Ac:acre"nv 01 Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Officers 1980-1981 President Fay Kamn First Vice President Marvin E. Mirisch Vice President Charles M. Powell Vice President Arthur Hamilton Treasurer Gene Allen Secretary Donald C. Rogers Executive Director James M. Roberts Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 8949 Wilshire Boulevard Beverly Hills, California 90211 (213) 278-8990 On cover A singing telegram by the dance troupe outlined the rules by which Academy Awards are given The Academy's headquarters in Beverly Hills was the site of its many screenings, salutes and tribute programs. Eighth Annual Student Film Award winners ,posed with special guests and Academy officials prior to the presentation ceremony. Oscar's domain continued to expand as the Academy increased its special programming in 1980-81 to include new seminars, lectures and an extraordinarily wide variety of film presentations. Background-a print of "Wings;' first picture to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, was presented to the Academy this year by Paramount Pictures. The cover theme is carried through this report, using photos from the Margaret Herrick Library's collection of four-million stills, to chronicle the growth of the film industry. Report from the President am pleased to present to you the traditionally send us foreign language film fourth annual report of the Academy entries. This year I was able to extend the of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy's greetings to filmmakers and and the Academy Foundation . The film-lovers abroad as the guest of France events of the past year documented and Greece and to represent the U.S., Ihere reflect the Academy's continuing as well as the Academy, in heading a efforts to fulfill one of the promises of its delegation accompanying the first five charter - to foster educational activities American films sent in a generation to the between the professional community People's Republic of China. and the public at large. The Academy warmly welcomed a young Over the past year we have substantially Belgian student whose delightful film increased our outreach program, earned him a visit to Hollywood as our sponsoring very successful seminars on guest to participate in the weekend of music scoring and editing, and on events that surround our annual Student production design, establishing the Film Awards. And as a happy result of our George Pal annual lecture on fantasy in international friendships, we hosted film and laying the groundwork for visitors from the People's Republic of additional lectures and seminars. China, Japan, France, Canada, Spain, Switzerland and five Scandinavian Our programs of tributes, salutes and countries. retrospectives grow and prosper, as do our archives. More and more people use All of these and many other of the and appreciate daily the resources of the Academy's activities are detailed in this Margaret Herrick Library and more report, along with our financial Academy members travel throughout our statements. country to make their expertise available I am happy to have had the opportunity to college students through the popular to serve as your president during these Vi siting Artists Prog ram . exciting times for the Academy and The Academy Players Directory serves I am confident that the image of Oscar, the entertainment industry as the most always bright, has been enhanced by successful casting directory in our activities at home and abroad. Hollywood, along with more than 140 other publications available through the Academy. And the Samuel Goldwyn Theater remains the finest film theater in Hollywood. We have continued to touch hands with Fay Kanin colleagues overseas, a venture I was President proud to inaugurate last year during my 1980-81 first term as president when Bob Vogel and I visited seven countries which Academy of Motion Pict!.lre t,rt:o and Sc icnc:::s U!m:ry. 8ev::;'iy l-iiHs, Caiif. II ._--' he Academy's forward The Academy continued to fund the movement into the second American Film Institute's Academy half of its first decade Internship Program and three chairs in continued apace as the writing at AFI 's Center for Advanced Film T Academy expanded its Studies. Scholarships also were granted services and the Academy Foundation to the Peter Stark Motion Picture increased its educational and Producing Program at the University of cultural programs. Southern California, to New York University to fund an Academy Graduate Patronage of the Samuel Goldwyn Fellowship and to the Society of Motion Theater, the Margaret Herrick Library and Picture and Television Engineers for the Academy Players Directory continued students majoring in tc~hnical areas of a steady upward climb. Membership film production. increased, the Student Film Awards program expanded and more Visiting Exhibits in the Academy's lobbies Artists traveled throughout the nation and included a showing of the work of leading into Canada and Mexico. Hollywood production designers and the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of Rules changes eliminated the preliminary glamour photographs from the golden screenings