Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a work.
The Academy Awards , now known officially as the Oscars , is a set of twenty-four awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry , given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) , to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy 's voting membership . Bad Robot Productions ( more commonly known as Bad Robot ) is an American film and television production company owned by J. J. Abrams and Bryan Burk . Star Wars: The Force Awakens . It received five Academy Award nominations and four British Academy Film Award nominations , where it won Best Special Visual Effects . In the American motion picture industry , wide release refers to a motion picture that is playing nationally ( as opposed to a few cinemas in cities such as New York and Los Angeles ) .