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Nfpont ACADEMY PAYS TRIBUTE to STANLEY DONEN ,....." 5IpIIIIIMr 24- 7:30 .... s-.I....,. EPRESIDENT n..w: rtjnIIiere «1iIIIr, with a newIyiesIured pIiIt md sooodhock. ....FrIIIIy __, 5IpItIIIIer ....,. 27 - 'IIIIItIr:7:30 D id you feel it? Amdemy S1undanIs Saeaning: BIIIIIIoes .1IRooMsncls. The Academy always $epIIIIIMr 27 .... ........ -..r..y undergoes its greatest GIIIries: ·Memories of !he Savoy: The Gnemo annual tectonic shift in I'ainIi1gs «PuIridt Morrison· md ·On ~ far Ile: Rex IIcIdy's ItaIywaad the part of the year we've ~: ,..." 0ctWtr 1 -7:30 .... 1WIIb 1IIem, just come through. IJCLA: k.lI'srrtl UOA IloaInenhry Series: 011 StIvMJR REMfMBEIS md AlII full REMIMI8m. In June the member­ W....", 0ctWtr 2 - 23-7 ...... ....., ship roster experiences UtIle n...t.: Movie marketing S8Il1inor far fOIl mnserufive Wednesdays. the larger of its two FriIIIy, 0ctMer 11-..... s-.lGIWwp .... - ........ ·6Oth Amiversory of the Gnemotheque annual jumps. This most FIIIIIClIise· - a prognIIlI of recent round saw us invite 145 movie makers to join the resIlJf8d fins keynoted by GnemaIheque Iliedor organization, and, if experience is any guide, nearly all IIoniique Pun. ,..." 0cIIMr 15- 7:30 .... 1W11b ......., IJCLA: 11._1 UOA (Though it isn't one of our particular aims, we're still IIoaInentIIy Series: 1M 10 Tw: Til fIsT GAy .1.!sawI1'IoM II experi encing modest organizational growth. In the 1995 AlmA md THE CBJ.taoo Cmsrr. calendar year we took in 205 new members whi le losing FrIIIay, 0ctMer 1. - ..... s..I GaWwp 'IIIIItIr: Academy SIundcrds SaeeniJg: THE only 91. We're now at a total of over 6,000 for the first time CoIfoolIsT. Punellisrussion with IIeIIlIIdo BertoIucd. in ou r history.) ,..." 0dIIIer 29 -7:30 ..... 1WIiIz ...., UClA: Summer is also the time when the committees that Amdemy/llOA IloaInenhry Series: Til oversee our 24 regular Academy Award categories meet to fIIsr 100 YEAIS: ACmIumI OF AMaIKM bs md TIlIImu OWl decide whether they ought to fiddle with their rules a little Cn\lBI KMI. '1ISIIay, ...... 12-7:30 bit. Some years a category or two will decide to send a ..... 1WIIb ...., UClA: significant temblor through the community, but this year I'm k.ademy/IICIA IloaJmentary Series: MlB 10 Go !lid TmtESOM£ CIru: AMiIMEslEIN . relieved to report we had nothing more than some FriIIIy, ...... 15 - ..... s-.I GeWwp ......r. Amdemy Stondords Screening : 20th Amiversory of Rom clarifi cation of language. with cost and crew 1lIIIIion. And , of course, each August we assemble a new Board of Governors. A third of the previous Board is either reelected to three-year terms or replaced, and the new ACADfmv RfPDRT Published by the body - with a prudent mixture of experience and fresh Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 8949 Wilshire Boulevard blood - elects that year's set of Academy officers. Bevet1y HiUs, Califomia 90211 -1972 (310) 247-3000 Then the president starts thi nking about an Oscar show producer and a long, intim idating list of other things. ........ • ....... Rnt ......... • SIll ... And, that having been said, I'll ask you to excuse me ......... • ............ at this point. Even the gentlest tremors make me a little ......... • ,., ..... queasy sometimes. ,- • ......... SenIIry • ...., ..... - Arthur Hiller ON THE (OVER: Nora Ephron captivated a full Sa mu el Goldwyn Th eater when she delivered th e Morvin Borowsky Lecture on Screenwritin g in June. Photos on page 8. RCRDfmy RfP 1 HILLER STARTS 4TH TERM AS ACADEMY PRESIDENT KANIN RE-ElECTED irector Arthur Hiller has PRESIDENT OF begun his fourth term as preSident of the Academy, ACADEMY FOUNDATION Dhis final term under Academy .by-Iaws. The Board of Academy Writers Branch Governor Fay Governors voted him the post unan­ K.. in has been elected to a second term as imously in August. He was unop­ president of the Academy Foundation, the Academy's education­ posed and elected by acclamation to al and cultural arm. Directors Br ..ch Governor (and Academy the one-year term. All other officers were re-elected: President' Arthur HiRer and Executives Branch Governor Robert Public Relations Branch Governor Rehme were re-named vice presidents, Adors Br_ Governor Sid Ganis to a second term as first Presidenl Hiller with legendary Roddy McDowall was re-elected treasurer and Publk Relations vice-president; writer Fay Kanin to a hairstytisl Sydney Gul1aroH al the (asl and aew reunion of Branch Governor Sid Gonis was re-named secretary. fourth consecutive term as vice-pres­ SIYIN BRIDES FOR SlYIN BROTHIRS. New Foundation trustees elected by the Board of ident; and lyricist Arthur Hamilton, Governors of the Academy are Dede Allen, FUm Editors Branch; vice president; producer/executive Robert Rehme, treasurer and actor John Frankenheimer, Directors; and Lew R. Wasserman, Roddy McDowall, secretary, all for second terms. "I am so proud to be re-elected to preside over a group that never ceases Executives. to amaze me with its concern and devotion to nurturing and