PRESIDENT

.;,0;;"'';:;;0 in Paris with news for her comrades of the in , Ninotchka famously announced at "There are going to be fewer but better Russians." As the result of a new approach to membership insti­ tuted this spring, the Academy is moving toward a similar declaration. Before anyone becomes too alarmed, though, I should make clear that there won't be any purges. This is a Fabian revolution, in which time is going to be allowed to do most of the heavy lifting. And the new system won't really give us "fewer" Academy members; it will only rein in the organization's rapid and somewhat unstructured growth in recent decades. Basically, what we began doing this year is to give each branch or other subsection of membership a target number of candidates to accept for membership. The numbers will vary from year to year, because they will be based on the number of active members we lose through death, the selection of retired status, etc. Some deliberate slack in the system will allow for (but not mandate) a mod­ est growth in membership each year. In the past, we've essentially asked the various member­ ship committees to endorse as many candidates for member­ ship as they cared to, so long as those candidates met the min­ imum requirements in their areas. Now we're asking the committees to give us only their very strongest candidates. Tllis year's 127 new invitees (most of whom will have accepted their invitation by the time you read this) are list­ RAY HARRYHAUSEN WITH ed on page 20. I think you'll find it an impressive roster CHARACTERS HE CREATED - diverse, youngish and fornlidably talented. You will rec­ FOR "THE TORTOISE AND ognize the names of all the inductees who work in your THE HARE." THE MODELS WERE ON DISPLAY IN THE own area, and most of those who've made their marks in ACADEMY'S GRAND LOBBY other parts of the industry. WHEN HARRYHAUSEN Another 25 years like this one and we'll all have even DELIVERED THE PAL more reasons to be proud to identify ourselves as mem­ LECTURE IN APRIL. bers of the Academy. SEE STORY ON PAGE 7. -FRANK PIERSON

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Thirteen winning ceremony in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on Sunday students from nine evening. colleges and universi­ At the ceremony, the 1 ,012-seat Goldwyn was filled. ties (the fourteenth win­ Clips from the bronze and silver medal-winning films were ner was in Europe on shown and the gold medal films and the foreign student her honeymoon) partici­ film were screened in their entirety - a chance to see, as pated in five days of Academy President Frank Pierson said, "astonishing industry-related activities work by these people who are sneaking up on us to take WINNERS MARK RESERVED SEAT CARDS FOR THEIR GUESTS PRIOR and social events that our jobs away." TO THE CEREMONY. culminated in the 31 st For the students, it was, as animation silver winner Annual Student Academy Awards presentation in the Sukwon Shin said, "the greatest moment of my life." Samuel Goldwyn Theater, the Academy's annual "I've lost all bodily functions," said alternative gold June highlight. winner Robert Castillo. "I can't feel my hands." When they got to town , only one of the students, But sensation came back. Castillo accepted as one Laurits Munch-Petersen from the National Film School of of "the little guys out there Denmark, the winner of the Honorary Foreign Student Film who didn't get picked for Award, knew what he'd won. The U. S. students knew the basketball team or they'd won something, but they didn't know the level of their couldn't get a date to the award - gold, silver or bronze - until it was revealed at prom - that's me. the ceremony. "But now here I am! I feel That kept them humble while they met with each other, ten feet taiL" members of the Student Academy Awards Executive The American students Committee, Academy Governors, cinematographers and first competed in one of three regional com- others during their whirlwind five days in Hollywood. petitions, with each region permitted to send up to three They got a bird's-eye view of Beverly Hills from atop films in each of the four categories for Academy members the Loew's Beverly Hills Hotel the Wednesday they arrived, to watch and vote to select the winners. greeted by members of the executive committee and "This really is an amazing thing the Academy does," Academy staff with whom they would interact over the next said presenter Pete Docter. "You don't see the Student few days; saw each other's films Thursday morning and Nobel Prizes, do ya?" toured Warner Bros. Studios in the afternoon; hobnobbed Besides trophies, gold medalists receive $5,000, with cinematographers during a Friday morning visit to the silver medalists are awarded $3,000 and bronze medal American Society of Cinematographers; passed out busi­ recipients are presented with $2,000. ness cards with abandon at the Governors Dinner at the The Honorary Foreign Film winner was picked, Beverly Hills Hotel on Friday evening, and got the skinny again by members of the Academy, from a on the changing face of image capture at Eastman Kodak record pool of 39 submissions from 23 on Saturday. That left them with countries. This was the fourth time that a one afternoon and evening student film from Denmark won the award. free before the presentation

