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Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in central - western ___MASK70___ . It includes 16 constituent states , covers an area of , and has a largely temperate seasonal climate . With about 82 million inhabitants , Germany is the most populous member state of the European Union . After the United States , it is the second most popular immigration destination in the world . Germany ' s capital and largest metropolis is Berlin . Other major cities include Hamburg , Munich , Cologne , Frankfurt , Stuttgart and Düsseldorf . Steven Andrew Soderbergh ( born January 14 , 1963 ) is an American ___MASK47___ producer , director , screenwriter , cinematographer and editor . His indie drama " Sex , Lies , and Videotape " ( 1989 ) won the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes ___MASK47___ Festival , and became a worldwide commercial success , making the then - 26 - year - old Soderbergh the youngest director to win the festival ' s top award . ___MASK47___ critic ___MASK22___ dubbed Soderbergh the " poster boy of the Sundance generation ". The European Union ( EU ) is a political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in ___MASK70___ . It has an area of , and an estimated population of over 510 million . The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states . EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people , goods , services , and capital within the internal market , enact legislation in justice and home affairs , and maintain common policies on trade , agriculture , fisheries , and regional development . Within the Schengen Area , passport controls have been abolished . A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002 , and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency . Seabiscuit ( May 23 , 1933  May 17 , 1947 ) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse in the United States . A small ___MASK29___ , Seabiscuit had an inauspicious start to his racing career , but became an unlikely champion and a symbol of hope to many Americans during the Great Depression . Seabiscuit has been the subject of numerous books and films including " Seabiscuit : the Lost Documentary " ( 1939 ); a Shirley Temple film , " The Story of Seabiscuit " ( 1949 ); a book , "" ( 2001 ) by Laura Hillenbrand ; and a film adaptation of Hillenbrand ' s book , " Seabiscuit " ( 2003 ) that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture . Elizabeth I ( 7 September 1533  24 March 1603 ) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her ___MASK62___ . Sometimes called The Virgin Queen , Gloriana or Good Queen Bess , the childless Elizabeth was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty . Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the ___MASK65___ Foreign Press Association , recognizing excellence in film and ___MASK17___ , both domestic and foreign . The Palme d ' Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes ___MASK47___ Festival . It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee . From 1939 to 1954 , the highest prize was the " Grand Prix du Festival International du ___MASK47___ ". The National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( abbreviated NSDAP ), commonly referred to in ___MASK78___ as the Nazi Party , was a political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and practised the ___MASK39___ of ___MASK45___ . Its precursor , the German Workers ' Party (" Deutsche Arbeiterpartei "; DAP ), existed from 1919 to 1920 . Operation Osoaviakhim was a Soviet operation which took place on 22 October 1946 , with NKVD and Soviet army units forcibly ( at gunpoint ) recruiting more than 2 , 000 German technical specialists and scientists from the Soviet occupation zone of post - ___MASK100___ Germany for employment in the Soviet Union . Much related equipment was moved too , the aim being to virtually transplant research and production centres , such as the relocated V - 2 rocket centre at Mittelwerk Nordhausen , from Germany to the Soviet Union , and collect as much materiel as possible from test centres such as the Luftwaffe ' s central ___MASK6___ test centre at " Erprobungstelle Rechlin ", taken by the Red Army on 2 May 1945 . The codename " Osoaviakhim " was the acronym of a Soviet paramilitary organisation , later renamed DOSAAF . Woody Allen ( born Allan Stewart Konigsberg ; December 1 , 1935 ) is an American ___MASK42___ , author , filmmaker , comedian , playwright , and ___MASK53___ , whose career spans more than six decades . ___MASK84___ is the common ___MASK78___ name for the period in German ___MASK58___ from 1933 to 1945 , when Germany was governed by a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ). Under Hitler ' s rule , Germany was transformed into a fascist state in which the Nazi Party took totalitarian control over nearly all aspects of life . The official name of the state was " Deutsches Reich " from 1933 to 1943 and " Großdeutsches Reich " (" Greater German Reich ") from 