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EITHER WAY, A SOUND INVESTMENT

I?' seems inconceivable that while museums celebrat­ for us: Hollywood, California. We've got our eye on a ing or exploiting flim have been built all over the world, choice spot, and we're going to see ifwe can acquire an from London to Berlin, Melbourne to Turin, there is no entire block for the project. In that block we begin to major one in Hollywood. Two years ago the Board of see something like a movie studio, with open space, Governors resolved that if a movie museum were to be backlot streets, sound stages, theaters and room for visi­ built where movies were born there was no organization tors to rest and take refreshment. more fitted to do the job than the Academy. We We're still at the beginning of the process. The plan­ appointed committees to seek a proper site; to work out ning of what the museum experience will be has been a business model based on demographics of tourism, going on for months, and some of you may already have projections of growth, and the cashflow of existing met with our members and consultants who are doing museums; to research other innovative museums for good the planning, and looking to all of our branches for ideas. ideas to emulate and bad ones to avoid; and to The cost of building something of a stature to match conceive a design built around the role movies play in that of the Academy is beyond even our current the life of the nation and, indeed, the world. resources; it will require an ambitious ftmd-raising pro­ Movies are our cultural diary and our confessional, gram. It will need support from all of us, from the indus­ both a warning and an example: a powerful influence. try, from local and perhaps otller governmental entities, They have the power to change our lives, to change his­ and in the end from the public who will come to visit it. tory. This is the reason for building a museum that is We will build thoughtfully, inventively, responsibly, and if not merely an entertainment, a tourist attraction or an we are successful, they will come. All Is Preparation - a assertion of the Academy's ego. mantra I have learned in making movies. As an organizing principle we (after endless It is still possible that a world-class museum will rewrites) settled on a mission statement: remain a dream beyond our reach. The economic chal­ "The Museum of the Academy of Motion Picture lenge for us will be at least as formidable as the artistic Arts and Sciences celebrates and explores how film has and historical ones, but my own inclination is to plan to reflected and shaped world culture, and helps us all to do the thing magnificently, and back away if we decide better understand what the movies have meant - and that we really can't make the numbers work. The continue to mean - in our lives." Academy can't erect an "ok" movie museum. The very After intensive study of possible sites - from a site best or not at all. across the street from Disney Hall, to Griffith Park, to a And if "not at all" has to be the final verdict, we site near the County Museum, to Exposition Park and should still own eight acres or so in the middle of a once­ more - we are currently targeting a location in what again-booming Hollywood. We'll call it a sound investment. many of us felt all along was the natural neighborhood -FRANK PIERsON

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2 A C ADEMY Q U ARTERLY R E PORT' VOL U M E 1 7 liThe BiCJ Parad,lI LECTURE HONORS ARTISTRY OF March,s to ANIMATOR FREDERIC BACK Academy

In honor of its eightieth anniversary, King Vidor's silent classjc "The Big Parade" was screened by the Academy in March, the West Coast premiere of a restored print. "The Big Parade," one of the first pictures produced after the forma­ tion of Metro-Goldwyn­ Mayer, was the company's largest-grossing film until "Gone with the Wind" 14 years later. The 1925 negative,

