Academy (disambiguation)

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An academy is an institution of secondary education or higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

Academy may also refer to:

Education

• Academy (English school), formerly known as city academy, type of publicly financed but independently run school
• Academy, one of the school organizational models
• French regional academies overseeing education
• Military academy
• Platonic Academy, the original Academy founded by the philosopher Plato in ancient Greece c. 385 BCE
• Scottish school naming, in Scotland, a quarter of the secondary schools have the word "academy" in their name

National language regulators

• Académie française
  , the French Academy, pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language, officially established in 1635
• Accademia della Crusca, the Italian institution seeking to maintain the "purity" of the original Italian language
• Real Academia Española
  , Spanish Royal Academy, the institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language
• Swedish Academy, founded to further the "purity, strength, and sublimity of the Swedish language

See List of language regulators for complete list.

Arts, entertainment, and media

Awards

• Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España
  (Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, or AACCE), a Spanish organization responsible for the Goya Awards
• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), an American organization responsible for the Academy Awards (Oscars)

Films

• Academy (1996 film), an Australian film
• Academy (2007 film), a 2007 Japanese film

Music

• The Academy (EP), an EP by The Academy Is...
• The Academy (album), an album by Rich Music, Sech and Dalex featuring Justin Quiles, Lenny Tavárez and Feid
  • The Academy: Segunda Misión, its sequel
• The Academy, previous name for alternative rock band Elliot Minor
• The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, Tempe, Arizona

Television

• The Academy (franchise), a Hong Kong television and film police drama franchise
  • The Academy (Hong Kong TV series), the first series in the franchise from 2005
• The Academy (American TV series), a 2007–2008 American reality television series
• "Academy", an episode of the Max Headroom TV series
• "The Academy", a fifth-season episode of the fantasy television series, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Academy (video game), a 1987 ZX Spectrum video game
• The Academy (periodical), a London periodical, 1869–1902, published as The Academy and Literature, 1902–1916
• Academy 1-2-3 (cinema), former art house cinema on Oxford Street, London; closed in 1986
• Academy Cinema, Bristol, cinema (1914–55) in Bristol, United Kingdom

Businesses

• Academia.edu, a repository of academic papers and social network for academics
• Academy Bus
  , bus company based in New Jersey
• Academy Music Group, owner-operator of British music venues (Carling academy)
• Academy Plastic Model Co.
  , Korean scale model manufacturer
• Academy Sports and Outdoors
  , sporting goods store
• O2 Brixton Academy
  , a music venue in London commonly known as The Academy
• The Academy (hotel), a London hotel located in the district of Bloomsbury
• The Academy (music venue), located in Dublin, Ireland
• The Academy Shopping Centre, Aberdeen

Places

United States

• Academy, St. Louis, Missouri
• Academy, South Dakota
• Academy Lake, a lake in South Dakota
• Little River-Academy, Texas, which includes the settlement of Academy

Greenland

• Academy Fjord
• Academy Glacier (Greenland)
• Academy Glacier (NW Greenland)

Elsewhere

• Academy, Alberta
  Canada
• Academy Bay, Galapagos islands
• Academy Bay (Sea of Okhotsk)
• Academy Glacier
  , Antarctica

Other uses

• Academy (automobile), 1906–1908 British automobile
• The Academy (Heathsville, Virginia), US, a historic house
• House of Providence (Vancouver, Washington), commonly known as the Academy building
• National academy
• Youth academy
  , a youth development system attached to a sports club

See also

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• Academia (disambiguation)
• Academic (disambiguation)
• The Academi
  , Welsh literary agency
• Academi
  , previously known as Xe Services LLC, Blackwater USA, and Blackwater Worldwide; a private military contractor
• Akademy, an annual contributors and users conference of the KDE community
• Royal Academy (disambiguation) for many institutions of this name
• All pages with titles beginning with Academy
• All pages with titles beginning with The Academy
• All pages with titles containing Academy

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