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VOLUM[ 16 - fOURT~ QUARHR 2004

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CELEBRATING THE CENTENNIAL

See Page 2 George Stevens always said FRO M THE PRESIDENT making or planning a movie was like planning a war. He always loved to tell the war stories ... OUR THIRD THEATER IS and they were as interesting as the movie sometimes. , MAKING A DIFFERENCE - WARREN BEATIY

/ ~e've long thought that having a mid-size theater available to us (wotllc0 ave a significant impact on our programming. We were right. The use of the Unwood Dunn Theater is growing and permitting -----rp-ni"·ennial tribute to director our programmers to try some things that might not have worked quite George Stevens kicked off similar as well in the I ,0 I 2-seat Goldwyn. But we're expanding even beyond Academy celebrations around the our base, w ith more programs in San Francisco and New country and the world. York and even an arrangement with the National Archives to program Stevens "embellished and ftlm fare in Washington, D.C. graced and moved and shook the Over the past year or so, the number of screened by the movies as did almost no one else Academy and the eclecticism of the programming have made our during his lifetime," Academy theaters must-visit venues for cinema cognoscenti. President said. A high-water mark was surely reached during the fourth quarter: hosted • A retrospective series of the f ilms of George Stevens, not only in the event in the Samuel Goldwyn Los Angeles, but in New York and the National Archives venue Theater, which included lengthy in Washington, D.C. as well. remembrances of the many aspects • A retrospective of the films of k ick ed Off at of Stevens' career by Sidney the Goldwyn and filled two weekends at the Dunn. Poitier, David Mamet, Larry o A technically-oriented survey Of 180 years of moving p icture Gelbart, , Steven magiC k ick ed off at the Goldwyn and continued at the Dunn. ON THE COVER: Spielberg, George Stevens Jr. and o Tributes to David Brown in New York and Lewis Gilbert in grandson Michael Stevens. . GEORGE STEVENS Never-before-screened clips o The ongOing monthly Gold Standard series in Los Angeles and ON LOCATION IN from interviews shot for the 1985 LONEPINE, Monday Nights with Oscar in New York and the inauguration documentary "George Stevens: A , of a new screening series in conj unction with the National WHEREHEWAS Archives in Washington. Filmmaker's Journey," directed by FILMING THE 1939 George Stevens Jr., were inter­ o And the 23rd year of the Academy/UCLA contemp orary "GUNGA DIN." spersed through the evening. documentary screenings - this year with the first half p resented STEVENS IS USING at our newly dedicated Dunn Theater in Holly w ood. legends such as HIS OWN CAMERA Katharine Hepburn, Rock Hudson, TOCAPTURE There is much more being planned in the fertile imaginations of the BEHIND-THE­ programming staff. Jimmy Stewart, and SCENES FOOTAGE. I certainly hope you've been enjoying them , and that you'll Douglas Fairbanks Jr. talk candidly (SEE STORY ON continue to do so in the future. in these interviews about their THIS PAGE) - FRANK P IERSON experiences working with Stevens. Stevens headed a combat motion picture unit under General A C ADEM Y Q UA R T ERLY REPOR T I Dwight Eisenhower from 1944 to Published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 1946 and was awarded the Legion 8949 Wilshire Boulevard , Beverly Hills, California 90211 -1972 (310) 247-3000 0 www,oscars,org of Merit for his service. Clips from PRESIDENT , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ' , , , , , , , ...... , .. . Frank R. Pierson Stevens' World War II unit, which FIRST VICE PRESIDENT ...... ••. , ...... •• ...... Sid Ganls VICE PRESIDENT ...... •...... • ..... included unique color footage, VICE PRES IDENT ...... • ...... • ...... Arthur Hamilton also were shown. T REASURER ...... • . .. . . , . . ...•• ...... •••...... Kathy Bates SECRETARY ...... •...... •...... •••..... Donald C. Rogers Additional tributes to EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ...... Bruce Davis Stevens took place before the Photos: unless otherwi se identified, by Long Photography end of the year in New York, Design: Lisa Carlsson, Carlsson & Company, Inc. Washington, D.C., London and Oscar-, Oscars~ , ~ , Academy Award ~ , A.M.P.A.S· , and Oscar Night" are the trademarks, and the Oscar statu ette is the registered design mark and copyrighted property of the the San Francisco Bay area. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,

2 ACADEMY QUARTER LY REPORT · VOLUME 16 Academ~ ,Celebrates Stevens Centennial

, George Stevens' lighter works from his first broad slapshticky silents to the ele­ gance of his later sophisticated talkies were for me an ongoing course in comedy. Those classes, which I attended religiously every Saturday at my local cinemagogue, WARREN BEATTY WITH were the highlights of my youth. ,

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'Directors actually do not know how other directors direct. We're never on the set with them. We never make a film with them. So when we see a body of work as masterful as George Stevens' work, we try to figure out what he did.'