originally thought destroyed FREDERIC BACK, RIGHT, WITH ACADEMY SHORT FILMS AND FEATURE ANIMATION BRANCH in a 1960 MGM vault fire, GOVERNOR CARL BELL. was rediscovered at the George Eastman House in to slow the Rochester, New York, by destruction of visiting film scholar Kevin Lecture on the earth's frag­ Brownlow. Warner Bros. Animation ile ecology. He Entertainment's Richard took the form urged the audi­ May used the 80-year-old of a tribute to ence to "use negative and incorporated the artistry of the individual modern technical capabili­ Academy power we have ties to recreate the original FROM LEFT, PROGRAM MODERATOR CHARLES SOLOMON, PETE Award-win- to be partici­ color tinting used. DOCTER, PAUL FELIX, GLEN KEANE AND BOB KURTZ. ning animator- pants in the The print was screened director Frederic Back by a panel of protection (of the environment)." with its original score per­ several of today's most respected Both of Back's Oscar-winning shorts, formed by the 22-piece animators and historians, including Pete "The Man Who Planted Trees" and "Crac," Robert Israel Orchestra. Docter ("Monsters, Inc. "), production screened in their entirety. designer Paul Felix ("Lilo & Stitch" and The evening's moderator, animation FROM LEFT, ACADEMY VICE PRESIDENT AND HOST OF "The Emperor's New Groove") and critic Charles Solomon, noted that Back THE EVENING ARTHUR animators Glen Keane ("Tarzan" and and his family have planted over 20,000 HAMILTON, ROBERT ISRAEL AND RICHARD MAY. "Pocahontas") and Bob Kurtz (of Kurtz trees themselves. and Friends Animation Studio), aU of Back said he hoped he could "influ­ whom found themselves inspired by his ence in some way the production of artwork and his "evocation of the world new material because there are not around the characters." enough hopeful films made, and anima­ In his remarks, Back pleaded for tion is magic for proposing solutions, more meaningful films that could help beauty and hope for the future."

ACADEMY QUARTERLY REPORT· FIRST Q UARTER 2005 3 FIFTH PAIR NAMED ACADEMY FILM SCHOLARS

o new Academy Film She thanked the ars received their cer­ Academy "not just for tificates and the first half of this incredible honor, their $25,000 prize at a but for the respect for luncheon in January at the the history of ftlm that Beverly Hills Hotel. They are permeates so much of writer Cari Beauchamp and what you do." Yale professor Charles Musser echoed her Musser. thanks. "The Academy They are the fifth pair has been a cmcial institu­ of ftlm scholars to be tion for the support of selected by the Grants mm scholarship, and the Committee of the Academy introduction of the Foundation for the honor. Academy Film Scholar The newest Academy program is only the most Film Scholars were selected recent and high-prome on the basis of their propos­ substantiation of this." als for new scholarly works Musser is co-chair presented to the committee. of the Film Studies Beauchamp will write a program and professor biography of Joseph P. of American Studies and Kennedy focusing on his Film Studies at Yale Hollywood career, and University. His book

Musser will complete a CARl BEAUCHAMP AND CHARLES MUSSER will be titled "Film Tmth, study of the changing Documentary Practice: approaches to "tmth" in nonfiction mm. A History." 'Joe Kennedy's Hollywood" will be the fourth The remaining half of the prize money will be cinema history book by Beauchamp, a prolific writer presented upon completion of the manuscripts. of essays and articles about Hollywood's past, and the The Academy Film Scholars program was created first Academy Film Scholar not teaching full-time at a in 1999. Beauchamp and Musser join eight other university. "My friend Doris Kearns Goodwin has Academy Film Scholars who currently are at work on decided that I've probably gotten more satisfaction their projects: Tino Balio, Donald Crafton, Thomas from spending time alone with Joe Kennedy than any Doherty, Jane Gaines, Dana Polan, David Rodowick, other woman ever did," Beauchamp said. Steven J. Ross and Shelley Stamp.

Ten short and feature-length documentaries, including the Oscar-winning "Chernobyl Heart" and four other nominees, were included in Part Two of the 2004- Part Two 2005 Contemporary Documentary Series, presented by the Academy Foundation Acad,my/U(LA and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. In addition to "Chernobyl Heart," they were nominees "Asylum," "Capturing Doc S,ri,s the Friedmans," "My Architect: A Son's Journey" and "Ferry Tales," as well as "Bus 174," "Terminal Bar," "I Used to Be a Filmmaker," "Inheritance: A Fisherman's Story" and "Lost Boys of Sudan." The films ran January through March.

