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90th Academy Awards
Official poster
Date
March 4, 2018
Site
Dolby Theatre
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted by
Jimmy Kimmel
Produced by
Michael De Luca
Jennifer Todd
Directed by
Glenn Weiss
Highlights
Most nominations
The Shape of Water (13)
TV in the United States
Network
ABC
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Academy Awards
The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will honor the best films of 2017 and will take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California at 5:00 p.m. PST on March 4, 2018.[1] The ceremony will take place after its usual late-February date to avoid conflicting with the 2018 Winter Olympics.[2] During the ceremony, AMPAS will present Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories. The ceremony will be televised in the United States by ABC, produced by Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd and directed by Glenn Weiss.[3] Comedian Jimmy Kimmel will host for a second consecutive year, making him the first person to host back-to-back ceremonies since Billy Crystal in 1997 and 1998.[4]
In related events, the Academy held its 9th Annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 11, 2017.[5] On February 10, 2018, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Scientific and Technical Awards were presented by host Patrick Stewart.[6]
Contents
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1 Schedule
2 Nominees
2.1 Awards
2.2 Governors Awards
2.3 Films with multiple nominations
3 Presenters and performers
3.1 Presenters
3.2 Performers
4 Other notable events
5 Ceremony information
5.1 Box office performance of nominated films
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Schedule[edit]
Date[7]
Event
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Final voting begins
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 Final polls close
Sunday, March 4, 2018 90th Annual Academy Awards presentation
Nominees[edit]
The nominees for the 90th Academy Awards were announced on January 23, 2018, at 5:22 a.m. PST (13:22 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, via global live stream[8] from the Academy and by actors Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis.[9] The Shape of Water led all nominees with thirteen nominations; Dunkirk came in second with eight, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri came in third with seven.[10][11]
Awards[edit]
Best Picture
Call Me by Your Name – Peter Spears, Luca Guadagnino, Emilie Georges, and Marco Morabito
Darkest Hour – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten, and Douglas Urbanski
Dunkirk – Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan
Get Out – Sean McKittrick, Jason Blum, Edward H. Hamm Jr., and Jordan Peele
Lady Bird – Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, and Evelyn O'Neill
Phantom Thread – JoAnne Sellar, Paul Thomas Anderson, Megan Ellison and Daniel Lupi
The Post – Amy Pascal, Steven Spielberg, and Kristie Macosko Krieger
The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and J. Miles Dale
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, and Martin McDonagh
Best Director
Christopher Nolan – Dunkirk
Jordan Peele – Get Out
Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro – The Shape of Water
Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name as Elio Perlman
Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread as Reynolds Woodcock
Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out as Chris Washington
Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour as Winston Churchill
Denzel Washington – Roman J. Israel, Esq. as Roman J. Israel
Best Actress
Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water as Elisa Esposito
Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Mildred Hayes
Margot Robbie – I, Tonya as Tonya Harding
Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird as Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson
Meryl Streep – The Post as Katharine Graham
Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project as Bobby Hicks
Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Chief Bill Willoughby
Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water as Giles
Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World as J. Paul Getty
Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as Officer Jason Dixon
Best Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige – Mudbound as Florence Jackson
Allison Janney – I, Tonya as LaVona Golden
Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread as Cyril Woodcock
Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird as Marion McPherson
Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water as Zelda Delilah Fuller
Best Original Screenplay
The Big Sick – Written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
Get Out – Written by Jordan Peele
Lady Bird – Written by Greta Gerwig
The Shape of Water – Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Written by Martin McDonagh
Best Adapted Screenplay
Call Me by Your Name – James Ivory based on the novel by André Aciman
The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber based on the book by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell
Logan – Screenplay by Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold based on characters from the X-Men comic books and theatrical motion pictures
Molly's Game – Aaron Sorkin based on the memoir by Molly Bloom
Mudbound – Virgil Williams and Dee Rees based on the novel by Hillary Jordan
Best Animated Feature Film
The Boss Baby – Tom McGrath and Ramsey Ann Naito
The Breadwinner – Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo
Coco – Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
Ferdinand – Carlos Saldanha
Loving Vincent – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart
Best Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman (Chile) in Spanish – Directed by Sebastián Lelio
The Insult (Lebanon) in Arabic – Directed by Ziad Doueiri
Loveless (Russia) in Russian – Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
On Body and Soul (Hungary) in Hungarian – Directed by Ildikó Enyedi
The Square (Sweden) in Swedish – Directed by Ruben Östlund
Best Documentary – Feature
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail – Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman
Faces Places – Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda
Icarus – Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
Last Men in Aleppo – Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen
Strong Island – Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes
Best Documentary – Short Subject
Edith+Eddie – Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright
Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 – Frank Stiefel
Heroin(e) – Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon
Knife Skills – Thomas Lennon
Traffic Stop – Kate Davis and David Heilbroner
Best Live Action Short Film
DeKalb Elementary – Reed Van Dyk
The Eleven O'Clock – Derin Seale and Josh Lawson
My Nephew Emmett – Kevin Wilson Jr.
