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Courage (Celine Dion album)

Courage is the 27th studio album by Canadian singer Céline Dion, released November 15, 2019. It is her first English-language work since 2013, tackling themes of grief.

Courage the Cowardly Dog

Courage the Cowardly Dog (おくびょうなカーレッジくん) is John R. Dilworth's Cartoon Network comedy-horror series (1999–2002, four seasons, 104 episodes) about a pink dog protecting Muriel and Eustace Bagge in Nowhere, Kansas; it grew from the Oscar-nominated short The Chicken from Outer Space and is known for mixed-media horror imagery.

Courage Under Fire

Courage Under Fire (戦火の勇気 in Japan) is Edward Zwick's 1996 Gulf War drama starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan, the first Hollywood film about the Gulf War, using a Rashomon-style investigation of a Medal of Honor candidacy.

Courageous (film)

Courageous is a 2011 American Christian drama film directed by Alex Kendrick about four law enforcement officers in Albany, Georgia, who pledge to be better fathers.

Courier (typeface)

Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler for IBM typewriters around 1955–1956; IBM never trademarked it, and 12-point Courier remains the standard screenplay font.

Courier Boy Kalyan

Courier Boy Kalyan is a 2015 Telugu romantic thriller directed by Premsai, starring Nithiin and Yami Gautam, produced by Gautham Vasudev Menon under Photon Kathaas; shot as a bilingual with the Tamil film Tamilselvanum Thaniyar Anjalum (2016).

Court (कोर्ट) (2014 film)

Court (कोर्ट) is Chaitanya Tamhane's 2014 Marathi-Hindi-Gujarati-English debut legal drama about a Dalit folk singer tried for abetting a sewage worker's suicide; it won Venice's Orizzonti Best Film and Lion of the Future, India's National Award for Best Feature Film, and was India's 2015 Oscar entry.

Court and Spark

Court and Spark is Joni Mitchell's sixth studio album, released January 17, 1974 on Asylum Records. Her best-selling record, it peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200, yielded the Top 10 single Help Me, and marked her embrace of jazz with the L.A. Express.

Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk

Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk is an early 12th-century Chinese handscroll, attributed to Emperor Huizong, showing twelve court women pounding, sewing, and ironing silk.

Court Ladies Waving Fans

Court Ladies Waving Fans (挥扇仕女图), also known as Waving-Fan Ladies, is a Tang silk handscroll attributed to Zhou Fang, depicting thirteen palace women in five scenes and held in Beijing.

Court Ladies Wearing Flowered Headdresses

Court Ladies Wearing Flowered Headdresses (Zanhua shinü tu, 簪花仕女图) is a Chinese silk handscroll attributed to Tang dynasty painter Zhou Fang, held in the Liaoning Provincial Museum.

Court of Gold

Court of Gold is a six-episode Netflix documentary series (released February 18, 2025) following Team USA, France, Serbia, and Canada men's basketball through the 2024 Paris Olympics, directed by Jake Rogal with producer Jason Hehir of The Last Dance.

Court of Master Sommeliers

Court of Master Sommeliers (CMS), sommelier examining body formed in 1977 after the 1969 London Master Sommelier exam; four sequential levels from Introductory to the invitation-only Master Sommelier Diploma held by 305 people, split into CMS Europe and CMS Americas.

Court of Owls

Court of Owls: DC Comics secret society of Gotham elites created by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, first appearing in Batman Vol. 2 #2 (December 2011); employs owl-masked members and centuries-old Talon assassins, distinct from the 1960s Council of Owls.

Court-lady painting

Court-lady painting (shinühua) is a Chinese figure-painting genre depicting women, especially court ladies, with a golden age under Tang painters Zhang Xuan and Zhou Fang.

Court: State vs a Nobody

Court: State vs a Nobody is a 2025 Telugu courtroom drama, Ram Jagadeesh's debut, produced by Nani's Wall Poster Cinema, in which lawyer Surya Teja (Priyadarshi) defends a 19-year-old falsely charged under the POCSO Act; it earned about ₹66.75 crore and streams on Netflix.

Courteney Cox

Courteney Cox (Courteney Bass Cox, born 1964, Birmingham, Alabama), American actress and producer: Monica Geller on Friends (1994–2004), Gale Weathers in all Scream films through Scream 7 (2026), Cougar Town, Just Before I Go, and Evil Genius at TIFF 2026.

Courthouse Square

Courthouse Square, once Mockingbird Square, is the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot set built for An Act of Murder (1948), famous as Hill Valley in Back to the Future and rebuilt after the 1990, 1997, and 2008 fires.

Courtly love

Courtly love (amour courtois) is the modern, 1883 Gaston Paris term for the twelfth-century troubadour tradition of fin'amors: idealized, often adulterous aristocratic love in medieval literature, debated as a scholarly myth.

Courtney Act

Courtney Act, stage name of Shane Gilberto Jenek (born 1982, Brisbane), Australian drag queen, singer, and TV personality. Australian Idol 2003 semifinalist, Drag Race season 6 finalist, first Australian winner of Celebrity Big Brother UK (2018).

Courtney B. Vance

Courtney B. Vance (born 1960, Detroit) is an American stage, film, and television actor, a Harvard and Yale School of Drama graduate, Tony winner for Lucky Guy, two-time Emmy winner for The People v. O.J. Simpson and Lovecraft Country, and Angela Bassett's husband.

Courtney Barnett

Courtney Barnett (born 1987, Sydney) is an Australian indie rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, formerly of Milk! Records, known for Avant Gardener, her 2015 Grammy-nominated debut album, and the 2026 album Creature of Habit.

Courtney Cox (musician)

Courtney Cox, known as Adriana Smith and CC Shred, is an American heavy metal guitarist from Philadelphia who played in The Iron Maidens and leads for Burning Witches.

Courtney Eaton

Courtney Eaton (born 1996, Bunbury, Australia) is an Australian actor known as Cheedo the Fragile in Mad Max: Fury Road, Zaya in Gods of Egypt, and Teen Lottie on Showtime's Yellowjackets seasons 1–4.

Courtney Ford

Courtney Braden Ford, American actress born 1978, known for Christine Hill on Dexter, Portia Bellefleur on True Blood, Kelly Kline on Supernatural, Nora Darhk on DC's Legends of Tomorrow, and voicing Piper Wright in Fallout 4; married to Brandon Routh.

Courtney Gains

Courtney Gains (born 1965, Los Angeles) is an American character actor known as Malachai in Children of the Corn (1984) and for roles in Back to the Future, Can't Buy Me Love, and The 'Burbs; also a musician with The Courtney Gains Group.

Courtney Green

Courtney Green (born 1995, Essex, England) is an English reality TV personality who joined The Only Way Is Essex in series 17 in 2016 with Chloe Meadows, credited on over 240 episodes through 2026.

Courtney Hadwin

Courtney Hadwin, British singer-songwriter from County Durham, England, who reached the America's Got Talent season 13 final at age 13 (2018) with a Howie Mandel golden buzzer, then released the debut album Little Miss Jagged in 2025.

Courtney Hansen

Courtney Hansen (born 1974, Minneapolis) is an American automotive TV host, executive producer, and author, known for Overhaulin', Powerblock/PowerNation, and creating Ride of Your Life with Courtney Hansen on MotorTrend TV.

Courtney Henggeler

Courtney Healy Henggeler (born 1978, Phillipsburg, New Jersey) is a former American actress, known as Amanda LaRusso in all six seasons of Cobra Kai and as Missy Cooper in The Big Bang Theory, who retired from acting in April 2025.