia) Farrar, Edgar HowardFarrar, Edgar Howardfărˈər [key], 1849–1922, American lawyer, b. Concordia, La. He made his home in New Orleans, where he had a large corporation practice. He was…

Scripps, Edward Wyllis

(Encyclopedia) Scripps, Edward Wyllis, 1854–1926, American newspaper publisher, b. Rushville, Ill. He began (1873) his career on the staff of the Detroit Evening News, a paper founded and edited by…

Howard, Sir Ebenezer

(Encyclopedia) Howard, Sir Ebenezer, 1850–1928, English town planner, principal founder of the English garden-city movement. His To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform (1898), reissued as Garden…

2005 Academy Awards

The 2005 Academy Awards were presented March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre.Best PictureBrokeback Mountain CapoteCrash Good Night, and Good Luck MunichBest Animated PictureHowl's Moving…

Howard, Sidney Coe

(Encyclopedia) Howard, Sidney Coe, 1891–1939, American dramatist, b. Oakland, Calif., grad. Univ. of California, 1915, and studied under George Pierce Baker at Harvard. His first successful play was…

William Howard Taft

William Howard TaftBorn: 9/15/1857Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati on Sept. 15, 1857. A Yale graduate, he entered Ohio Republican politics in the 1880s…

Howard Heinz Biography

Howard Heinzbusiness executive, philanthropistBorn: 1877Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pa. He began working in his father's food business in 1900, becoming president in 1919. Under his stewardship…