The Silent Child – Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
Watu Wote/All of Us – Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen
Best Animated Short Film
Dear Basketball – Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant
Garden Party – Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon
Lou – Dave Mullins and Dana Murray
Negative Space – Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata
Revolting Rhymes – Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
Best Original Score
Dunkirk – Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood
The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Carter Burwell
Best Original Song
"Mighty River" from Mudbound – Music and Lyrics by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson
"Mystery of Love" from Call Me by Your Name – Music and Lyrics by Sufjan Stevens
"Remember Me" from Coco – Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
"Stand Up for Something" from Marshall – Music by Diane Warren; Lyrics by Common and Diane Warren
"This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman – Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Best Sound Editing
Baby Driver – Julian Slater
Blade Runner 2049 – Mark Mangini and Theo Green
Dunkirk – Richard King and Alex Gibson
The Shape of Water – Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce
Best Sound Mixing
Baby Driver – Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
Blade Runner 2049 – Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
Dunkirk – Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo
The Shape of Water – Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson
Best Production Design
Beauty and the Beast – Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Blade Runner 2049 – Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola
Darkest Hour – Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Dunkirk – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
The Shape of Water – Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin
Best Cinematography
Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins
Darkest Hour – Bruno Delbonnel
Dunkirk – Hoyte van Hoytema
Mudbound – Rachel Morrison
The Shape of Water – Dan Laustsen
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Darkest Hour – Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
Victoria & Abdul – Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
Wonder – Arjen Tuiten
Best Costume Design
Beauty and the Beast – Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour – Jacqueline Durran
Phantom Thread – Mark Bridges
The Shape of Water – Luis Sequeira
Victoria & Abdul – Consolata Boyle
Best Film Editing
Baby Driver – Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
Dunkirk – Lee Smith
I, Tonya – Tatiana S. Riegel
The Shape of Water – Sidney Wolinsky
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Jon Gregory
Best Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049 – John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
Kong: Skull Island – Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus
Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
War for the Planet of the Apes – Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist
Governors Awards[edit]
The Academy held its ninth annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 11, 2017, during which the following awards were presented:[12]
Academy Honorary Awards
Main article: Academy Honorary Award
Agnès Varda — French film director, writer, editor and producer.[13]
Charles Burnett — American director, writer, producer, editor and cinematographer.[14]
Donald Sutherland — Canadian actor.[15]
Owen Roizman — American cinematographer.[16]
Special Achievement Academy Award
Main article: Special Achievement Academy Award
Alejandro González Iñárritu for his virtual reality project Carne y Arena.[17][18]
Films with multiple nominations[edit]
Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations
Film
Ref.
13 The Shape of Water [19][20]
8 Dunkirk [21]
7 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri [22][23]
6 Darkest Hour [24][25]
Phantom Thread [26][27][28]
5 Blade Runner 2049 [29]
Lady Bird [30][31][32]
4 Call Me by Your Name [33][34]
Get Out [35][36]
Mudbound [37][38][39][40]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi [41][42][43]
3 Baby Driver [44]
I, Tonya [45][46]
2 Beauty and the Beast [47]
Coco [48]
The Post
Victoria & Abdul [49][50][51][52]
Presenters and performers[edit]
The following individuals will present awards or performed musical numbers.[53]
Presenters[edit]
Name(s)
Role
Stewart, PatrickPatrick Stewart Presenter of the segment of the Academy Scientific and Technical Awards
Davis, ViolaViola Davis Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Ali, MahershalaMahershala Ali Presenter of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Stone, EmmaEmma Stone Presenter of the award for Best Actor
TBA Presenter of the award for Best Actress
John Bailey John Bailey (AMPAS president) TBA
Boseman, ChadwickChadwick Boseman TBA
Dern, LauraLaura Dern TBA
Garner, JenniferJennifer Garner TBA
Gerwig, GretaGreta Gerwig TBA
Haddish, TiffanyTiffany Haddish TBA
Tom Holland Tom Holland TBA
Nanjiani, KumailKumail Nanjiani TBA
Robbie, MargotMargot Robbie TBA
Vega, DanielaDaniela Vega TBA
Performers[edit]
Name(s)
Role
Performed
Harold Wheeler Musical Arranger and Conductor Orchestral
Blige, Mary J.Mary J. Blige Performer "Mighty River" from Mudbound
Stevens, SufjanSufjan Stevens Performer "Mystery of Love" from Call Me by Your Name
Miguel, Miguel
Lafourcade, NataliaNatalia Lafourcade[citation needed] Performers "Remember Me" from Coco
Day, AndraAndra Day
Common, Common Performers "Stand Up for Something" from Marshall
Settle, KealaKeala Settle Performer "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman
Other notable events[edit]
The nominations for the 90th Academy Awards represented many records and firsts in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).[54][55][56] Among the records and firsts include:
The 90th Academy Awards have broken a record for the number of married couples that share a nomination. Among them include: Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan (Best Picture for Dunkirk); JoAnne Sellar and Daniel Lupi (Best Picture for Phantom Thread); Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon (Best Documentary Short for Heroin(e)); Kate Davis and David Heilbroner (Best Documentary Short for Traffic Stop); Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter (Best Animated Short for Negative Space); Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani (Best Original Screenplay for The Big Sick); Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Best Original Song for Coco); and Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (Best Animated Feature for Loving Vincent). Acting nominees Lesley Manville and Gary Oldman were at one time a married couple but divorced in 1990.
Also broken is the record for the highest number of actors who appeared in more than one Best Picture nominee in a single year. Among them include Timothée Chalamet (Call Me by Your Name and Lady Bird), Lucas Hedges (Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Caleb Landry Jones (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Get Out), Tracy Letts (Lady Bird and The Post), Kathryn Newton (Lady Bird and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Nick Searcy (The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), Michael Stuhlbarg (Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water and The Post) and Bradley Whitford (Get Out and The Post). Chalamet is the only one with an individual nomination. Stuhlbarg is the first actor since Thomas Mitchell in 1940 to appear in more than two Best Picture nominees and not get individual nominations for any of them.
