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___MASK83___ is the term used for hypothetical piloted or unpiloted travel between stars or planetary systems . ___MASK83___ will be much more difficult than interplanetary spaceflight ; the distances between the planets in the Solar System are less than 30 astronomical units ( AU ) whereas the distances between stars are typically hundreds of thousands of AU , and usually expressed in light - years . Because of the vastness of those distances , ___MASK83___ would require a high percentage of the speed of light , huge travel ___MASK96___ , lasting from decades to millennia or longer , or a combination of both . The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ). It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the ___MASK10___ . Trancers is a 1984 ___MASK81___ ___MASK98___ film . It was directed by Charles Band and stars Tim Thomerson and Helen Hunt . It is the first film in the " Trancers " series . Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the ___MASK88___ Foreign Press Association , recognizing excellence in film and television , both domestic and foreign . A social issue is a problem that influences a considerable number of the individuals within a society . It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual ' s social issue is the source of a conflicting opinion on the grounds of what is perceived as a morally just personal ___MASK84___ or societal order . Social issues are distinguished from economic issues ; however , some issues ( such as immigration ) have both social and economic aspects . There are also issues that don ' t fall into either category , such as warfare . Cast Away is a 2000 American epic survival drama ___MASK41___ directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks , Helen Hunt , and Nick Searcy . The ___MASK41___ depicts a FedEx employee stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific and his attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane ' s cargo . The ___MASK41___ was a critical and commercial success , and Hanks was nominated for Best ___MASK62___ in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards for his performance . ___MASK78___ is the concept of movement ( such as by a human ) between certain points in time , analogous to movement between different points in space , typically using a hypothetical device known as a time machine , in the form of a vehicle or of a portal connecting distant points in time . ___MASK78___ is a recognized concept in philosophy and fiction , but traveling to an arbitrary point in time has a very limited support in theoretical physics , and usually only in conjunction with quantum mechanics or wormholes , also known as Einstein - Rosen bridges . In a more narrow sense , one - way ___MASK78___ into the future via time dilation is a well - understood phenomenon within the frameworks of special relativity and general relativity , but advancing a large amount of time is not feasible with current technology . The concept was touched upon in various earlier works of fiction , but was popularized by H . G . Wells ' 1895 novel " The Time Machine ", which moved the concept of ___MASK78___ into the public imagination , and it remains a popular subject in science fiction . Then She Found Me is a 2007 American ___MASK89___ - drama ___MASK41___ directed by Helen Hunt . The screenplay by Hunt , Alice Arlen , and Victor Levin is very loosely based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Elinor Lipman . The ___MASK41___ marked Hunt ' s feature ___MASK41___ directorial debut . Charles Robert ___MASK4___ ( born December 27 , 1951 ) is an American ___MASK41___ producer and director , known for his work on horror comedy movies . A spacecraft is a vehicle , or machine designed to fly in ___MASK17___ . Spacecraft are used for a variety of purposes , including communications , earth observation , meteorology , ___MASK73___ , space colonization , planetary exploration , and transportation of humans and cargo . Helen Elizabeth Hunt ( born June 15 , 1963 ) is an American actress , ___MASK30___ director , and screenwriter . She starred in the sitcom " Mad About You " for seven years , and played single mother Carol Connelly in the 1997 romantic comedy ___MASK41___ " As Good as It Gets ", for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress . Some of her other notable films include " Twister " ( 1996 ), " Cast Away " ( 2000 ), " What Women Want " ( 2000 ), " Pay It Forward " ( 2000 ), and " The Sessions " ( 2012 ), the latter garnered her a second Academy Award nomination . She made her directorial debut in 2007 with " Then She Found Me " ( 2007 ). Hunt has also won four Emmy Awards , four Golden Globe Awards , and two Screen Actors Guild Awards . A ___MASK59___ is a machine  especially