,....." 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. theAmdemy.
ACADEMY FOUNDATION AWARDS $100,000 TO 14 CINEMA PROGRAMS A total of $ 100,000 in grants for 1996·97 has been awarded to 14 fUm programs around the (ountry by the A(ademy Foundation.
II A(ademy grants reflect some of the A(ademy's basic goals," Grants Committee Chair Delbert Mann said, lito foster appreciation of film and nurture future generations of filmmakers." The grants include $40,000 to fund internships for students in film programs at seven s(hools. The (ommittee also voted to grant $25,000 to the Ameri(an Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women for another year. Internship programs were funded at California Institute of the Arts ($5,000), the Empowerment Project in association with Antio(h College and Southern Illinois University ($s,oOO), New York University ($5,000), UCLA ($5,000), the University of North Carolina ($ 10,000) and two programs at the University of Southern California ($5,000 each). Other grants include: National Writers Workshop, Los Angeles, $8,500; Next Generation Productions, Los Angeles, $6,000; the Austin (Texas) Heart of Film Festival, $5,500; and the Bla(k Film Center / Ar(hive at Indiana University; CineStory, a screenwriters (onservatory allied with Columbia College Chicago, and the UCLA Film and Television Ar(hive, each $5,000. Program Coordinator Greg Beal said the A(ademy Foundation has granted over $ 1.4 million since the program began in 1968. '111~ BROADWAY MELODY RCRDfmv RfPORT ' ~~ RARE ONE-SHEET ADDED TO COLLEGION .f he Academy has WINGS, the first Best Picture winner, to us. He's now been instru moved a step closer mental in our acquiring the posters for the first and second Tto completing its features to win the Best Picture Oscar, and so far as we know, both collection of one-sheet of these are the only original posters for their movies still in existence." posters from Best Picture Davis and Margaret Herrick Library Director Linda Mehr set winning films with the a goal in 1982 of acquiring a complete run of the Best acquisition in July of the Picture posters. only known poster "We were a little surprised that they hadn't been collected all from 1928's THE along," confessed Mehr, "but when Bruce and I started to focus on BROADWAY MELODY this, our archive held posters for only about 30 of what was then An original from a collector in a total of 55 Best Pictures. We now have all but three of the CAVALCADE poster is one Minneapolis. current total of 68." of only three "We had begun Mehr admits that at least two of the remaining gaps may be missing from the Academy's to fear that no copy very tough to fill. The poster for GRAND HOTEL (the winner for collection of of this one-sheet 1931/32, the Academy's fifth year) is another one that no one has Best Picture had survived," said reported seeing for many years. And the following year's
f Academy Executive CAVALCADE poster is extremely rare. Director Bruce Davis. The third missing piece to the Academy's puzzle is a bit of "We've been looking an embarrassment: 1966's A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS. hard for more than a "The second-state poster, with blurbs about the various prizes decade, and had never found anyone who claimed to have even that SEASONS won, is fairly common, "Mehr reports. "But we want seen one. Our only hope was that a new cache of posters would the original edition, which is surprisingly scarce." Mehr thought she turn up somewhere, and that's exactly w hat happened." had solved the problem when the Library was given the career The MELODY poster was discovered in Wisconsin by papers of Fred Zinnemann, the director of SEASONS. No such luck. Minneapolis poster collector/dealer Shane Cohen. Morris "Even Fred didn' t have one," Mehr said. Everett, another movie memorabilia specialist, heard of Cohen's The BROADWAY MELODY one-sheet will go on permanent find and called Davis. display in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater lobby "Morrie's been keeping an eye out for this since 1984," Davis later this year. said. "That was the year he donated his copy of the poster for
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5 NEW YORK EVENTS COMMITTEE
OW into its eighth year of operation, East Coast membership. In 1989, the the Academy's New York Events Committee organized the first of its annual NCommittee continues to evolve marathon screenings of all the nominated significantly from its original role as a means achievements in the three short film of screening films for the Academy's East categories, as well as Feature Documentaries Coast membership. and Foreign Language Films. The coordina While the New York area's Academy tion of this effort is all-important, since mem members have been extremely well bers must see every nominated film in a represented among the Nominations and given category before being allowed a ballot. Awards rosters over the years, it was not With the changes in voting procedures until 1988 that Academy President Robert this past year in the Documentary Feature Wise, with the prompting and support category, members in the New York area of marketing executive were able to become more Arthur Manson - founder involved than ever, compris of the New York Events ing one of the Academy's Committee and chair since With the changes in selection committees, with its inception - announced voting procedures this their votes shaping the initial the implementation of a past year in the selection and the eventual screening program in New Documentary Feature five nominees. York. The East Coast In 1994, the New York category, members in the programs have continued, membership for the first time and grown, under the New York area were able screened the entries and subsequent presidencies of to become more voted in the