At the age of 89, director Agnès Varda became the oldest person to be nominated for a competitive award in Academy Award history (Best Documentary Feature for Faces Places). James Ivory, who is just about one week younger than Varda, became the oldest man to be nominated for a competitive award in Academy Award history (Best Adapted Screenplay for Call Me by Your Name). Varda is the first filmmaker to receive an Honorary Academy Award and then be nominated for a competitive Academy Award in the same year since Saul Zaentz for The English Patient in 1997. She and her daughter Rosalie, a producer on Faces Places, are the first mother-daughter pair to share a nomination.
At the age of 88, Christopher Plummer became the oldest actor to be nominated for a competitive award in Academy Award history (Best Supporting Actor for All the Money in the World), surpassing Gloria Stuart who was nominated for her performance in Titanic at the age of 87. In addition, he is both the oldest acting winner (Best Supporting Actor for Beginners in 2012) and oldest acting nominee of all time.
The following distinctions are held for the first time since 2003: The Post is the first Meryl Streep movie to be nominated for Best Picture since The Hours. Daniel Kaluuya is the first Best Actor nominee since Nicolas Cage for Adaptation to not compete against the actor to whom they lost the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (Cage lost to Richard Gere for Chicago and Kaluuya lost to James Franco for The Disaster Artist). Michael Stuhlbarg is the first actor to appear in three Best Picture nominees in the same year since John C. Reilly.
Meryl Streep, with her twenty-first nomination, broke her own record and is still the most nominated performer of all time. She is also the first Best Actress nominee for a Steven Spielberg film since Whoopi Goldberg for The Color Purple in 1986 and the first woman to receive an acting nomination for a film directed by him since Sally Field for Lincoln in 2013.
John Williams, with his fifty-first nomination, broke his own record and is still most nominated living individual.
Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director.
Guillermo del Toro became the fifth Latin American filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director.
Jordan Peele became the fifth black filmmaker to be nominated for Best Director, as well as the first black filmmaker to receive nominations for producing, directing and writing in the same year, and the third filmmaker overall to ever do so for their directorial debut.
Rachel Morrison became the first woman in Academy Award history to be nominated for Best Cinematography.
Dee Rees is the first African-American woman to be nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, the second African-American woman to be nominated for writing since Suzanne de Passe for Lady Sings the Blues in 1973, and the first queer black woman to be nominated for writing.
With two nominations for Best Picture and Best Actress, The Post holds the distinction of being director Steven Spielberg's lowest-tally for a Best Picture-directed nominee ever.
With the four nominations for Mudbound, Netflix broke through the top categories at the Academy Awards for the first time. It had previously earned nominations for Best Documentary Feature, including two for this ninetieth awards ceremony, but has never yet won.
Get Out is the first horror film since Black Swan in 2011, and the first film released in February since The Silence of the Lambs to be nominated for Best Picture.
Logan is the first superhero film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. It is also the first superhero film to be nominated for screenwriting since The Incredibles.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the first movie to receive two nominations for Best Supporting Actor since Ben Kingsley and Harvey Keitel were both nominated for Bugsy in 1992, as well as the first Best Picture nominee that won the Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award not to be nominated for Best Director since The Big Chill in 1984.
The nominations for Timothée Chalamet and Daniel Kaluuya mark the first time since Kenneth Branagh and Tom Cruise in 1990 in which there are two Best Actor nominees in their twenties.
Timothée Chalamet is the first Best Actor nominee born in the 1990s, as well as the first for a movie in which they did not receive top billing since Ben Kingsley in 2004.
With his nomination for Roman J. Israel, Esq., Denzel Washington is now the most honored African-American actor and the fifth-most honored actor in Academy Award history with eight nominations for acting, tying the latter honor with Marlon Brando, Jack Lemmon, Peter O'Toole, Al Pacino, and Geraldine Page.
Mary J. Blige became the first person to be nominated for acting and songwriting in the same year.
Octavia Spencer now ties with Viola Davis as the most-nominated African-American actress in Academy Award history, with three nominations for acting. Additionally, she has the distinction of being nominated exclusively for Best Picture nominees that take place in the 1960s (The Help, Hidden Figures and The Shape of Water). At the 89th Academy Awards, she also became the first African-American actress to be nominated after a competitive win.
Carlos Saldanha is the first Brazilian to be nominated more than once.
Octavia Spencer and Denzel Washington are the first African-American actors to earn consecutive Academy Award nominations.
Kobe Bryant is the first NBA player to receive an Academy Award nomination.
The Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing categories matched five out of five for the first time ever.
Jacqueline Durran is the first costume designer to receive more than one nomination for Best Costume Design in the same year (Beauty and the Beast and Darkest Hour) since Sandy Powell in which she earned two nominations in 2016 in the same category: (Cinderella and Carol). Alongside with Powell, Durran had the distinction of being nominated for Best Costume Design nominees with one that is based on a Disney live-action adaptation of its animated classic and the other that take place in the 1940s to 1950s within the late modern period to the contemporary period.
Yance Ford is the first openly transgender director to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer are the first production designers to receive more than one nomination for Best Production Design in the same year (Beauty and the Beast and Darkest Hour) since Dennis Gassner and Nancy Haigh in 1992 in which the latter two earned two nominations in the same category simultaneously, (Bugsy and Barton Fink).