1943 to 1945 . The period is also known under the names the Third Reich and the National Socialist Period ( abbreviated as " NS - Zeit "). The Nazi regime came to an end after the Allied Powers defeated Germany in May 1945 , ending World War II in Europe . The Screen Actors Guild ( SAG ) was an American labor union which represented over 100 , 000 ___MASK47___ and ___MASK17___ principal and background performers worldwide . On March 30 , 2012 , the union leadership announced that the SAG membership voted to merge with the American Federation of ___MASK17___ and Radio Artists ( AFTRA ) to create SAG - AFTRA . A ___MASK47___ adaptation is the transfer of a written work , in whole or in part , to a feature ___MASK47___ . It is a type of derivative work . The Cannes Festival ( French : Festival de Cannes ), named until 2002 as the International ___MASK47___ Festival (" Festival international du ___MASK47___ ") and known in ___MASK78___ as the Cannes ___MASK47___ Festival , is an annual ___MASK47___ festival held in Cannes , France , which previews new films of all genres , including documentaries , from all around the world . Founded in 1946 , the invitation - only festival is held annually ( usually in May ) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès . The Australian Academy of Cinema and ___MASK17___ Arts Awards , known as the AACTA Awards , are presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and ___MASK17___ Arts ( AACTA ). The awards recognise excellence of professionals in the film and ___MASK17___ industry , including the producers , directors , actors , writers and cinematographers . It is the most prestigious awards ceremony for the Australian film and ___MASK17___ industry . They are generally considered to be the Australian counterpart of the Academy Awards and British Academy Awards . The ___MASK14___ was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc ( the Soviet Union and its satellite states ) and powers in the Western Bloc ( the United States , its NATO allies and others ). Historians do not fully agree on the dates , but a common timeframe is the period ( the second half of the 20th century ) between 1947 , the year the Truman Doctrine ( a U . S . policy pledging to aid nations threatened by Soviet expansionism ) was announced , and 1991 , the year the Soviet Union collapsed . An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment . Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities , towns , conurbations or suburbs . In ___MASK90___ , the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets and in urban ___MASK8___ or urban anthropology it contrasts with natural environment . The creation of early predecessors of urban areas during the urban revolution led to the creation of human civilization with modern urban planning , which along with other human activities such as exploitation of natural resources leads to human impact on the environment . The Good German is a 2006 ___MASK47___ adaptation of Joseph Kanon ' s eponymous 2001 novel . It was directed by Steven Soderbergh , and stars George Clooney , Cate Blanchett , and Tobey Maguire . Set in Berlin following the Allied victory over the Nazis , it begins as a murder mystery but weaves in elements involving the American postwar employment of Nazi rocket scientists in Operation Paperclip . The ___MASK47___ was shot in black - and - white and is designed to imitate the appearance of ___MASK47___ noir from the 1940s , although it also includes material -- such as sex scenes and swearing -- that would have been prohibited by the Production Code . Its poster is an homage to the poster for the classic ___MASK47___ Casablanca ( 1942 , also a Warner Bros . ___MASK47___ ) , as is the closing scene at an airport . The DVD release presents the ___MASK47___ in the 1 . 33 : 1 aspect ratio which declined in use from about 1953 , though the theatrical release used the slightly more modern but still unusual 1 . 66 : 1 ratio . The ___MASK47___ received mixed reviews and grossed $ 5 . 9 million worldwide against a budget of $ 32 million . Tobias Vincent " Tobey " Maguire ( born June 27 , 1975 ) is an American ___MASK42___ and producer . He began his career in the late 1980s . His first appearance in a feature film was a non - speaking part in " The Wizard " ( 1989 ). He is known for playing the title character in Sam Raimi ' s " Spider - Man " film trilogy ( 2002 , 2004 , and 2007 ), as well as for his roles in " Pleasantville " ( 1998 ), " The Cider House Rules " ( 1999 ), " Wonder Boys " ( 2000 ), " Seabiscuit " ( 2003 ), " The Good German " ( 2006 ), " Brothers " ( 2009 ), and " The Great Gatsby " ( 2013 ). Operation Paperclip was the United States Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) program in which more than 1 , 500 German scientists , engineers , and technicians ( many of whom were formerly registered members of the Nazi Party and some of whom had leadership roles in the Nazi Party ) were recruited and brought to the United States for government employment from