GOVERNOR JUNE FORAY, CHAIR OFTHE STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD EXECUTIVE COMMITIEE, WITH PRE­ SENTER (AND 1992 SAA WINNER) PETE DOCTER AT THE CEREMONY RECEPTION. ALTERNATIVE Gold: "S.PI.C.: The Storyboard ~ GOVERNOR OWEN ROIZMAN (AND SUNDAY of My Life," Robert Castillo, NIGHT AWARDS School of Visual Arts, CEREMONY PRESENTER) WITH NARRATIVE CATE­ Silver: "Focus," GORY SILVER MEDAL Bill Ridlehoover and Nilanjan (Neil) Lahiri, WINNER DANA BUNING, CENTER, AND GUEST Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia IVETTE GARCIA DAVILA (No Bronze medal was awarded.) AT THE FRIDAY NIGHT GOVERNORS DINNER. ANIMATION Gold: "Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher," New York University 'Y ACADEMY PRESIDENT FRANK PIERSON WITH Alexander Woo, NARRATIVE GOLD MEDAL WINNER RANDALL DOTTIN AT THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY RECEPTION. Silver: "Rock the World,"

~ MICHAEL BARKER, Sukwon Shin, School of Visual Arts, New York CO-PRESIDENT OF SONY PICTURES Bronze: "Lemmings," CLASSICS, CENTER, Craig Van Dyke, WHO PRESENTED CERTIFICATES AT THE Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah NEW YORK REGIONAL FINALS, WITH FINAL­ ISTS JOE TURNER DOCUMENTARY LIN, LEFT, AND JULIE Gold: "Cheerleader," ANNE MEERSCHWAM. Kimberlee Bassford, University of California, Berkeley

Silver: "When the Storm Came," Shilpi Gupta, University of California, Berkeley

.. GOVERNOR J. PAUL HUNTSMAN, LEFT, AND Bronze: ": Illogical Temple," 'Y GOVERNOR (AND PRESENTER) ARTHUR DONG WITH HIS WIFE, JESSICA DOCUMENTARY SILVER WINNER SHILPI GUPTA. David Pittock and Lindsey Kealy, GALLAVAN, WITH University of Nebraska, Lincoln NILANJAN LAHIRI, SILVER MEDAL WINNER IN THE NARRATIVE ALTERNATIVE CATEGORY AT THE Gold: "A-Alike," GOVERNORS DINNER. Randall Dottin, Columbia University

Silver: "Zeke," Dana Buning, Florida State University, Tallahassee

Bronze: "The Plunge," Todd Schulman, Florida State University, Tallahassee

HONORARY FOREIGN STUDENT FILM AWARD "Between Us," Laurits Munch-Petersen, National Film School of Denmark

UARTE R LY REPORT - SECOND QUA RTE R 2004 5 "The Secret Life of Sets: Set Decorators at ork," a unique exhibition celebrating the art of contemporary set decoration, was featured in the Grand Lobby and Fourth Floor galleries of the Academy, May through August. Eight distinct areas in the Fourth Floor Gallery contained the set dressing and prop items created for their respective mms. These interactive environments included video clips from the fllms and interview footage with the set decorators. Also in the Fourth Floor Gallery were a photographic tour of the profession of set dec­ oration shot by Ken Haber, a three-dimensional "decorator's work space" and an area dedicated to the numerous craftspeople with whom set decorators regularly collaborate. The Grand Lobby Gallery featured two­ dimensional production materials, such as set photographs, production drawings and other process materials, for over a dozen recent titles. A history pavilion, featuring photographs and a specially created short film, showcased many landmark achievements in production design and set decoration. "The Secret Life of Sets" was organized in association with the Set Decorators' Society of America and presented with the support of ArclJitectural Digest and ShdfP.

SET DECORATORS WHO ATTENDED THE EXHIBITION'S OPENING RECEPTION IN MAY INCLUDED, TOP TO BOTTOM, LAURI GAFFIN ("CHARLIE'S ANGELS: FULL THROTTLE"), K.C. FOX ("CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN"), AND ROSEMARY BRANDENBURG ("THE HAU NTED MANSION").