- MICHAEL MANN

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- STEvEN SPIELBERG

, My dad enjoyed nothing more than the fellowship and respect of his fellow filmmakers, and I just know how deeply touched he would be by the caliber of people who've come here tonight to member his work and speak about it.'

- GEORGE STEvENS JR.

STEVEN SPIELBERG Tribute Kicks Off Screening Series

1 I \I (,W .... 1 The George Stevens Centennial Tribute kicked off an .... eight-week screening series at the Academy featuring some of Stevens' most notable films, along with two documentaries about him. Shown were "Alice Adams," "Annie Oakley," "Swing Time," 'Vivacious Lady," "Gunga Din," "," "I Remember Mama," "A Place in the Sun," "Shane," "The Greatest Story Ever Told," "George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey" and "George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin." PAT BOONE AND ROBERT LOGGIA, WHO APPEARED IN "THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD."

ART DIRECTOR BILL CREBER, LEFT, AND PANAVISION CO·FOUNDER RICHARD MOORE AT THE 70MM ULTRA PANAVISION SCREENING OF "THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD."

DELMAR WATSON, MARTIN LANDAU, "THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD." " ANNIE OAKLEY."

4 A C ADEMY QUARTERLY REPORT · VOLU ME 16 GEORGE STEVENS JR., LOIS SMITH AND FOSTER HIRSCH AT "ALICE ADAMS. " T e.:New York "Alice Adams" screening was part of moment of ham or artifice or overstatement in the acting in the centennial tribute honoring Oscar-winning director any of his films," Hirsch said. George Stevens. He quoted Stevens about the acting in "Alice Adams": Host Foster Hirsch, author and fIlm professor at Brooklyn "The acting was related to real human behavior and not the College, called it "a superb fIlm of great spiritual uplift and faith." histrionics of so many other films of the time. It had to do The October edition of the monthly Monday Nights with with people being intimate and talking very quietly. The Oscar series, "Alice Adams" was presented in association with sound man thought we were crazy." the Directors Guild of America. George Stevens Jr. participated in a discussion with "(Stevens) was the ' greatest friend. There wasn't a Hirsch before the screening.

STEVENS FILMS LAUNCH JOINT PROGRAMS WITH NATIONAL ARCHIVES

(A ~¥eo:rge Stevens Centennial Tribute screening series in Washington, D . ~als in October, kicked off a new relationship between the ~caeemy and the Foundation of the National Archives which will bring Academy-conceived public programming to the recently opened 300-seat William G. McGowan Theater three times a year. "It is a great pleasure, as well as an honor, for the Academy to establish this new partnership ," said Academy President Frank Pierson . "While our extensive public programming in Los Angeles and our more modest public events and screenings in New York are extremely satisfying - as well as popular - this new relation­ ship, which will bring Academy-quality events to the nation's capital , is a great one for both sides ." With the opening of the McGowan Theater and the founding of the Charles Guggenheim Center for the Documentary Film , said Tom Wheeler, president of the Foundation for the National Archives, the organization "now has the opportunity to use the tremendous power of film to further our overall goals." GUESTS BEN BRAD LEE, ELIZABETH STEVENS (WIFE OF GEORGE STEVENS JR.) AND NICOLE SALINGER. TOM WHEELER, PRESIDENT OF THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES.

A C ADEM Y Q U ARTERLY R EPO RT· FO U R T , From a hand-crank camera to a digital The Academy's Linwood Dunn camera - "What a Theater, a 286-seat screening room at career! "What a life! the Pickford Center in Hollywood, was - BILL TAYLOR officially dedicated in honor of the visual ACADEMY GOVERNOR effects pioneer in December. "Kudos," said Academy President Frank Pierson , "to everyone in the Academy. This is a wonderful, wonderful theater." Academy governor and Visual Effects Committee chair Richard Edlund described himself as "one who mightily depended on Lin as a mentor and on his brainchild , the optical printer."