one programmable by a computer  capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically . Robots can be guided by an external control device or the control may be embedded within . Robots may be constructed to take on human form but most robots are machines designed to perform a task with no regard to how they look . Joseph Timothy " Tim " Thomerson ( born April 8 , 1946 ) is an American ___MASK62___ and ___MASK70___ . ___MASK81___ ___MASK98___ ( often shortened to SF , sci - fi or scifi ) is a genre of ___MASK85___ , typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology , space travel , ___MASK78___ , faster than light travel , parallel universes , and extraterrestrial life . ___MASK81___ ___MASK98___ often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations , and has been called a " literature of ideas ." It usually avoids the supernatural , and unlike the related genre of fantasy , historically science ___MASK98___ stories were intended to have a grounding in science - based fact or theory at the time the story was created , but this connection is now limited to hard science ___MASK98___ . Romantic ___MASK89___ films ( also known as the portmanteaus romedy or romcom ) are films with light - hearted , humorous plotlines , centered on romantic ideals such as that true ___MASK57___ is able to surmount most obstacles . One dictionary definition is " a funny movie , play , or television program about a ___MASK57___ story that ends happily ". Another definition states that its " primary distinguishing feature is a ___MASK57___ plot in which two sympathetic and well - matched lovers are united or reconciled ". ___MASK81___ is a systematic ___MASK54___ that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe . Trancers II is a 1991 American action ___MASK81___ ___MASK98___ film directed by Charles Band . It is the sequel to Trancers starring Tim Thomerson and Helen Hunt . The film has been released on DVD through the Trancers boxset or as a single DVD in Europe . The human condition is " the characteristics , key events , and situations which compose the essentials of human ___MASK49___ , such as birth , growth , emotionality , aspiration , ___MASK93___ , and mortality ." This is a very broad topic which has been and continues to be pondered and analyzed from many perspectives , including those of ___MASK86___ , ___MASK25___ , ___MASK22___ , art , literature , anthropology , psychology , and biology . A ___MASK60___ ( short for " cybernetic organism ") is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts . The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S . Kline . ___MASK81___ ___MASK98___ film ( or sci - fi ) is a genre that uses speculative , fictional science - based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science , such as extraterrestrial lifeforms , alien worlds , extrasensory perception and ___MASK78___ , along with futuristic elements such as spacecraft , robots , cyborgs , interstellar travel or other technologies . ___MASK81___ ___MASK98___ films have often been used to focus on political or social issues , and to explore philosophical issues like the human condition . In many cases , tropes derived from written science ___MASK98___ may be used by filmmakers ignorant of or at best indifferent to the standards of scientific plausibility and plot logic to which written science ___MASK98___ is traditionally held . Mad About You is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 23 , 1992 to May 24 , 1999 . The show starred Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt as a newly married couple in New York ___MASK40___ . What Women Want is a 2000 American romantic ___MASK89___ ___MASK41___ written by Josh Goldsmith , Cathy Yuspa and Diane Drake , directed by Nancy Meyers , and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt . The ___MASK41___ was a box office success with a North American domestic gross of US $ 182 , 811 , 707 and a worldwide gross of $ 374 , 111 , 707 , against a budget of $ 70 million . As Good as It Gets is a 1997 American romantic ___MASK89___ ___MASK41___ directed by James L . Brooks and produced by Laura Ziskin . It stars Jack Nicholson as a misanthropic , racist , obsessive - compulsive novelist , Helen Hunt as a single mother with a chronically ill son , and Greg Kinnear as a ___MASK80___ artist . The screenplay was written by Mark Andrus and James L . Brooks . The paintings were created for the ___MASK41___ by New York artist Billy Sullivan , whose work is part of the modern art collection at NYC ' s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art . An Emmy Award , or simply Emmy , recognizes excellence in the ___MASK30___ industry , and corresponds to the Academy Award ( for ___MASK41___ ), the Tony Award ( for theatre ), and the Grammy Award ( for music ).