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13 Y,ars Old? W,I(om, to th, 60ldwyn The Board of Governors has The minimum age does not apply dropped the minimum age of attendees to "fami ly screenings" of appropriate at the Academy's theaters from 16 to 13. films that are usually unspooled on The mini mum of 13 years of age weekend mornings. applies to all Academy membership Members are asked to be aware of screenings at the Samuel Goldwyn the MPAA rating of a film and to abide Theater, the Academy Little Theater, the by those industry guidelines. Linwood Dunn Theater, the Academy All other Academy theater Theater at Lighthouse International in admission standards remain , but New York and at Academy screenings a member's guest can now be her in San Francisco and . 13-year-old child or grandchild. The previous minimum age of All guests, of course, are expected 16 had been in place for as long as any­ to conform to Academy standards of one can remember. polite behavior.

SprinCJ HiCJh new alliances $dID that actorS listed S(hool ~,atur's in the A~ Players mrectory, in addition to their Ustings in the Star of Players mrectory Online and the twice-yearly printed Players rr mrectory books, can be submitted UThirt"n for consideration via three online casting systems. In June, a new ver­ sion of the PD website - www.play­ BRADY CORBET Hunter received a supporting ersdirectory.com-was launched. actress nomination at the 76th Counterpoint Systems designed Academy Awards, was screened at the website and content manage­ the Goldwyn Theater for 400 high ment system for the Academy and is school students attending the hosting the site. spring edition of the twice-yearly "We expect the website and Media Literacy Program. content management system that The students from seven Los Counterpoint Systems has created for Angeles Unified School District us to make using the online version high schools spent two days at the of the PD Simpler and easier for the NANCY RICHARDSON Academy in March discussing the players and the agents and casting social role of the media, stereo­ directors who use the service;' said types in the media, and the effect Keith Gonzales, editor of the Players of media on behavior, and a third Directory. "We have seen an impact day in April watching "Thirteen" in several areas of the system, and and participating in a Q&A with the community's reaction has been male lead Brady Corbet and editor very positive." Nancy Richardson.

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COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD TO MARGARET

other collections which include cos­ tume design drawings as a compo­ nent. "The addition of the Costume Designers Guild Collection makes us the preeminent resource for this kind of material," Coco said. "The Costume Designers Guild is proud to donate its priceless col­ lection of motion picture costume sketches to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," said Dr. Deborah Nadoolman Landis, J Academy member and president of ~ . the Guild. "This collection has been

FROM LEFT: DR. DEBORAH NADOOLMAN LANDIS, PRESIDENT OF THE COSTUME assembled during the Guild's 50 DESIGNERS GUILD; LINDA MEHR, DIRECTOR OF THE MARGARET HERRICK LIBRARY; years and includes work from our AND ANNE COCO, THE HERRICK'S GRAPHIC ARTS LIBRARIAN, WITH SKETCHES. many talented members, including legendary designers Orry-Kelly, Jean stume sketches collected by a perfect complement to our exist­ Louis and . It's comfort­ the Costume Designers Guild since ing holdings, which are dominated ing to know that the Academy 'ts ' ception in 1953, including those by drawings of costumes made for t Library will safeguard these treas­ from Chaplin's 1940 film "The Great women by the first generation of ures, and make them available to Dictator," have been donated by the fllm costume designers." designers and ftlm scholars studying Guild to the Academy's Margaret But the size is nothing to sneeze the central role that costume design Herrick Library. at. The collection comprises almost plays in ftlm." "It's a major addition to our col­ 600 sketches, making it the largest of The Costume Designers Guild lections of costume design drawings its kind ever donated to the library. Collection contains sketches by such for more reasons than sheer size," The Herrick Library already has contemporary designers as Julie said Graphic Arts Librarian Anne several thousand costume design Weiss from "American Beauty" The collection comprises almost and "12 Monkeys," 600 sketches, making it the largest of its kind from "Pleasantville," ever donated to the library. and from "Galaxy Quest." Coco. "This collection includes a drawings in the Leonard Stanley, The Collection doc­ number of drawings of costumes Leah Rhodes, , Edith uments 60 years of ftlm­ made for men, and there are draw­ Head, and Gwen making, with several draw- ings by contemporary designers. It's Wakeling collections as well as in DONATES SKETCH COLLECTION rIERRICK LIBRARY