For the first time, all five directors nominated were nominated for directing screenplays that they themselves had written either solo or as part of a team. All five were not based on previously published material. Three of those screenplays were nominated for Best Original Screenplay; Paul Thomas Anderson and Christopher Nolan were not nominated.
Ceremony information[edit]
Jimmy Kimmel will host the 90th Academy Awards
Despite the mixed reception received from the preceding year's ceremony, the Academy rehired Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd as producers for the second consecutive year.[57] In May 2017, it was announced that Jimmy Kimmel will return as host for a second consecutive year.[58] Kimmel expressed that he was thrilled to be selected to MC the gala again, commenting, "Hosting the Oscars was a highlight of my career and I am grateful to Cheryl [Boone Isaacs], Dawn [Hudson], and the Academy for asking me to return to work with two of my favorite people, Mike De Luca and Jennifer Todd. If you think we screwed up the ending this year, wait until you see what we have planned for the 90th anniversary show!"[59] Jimmy extensively campaigned for the ceremony, shooting several promos and discussions on his talk show.
On December 4, 2017, it was announced that the timing of the ceremony and its pre-show has been changed and both are scheduled to broadcast a half-hour earlier than prior telecasts.[60][61] In the first half of the nominations announcement pre-taped category introductions were included by actresses Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson, Gal Gadot, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Molly Shannon, Rebel Wilson and Michelle Yeoh.[62][63]
As per the tradition of the Academy, the previous year's Best Actor winner usually presents the Best Actress award for the next year's ceremony; in lieu of this, last year Best Actor winner Casey Affleck has reportedly decided not to attend the ceremony due to his sexual harassment allegations.[64][65]
Box office performance of nominated films[edit]
North American box office gross for Best Picture nominees[66]
Film
Pre-nomination
(before Jan. 23)
Post-nomination
(Jan. 23 – Mar. 4)
Post-awards
(after Mar. 5)
Total
Dunkirk $188 million
–
–
$188 million
Get Out $175.7 million $353,795
–
$176 million
The Post $45.8 million $30.8 million
–
$76.6 million
The Shape of Water $30.4 million $22.8 million
–
$53.2 million
Darkest Hour $41.1 million $12 million
–
$53.1 million
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri $32.3 million $15.7 million
–
$48 million
Lady Bird $39.2 million $7.1 million
–
$46.3 million
Phantom Thread $6.4 million $11.3 million
–
$17.7 million
Call Me by Your Name $9.4 million $5.5 million
–
$14.9 million
Total
$568.2 million
$105.6 million
–
$673.8 million
Average
$63.1 million
$11.7 million
–
$74.9 million
At the time of the nominations announcement on January 23, 2018, the combined gross of the nine Best Picture nominees at the North American box offices was $568.2 million, with an average of $63.1 million per film. When the nominations were announced, Dunkirk was the highest-grossing film among the Best Picture nominees with $188 million in domestic box office receipts. Get Out was the second-highest-grossing film with $175.6 million, followed by The Post ($45.7 million), Darkest Hour ($41 million), Lady Bird ($39.1 million), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ($32.2 million), The Shape of Water ($30.4 million), Call Me by Your Name ($9.1 million), and Phantom Thread ($6.3 million).[67]
Thirty-six nominations went to 15 films on the list of the top 50 grossing movies of the year. Of those 15 films, only Coco (12th), Logan (15th) Dunkirk (18th), Get Out (16th), The Boss Baby (19th), and Ferdinand (35th) were nominated for Best Picture, Best Animated Feature or any of the directing, acting or screenwriting awards. The other top 50 box-office hits that earned nominations were Star Wars: The Last Jedi (1st), Beauty and the Beast (2nd), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (8th), Kong: Skull Island (17th), War for the Planet of the Apes (20th), Wonder (33th), The Greatest Showman (29th), Baby Driver (41th), and Blade Runner 2049 (36th).
See also[edit]
Academy Award portal
45th Annie Awards
71st British Academy Film Awards
23rd Critics' Choice Awards
30th European Film Awards
75th Golden Globe Awards
38th Golden Raspberry Awards
21st Hollywood Film Awards
33rd Independent Spirit Awards
22nd Satellite Awards
24th Screen Actors Guild Awards
List of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
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Life in Pieces
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Life in Pieces
Genre
Sitcom
Created by
Justin Adler
Starring
Colin Hanks
Betsy Brandt
Thomas Sadoski
Zoe Lister-Jones
Dan Bakkedahl
Angelique Cabral
Niall Cunningham
Holly Barrett
Giselle Eisenberg
James Brolin
Dianne Wiest
Hunter King
Ana Sophia Heger
Composer(s)
Rob Simonsen
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
3
No. of episodes
56 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
Justin Adler
Aaron Kaplan
Jeff Morton
Jason Winer
Brad Copeland
Barbara Adler
Camera setup
Single-camera
Running time
21 minutes
Production company(s)
Kapital Entertainment
40 or 50 Years, Inc.