post - ___MASK84___ ( after ___MASK100___ ). The primary purpose for Operation Paperclip was for the U . S . to gain a scientific and military advantage in the burgeoning ___MASK14___ , and later Space Race , between the U . S . and Soviet Union . By comparison , the Soviet Union were even more aggressive in recruiting Germans : during Operation Osoaviakhim , Soviet military units forcibly ( at gunpoint ) recruited 2 , 000 + German specialists to the Soviet Union during one night . Joseph Kanon ( born 1946 ) is an American author , best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after ___MASK100___ . A cinematographer or director of ___MASK15___ ( sometimes shortened to DP or DOP ) is the chief over the camera crews working on a ___MASK47___ , ___MASK17___ production or other live action piece and is responsible for making artistic and technical decisions related to the image . The study and practice of this field is referred to as cinematography . Some filmmakers say that the cinematographer is just the chief over the camera and lighting , and the director of ___MASK15___ is the chief over all the ___MASK15___ components of ___MASK47___ , including framing , costumes , makeup , and lighting , as well as the assistant of the post producer for color correction and grading . Roger Joseph Ebert ( June 18 , 1942  April 4 , 2013 ) was an American ___MASK47___ critic and historian , journalist , screenwriter , and author . He was a ___MASK47___ critic for the " Chicago Sun - Times " from 1967 until his ___MASK62___ in 2013 . In 1975 , Ebert became the first ___MASK47___ critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for ___MASK59___ . ___MASK100___ ( often abbreviated to WWII or WW2 ), also known as the Second World War , was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 , although related conflicts began earlier . It involved the vast majority of the world ' s nations  including all of the great powers  eventually forming two opposing military alliances : the Allies and the ___MASK56___ . It was the most widespread war in ___MASK58___ , and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries . In a state of " total war ", the major participants threw their entire economic , industrial , and scientific capabilities behind the war effort , erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources . Marked by mass deaths of civilians , including the Holocaust ( in which approximately 11 million people were killed ) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centres ( in which approximately one million were killed , and which included the ___MASK80___ ), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities . These made ___MASK100___ the deadliest conflict in human ___MASK58___ . The Academy Awards , or " Oscars ", is an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements in the United States ___MASK79___ as assessed by the Academy ' s voting membership . The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette , officially called the Academy Award of Merit , which has become commonly known by its nickname " Oscar ." The awards , first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel , are overseen by AMPAS . Sex , Lies , and Videotape ( styled as sex , lies , and videotape ) is a 1989 American independent drama ___MASK47___ that brought director Steven Soderbergh to prominence . It tells the story of a man who films women discussing their sexuality , and his impact on the relationships of a troubled married couple and the wife ' s ___MASK94___ . Berlin is the capital and the largest ___MASK81___ of Germany as well as one of its constituent 16 states . With a population of approximately 3 . 5 million people , Berlin is the second most populous ___MASK81___ proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union . Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of rivers Spree and Havel , it is the centre of the Berlin - Brandenburg Metropolitan Region , which has about 6 million residents from more than 180 nations . Due to its location in the European Plain , Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate . Around one - third of the ___MASK81___ ' s area is composed of forests , parks , gardens , rivers and lakes . 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 ___MASK79___ . ___MASK25___ - Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The character was created by ___MASK85___ - editor Stan Lee and ___MASK85___ - artist Steve Ditko , and first appeared in the anthology comic book " Amazing Fantasy " # 15 ( Aug . 