4 ACADEMY QUARTERLY REPORT · VOLUME 17 "Th e Ap artment" was the first ftIm to be fea­ tured during 1 the new year in 4' I. I the Academy's I MARNI NIXON New York series, "Monday Nights with Oscar." The Oscar­ SUZANNE HANOVER-FOWLER, PRESIDENT OF ROLF KONOW FLEW IN FROM DENMARK. winning short THE SMPSP. ftIm "Munro" preceded "The JULES FEIFFER Apartment." Its writer, Jules Feiffer, told moderator Michael Sporn that it "won the Academy Award because SCHAWN BELSTON it simply had no point to make at that particular time. It's rather a benign movie and it needs a

DOUGLAS KIRKLAND MERlE WE ISM ILLER WALLACE war to be meaningful and significant. Fortunately, we've had many wars since, so it's retained its significance." TAKE 2 "The King and I" followed in March. The print of the ~;:: try of motion picture still Claudette Barius, Ron Batzdorff, Phil 1956 Academy Award-winning Bray, Andrew Cooper, Frant;ois ftIm was one newly restored by 20th Century Fox. Academy's exhibition "Take 2: Recent Duhamel, Anthony Friedkin, Nicola Academy member Marni Images from the Society of Motion Goode, Melinda Sue Gordon, Brian Nixon, who provided the vocals Picture Still Photographers." Hamill, Suzanne Hanover-Fowler, Kerry for Deborah Kerr in "The King The show featured 60-plus images Hayes, Douglas Kirkland, Rolf Konow, and I" and who is Hollywood's taken by 25 of the Society's members. Gemma LaMana, Bob Marshak, Frank most renowned "ghost" vocalist, "Take 2" allowed these artists, gen­ Masi, Merrick Morton, Melissa Moseley, spoke about the ftIm along with Schawn Belston, Fox's archivist erally hired by mm studios to provide Andrew D. Schwartz, Peter Sorel, in Los Angeles. New York stills for publicity purposes, to show­ David Strick, Suzanne Tenner, Stephen Newsday arts editor John Habich case another side of their work. Vaughan, Merie Weismiller Wallace and moderated the discussion. Behind-the-scenes shots and candid Bob Willoughby. images, which don't normally fmd their It's the second time the Academy way into a press kit, made up the bulk has presented the work of Society pho­ THE ACADEMY THEATER AT LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL IS LOCATED AT 111 EAST of the installation. Most of the images tographers. The popular "Between 59TH STREET BETWEEN PARK AND LEXINGTON AVENUES. IF YOU 'LL BE IN were taken during the last five years. Takes" installation was featured in the NEW YORK, CHECK THE ACADEMY'S Exhibiting photographers were: Academy Galleries in the Spring of 2000. WEBSITE AT WWW.OSCARS.ORG TO SEE WHAT'S PLAYING THERE.

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MEMORABILIA Now HOUSED AT HERRICK LIBRARY

An extensive exploration into the life and career of the artist billed by his studio as "The Man You Love to Hate," an exhibition entitled "Erich von Stroheim: A Life Discovered" opened at the Academy in January.

A PERSONAL COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF VON STROHEIM IN HIS GARDEN IN FRANCE. )N STROHEIM SH

The exhibition was made possible by the recent placement of von Stroheim's long-thought-Iost personal photographs and documents in the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library. A special preview and screening of von Stroheim's "Blind Husbands," with live musical accompaniment by the Robert Israel Orchestra, opened the show. Released in 1919, "Blind Husbands" was the first million-dollar earner for Universal Picnlfes and solidified von Stroheim's place as one of the most important directors of the silent era. The exhibition represented the first time many of von Stroheim's papers VON STROHEIM ON THE SET OF "SUNSET BLVD .... AFFECTING AN EXPRESSION BEFITTING HIS NICKNAME. FOR (FROM LEFT) ANNA Q. NILSSON. GLORIA SWANSON. were made available to scholars and BUSTER KEATON. WILLIAM HOLDEN. BILLY WILDER AND H.B. WARNER. the public. They had been stored in a bam in France, at the home where von Stroheim passed the final years of his life, and only recently were brought to the attention of ftlm historians by archivist Rick Schmidlin, VON STROH ElM AND FRANC ELlA BILLINGTON who helped produce the exhibition for IN "BLIND HUSBANDS." the Academy. Included are family photographs, early handwritten documents and correspon­ dence which demonstrate the fantasies, fictions and obsessions which would later play out in von Stroheim's ftlms. In addition to the biographical materials, portions of the exhibition were devoted to von Stroheim's mms from the teens and '20s, including "Blind Husbands," "Foolish Wives," "The Merry Widow," "Merry-Go­ Round," "The Wedding March" and "Greed," often considered the greatest film of the silent era. Additional items documented von Stroheim's later acting career, often in Emope, in ftlms such as "The Lost Squadron," "Sunset Blvd." and Jean Renoir's "Grand Illusion."