20th Century Fox Television
Distributor
20th Television
Release
Original network
CBS
Picture format
HDTV 1080i
Original release
September 21, 2015 (2015-09-21) – present
External links
Website
Life in Pieces is an American sitcom television series created by Justin Adler and airs on CBS.[1] The series debuted on September 21, 2015. The first season was picked up for a full 22-episode order on October 27, 2015.[2] On May 11, 2016, CBS renewed the show for a second season,[3] which premiered on October 27, 2016.[4]
On March 23, 2017, CBS renewed the series for a third season, which premiered on November 2, 2017.[5][6]
Contents
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1 Premise
2 Cast
2.1 Main cast
2.2 Recurring cast
3 Episodes
4 Broadcast
5 Reception
5.1 Ratings
6 References
7 External links
Premise[edit]
The series chronicles the lives of three generations of the Short family as they go about their daily lives in Los Angeles County. Each episode is told as four short stories, one for each branch of the Short family.[7]
Cast[edit]
Main cast[edit]
Colin Hanks as Greg Short:[8]
Husband of Jen Short; youngest child of John and Joan Short; younger brother of Matt Short and Heather (Short) Hughes; father of daughter Lark Short; worked for a crowd funding website until he quit his job in "Crytunes Divorce Tablet Ring".
Betsy Brandt as Heather (Short) Hughes:[8]
Wife of Dr. Tim Hughes; oldest child and only daughter of John and Joan Short; older sister of Matt and Greg Short; mother of Tyler, Samantha, and Sophia Hughes; a stay at home mom
Thomas Sadoski as Matthew "Matt" Short:[8]
Recently divorced; middle child and oldest son of John and Joan Short; brother of Heather and Greg Short; dates Colleen Brandon Ortega until the end of "Hair Recital Rainbow Mom". He and Colleen get back together in "Cinderella Fantasy Prom Dougie". They become engaged in the second half of the two-part season 1 finale, "Crytunes Divorce Tablet Ring".They are married at the end of season 2
Zoe Lister-Jones as Jennifer "Jen" Collins Short:[8]
A lawyer; mother of daughter Lark; wife of Greg Short. She announced that she is pregnant with their second child in season 1 finale, "Crytunes Divorce Tablet Ring"; however, it was later revealed that she had a miscarriage in the season 2 premiere, "Annulled Roommate Pill Shower".
Dan Bakkedahl as Dr. Timothy "Tim" Hughes, M.D.:[8]
An ENT doctor; husband of Heather (Short) Hughes; father of Tyler, Samantha, and Sophia Hughes
Angelique Cabral as Colleen Brandon Ortega:[8]
Granddaughter of Tonita; owns a male puppy named "Princess"; dated Matt Short until the end of "Hair Recital Rainbow Mom". She and Matt got back together in "Cinderella Fantasy Prom Dougie". They got engaged in "Crytunes Divorce Tablet Ring".
Niall Cunningham as Tyler Hughes:[8]
Oldest child and only son of Tim and Heather Hughes; brother of Samantha and Sophia Hughes; dated Clementine from "Babe Secret Phone Germs" until they married before "Crytunes Divorce Tablet Ring". Beginning of season 3, they are getting divorced. It was mutual and decided to become friends.
Holly Barrett as Samantha "Sam" Hughes:[8]
Middle child and older daughter of Tim and Heather Hughes; sister of Tyler and Sophia Hughes
Giselle Eisenberg as Sophia Hughes:[8]
Youngest child and younger daughter of Tim and Heather Hughes; sister of Tyler and Samantha Hughes
James Brolin as John Bertram Short:[8]
Retired airline pilot; partner of Joan (Pirkle) Short; father of Heather (Short) Hughes, Matt Short, and Greg Short; owns a female Yorkie named Tank since "Sexting Mall Lemonade Heartbreak".
Dianne Wiest as Dr. Joan (Pirkle) Short:[8]
Partner of John Short; therapist; daughter of GiGi Pirkle; mother of Heather (Short) Hughes, Matt Short, and Greg Short. She and John are still together but, in "Crytunes Divorce Tablet Ring", they confessed to their kids that they got divorced in 1980 in protest when their best friends, a lesbian couple, couldn't get married.
Hunter King as Clementine Hughes: (recurring season 1, main seasons 2–)[9]
Daughter of Mary-Lynn; niece of Spencer (her "uncle-dad"); dated Tyler Hughes from "Babe Secret Phone Germs" until they married before "Crytunes Divorce Tablet Ring". Beginning of season 3, they decided to get a divorce, it was mutual and decided to still become friends.
Ana Sophia Heger as Lark Short: (main seasons 3–)
Daughter of Greg and Jen Short
Recurring cast[edit]
Ann Guilbert as Shirley "GiGi" Pirkle: Mother of Dr. Joan (Pirkle) Short; widow (husband was Winston); lived at Hidden Harbor (Retirement Community), then lived at Rocking Hill Nursing Home. Following Guilbert's death in June 2016, the GiGi character's death was written into "Eyebrow Anonymous Trapped Gem" as a tribute, and all four stories of the episode revolved around GiGi.
Jordan Peele as Chad: Ex-fiancé of Colleen. Chad had some legal troubles and hired Jen's law firm to represent him. He rented his share in Colleen's apartment to Dougie, who was part of his legal team (she's currently Colleen's roommate).
Fortune Feimster as Dougie: A coworker of Jen; daughter of Jen's boss; member of legal team hired by Chad; Colleen's roommate since the season 1 finale, "Crytunes Divorce Tablet Ring". Dougie is loud, boisterous, uncouth and abrasive physically and emotionally. Despite that, she showed a more vulnerable side when she came out of the closet to Colleen and Matt. She had her very first lesbian kiss with Heather, Tim's wife. When Matt moved in with Colleen and Dougie, it was discovered that Matt wrestled in high school and both he and Dougie went undefeated in their high school careers. In the season 2 premiere, "Annulled Roommate Pill Shower", Dougie challenged Matt to a wrestling match to determine whether or not she has to move out of the apartment. Dougie won the match using her patented "hook, line, and sinker" move to keep her spot in the apartment.