regional finals of Richard Kahn, Karl Malden, involved than ever. the 21st Student Academy Robert Rehme and current Awards. In April of this year, president Arthur Hiller. New York members, for the Originally held at the third time, selected the Huntington Hartford Museum's Goodson Region One finalists in the Student Academy Auditorium, the screenings were moved in Awards dramatic category. the fall of 1988 to the Museum of Modern Art. In its role as the East Coast center of the In the ensuing years, the Museum has Academy's presence in the public and media served not only as the primary location for eye, the New York Committee has mounted a the weekly screenings of new films, but as a number of events keyed to the Nominations co-presenter of many of the Academy's and Awards and their relationship to the retrospective events. New York filmmaking community. Importantly, the Academy's New York These range from its first screening in collaboration with the Museum has included 1988, which was followed by a reception such culturally important facets as the hosted by the Mayor's Office of Film, Theater screening of each year's Documentary and and Broadcasting and its director Patricia Short Film nominees for the Museum's Reed Scott, to a luncheon honoring New public, in addition to the private voting York-based nominees in 1993, a similar screenings for members. breakfast in 1994 and a reception for New With the voting process foremost among York's first lady, Donna Hanover, with the Academy's functions, the New York Academy President Hiller this year. Events Committee has devoted much effort In terms of broad national exposure, the to facilitating and encouraging voting by the New York Events Committee achieved its RCRO[mY R[PORl BRINGS ACADEMY TO THE BIG ApPLE By Steve Klain
widest visibility during the 1993 Oscar telecast itself, when The MoMA evenings have been collaborative works of Mary Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, celebrating the 25th Lea Bandy, director of MoMA's Department of Film & Video, anniversary of THE GRADUATE, Laurence Kardish, curator and coordinator presented the writing awards, of film exhibitions, Ellen Harrington, broadcast live via satellite hookup Academy Program Coordinator and her late from the Russian Tea Room, predecessor, Douglas Edwards. where the Academy's New York In 1994, the "Hollywood in World members have celebrated Oscar War II" program, first shown at the Night from 1990 to 1995. This Deauville Film Festival near the site of the year, with the closing of the RTR, allied landings that led to the end of the the event was held for the first war in Europe, was presented in conjunction time at the Tavern on the Green. with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, It is the New York the beginning of a continuing collaboration. Committee's increasing involve Teresa Wright and Garson Kanin ment in major special events such President Arthur Hiller at a re(eptian in his honor thrown by shared personal reminiscences along with as the "Films For the Fight: the New York Events Committee with Dianne Wiest, Teresa Wright the compilation of classic and newly and Danna Hanover, wife of New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Hollywood in World War II" discovered footage. program - that prompted the Most recently, in the ongoing collabo renaming of the original "Screening Committee" as the New York ration between the Academy and MoMA, a "Tribute to Buster Events Committeem 1994. Keaton" was highlighted by reminiscences from his widow, The first of these special events staged after the formation of Eleanor. In February, the Academy, MoMA and the Film Society the committee - "Forgotten Oscars: The Academy A ward for of Lincoln Center sponsored a "Tribute to Stanley Donen," in Dance Direction, 1935-37" - took place in 1990 with the restag which the director/choreographer of many of Hollywood's clas ing of a program that had been presented several months earlier sic musicals (including SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, which he co-directed in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn theater in Los Angeles. Clips with Gene Kelly) was lauded by longtime friends and colleagues, of Hollywood's classic his career illuminated with a generous selection of clips.
dance numbers illustrat Steve Klain is a member of the Public Relations BrOllch of the A cademy. ed the musical's golden age, with Oscar-winning choreographer Hermes Pan as special guest and the Hollywood Reporter's Robert Osborne as mod erator (a role he plays regularly in Academy events). Similarly presented by the Academy and the Museum of Modern Art were: "A Salute to Betty Comden and Adolph Green" (including live performances of their songs); "A Tribute to Joseph 1. Mankiewicz" (with the venerable writer-director as special guest); "A Tribute to Irene Sharaff" (featuring a comprehensive compilation of her costume design work in major Hollywood films) and "A Tribute to Celeste Holm."
7 The event sold out about a week in advance, Program Coordinator Mikel Kaufman said, but everyone who took a chance that some would drop out managed to get into the lecture. Ephron has been nominated for Oscars for
Vice President Sid Ganis with Ephron. three screenplays: SrLKWOOD (1983, co-written with Alice Arlen), WHEN HARRy MET SALLY ... hey stood in line to get into the (1989) and SLEEPLESS LN SEATTLE (1993, co-written Samuel Goldwyn Theater in with David S. Ward and Jeff Arch). Clips from TJune to hear three-time Academy these and other Ephron-written films were Award nominee Nora Ephron shown during the program. share her experiences and insights when The Marvin Borowsky Lecture on she delivered the Marvin Borowsky Screenwriting was established in memory of the Lecture on Screenwriting. screenwriter, novelist and teacher.
