Hollywood Movie Database

You are teaching a course on Oscar-winning movies. The scope of the course covers ten
movies from 1990 through the present that won Oscars for Best Director. In order to prepare
for the class you decide to organize the movies in a simple database that you will create. The
Internet has all the information you need for the database; you just need to research the
movies at several sites, organize, and then enter the data. The database will include two
tables. The Movie table will include data such as the movie title, release date, number of
Oscar nominations, number of Oscar wins, and category (such as whether it is a comedy,
drama, horror, documentary, or other category you decide). The Director table will include
the data about the director of those movies.

1. Start Access and open a new blank database. Name the database Oscars.
2. Use your favorite search engine to research information to find ten movies that won
Oscars in the Best Director category since 1990.
3. Use at least three different Web sites, including www.imdb.com and www.oscars.org
to find the information you need for the database.
4. Create a table called Movie. Accept the default ID primary key field with the
AutoNumber data type, renaming it as Movie ID. Create the fields, such as title,
release date, number of Oscar nominations, number of Oscar wins, category, and
director ID Be sure to define the data type appropriate for each field and to use
appropriate field naming techniques. Enter a custom format for the release date field.
5. Create a table called Director that has the fields director ID, first name, last name, and
any other fields of your choice based on the research that you collected. Consider that
you do not want redundant data between the two tables. The director ID is the
common field between the two tables.
6. Review the data types and field properties for the fields in the two tables and change
any that are not appropriate.
7. Enter ten records into the Movie table.
8. View the records in the Movie table in datasheet view. Sort the datasheet in
descending order by number of nominations, and then save the table.
9. Enter the records in the Director table.
10. View the records in the Director table in datasheet view. In datasheet view, move the
first name field to follow the last name field, and then save the table.
11. Use the Relationships window to join the two tables based on the director ID field.
Enforce referential integrity.
12. Print the datasheet for both tables.
13. Close the database and then exit Access.