ings by Sheila O'Brien (Costume Most of the drawings are move into when the Academy Film Designers Guild founder) for Joan watercolors or gouache, Coco said, Archive moved to the Pickford Crawford in "Humoresque" and "but there are some pencil-only draw­ Center," Coco added." These sketches "Johnny Guitar," Edith Head for Shirley ings, too." will fit perfectly." Macl-aine in "Sweet Charity," Stephen Coco said the sketches Loomis for Isaac Hayes in "Escape won't be available for gener­ from New York," Jean Louis for Julie al use until the collection Andrews in "Thoroughly Modern has been inventoried and Millie," Arnold Scaasi for Barbra tucked away in the appro­ Streisand in "On a Clear Day priate archival contain­ You Can See Forever," Howard ers, although she said Shoup for Natalie Wood in she's "happy to "Marjorie Morningstar," help researchers with Michael Woulfe for Ava a serious purpose Gardner in "Singapore" anytime." and Jane Russell in "And we've "French Line," and a just completed a design for Kirk new graphic arts Douglas' loincloth in vault, which we "Spartacus," by Valles. were able to

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er Cochran has been appointed to provide overall coordination for ...... rfY g and development of the Academy's proposed museum of motion picture ~ y, the ftrst staff appointment in what Executive Director Bruce Davis called "the long process of bringing a museum to fruition." Academy President Frank Pierson appointed Past President Robert Rehme to head the Museum Committee, which was formed in June 2003. Art Directors Branch Governor Jeannine Oppewall is vice-chair of the group, which is additionally composed of Gene Allen, Kathy Bates, Arthur Cohen, Robert A. Daly, Richard Edlund, Jonathan Erland,Tom Hanks, Curtis Hanson, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Mark Johnson, Fay Kanin, Kathleen Kennedy, Roger Mayer, Bill Mechanic, Pierson and Steven Spielberg. The committee has spent its time in the ensuing year discussing the broad outlines of the proposed project, working with museum planning consultant Hal Skramstad, who was engaged in November. Cochran will be charged with coordinating the work of the Museum Committee as the central group begins to divide into sub-groups working on exhibitions, site selection, building design, fundraising, etc.

HEATHER COCHRAN

CALL FOR OBJETS D' HISTOIRE

* Do you happen to have As the planning moves forward for the Academy's great Louis Lumiere's personal film museum of the motion picture, the Museum Committee is issuing a call for artifacts. projector gathering dust in Members who have saved signillcant items of motion picture your garage? history, and who would prefer to see them preserved for posterity rather than disappearing into private collections (or disappearing entirely), are invited to contact the Academy to discuss placing the * Do you vaguely recall stor­ materials into the care of the Academy Museum. ing a mint-condition 6-sheet The Museum is interested in props, costumes, posters, mechanical poster for "The Jazz Singer" in devices and other items from the pre-cinema period to the present. A limited amount of secure storage space is currently available, your attic a few years back? although contributors for whom it is not inconvenient may be asked to keep items in their possession until later in the collecting process. Is the miniature for the The Academy cannot guarantee that all items offered will go on * display; items that are found not to ftt into the eventual exhibition "2001" space station molder­ plan will be returned to their contributors. ing in your back yard? To discuss a possible contribution, caU Museum Coordinator Heather Cochran at 310-247-3000, ext. 377

