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MREADY WHEN You ARE, C.B.1· ··'~· - • R MREADY WHEN You ARE, C.B.1· ··'~· - ...... -, ....... - Lights, Camera, DeMille .. Action I'" / Story on Page 3 .. ©AMPAS® ACAOfffiV RfPORl FROM TH PRESIDENT T.. sday, .-...y 24 - 7:30 po&, MeWtz Theater, UCLA: AWJfMY/UClA iJooJMBtrAlY SElIES - THE BIIWlCAST Tw Of DI. PmI and SllYERlAKE LIFE: THE VIEW FlOM HERE. We're now well along in tha t season of the year when half the world- the press, dis- appointed suitors, lots of others- seems to want to explain to us how the Academy Thursday, February 2 - 8 p.m., Samuel GoIdwyw Theater: TIIBUlE TO 2S YEAlS Of Osw-WlNNING & -NOMIIlATEO Awards could be better conducted. Bruce Dav is and I have been discussing this phe- MIllATION. nomenon, and we've noticed that many of these complaints share a common under- Friday, February 3 - 10 a.m., Grand lobby GaRery: Dpening of the Exhibnion: The Best of Soviet Animation Art (cour­ lying assumption: that the Awards rules congealed somewhere around the early tesy of tire Mike and Jeanne Glad Family Trust). 19305, and that no one here has looked at them since. In the meantime, time and T.. sday, February 7 - 7:30 p• ..., Melnitz Theater, motion picture have marched on. UCLA: A(ADfMy/UCIA iJooJMBtrAlY SERIES - FAST EaOlE AII0 THE Bo~ and LuRY: My lifE IN MUSIl line of thin king goes, are hopelessly ou tmoded, and therefore with new conditions that have emerged in the 1990s. l<ll1ma .... , and we see just two things wrong with it. One is that the -..­_,.,....01 are reexamined regu larly and carefully. Every year, the rules .......... ......, _541 .... Awards category are taken apart, cleaned, lubed and reassem­ ,.....!.p. in the area. If changes are needed, they're recommended to the almost invariably in the next year's "Rules" pamphlet. TIIsday, F""-'Y 14 -7:30 p.m., Melaitz Tlleater, in this "sleeping Academy" theory is that whatever "new con­ UCLA: A(ADfMY/UClA iJooJMBtrAlY SERIES - lET's FAlliN lovE: A our industry have pretty much been brought about by Academy SINGlES' WEEIEIIO AT THE (ONCOID Hom and foR BETTER OR fOR WORSE. pundits who keep warning us that we're hopelessly out of touch wn,nri,6rc:: being wrought in the "real world" of film production seem a lit­ T.. sday, February 21 - 7:30 p.II., Melnitz Theater, who we are. UCLA: A(ADfMy/UCIA IJocuMENTAlY SERIES - DEfENDING OUR livES isturbed in the last couple of weeks though, at finding that even and WHY AM I GAY?: STOIIES OF COMING OUT IN AMERICA Ar'l'IrilArTlv members are wi lli ng to beli eve that nobody's thinking things we're enforcing pointless or outdated rules. vital that we as members have a clear sense of why we do what T.. sday, kdl7 -7:30 p... , Melaitz Theater, UCLA: ht I'd spend a little time in this newsletter to look at a couple of AWJfMy/UCIA iJooJMBtrAlY SERIES - BAWl. ur recent nu isance lawsuit. Yes, the courts completely vindicat­ Saturday, kd! 25 - 10 a.m., 5amIII GaIdwyn , but I was surprised by how many people evidently bought into Theater: Foreign Language F"dm Award Diredors' Symposium. on that the rule that kept them out of our competition was a rel ic time. Moaday, May 8 - 8 p.... s-ueI GoIdwyIl Theater: rul e is thi s: "Films which receive their fi rst public exhibition on Reprise of the Academy's October, 1994, tribute staged in television are not eli gible for Academy Awards in any cate­ Deauville, France, Films for the Fight: Hollywood in World War II. that's clear, fai r and absolutely central to the purposes and even this Academy. incidentally, spri ng from a contemptuous view of television. has the same rule (or its mirror image), for the same ""''''''''''''''0<' have massive jobs of viewing to do at awards time, and ACAOfffiV RfPORT those jobs better if the domai ns of Oscar and Emmy are mutu­ . pictures may compete fo r one or the other, but not both. Published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ....... "',,,,lInies define pictures as theatrical or television movies based on 8949 Wilshire Boulevard r first public appearances. It's a nicely objective criterion that Beverly Hills, California 90211 -1972 us to ascertain anyone's intentions, hopes or plans. If a TV movie (310) 247-3000 in a theater, that fact is just as irrelevant as the fact that most President will eventu ally play on television . · Arthur Hiller pie say that the picture whose distributor sued us is a terrific first YKe President • Alan Bergman and we should have found a way to make an exception for it. YKe Presicletlt • FayK"" lJnl"' nt""'ious snobbery in that statement, I think. It implies that our YKe Presidetll Sicllley Gmis ::::;,/!it.~tenrMs., ~, rQvi n ce ought to be all the gQQQ pictures, and that the dross should · TreaHler ArIInIr Hallilton :~'!