An early production model of the Acme-Dunn Optical Printer, possibly the first, was on display in the lobby of the theater. Dunn 's grandson, Thomas Carlisle, who contributed some home movies of Dunn to the event, called the dedication of the theater "really the perfect way to honor him ." The home movies are part of the Li nwood Dunn Collection of papers, photographs and films donated by the Dunn family to the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive.

LINWOOD G. D U NN Linwood Dunn, a pioneer of the art of visual effects, created some of the most indelible and astounding images in the history of film, decades before computers were even a possibility. In his hands, simple optical and photographic equipment was applied with great artistry, ingenuity and imagination to do the impossible. He began as a projectionist in 1923 and during the next 75 years became the master of the optical printer. He worked on KING KONG, CITIZEN KANE, WEST SIDE STORY, TIlE EXORCIST and over 100 other films, as well as the original Star Trek television series. A three-term Academy Governor in two different branches, twice president of the American Society of Cinematographers, Dunn won an Oscar in 1980 for the optical printer design be created with Cecil Love. He received another Oscar statuette, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, in 1984 for a lifetime's worth of contributions to the art and technology of motion pictures. He continued to be active and engaged in the industry until his death in 1998 at age 94. Linwood Dunn was the torch-bearer for the vision of films without limits on the film­ maker's imagination, the vision that has propelled landmark films from KING KONG to the fantasy epics of the present. He lived to see that vision realized.

6 ACADEMY QUARTE RLY REPORT , VOL U ME 16 TELLURIDE FESTIVAL RECEIVES THREE-YEAR ACADEMY GRANT

The Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado, is said Academy Program Coordinator Greg Beal, "and the first major U.S. festival to benefit from an expansion it is separate from the Academy's annual festival of festival funding by the Academy Foundation's Festival grants program." Grants Committee. That Foundation program this year gave $300,000 The/estival will receive $50,000 from the Academy in grants to 24 festivals for their calendar year 2005 in 2005 and $50,000 a year for the next two years, for a programming. total of $150,000. Under that allocation, two festivals will receive Next year a second festival will be selected to $25,000 each, five will get $20,000 grants, three will receive $50,000 annually for three years, and a year later receive $15,000 and three $10,000, eight will pick up a third will be chosen. $7,500 and three will collect $5 ,000. "The Academy's goal is to provide a secure founda­ tion upon which a festival can anchor a project with the expectation that the funding will continue to support A complete listing of festival grants is available at the project over a number of years," said Festival Grants www.oscars.org/foundationJgrants/fI1m~ants.html Committee chair Gale Anne Hurd. "Some terrific ideas have gone by the boards because a festival can't afford to take a chance on finding the needed funds year after The Festival Grants Committee selected the Telluride year. We wanted to help offset that problem for at least Festival from a group of significant U.S. festivals, Beal said, a few festivals." because "it stands out as an artistic beacon" among festivals. "It's a 'major grants for major festivals' program," "It's all about movies." Also in Manhattan In addition to the "Alice Adams" screening in October honoring the George Stevens Centennial, the New York monthly series Monday Nights with Oscar continued over the following two months. In November, "Oscars and Animation" examined the techniques of animation , how they are used in film and how the uses have changed over the years. Moderated by Michael Sporn, who received an Academy Award nomination for his 1984 animated short film "Dr. De Soto," the evening also featured Jimmy Picker, who produced the 1983 Oscar-winning animated short film "Sundae in New York" and Frank Mouris, whose 1973 short "Frank Film" won the Oscar in the same category. Five styles of animation - cel, 3D puppet, 3D claymation, montage and cut-out - were showcased with screenings of Academy Award­ nominated and -winning films.

AT THE "OSCARS AND ANIMATION" RECEPTION.