Martin Mull as Gary Timpkins: neighbor and patient of Joan; a recent widower
Susan Park as Dr. Sally Hong: Jen's OB/GYN
Tonita Castro as Tonita: Colleen's grandmother. Tonita was very close to Colleen's ex-fiancée, Chad, and she also is the nanny of Lark, the daughter of Greg and Jen.
Mercedes Ruehl as Mia: Colleen's mother. Married four times. Colleen fears she is turning into her mother.
Bella Shepard as Lexie: one of Samantha's friends
Ashley Wolff as Jenna: one of Samantha's friends
Andrew McKeough as Jayden
Martin Starr as Oscar: an exterminator; a field worker for "Scram! Trappers" animal control & pest removal
Stephnie Weir as Bernadette
Rhys Darby as Teddy
Megan Mullally as Mary-Lynn: mother of Clementine; sister and partner of Spencer
Nick Offerman as Spencer: brother and partner of Mary-Lynn; parent ("uncle-dad") of Clementine
Josh Groban as Ian: an Irish salesman of guitars at a music store who often flirts with his female customers
Russell Peters as Dr. Tak Oh, M.D.: coworker of Tim; widower (wife was Jackie)
Wayne Federman as Dr. Saul Antro
Angela Malhotra as Nurse Silvie: coworker of Tim
Cary Elwes as Professor Sinclair Wilde: Joan's creative writing teacher since "Dinner Professor Steps Lesbian"
Anne Stedman as Sangria: Colleen's stepmom
Episodes[edit]
Main article: List of Life in Pieces episodes
Season
Episodes
Originally aired
First aired
Last aired
1 22 September 21, 2015 (2015-09-21) March 31, 2016 (2016-03-31)
2 22 October 27, 2016 (2016-10-27) May 11, 2017 (2017-05-11)
3 TBA November 2, 2017 (2017-11-02) TBA
Broadcast[edit]
The show debuted on September 21, 2015 on CBS.[10] The first five episodes aired on Mondays, before it was moved on November 5, 2015, to a new time slot of 8:30 p.m. ET/PT (7:30 p.m. CT) on Thursdays, directly after CBS finished its NFL broadcasts.[11] In the United States, the first season airs on Netflix, with the second season also being available in Canada.[12]
In the UK all seasons are available on Amazon Prime and Season 1 is shown on Comedy Central
Reception[edit]
The first season on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 62% approval rating with an average rating of 6.6/10 based on 39 reviews. The website's consensus reads "Life in Pieces strong cast delivers funny, offbeat stories even if they're not always relatable".[13] On Metacritic, the series holds a score of 64 out of 100 based on 24 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[14]
Ratings[edit]
Season
Timeslot (ET)
Episodes
Premiered
Ended
TV season
Rank
Viewers
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Date
Premiere
viewers
(in millions)
Date
Finale
viewers
(in millions)
1 Monday 8:30 p.m. (episodes 1-5)
Thursday 8:30 p.m. (episodes 6-22) 22 September 21, 2015 (2015-09-21) 11.28[15] March 31, 2016 (2016-03-31) 7.23[16] 2015–16 30 10.53[17]
2 Thursday 9:30 p.m. 22 October 27, 2016 (2016-10-27) 5.96[18] May 11, 2017 (2017-05-11) 5.97[19] 2016–17 40 8.15[20]
3 N/A November 2, 2017 (2017-11-02) 6.67[21] N/A N/A 2017–18 N/A N/A
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ Andreeva, Nellie (27 October 2015). "'Life In Pieces' Gets Full-Season Order At CBS". Deadline. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
Jump up ^ Andreeva, Nellie (May 11, 2016). "'Life In Pieces' Renewed For Season 2 By CBS". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 11, 2016.
Jump up ^ "CBS Announces Its 2016-2017 Primetime Lineup". The Futon Critic. May 18, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
Jump up ^ Andreeva, Nellie (March 23, 2017). "CBS Renews 5 Freshman & 11 Returning Series, Including 'MacGyver', 'Superior Donuts', 'Life In Pieces' & 'Hawaii Five-0'". Deadline.com. Retrieved March 23, 2017.
Jump up ^ Andreeva, Nellie (June 1, 2017). "CBS Sets Fall 2017 Premiere Dates For 'Young Sheldon', '9 JKL' & Returning Series". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
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Alpha decay or α-decay is a type of radioactive decay in which an atomic nucleus emits an alpha particle (helium nucleus) and thereby transforms or 'decays' into an atom with a mass number that is reduced by four and an atomic number that is reduced by two. An alpha particle is identical to the nucleus of a helium-4 atom, which consists of two protons and two neutrons. It has a charge of +2e and a mass of 4u. For example, uranium-238 decays to form thorium-234. Alpha particles have a charge +2, but as a nuclear equation describes a nuclear reaction without considering the electrons – a convention that does not imply that the nuclei necessarily occur in neutral atoms – the charge is not usually shown.
Alpha decay typically occurs in the heaviest nuclides. Theoretically, it can occur only in nuclei somewhat heavier than nickel (element 28), where the overall binding energy per nucleon is no longer a minimum and the nuclides are therefore unstable toward spontaneous fission-type processes. In practice, this mode of decay has only been observed in nuclides considerably heavier than nickel, with the lightest known alpha emitters being the lightest isotopes (mass numbers 106–110) of tellurium (element 52). Exceptionally, however, beryllium-8 decays to two alpha particles.