ACA D EMY QUA RT ERLY R EP O RT · FIRST QUA RTE R 2005 7 FROM LEFT, CHAIR OF THE NEW YORK OSCAR NIGHT COMMITTEE MARCY GRANATA WITH TOM MANGAN AND HIS WIFE, KIT GOLDEN, BEST PICTURE NOMINEE IN 2000 FOR "CHOCOLAT."

GABRIEL'S TOOTS OSCAR'S HORN (17tC ~Trhe Academy's offiClal setting that would be familiar New York Oscar Night cele- to New York's entertainment bration was held at Gabriel's elite. The warm, friendly restaurant in Manhattan this atmosphere made it the per­ year. East Coast-based fect venue for our party." Academy members were "I grew up watching the invited to the annual Oscar Oscars, so being able to host Night party, which is organized an official Academy event was by the Academy's New York a great treat for me," Gabriel's

Events Committee. MADELINE LANCIANI, OWNER OF DUANE PARK owner Gabriel Aiello enthused. "For the past 15 years we PATISSERIE, HAND-DECORATED EACH DESSERT PLATE "The staff had been buzzing AND HAND-CARVED THE OSCAR ON EACH CAKE. have tried to create a special about the party ever since I Oscar Night party for our New York members - told them. Dolby Labs literally wired the entire many of whom are past winners and nominees," said restaurant for high-deflnition television viewing and Arthur Manson, chair of the Committee. "This year, surround sound, so that made the night even more we wanted to hold the party in a fun and vibrant special for everyone."

GUESTS TOAST THE EVENING'S WINNERS.

JOAN COLLINS AND RITA GAM WERE AMONG CELEBRANTS. HIGH SCHOOL TEACHING ON SOUND AND

~demY's sixth high school teaching kit. The Power to Enhance the Story," is geared toward \.;fllch focused on the arts of sound and music, was students in secondary school English , language arts, mailed in January to 18,000 high schools throughout the visual arts, music and communications courses. It United States. contains six activities called "The Origins of Sound Film," "Each year we receive a great response to this "Dialogue," "Sound Effects," "Musical Score," "Songs" and program from schools across the country," said "Sound Mixing," each of which underscores lessons in Academy Associate Executive Administrator Mikel critical thinking and explores the components of a film. Gordon. "It is one of the educational programs we are Additional information about this program and most proud of at the Academy." contents of all six teaching kits can be found on the The instructional guide, entitled "Sound and Music: Academy's website at oscars.org/teachersguide.

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ACADEMY QUARTERLY REPORT · FIRST QUARTER 2005 9 HONORARY AWARD RECEPTION: SIDNEY LUMET