In December, the series featured a new Academy Film Archive print of the 1944 Academy Award-nominated film "Meet Me in St. Louis." Brian Rose, professor of media studies at Fordham University, hosted the evening. A 16mm print, also from the Archive, of the 1941 Oscar­ nominated cartoon short subject "The Night Before Christmas," featuring Tom and Jerry, was shown prior to the feature presentation. OSCAR PLEDGES $ 5 MILLION TO MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND FOR COMMUNITY ELDER CARE

The Academy has made community's commit­ an unprecedented gift to ment to "taking care of the Motion Picture and our own." Katzenberg Television Fund, pledging said that "the contribu­ $5 million to develop and tion will be earmarked implement programs that for the development of will help keep the entertain­ new programs and serv­ ment industry's retirees ices for the industry's healthy and safe in their expanding aging own homes for as long as population. " possible. Joining Katzenberg The Academy will pay in his praise for the the pledge over a ten-year Academy's support was period in increments of Frank Mancuso, chair­ $500,000. man of the MPTF "This is a highly unusual corporate board, who commitment for the Academy stressed the growing to make," Academy President needs placed on the Frank Pierson said, "and the MPTF to do more for largest contribution the seniors as they live organization has ever made. longer and healthier We've never made a donation lives. "We know that on this scale before, but who CLOCKWISE FROM LOWER LEFT, ACADEMY PRESIDENT FRANK within the next five or PIERSON, MPTF FOUNDATION CHAIRMAN JEFFREY KATZENBERG, better to support than those MPTF CORPORATE BOARD CHAIRMAN FRANK MANCUSO AND MPTF six years, over 77 mil­ who have spent their lives FOUNDATION TRUSTEE ANNETTE BENING GATHER IN THE ACADEMY lion baby boomers will BOARD ROOM FOR A NOVEMBER CHECK-SIGNING CEREMONY. working in our industry?" begin to retire," In 2001, the governors Mancuso said. "Their of the Academy voted to contribute $1 million to aid life expectancy will be at least an additional 10 to 15 the victims of the September 11 th attacks. That had years. MPTF could never build enough retirement and been the first non-fllm-related charitable gift made by elder care facilities at our Wasserman campus (in the Academy since a $35,000 contribution toward a Woodland Hills) to accommodate the tide of industry Mississippi River flood relief campaign in the first year retirees who will need our help in the coming years." of the organization's existence. The Academy, through The goal, therefore, Mancuso said, is "to fmd creative its educational and cultural arm, the Academy Found­ solutions for our colleagues to remain in their homes in a ation, annually contributes over $1 million to a variety safe and healthy environment regardless of their fmancial of fllm-related college and community programs and ability. This goal is truly in the spirit of caring that fllm festivals. inspired Jean Hersholt and his industry colleagues to MPTF Foundation chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg build the Country House & Hospital in Woodland Hills. thanked the Academy for this "incredibly generous con­ We can now begin to plan for the future with this tribution," and said the gift reinforces the entertainment extremely generous gift from the Academy."

ACADEMY QUARTERLY REPORT · FOURTH QUA R TER 2004 9 A(adfmy InauCJural Lfcturf (xplorfs Dissfnt Launchfs Annual The inaugural John Huston Lecture on Documentary Film took DO(Umfntary place in November in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater and took a detailed look at "Documentaries of Dissent," the program's title. Lf(turf Sfrifs Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan, who hosted the evening, asked the panelists why documentaries are such MANU IN HONOR Of JOHN HUSTON vehicles for dissent. Peter Davis, producer of the 1974 Oscar-winning documen­ The documentary film is the tary feature "Hearts and Minds,' said he thought "documentaries subject of a new lecture to be started as being something that you weren't supposed to see. presented annually by the And so people - especially when cameras got lighter - people Academy, the sixth such lecture in the Academy's yearly program have been filming things you don't ordinarily get to see, and that's of events. adversarial all by itself." The John Huston Lecture on Also on the panel were Penelope Spheeris, producer-director Documentary Film, named in of the 1981 documentary "The Decline of Western Civilization" and honor of the late Oscar-winning two subsequent sequels; Rob Epstein, producer-director of two writer-director, will focus on various Oscar-winning documentary features, "The Times of Harvey Milk," aspects of the documentary which won in 1984, and "Common Threads: Stories from the genre and will feature leading Quilt," which won in 1989; and Barbara Trent, producer-director of documentarians, scholars and "The Panama Deception," which won the Oscar for Best other filmmakers. Huston's documentary work Documentary Feature of 1992. while in the Army Signal Corps A second installment of "Documentaries of Dissent" will be during World War II produced three held in 2005 and will focus on a selection of the theatrical docu­ unique yet controversial films , mentaries released in 2004 that have played a role in the current "Report from the Aleutians" (1943) , debates over political and social issues. "The Battle of San Pietro" (1944) and "LetThere Be Light" (1946). "The Battle of San Pietro" was KENNETH TURAN, LEFT, MODERATED A PANEL COMPRISING OF BARBARA TRENT, not released publicly until 1945, ROB EPSTEIN, PENELOPE SPHEERIS when General George Marshall AND PETER DAVIS. removed its "classified" status. Huston's 14 Academy Award nominations include wins for directing and writing "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." The Huston Lecture is the sixth of the Academy's annu­ ally scheduled lectures, joining the Marvin Borowsky Lecture on Screenwriting, the George Pal Lecture on Fantasy in Film , the Jack Oakie Lecture on Comedy in Film, the Marc Davis Lecture on Animation and the George Stevens Lecture on Directing.