The film German Consul Architecture exhi General Hans bition afforded Alard von Rohr unique views of and Mrs. von Rohr film design, dose with Radney Punt, up (left) and right, of the City panoramic of Los Angeles (bottom). Cultural Affairs Department.
ketches, paintings, models, photographs and film clips - all illustrating the relationship between film and architecture - were on display in the Academy Gallery from April through June. S Concentrating on the depiction of urban visions in film, "Film Architecture: Set Designs from METROPOLIS to BLADE RUNNER" introduced examples of the dialogue between film and architecture dur- ing the past 75 years. Some 140 objects from archives and private collections in Europe and the United States were included. Films as diverse in style and time period as THE CABINET OF DR . CALI GAR I (1919), SUNRI SE (1927), BLADE RU NN ER (1982) and DICK TRACY (1990) were represented in the exhibition. The exhibition was organized by the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University. Sponsor support included by the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles and the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. ------RC R 0 (m R(PORT KAUFMAN NAMED ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATOR
ikel Kaufman, program coordina Foundation Accountant tor at the Academy since 1989, has Valerie Mackey has joined the Academy staff as Academy M been promoted to the newly Foundation Accountant, stepping into shoes filled for 14 years created post of Associate Executive by now-retired Emma Holohan. Mackey came to the Academy Administrator. She will work with Academy from Pittsburgh, where she did accounting for a law firm. Executive Administrator Ric Robertson in Harper is Foundation Info Coordinator Kaufman handling the day-to-day responsibilities of his Grafton Harper, information systems developer for the office, which includes the oversight of the Academy's educational Margaret Herrick Library since 1993, has been promoted to the and retrospective programs, the Center for Motion Picture Study, newly-created position of Coordinator of Information Services communications, legal affairs and publications. for the Academy Foundation. As program coordinator, Kaufman had been responsible for He will be responsible for coordinating the computerization Academy lectures and seminars, the Visiting Artists Program and of both the Library and the Academy Film Archive as well as various Academy Awards-related projects. She was active in the providing computer information systems support to other design and construction of the Academy's year-round World Wide aspects of the Foundation's programming. Web site and the new Academy Awards Internet site, and was part Harper has created the Library's first local area network of the team that created a film program for high school students in and, in collaboration with chief cataloger Don Lee, placed the association with the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Unified Library's card catalog on the network. Working with Editor School District and Humanitas. Gregory Walsh, Harper assisted with the publication of A Los Angeles native, Kaufman joined the Academy staff after The Union List of Motion Picture Scripts, a computer-published graduating from the University of California, San Diego. reference aide for locating film scripts at seven California Fowler to Program Coordinator libraries. The list has since sold out. Moving into Kaufman's program coordinator post will be Microfilm Supervisor Named Tracy Fowler, who worked for the Academy as a logistics coordi Russ Good, a microfilm technician in the Margaret Herrick nator for each of the last two Academy Awards presentations as Library since 1989, has been named Supervisor of Microfilm well as for last year's International Documentary Congress. Prior to Services by Library Director Linda Mehr. that, Fowler was a public relations manager for four years with the Century Plaza Hotel and Tower.
68TH OSCAR TELECAST RECEIVES SEVEN EMMY NOMINATIONS
Producers Quincy Jones and David Salzman, director Jeff Margolis and host Whoopi Goldberg were among those from the 68th Annual Academy Awards telecast who received Emmy nominations in seven categories. The show was nominated by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as Outstanding Variety, Musical or Comedy Special, with Jones as executive producer and Salzman as producer. Margolis was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Directing in a Variety or Music Program and Goldberg for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. Ray Klausen, production designer, and art directors Keaton S. Walker and Rebecca Holler Barkley were nominated for Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program. Greg Brunton, lighting designer, was nominated for Ughting Direction for a Drama Series, Variety Series, Miniseries or Special; production mixers Paul Sandweiss and Tommy Vicari and re-recording mixer Robert Douglas for Sound Mixing for a Variety or Music Series or a Special and technical director Jim Ralston and lis uew of 19 were nominated in the Technical DiredionjCamerajVideo for a Miniseries or a Special category. Emmy statuettes will be presented on September 8. reunion of cast and crew members of SEVEN Cinematography - Color, Film Editing and Writing - BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, the 1954 musical Screenplay. The film's dances and musical numbers about the Ponti pee Brothers and their brides, were staged by Michael Kidd. Participating in a discussion following Directed by Stanley the screening were, in photo, left to right, hairstylist Donen, SEVEN BR IDES FOR SEVEN Sydney Guilaroff, film editor Ralph Winters, Tommy BROTHERS won the Oscar for Rail ("Frank") , Chaplin, Ruta Lee ("Ruth "), Kidd, Julie Music - Scoring of a Musical Newmar ("Dorcas"), Russ Tamblyn ("Gideon") and Pi cture (Adolph Deutsch and Turner Entertainment President (and Academy Saul Chaplin). Nominations Governor) Roger Mayer. Turner provided the newly were for Best Picture. restored print.