SIDNEY LUMET WITH, FROM LEFT, ELLEN BARKIN AND AMANDA PLUMMER, PETER DINKLAGE AND LINUS ROACHE. , ..Po J the second year, the Academy hosted a Walter Bernstein, Lee Dichter, Joan Didion, reeeption during Oscar Week in honor of the recip­ Phyllis Newman, Milo O'Shea, Arthur Penn ient of the Honorary Award, this year Sidney Lumet. and Tony Walton. Held in New York at the Plaza Athenee the Academy President Frank Pierson and Wednesday before the Oscar show, the party Executive Director Bruce Davis flew into Gotham drew a sizable crowd of Lumet's ftlmmaking from Hollywood to host the evening with New collaborators including Lynn Redgrave, Amanda York Events Committee Chair Arthur Manson and Plummer, Ellen Barkin, Ann Roth, Linus Roache, committee members Arlene Donovan, Jay Cocks, Peter Dinklage, Lauren Bacall, Candice Bergen, Joanna Ney and Joan Micklin Silver. ABC and Acadfmy (xtfnd Oscar Tflfcast Aqrffm.nt The ABC television network's contract to carry the "All of us at the Academy were particularly gratified annual Academy Award presentations has been extended by the participation of Walt Disney President and Chief for six more years, through 2014. "We are delighted to Operating Officer Bob Iger in these negotiations," Davis have reached this agreement with our historic broadcast said. 'The Academy is very protective of the Oscars, partner," Academy President Frank Pierson said. "By the and one of the main factors that has kept us at ABC is end of this new extension, ABC will have carried 38 con­ our confidence that Bob understands and respects the secutive Oscar telecasts, and 56 of the 61 ceremonies things that make us the gold standard of award shows. ever televised. Oscar lives at ABC ." He's been an important constant throughout all our deal­ The new agreement for the domestic broadcasts of ings with the network since 1989." the Academy Awards adds six years to the existing 'The Academy Awards stand as the preeminent contract, which was scheduled to expire in 2008. awards show in the world ," said Anne Sweeney, co­ International rights are governed by a separate agree­ chairman, media networks, The Walt Disney Company ment with Buena Vista International which runs through 2010. and preSident, Disney-ABC Television Group. "We 're Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis thrilled to continue our long , fruitful association with described the AMPAS/ABC negotiations as "char­ the Academy through 2014 and to continue bringing acteristically cordial." • • this exciting and glamorous event to our audience," •

10 A CADEMY QUARTERLY REPORT· VOLUME 17 ACADEMY PRESENTS 77TH SHORT FILMS TO PUBLI

"Short films are like poems," said Oscar­ nominated short film director (and actress) Oscar Show Is ., • JoBeth Williams. "Everything is about com­ Simulcast in Spanish pression. Every frame has to be meaningful." . • ~ "> Williams, who was nominated in 1994 for The 77th Academy Awards .. , , i her live-action short film "On Hope," moderated ... ,' , telecast was simultaneously .- ... .~~- the Samuel Goldwyn Theater discussions that translated and broadcast with a IN NEW YORK, BILL PLYMPTON followed the Oscar Week screening of the ("GUARD DOG") WITH MODERATOR Spanish-language SAP audio 10 short films that received Oscar nominations ROBERT OSBORNE. track. (SAP stands for in the Animated and Live Action Short Film Secondary Audio Program, a categories for the 77th Academy Awards. All but one of the 14 nominated feature on almost every stereo filmmakers were in attendance. television set purchased in the The shorts screened in front of capacity crowds the week before the last decade.) Awards at the Goldwyn in Los Angeles, the Academy Theater at Lighthouse Two female and two male International in Manhattan and in Washington, D.C., at the National Archives. translators from SMartSports, It was the first time that the five nominated films in each of these two Inc., covered the evening as categories was shown to the public by the Academy in Los Angeles prior to they have for the past three the Oscar telecast. In previous years a public screening of the short film years. "This allowed us maxi­ nominees took place in the months following the Awards. It was, though, mum flexibility in covering an the second year of a pre-telecast screening in New York. event that emphasizes improvi­ "Traditionally, short films aren't distributed as widely as feature-length sation and quick interpretation films , so we've wanted to give the public an opportunity to see these as well as multiple combinations nominees before the telecast," said Ric Robertson, the Academy's executive of presenters and honorees," administrator. "It worked well in New York last year, and Oscar Week in said Alvaro Martin, president of LA provides a great time frame for the Academy to present this program. SMartS ports. I think it will become a perennial component of Oscar Week." "The Oscar show is very challenging for our talent, as there are many humorous asides that sometimes only Hollywood insiders can fully appreciate," Martin added. "And some of the humor is idiosyncratic, and thus difficult to translate. But our crew annually delivers as com­ plete and faithful a version of this experience to Spanish-pre­ ferred households as possible. It allows those viewers to fully appreciate an event that con­ nects them with the American mainstream. "

DE ~--QU ARTERLY REPORT · FIRST Q UARTER 200 5 11 P HOTOS OF O SCAR WINNERS AND OF THE SHOW ITSELF WILL BE PRINTED IN THE A CADEMY'S ANNUAL REPORT LATER THIS YEAR.

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