Alpha decay is by far the most common form of cluster decay, where the parent atom ejects a defined daughter collection of nucleons, leaving another defined product behind. It is the most common form because of the combined extremely high binding energy and relatively small mass of the alpha particle. Like other cluster decays, alpha decay is fundamentally a quantum tunneling process. Unlike beta decay, it is governed by the interplay between both the nuclear force and the electromagnetic force.
Alpha particles have a typical kinetic energy of 5 MeV (or ≈ 0.13% of their total energy, 110 TJ/kg) and have a speed of about 15,000,000 m/s, or 5% of the speed of light. There is surprisingly small variation around this energy, due to the heavy dependence of the half-life of this process on the energy produced (see equations in the Geiger–Nuttall law). Because of their relatively large mass, +2 electric charge and relatively low velocity, alpha particles are very likely to interact with other atoms and lose their energy, and their forward motion can be stopped by a few centimeters of air. Approximately 99% of the helium produced on Earth is the result of the alpha decay of underground deposits of minerals containing uranium or thorium. The helium is brought to the surface as a by-product of natural gas production.
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1 History
2 Mechanism
3 Uses
4 Toxicity
5 References
6 Notes
7 External links
History[edit]
See also: Alpha particle § History of discovery and use
Alpha source beneath a radiation detector
Alpha particles were first described in the investigations of radioactivity by Ernest Rutherford in 1899, and by 1907 they were identified as He2+ ions.
By 1928, George Gamow had solved the theory of alpha decay via tunneling. The alpha particle is trapped in a potential well by the nucleus. Classically, it is forbidden to escape, but according to the (then) newly discovered principles of quantum mechanics, it has a tiny (but non-zero) probability of "tunneling" through the barrier and appearing on the other side to escape the nucleus. Gamow solved a model potential for the nucleus and derived, from first principles, a relationship between the half-life of the decay, and the energy of the emission, which had been previously discovered empirically, and was known as the Geiger–Nuttall law.[1]
Mechanism[edit]
The nuclear force holding an atomic nucleus together is very strong, in general much stronger than the repulsive electromagnetic forces between the protons. However, the nuclear force is also short range, dropping quickly in strength beyond about 1 femtometre, while the electromagnetic force has unlimited range. The strength of the attractive nuclear force keeping a nucleus together is thus proportional to the number of nucleons, but the total disruptive electromagnetic force trying to break the nucleus apart is roughly proportional to the square of its atomic number. A nucleus with 210 or more nucleons is so large that the strong nuclear force holding it together can just barely counterbalance the electromagnetic repulsion between the protons it contains. Alpha decay occurs in such nuclei as a means of increasing stability by reducing size.[2]
One curiosity is why alpha particles, helium nuclei, should be preferentially emitted as opposed to other particles like a single proton or neutron or other atomic nuclei.[note 1] Part of the answer comes from conservation of wave function symmetry, which prevents a particle from spontaneously changing from exhibiting Bose–Einstein statistics (if it had an even number of nucleons) to Fermi–Dirac statistics (if it had an odd number of nucleons) or vice versa. Single proton emission, or the emission of any particle with an odd number of nucleons would violate this conservation law. The rest of the answer comes from the very high binding energy of the alpha particle. Computing the total disintegration energy given by the equation:
E = ( m i − m f − m p ) c 2 {\displaystyle E=(m_{\text{i}}-m_{\text{f}}-m_{\text{p}})c^{2}}
Where m i {\displaystyle m_{\text{i}}} is the initial mass of the nucleus, m f {\displaystyle m_{\text{f}}} is the mass of the nucleus after particle emission, and m p {\displaystyle m_{\text{p}}} is the mass of the emitted particle, shows that alpha particle emission will usually be possible just with energy from the nucleus itself, while other decay modes will require additional energy. For example, performing the calculation for uranium-232 shows that alpha particle emission would need only 5.4 MeV, while a single proton emission would require 6.1 MeV. Most of this disintegration energy becomes the kinetic energy of the alpha particle itself, although to preserve conservation of momentum part of this energy becomes the recoil of the nucleus itself. However, since the mass numbers of most alpha emitting radioisotopes exceed 210, far greater than the mass number of the alpha particle (4) the part of the energy going to the recoil of the nucleus is generally quite small.[2]
These disintegration energies however are substantially smaller than the potential barrier provided by the nuclear force, which prevents the alpha particle from escaping. The energy needed is generally in the range of about 25 MeV, the amount of work that must be done against electromagnetic repulsion to bring an alpha particle from infinity to a point near the nucleus just outside the range of the nuclear force's influence. An alpha particle can be thought of as being inside a potential barrier whose walls are 25 MeV. However, decay alpha particles only have kinetic energies of 4 MeV to about 9 MeV, far less than the energy needed to escape.