by certain branches to select age of Hollywood still photography. nominees for the Academy Awards and .that opened the Samuel Goldwyn Theater The Academy's film collection was gifted for an additional month of studio rentals with a new and complete print of "Wings:' and Foundation programs. winner of the first Academy Award for Best Picture, presented to Fay Kanin by Twenty-three special programs were held Michael Eisner, president of Paramount, during the year by the Foundation in a ceremony attended by the film's including the first two of what is hoped star, Buddy Rogers. will be many educational programs in the future: an all-day seminar on music The Eighth Annual Student Film Awards scoring and editing, featuring Dan Carlin were presented by director Stanley and William Goldstein, and an eight-week Kramer, producer Tony Bill , animator THee and actors Lee Remick, Stephen Ray Bradbury was the inaugural lecturer at the series of classes on production design, George Pal Lecture on Fantasy in Film . hosted and moderated by Gene Allen Macht and Carl Weathers. A highlight and William Creber. of the presentation was the screening of Daniel B. Ross , assistant to the executive a foreign student film out of competition , director of the Academy, manages the operation of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Ray Bradbury was the inaugural speaker "Maedeli-Ia-Breche:' by Jaco Van at the first George Pal Lecture on Fantasy busy virtually every night of the year with Dormael of Belgium. The screening of Academy, Foundation and studio screenings in Film , established in memory of the this film was an outgrowth of Academy and programs. famous science fiction director by friends President Fay Kanin's continuing outreach and associates. Film Historian Ronald to the international film community. Haver presented a marathon six-hour It was selected from a group of five lecture on the making of "Gone chosen at the CILECT Congress with the Wind :' in Edinburgh, Scotland, by a committee Two special Visiting Artist programs were of American film teachers headed established. The ASC /Academy Visiting by Robert W. Wagner of Ohio State Artist in Cinematography, funded by a University. grant from the American Society of Cinematographers, will send directors of photography, and the Jerry Fielding Visiting Artist in Film Music program, endowed by contributions from the late composer's friends and associates, will send Academy Music Branch members to the nation's campuses. Gifts of papers and other materials to Margaret Herrick Library continued to swell an already superb collection of cinema information. Among the many gifts received were a shooting script of "All Quiet on the Western Front;' received from one of the film's stars, William Bakewell; 30 valuable and rare posters from 1913-14 donated by Robert Scherl; and a gift of photographic material, sketches and wardrobe breakdowns documenting the work of the MGM wardrobe department over the past 50 II years, presented by Eugene H. Murray. Academy Statistical Summary Edinburgh was only one stop on Kanin's The 53rd Annual Academy Awards ongoing world tour which this year Presentation went on the air Tue sday, included Scotland, Great Britain, Greece, March 31 , 24 hours late to the second, West Germany, France, the People's but one of the smoothest and most Republic of China and the Soviet Union, flawless presentations in memory. Nine all as the guest of various governments minutes into the show the face and voice and organizations. The Academy's of the President of the United States, executive director, James M. Roberts, recorded several days earlier, was also traveled to Taipei as the guest of the broadcast to the world with the approval government of the Republic of China to and encouragement of the White House. present the Best Picture Award on the The President's short message, that films annual Golden Horse Awards are forever, was greeted by a standing ==---j----"'=:=='F.'-c:----I presentation, and then on to Hong Kong ovation from the audience in the Dorothy =-1r--+---j---j---7-'----;;:" for meetings with Run Run Shaw and Chandler Pavilion - a get-well message other Far Eastern filmmakers. from Hollywood broadcast to 300 million viewers throughout the world . The Academy also held a reception in the Grand Lobby, hosted by five Scandi­ Johnny Carson, m8.ster of ceremonies for navian film institutes, to open a two-week the third straight year, led a lineup of Scandinavian film fe stival in Los Angeles. presenters which included Alan Arkin , The reception was followed by a Richard Chamberlain, George Cukor, screening of Ingmar Bergman's "From Blythe Danner, Angie Dickinson, the Life of the Marionettes:' Lesley-Anne Down, Sally Field, Lillian Gish, Dustin Hoffman, Margot Kidder, The tragic attempted assassination of Nastassia Kinski , Steve Martin, Mary Tyler President Reagan brought Oscar telecast Moore, the Nicholas Brothers, Peter rehearsals to a halt on March 30 while O'Toole , Luciano Pavarotti , Bernadette cast and crew waited to learn the Peters, Richard Pryor, Robert Redford, condition of the country's newly-elected Jane Seymour, Brooke Shields, Sissy leader.