1962 ) in the Silver Age of Comic Books . Lee and Ditko conceived the character as an orphan being raised by his Aunt May and Uncle Ben , and as a teenager , having to deal with the normal struggles of adolescence in addition to those of a costumed crime - fighter . ___MASK25___ - Man ' s creators gave him super strength and agility , the ability to cling to most surfaces , shoot spider - webs using wrist - mounted devices of his own invention , which he calls " web - shooters ", and react to danger quickly with his " spider - sense ", enabling him to combat his foes . The European Plain or Great European Plain is a plain in ___MASK70___ and is a major feature of one of four major topographical units of ___MASK70___ - the " Central and Interior Lowlands ". It is the largest mountain - free landform in ___MASK70___ , although a number of highlands are identified within it . Samuel M " Sam " Raimi ( born October 23 , 1959 ) is an American ___MASK47___ director , producer , screenwriter and ___MASK42___ , famous for creating the cult horror " Evil Dead " series , as well as directing the original " Spider - Man " trilogy ( 2002  07 ) and the 1990 superhero ___MASK47___ " Darkman ." His most recent work is the 2013 Disney fantasy ___MASK47___ " Oz the Great and Powerful ". George Timothy Clooney ( born May 6 , 1961 ) is an American ___MASK42___ , filmmaker , and activist . He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work as an ___MASK42___ and two Academy Awards , one for acting and the other for producing . Catherine Elise " Cate " Blanchett ( born 14 May 1969 ) is an Australian actress and theatre director . She has received international acclaim and many accolades , including six AACTA Awards , two Academy Awards , three Screen Actors Guild Awards , three Golden Globe Awards , and three BAFTA Awards . Blanchett came to international attention for her role as ___MASK69___ in Shekhar Kapur ' s 1998 film " Elizabeth ", for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress , the Golden Globe Award , and earned her first Academy Award for Best Actress nomination . Her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese ' s 2004 film " The Aviator " brought her critical acclaim and many accolades , including the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role , making her the only ___MASK42___ to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar - winning ___MASK42___ . In 2013 , she starred as Jasmine Francis in Woody Allen ' s " Blue Jasmine ", for which she won numerous accolades including the Academy Award for Best Actress . Martin Charles Scorsese ( born November 17 , 1942 ) is an American director , producer , screenwriter , ___MASK42___ , and film historian , whose career spans more than 53 years . Scorsese ' s body of work addresses such themes as Sicilian - American identity , Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption , faith , machismo , modern crime , and gang conflict . Many of his films are also known for their depiction of violence and liberal use of profanity . Shekhar Kapur ( born 6 December 1945 ) is an Indian ___MASK47___ director , ___MASK42___ and producer known for his works in Hindi cinema and part of the Anand family . Kapur became known in Bollywood with his recurring role in the TV series " Khandan " in the mid - 1980s and his directorial debut in the cult Bollywood ___MASK47___ " Masoom " in 1983 , which won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie for that year . Katharine Houghton Hepburn ( May 12 , 1907  June 29 , 2003 ) was an American actress . Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality , Hepburn was a leading lady in ___MASK65___ for more than 60 years . She appeared in a range of genres , from screwball comedy to literary drama , and she received four Academy Awards for Best Actress  a record for any performer . In 1999 , Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female ___MASK40___ of Classic ___MASK65___ Cinema . Brandenburg ( Lower Sorbian : " Bramborska ") is one of the sixteen federated states of Germany . It lies in the northeast of the country covering an area of 29 , 478 square kilometers and has 2 . 48 million inhabitants . The capital and largest ___MASK81___ is Potsdam . Brandenburg surrounds but does not include the national capital and ___MASK81___ - state Berlin forming a metropolitan area . The Space ___MASK7___ was a 20th - century competition between two ___MASK14___ rivals , the Soviet Union ( USSR ) and the United States ( US ), for supremacy in spaceflight capability . It had its origins in the missile - based nuclear arms race between the two nations that occurred following World War II , aided by captured German missile technology and personnel from the Aggregat program . The technological superiority required for such supremacy was seen as necessary for national security , and symbolic of ideological superiority . The Space ___MASK7___ spawned pioneering efforts to launch artificial satellites , unmanned space probes of the Moon , Venus , and Mars , and human spaceflight in low Earth orbit and to the Moon . The Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) was a wartime ___MASK41___ agency of the United States during ___MASK100___ , and a predecessor of the modern ___MASK95___ ( CIA ). The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ( JCS ) to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces . Other OSS functions included the use of propaganda , subversion , and post - war planning .