rewarding Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis remains excellence in the motion picture industry," Hiller told the board. "I look executive secretary of the Foundation. forward to another outstanding year of Academy activities." Trustees of the Foundation re-elected by the Academy's Kanin and Rehme are both past presidents of the Academy, and governors are: Ganis, HUler, Kanin, McDowall and Rehme; Karl Hamilton has served a total of 12 years in various officer slots during a Malden, Adors; Roger Mayer, Executives; Bruce Broughton and 20-year career as an Academy governor. Officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive Arthur HamUton, Music; Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Marvin Levy, terms in anyone office. Public Relations; Don HaI~ Sound and Hal Kanter, Writers. ACADEMY'S 1996-97 GOVERNORS ElEGED ncumbents and newcomers split the results of the Academy's Re-elected governors are Bruce Broughton, Music Branch; 1996-97 Board of Governors elections, with six seats going to Don Hall, Sound; Howard W. Koch, Producers; Marvin Levy, I individuals re-elected by their branches and seven spots Public Relations; Gregory Peck, Actors; Bill Taylor, Visual Effects going to newly-elected representatives. The new terms and Albert Wolsky, Art Directors. began August 1. Governors whose positions were not up for re-election and New Academy governors are Dede Allen, Film Editors who remain on the Board are: Actors Branch, Karl Malden and Branch; John Bailey, Cinematographers; June Foray, Short Films Roddy McDowall; Art Directors, Robert F. Boyle and Marvin and Feature Animation; John Frankenheimer, Directors; Daniel March; Cinematographers, Allen Daviau and Haskell Wexler; Petrie Jr., Writers; and Lew R. Wasserman, Executives. All will Directors, Arthur Hiller and Norman Jewison; Executives, Roger L. serve three-year terms. Mayer and Robert Rehme; Film Editors, Carol Littleton and Frank Additionally, Donald O. Mitchell was elected to fill the seat J. Urioste; Music, Charles Bernstein and Arthur Hamilton; left vacant when Sound Branch Governor John A. Bonner died in Producers, Kathleen Kennedy and Richard D. Zanuck; Public March, with one year left in his term. Relations, Sid Ganis and Cheryl Boone Isaacs; Short Films and Only Foray and Mitchell have previously held positions on Featur'e Animation, Carl Bell and William C. Littlejohn; Sound, the Academy's Board. Foray most recently served from 1986 to Curt R. Behlmer; Writers, Fay Kanin and Hal Kanter, and Visual 1995. Mitchell held a position on the board from 1977 to 1979 and Effects, Linwood G. Dunn and Richard Edlund. again from 1991 to 1994. 3 DEUTSCHES FILMORCHESTER ACCOMPANIES SILENT FILMS he Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, the world's largest and oldest orchestra devoted to the performance of silent Tfilm scores, traveled from Berlin to the Academy for three special performances in April. Seven rows of seats in the EMIL JANNINGS AND Samuel Goldwyn Theater were removed to accommodate a stage THE FIRST ACADEMY AWARD extension from which the orches­ The first Academy Award winners were tra performed. This was the first announced in February of 1929 and EmU time the Acade.fllY has hosted an Jannings was named Best Actor for his roles entire orchestra in the Goldwyn. in THE LAST COMMAND and THE WAY OF Au FLESH. The 72-piece symphony orches­ The dinner at which the winners would tra, under the direction of Berndt receive their statuettes was set for May 16, Heller, accompanied the screening but Jannings, who planned to return to of a restored print of 1928's THE Europe before that date, requested that he be given his Award early so that he could return LAST COMMAND. Directed by Joseph von hame with it. His request was granted. The Sternberg, the fi lm stars Emil statuette he received as the first Best Actor Jannings, William Powell and was therefare also the very first Academy Evelyn Brent. Award ever presented. Jannings won the first­ The statuette ever Best Actor Academy Jannings received A ward for his portrayal of a was loaned to the Russian general and war Academy from the refugee who has been reduced Stiftung Deutsche to working as a Hollywood extra. Kinemathek Berlin and was on cIspIay His Oscar was on display in the Guests at the Deuts(hes Filmor(hester Academy Grand Lobby all three event view Emil Jannings' 05(ar. for tkket-holders to the three Apn1 evenings. screenings. It was The orchestra also accompanied screenings of F. W. the first tine the Murnau's terrifying vampire tale, NOSFERATU. The reconstructed statuette had been in the Ulited States since score performed was identical to the one that was presented at Jcnings took it to Germany, and it returned to the film's world premiere in Berlin in 1922. NOSFERATU was BerIn inmecIately foIowing the performances introduced on separate evenings by Los Angeles Times' film critic of the Devtsches FImorchester IIabeIsberg at Kenneth Turan and by UC Berkeley film professor Anton Kaes.
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