Quantum mechanics, however, provides a ready explanation, via the mechanism of quantum tunnelling. The quantum tunnelling theory of alpha decay, independently developed by George Gamow[3] and Ronald Wilfred Gurney and Edward Condon in 1928,[4] was hailed as a very striking confirmation of quantum theory. Essentially, the alpha particle escapes from the nucleus by quantum tunnelling its way out. Gurney and Condon made the following observation in their paper on it:
It has hitherto been necessary to postulate some special arbitrary ‘instability’ of the nucleus; but in the following note it is pointed out that disintegration is a natural consequence of the laws of quantum mechanics without any special hypothesis... Much has been written of the explosive violence with which the α-particle is hurled from its place in the nucleus. But from the process pictured above, one would rather say that the α-particle almost slips away unnoticed.[4]
The theory makes the assumptions that the alpha particle can be considered an independent particle within a nucleus that is in constant motion, but held within the nucleus by nuclear forces. There is, in addition, a very small but decidedly non-zero probability that it will tunnel its way out. An alpha particle with a speed of 1.5×107 m/s within a nuclear diameter of approximately 10−14 m will thus collide against the potential barrier of the nuclear force more than 1021 times per second, and yet for some radioisotopes it will need to keep doing this for as long as 13 billion years before managing to escape, so the probability of escape is extremely low.
Working out the details of the theory leads to an equation relating the half-life of a radioisotope to the decay energy of its alpha particles, a theoretical derivation of the empirical Geiger–Nuttall law.
Uses[edit]
Americium-241, an alpha emitter, is used in smoke detectors. The alpha particles ionize air in an open ion chamber and a small current flows through the ionized air. Smoke particles from fire that enter the chamber reduce the current, triggering the smoke detector's alarm.
Alpha decay can provide a safe power source for radioisotope thermoelectric generators used for space probes[5] and were used for artificial heart pacemakers.[6] Alpha decay is much more easily shielded against than other forms of radioactive decay.
Static eliminators typically use polonium-210, an alpha emitter, to ionize air, allowing the 'static cling' to dissipate more rapidly.
Toxicity[edit]
Highly charged and heavy, alpha particles lose their several MeV of energy within a small volume of material, along a very short mean free path. This increases the chance of double-strand breaks to the DNA in cases of internal contamination, when ingested, inhaled, injected or introduced through the skin. Otherwise, touching an alpha source is typically not harmful, as alpha particles are effectively shielded by a few centimeters of air, a piece of paper, or the thin layer of dead skin cells that make up the epidermis; however, many alpha sources are also accompanied by beta-emitting radio daughters, and both are often accompanied by gamma photon emission.
RBE relative biological effectiveness quantifies the ability of radiation to cause certain biological effects, notably either cancer or cell-death, for equivalent radiation exposure. Alpha radiation has high linear energy transfer (LET) coefficient, which is about one ionization of a molecule/atom for every angstrom of travel by the alpha particle. The RBE has been set at the value of 20 for alpha radiation by various government regulations. The RBE is set at 10 for neutron irradiation, and at 1 for beta radiation and ionizing photons.
However, the recoil of the parent nucleus (alpha recoil) gives it a significant amount of energy, which also causes ionization damage (see ionizing radiation). This energy is roughly the weight of the alpha (4 u) divided by the weight of the parent (typically about 200 u) times the total energy of the alpha. By some estimates, this might account for most of the internal radiation damage, as the recoil nucleus is part of an atom that is much larger than an alpha particle, and causes a very dense trail of ionization; the atom is typically a heavy metal, which preferentially collect on the chromosomes. In some studies,[7] this has resulted in an RBE approaching 1,000 instead of the value used in governmental regulations.
The largest natural contributor to public radiation dose is radon, a naturally occurring, radioactive gas found in soil and rock.[8] If the gas is inhaled, some of the radon particles may attach to the inner lining of the lung. These particles continue to decay, emitting alpha particles, which can damage cells in the lung tissue.[9] The death of Marie Curie at age 66 from aplastic anemia was probably caused by prolonged exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation, but it is not clear if this was due to alpha radiation or X-rays. Curie worked extensively with radium, which decays into radon,[10] along with other radioactive materials that emit beta and gamma rays. However, Curie also worked with unshielded X-ray tubes during World War I, and analysis of her skeleton during a reburial showed a relatively low level of radioisotope burden.
The Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko's 2006 murder by radiation poisoning is thought to have been carried out with polonium-210, an alpha emitter.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Gamow theory of alpha decay". 6 November 1996. Archived from the original on 24 February 2009.
^ Jump up to: a b Arthur Beiser (2003). "Chapter 12: Nuclear Transformations". Concepts of Modern Physics (PDF) (6th ed.). McGraw-Hill. pp. 432–434. ISBN 0-07-244848-2.
Jump up ^ G. Gamow (1928). "Zur Quantentheorie des Atomkernes (On the quantum theory of the atomic nucleus)". Zeitschrift für Physik. 51 (3): 204–212. Bibcode:1928ZPhy...51..204G. doi:10.1007/BF01343196.
^ Jump up to: a b Ronald W. Gurney & Edw. U. Condon (1928). "Wave Mechanics and Radioactive Disintegration". Nature. 122: 439. Bibcode:1928Natur.122..439G. doi:10.1038/122439a0.
Jump up ^ "Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator". Solar System Exploration. NASA. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
Jump up ^ "Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers". Off-Site Source Recovery Project. LANL. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
Jump up ^ Winters TH, Franza JR (1982). "Radioactivity in Cigarette Smoke". New England Journal of Medicine. 306 (6): 364–365. doi:10.1056/NEJM198202113060613.
Jump up ^ ANS : Public Information : Resources : Radiation Dose Chart
Jump up ^ EPA Radiation Information: Radon. October 6, 2006, [1], Accessed December 6, 2006
Jump up ^ Health Physics Society, "Did Marie Curie die of a radiation overexposure?" [2]
Alpha emitters by increasing energy (Appendix 1)
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Jump up ^ These other decay modes, while possible, are extremely rare compared to alpha decay.
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