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GREAT To BE NOMINATED

It's the sequel to "Facets of the Diamond: 75 Years of Best Picture Winners," but it's about a sixth the size - so far, anyway. "Great To Be Nominated, Part One" is program coordinator Randy (" I'm never going to do that again!") Haberkamp's follow-up to the extremely successful Monday night series he coordinated last year (and the year before that). The 12-week screening series launched in May, celebrating those pictures which accumulated the most Academy Award nominations in all categories in a particular year, without winning the Best Picture award. It began with the 1927/28 Best Pi cture nominee "7th FRANK CAPRA JR., SON OF THE Heaven" and continued year by year through August 16, PRODUCER-DIRECTOR OF "LADY FOR A DAY," WITH VICTORIA RISKIN, when Part One concluded. "Great To Be Nominated" is DAUGHTER OF SCREENWRITER designed to continue in 2005, though, picking up where ROBERT RISKIN JACKIE COOPER this portion of the series ends. MADE BACK-TO-BACK APPEARANCES AT In the Haberkamp style, other elements from each "SKIPPY" (PHOTO) AND THE year, such as short subjects, behind-the-scenes footage, FOLLOWING WEEK AT "THE CHAMP." trail ers and music, are incorporated into each evening's program. "There was no question that we should do something sim il ar to 'Facets'," sai d Academy President Frank Pierson. "Screening se ries like these are great opportunities to utilize the rich and extensive material in our Archive and give moviegoers a chance to see high-quali ty prints of classic fi lms." Richard Wilson 1958-200~ Sound 'ditinCJ Richard Wilson, 46, an administrator in the Academy's executive offices, Award Bfcomfs died April 23 of an apparent heart attack at his home in West Hollywood. Wilson joined the Academy in 1988 as assistant to Program Coordinator an Annual Doug Edwards, moving to the executive offices in 1991. In 1998, he opened the Academy's first New York office, running it for two years before returning to Beverly Hills. In the headquarters post, he served as executive assistant to A change in the Sound Editing Award Academy presidents Karl Malden, Robert Rehme, Arthur Hiller and Frank rules for the 77th Annual Academy Awards Pierson and to Executive Director Bruce Davis. will make it an annual award and guarantee Wilson also served as keeper of the Oscar statuettes, logging the where­ three nominations in the category each year, abouts of previously awarded statuettes, ordering and maintaining the inventory the Board of Governors approved in June. of unpresented Oscars, managing their distribution backstage at each year's The change is something of a technicality, Awards Presentation, and coordinating the personalization of the blank stat­ uettes for each year's w inners. In that capacity,Wilson had probably met more in that the award has actually been presented Oscar winners than any other person. in one form or another every year since 1981. Wilson had a master's degree in flim from Northwestern University and had Previous rules permitted three annual completed all the course work for his Ph. D. options for the Award: the voting by the Board of Governors of a Special Achievement AS KEEPER OF THE OSCARS, Award for Sound Editing, placement on the RICHARD WILSON WAS IN final ballot of two or three nominated CHARGE OF ACQUIRING THE SIG­ NATURES OF NOMINEES ON THE achievements to be voted upon by all voting ACADEMY'S " WINNERS AGREE­ members of the Academy or no award in a MENT." IN FEBRUARY HE OBTAINED BEST ACTRESS NOMI­ given year. NEE KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES' Starting this year, seven productions will SIGNATURE DURING THE ANNU­ AL NOMINEES LUNCHEON. be selected by preferential ballot by all eligible members of the sound branch. Ten-minute clips from those seven ftlms will be screened for the members of the SOlmd Editing Awards Committee which will select the three nominees (affectionately referred to as the "bake-off'). Final voting will be by all eligible members of the Academy. The balloting by all members of the branch is itself a change from previous years when only sound editors, post-production mixers and members of the sound branch executive committee were allowed to vote in this category. Rules are reviewed annually by branch and category committees. The Awards Rules Committee then reviews all proposed changes before presenting its recommenda­ tions to the Academy's Board of Governors.

16 ACADEMY QUARTERLY REPORT · VOLUME 16 R.stor.d in the rented vault on La IIB.ck.tl I Cienega Boulevard, getting ready to move the material (om.sto to the Pickford Center, "where we will finally have B.v.rly Hills everything under one roof'" exulted archivist Fritz "Becket," which earned 12 Academy Award nominations in 1964, screened Herzog. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in June, the print's West Coast premiere. It (Well, everything except had earlier screened for Academy members in London. the nitrate materials, which Photographed on location in England, the film was long unavailable for have to be stored under viewing. The original negative elements are lost and an extensive restoration special conditions and will by the Academy Film Archive, with support from the Film Foundation, was continue to reside at an required to return the ftlm to its original look and running time. off-site facility.) The barcoding process began in April and took $ltoo.ooo 6rant,d to It) Institutions eight weeks. Two separate FOR A UST OF THE 43 COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY RLM PROGRAMS ACROSS THE teams of eight people were GIVEN RNANCIAL GRANTS BY THE ACADEMY FOUNDATION IN MAY, LOG involved in the project, ONTO WWW.OSCARB.ORGIGRANTSIINSTITUT1ONAL_GRANTSIHTIIL. THE FOUNDATION'S GRANTS COMMITTEE, CHAIRED BY ACTORS BRANCH MEMBER JANET MACLACHLAN, Herzog said. One team DISTRIBUTED $4OO,CIOOTHIS YEAR. worked at the vault on Mondays and Tuesdays, Kaufman to Hantuck.t as VisitinCJ Artist the other team on Thursdays and Fri days.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Charlie Kaufman The La Cienega appeared at the Nantucket Film Festival in Nantucket, Boulevard vault was a tempo­ Massachusetts, in June, his visit sponsored by the rary storage facility rented in Academy's Visiting Artists Program . 1994 to provide room for the Kaufman answered audience questions at screenings archive's growing collections. of "Adaptation ," "Being John Malkovich" and "Eternal It was completely filled within Sunsh ine of the Spotless Mind" over the weekend and five years. participated in a conversation with ' Items in the La Cienega CHARLIE KAUFMAN chief fi lm critic, A.O. Scott. Kaufman received his Oscar nominations for the first two films. vault are expected to begin Kaufman is a member of the Academy's writers branch . the trek to the Amarilly Vault The Vis iting Artists Program was started by the Academy in 1970 to provide a in the Pickford Center in link between the academic study of film and filmmaking and the men and women August. who make movies. Through the program, members of the Academy's various branches share their expertise in classrooms, festivals , conferences and other film-related events.