T America's Greatness Was .-.-=__ wo exhi On display in the Grand Lobby Gallery was n ·is t;sts ... bitions "Sports Go to the Movies," an exhibition of 40 vintage he creen'S -one of and contemporary movie posters, depicting sports ;9 animationT art and the featured in the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. tory other of sports Among posters in the exhibit were those from Best themed film posters Picture Oscar winners CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981) and - showed at the ROCKY (1976) and Best Picture nominee BREAKING Academy's fourth AWAY (1979). floor and Grand The posters displayed were from many of the Lobby galleries in collections donated to the Academy by its members / July and August. and friends. They are housed at the Charles M. Powell "A rtistry in Repository of Motion Picture Marketing Materials at the Animation: The Drawings of Frederic Back" featured Margaret Herrick Library. several hundred drawings by the animator and illus trator in the Academy Gallery. Video monitors Frederic Back, seated, found himself surrounded by friends showed clips from Back's nine films, including Oscar and well-wishers at the reception opening the Academy exhibition of his paintings and drawings. winners CRAC! (1981) and THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES (1987) as well as the Academy Award-nominated ALL NOTHING (1980) and THE MtGHTY RIVER (1993). This exhibition was organized and lent to the Academy by the Societe Radio Canada/Canadian Broadcasting Company and was presented in association with the Canadian Consulate General with the support of Air Canada and Air Canada Cargo. , ~-~~~------~- ncno nfPonT ACADEMY PAYS TRIBUTE To STANLEY DONEN
tanley Donen, who choreographed and directed some of the most memorable musical films ever made, was honored by the Academy in August at a West Coast S version of a popular tribute presented earlier in the year in New York. Featuring numerous films clips - including the pioneering sequence of Gene Kelly dancing with Jerry, the cartoon mouse, in ANCHORS AWE IGH - the event was hosted by author/columnist/Turner Classic Movies' host and official Academy biographer Robert Osborne. It was the same program originally presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which was to have been a one-time-only event. "But it was too much fun, " said Program Coordinator Ellen Harrington. "We just had to bring it to Los Angeles for our members here to enjoy, too." Donen was present at the tribute to share his memories of working with performers such as Kelly, Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Cyd Chari sse and Frank Sinatra. Also participating were Stephen Silverman, author of "Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and his Movies, " and Peter Stone, who wrote the screenplay fo r CHARADE.
RECORD NICHOll ENTRIES FROM 50 STATES, 27 COUNTRIES Looking for the kind of encouragement that only a $25,000 fellowship can give, new screenwriters submitted 4,168 scripts to the 11th Annual Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition this year. Writers from all 50 states and 27 countries participated, including first-time entries (in English) from Finland, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. In photo, Academy President Arthur Hmer and Nicholl Fellowships Coordinator Greg Beallook through some of the entries. The previous record was set in 1994 when 3,934 entries were received. Up to five grants of $25,000 each will be awarded to 1996 Fellows in November with the understanding that the recipients each complete a new feature screenplay during the fellowship year. Past Nicholl Fellows include writers Susannah Grant (POCAHONTAS), Mikhana Max Adams (EXCESS BAGGAGE), Randall McCormick (SPEED 2) and Andrew Marlowe (AIR FORCE ONE).
11 old Medal Student Academy Award winners at the 23rd Annual Student Academy Awards GPresentation in June were Patricia Cardoso, THE WATER CARR IER, UCLA, Dramatic Category; Jason Ruscio, ECLI PSE, New York University, Alternative; Zachary Dramati( Category Gold Medal Winner Patrida Cardoso and Presenter Lehman, PATRONIZED , Dartmouth College, Animatian Gold Winner Zachary Kevin Spacey. Animation; and Jeff Patterson, INDEPENDENT Lehman with Presenter John Lasseter LITTLE Cuss, Loyola Marymount University, at the pre-Awards reception. Documentary. This year the students knew they were winners when they arrived in Los Angeles, but did not know the actual award level - gold, silver or bronze - until the presenta tion ceremony. In total, eleven film students from nine different colleges and universities received their Student Academy Awards from Oscar winners Kevin Spacey and John Lasseter. A(ademy First Vi
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