~ ··.~nCf!ql~li'e lte for television awards. · of course. There has always been wonderful work made for Sea,tury • DoIaId C. Ragers there will be a lot more in the future. That's as it should be. But ....tos: llllless otl.erwise ....tIfied, by long ....'091...., rena. We shou ld no more feel badly about not being able to bring DesigI: Usa TIcker, UL movie into our tent than we do about not being able to honor on Broadway. ON THE (OVER: Claudette Colbert as Poppaea in Dan Sayre Groesbeck's theatri cal motion pictures . If a day comes-and I see no signs poster deSign for Cecil B. DeMille's THE SIGN OF THE CROSS, part of the ing-when movie theaters go the way of nickelodeons, we'll fold DeMille Exhi bition in the Academy's Grand Lob by and Fourth Floor galleries. Courtesy of Cecilia DeMille Presley. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 C. B. DeMillE EXAMINED IN EXHIBITION, lECTURE, SCREENING he career of leg­ THE CROSS was screened at endary Hollywood the Samuel Goldwyn Theater Tinnovator Cecil B. in December with several DeMille was exam­ of DeMille's collaborators ined in an exhibition which present to discuss the film­ opened in November and maker and answer audience closed January 22 in the questions, among them Grand Lobby and Fourth producer A. C. Lyles, art direc­ Floor galleries. tor John Jensen, artist Arnold "Cecil B. DeMille: Lights, Friberg, publicist Ann del Camera, Action" presented Valle, composer Elmer the career of the famed Hollywood director through the eyes of Bernstein and DeMille's granddaughter, Cecilia DeMille the craftspeople who worked for and with him, from music Presley. Film Historian David Shepard moderated the composers, costume designers and film editors to cinematogra­ discussion. phers, screenwriters and visual effects designers. The 35mm print shown was restored by the UCLA Film Over 140 items were displayed. Most of them were bor­ and Television Archive. rowed from the DeMille DeMille's career was also the focus of an Estate and had never Academy Lecture in before been publicly the Lobby, "At exhibited. Costumes and Work with DeMille: costume design sketches, His Creative Staff props, research material, On-Set and Off," on storyboards and other art January 12. works and artifacts took Film Historian the visitor into the career Marc Wanamaker, a of the Academy Award contributing writer winner who brought to the screen such classics as CLEOPATRA, to four books on SAMSON AND DELILAH, THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH and THE DeMille, and writer Bob Birchard, author of a forthcoming TEN COMMANDMENTS. book on DeMille, discussed the director's life and career and The original uncut version of DeMille's 1932 THE SIGN OF took questions from the audience. 3 our screenwriters were chosen as recipi­ THE 1994 NICHOLL ents of the Academy's Ninth Annual FELLOWS ARE: FDon and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screen writing. Each of them will receive Mikhaila Max Adams of Sandy, Utah $25,000 over the coming year to help them com­ Stript: My BACKYARD plete new scripts. Selected from 3,934 entries - a record for the Steve Garvin of Los Angeles competition - the recipients were honored at a Stript: STATUS Quo dinner at Chasen's in November at which Jeb Stuart, whose screenwriting credits include last Charles Henrich of New York City year's Best Picture Nominee, THE FUGITIVE, was Script: JOSHUA TREE keynote speaker. The 1994 Fellows were chosen by the Nicholl Glenn Levin of New York City Committee, made up of former Academy Stript: SPANO AND THE KID Presidents Fay Kanin, Daniel Taradash and Robert E. Wise; writers John Gay and Hal Kanter, producer Gale Anne Hurd, actress Eva Marie Saint, agent Michael Zirnring and Nicholl Committee Chair Julian Blaustein. Hurd, Kanin, Saint and Taradash presented fellow­ ship certificates to the winners while Kanter served once again as master of ceremonies. he Board of Governors of the to the Academy, " fellow Sound Branch Academy has voted a Medal of Governor Don Rogers said. "Everything Commendation to one of its mem­ you hear in the Academy's theaters, John Tbers, Sound Branch Governor John Bonner has been involved with ." In addi­ A. Bonner, "in appreciation for out- tion to his duties as chair of the Sci-Tech standing service and dedication in committee, Bonner has served for many upholding the high standards of the years on the Academy's Theater Sound Academy." Inspection Committee, which annually cali­ Bonner's medal will be presented at the brates the sound quality in the Academy's Scientific and Technical Awards presen­ theaters and insures that the sound sys­ tation dinner at the Regent Beverly tems remain state-of-the-art.
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