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DUTCH FILM FINDS CampaiC)n ITS VOICE R.C)ulations for 11th Awards n's Wives," originally intended to be the flfSt Dutch sound mm but a ly released in 1930 as the last Dutch silent, was presented in April at the ChanC).d SliC)htly

The print from the Netherlands Film Museum featured a new soundtrack, Campaign regulations for complete with music, sound effects and partly synchronized dialogue, designed 77th Oscar-season marketing to replicate director Henk Kleinman's original intentions. were approved by the Board of The mm was flfSt restored to its original version in the traditional photo­ Governors in June with two new chemical manner, from the last existing nitrate print, "so there it is, safely in the rules and changes in three vaults of the Film Museum for the benefit of the coming generations," said muse­ additional rules. um director Rien Hagen; who introduced the film at the Academy screening. One of the new rules will per­ The Film Museum, however, is mandated by the Dutch government to "put mit companies to distribute pass­ preservation and presentation on the same level," Hagen said. "We really want es or coupons that allow mem­ to give each the same weight and attention, and that means we are constantly bers to gain free entry to screen­ trying to find ways to present the heritage to contemporary audiences. ings in commercial theaters. "That means we have to fmd tricks, sometimes, to be able to get an The second prohibits audience." specific reference to "the The "trick" with the new sound version of "Seamen's Wives" was recon­ competition" by name or title stmcting the dialogue through the use of lip-readers who were able to partially in ads, mailings, websites or recover the words. other forms of campaign "What you see tonight is a reconstmction of what we think comes close to communication. what was meant at the time," Hagen said. The three changes specifi­ "There are ethical questions to pose about cally permit letters announcing this," Hagen acknowledged. "We are very inter­ the shipment of screeners to be ested in the reactions .. .to this film and this mailed to members, prohibit way of producing a sort of new life to the distribution of sheet music cinematographic heritage." of scores at any time and permit screenplays to be reproduced in formats smaller than 8-1/2" x 11" size. The regulations, which are revised annually, were for­ mulated by the Academy's Public Relations Branch Executive Committee, chaired by Past Academy President Richard Kahn . The complete regulations can be found on www.oscars.org/regulations/.

REPORT· SEC OND QUARTER 2 00 4 19 JICADEMY INVITES ~ 127 T 0 5l( E M B E R S HIP

~. late June, the Academy extended invitations to ty new members annually, the Academy's voting mem­ he organization to 127 artists and executives who bership this year will actually remain at about the same , ~ve distinguished themselves in the field of theatrical size as last year at this time - about 5,880 members - motion pictures. Under a revised approach to member­ depending on whether all of the year's invitees accept ship, the group will be the only new members invited their invitations. to join the organization in 2004. In prior years, the Though the great majority of AMPAS members are invitations were extended twice. based in the U.S. , membership is open to qualified ftlm­ Academy President Frank Pierson said that makers around the world. The Academy roster cur­ although the membership procedures instituted this rently includes theatrical ftlmmakers from 36 countries. year allow the organization to grow - after filling The 2004 invitees are listed by membership subcat­ vacancies resulting from deaths and members opting egories where appropriate, rather than by branch. for retired (non-voting) status - by a maximum of thir- They are:

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