69TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS®

CONTACT: Andrew L. Levy March 3, 1997

(21 days to Oscar Night)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - 7,000 prints of the 69th Academy Awards theatrical trailer are being shipped today to movie theaters across the country. The trailer features all the nominees in the Leading Actor, Leading Actress and Best Picture categories. The one-minute trailer was produced for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by renowned graphic designer

MARTY PATTON HAMLET and documentary filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman. Eastman BEN·HUR ROCKY WINGS GIG I ANNIE HAll Kodak donated the film stock and Deluxe Laboratories provided GOING MY WAY AN AMERICAN IN PARIS A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS IN TH E H EAT OF TH E NIGHT processing services for the trailer's production. The entire trailer HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY TERMS OF ENDEARMENT FROM HERE TO ETERNITY was produced on the Domino Film Recorder, the use of which GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT THE lOST WEEKEND ALL THE KING 'S MEN CHARIOTS OF FIRE A LL ABOUT EVE was donated by Quantel. MY FAIR LADY GRAND HOTE L THE GODFATHER SCHINDLER 'S LIS T ORDINARY PEOPL E The 69th Academy Awards Presentation will be held on THE LAST EMPEROR W EST SIDE STORY OUT OF AFRICA FORREST GUMP CASABLANCA' March 24, 1997, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and TOM JONES CIMARRON MRS. MINIVER UNFORGIVEN will be broadcast live by the ABC Television Network beginning CAVALCADE RAIN MAN THE STING o LI V E R! AMADEUS at 6 p.m. (PST). Information about the Academy Awards can be PLATOO N REBECCA GANDHI BRAVEHEART THE LIFE Of EMILE ZOLA accessed on the World Wide Web at . MIDN I GHT COWBOY ON TH E WATERFRONT T H E SI L ENCE O F TH E LAMBS AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS TH E BEST YEARS O F O UR LIVES LA WR E NCE OF ARABIA THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU THE FRENCH CONNECT I ON ALL QUlfT ON THE WESTERN FRONT TH E GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH ONE FLE W OVER THE CUCKOO' S N EST DRIVING MI SS DAISY " THE SOUND O F MUSIC THE GODFAT HER PART II · KRAMERvS,KRAMER ### GONE WITH THE WIND ·THE APARTMENT DANC ES WITH WOLvES · T HE DEER HUNTER THE GREAT ZIEGFELD " THE BROADWAY MELODY