10 ACADEMY QUARTE " CHINATOWN" SCREENING INCLUDES CAST AND CREW

or its 30th anniversary, Fitzgerald. I got a story about a a3 ew 35mm print of shamus who's checking out a case, "Chinatown," which but doesn't know what he's doing Academy President Frank and it's nothing to do with what Pierson called "an American he's doing that the story's about.' classic" and "the high central "I didn't know what he was point of that legendary class talking about. of '74," was greeted by an "No one else in the entire enthusiastic SRO crowd. studio understood it. The evening included a "He turned in the fIrst draft. reunion of and discussion If there were 500 people working with cast and crew members HAWK KOCH AND ROBERT EVANS at Paramount, 500 people thought including star , screenwriter , it was the worst thing they had ever read in their life." producer Robert Evans and Academy governor Hawk Koch, Director and Towne "worked it who worked as assistant director on the mill. Film historian every day." and author Richard Schickel introduced the mm and "We took a scissors," Towne said, "and we wrote one moderated the discussion. line summations of each scene and snipped it up and kept One of the "greatnesses" of the mm, Schickel said in his posting it on the door of the room and moving around the introduction, "is that it has a sense of atmosphere, a sense of little slips fIguring one way or another would work." place and of a time that movies today are too hasty and too One of the ways did work. "Chinatown" earned 11 jerry-built to take the time to set up." Academy Award nominations and Towne took home the Producer Robert Evans, who received a nomination for Oscar statuette for his original . Best Picture, said he'd originally wanted Towne to do a The new print, stmck specially for the program, was rewrite of "The Great Gatsby." made from the original elements, courtesy of the Academy "He turned me down. He said 'I'm not going to rewrite Film Archive and Paramount Pictures.

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MARGARET HERRICK LIBRARY NAMES A READING ROOM FOR KATHARINE HEPBURN

Keith Gonzales, ed itor THE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS READING ROOM OF THE ACADEMY'S MARGARET of the Academy Players HERRICK LIBRARY HAS BEEN NAMED THE KATHARINE HEPBURN READING R OOM Directory, has been promoted IN RECOGNITION OF THE DONATION TO THE LIBRARY OF THE KATHARINE to a new position which HEPBURN COLLECTION OF THE ACTRESS 'S CAREER PAPERS . integrates his PO duties with DONATED TO THE ACADEMY BY HEPBURN'S ESTATE, THE THOUSANDS additional responsibilities, OF PHOTOGRAPHS, DECADES WORTH OF CORRESPONDENCE, NUMEROUS including management of the SCRAPBOOKS, ANNOTATED SCREENPLAYS AND NOTES ON A WIDE VARIETY OF SUB­ Pickford Center building, JECTS WERE CALLED "A TREASURE THAT RANKS AMONG THE LIBRARY' S HOLDINGS Executive Administrator Ric AS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION DEVOTED TO ANY PERFORMER' S Robertson has announced. CAREER" BY ACADEMY EXECUTIVE D IRECTOR B RUCE D AVIS. Additionally, Robertson THE COLLECTION AND THE NAMING OF THE READING ROOM WERE said , Gonzales will assume CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER WITH A PRIVATE PARTY AT THE LIBRARY. new duties in the area of information management to organize the Academy's various databases "under the umbrella of a single, unified system ." Gonzales' tenure with the Academy began in 1993 when he joined the Players Directory staff as a research assistant. ACADEMY GOVERNOR JUNE FORAY AND PAST GOVERNOR , AND KELLY AND LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS PERUSE MATERIALS FROM THE KATHARINE HEPBURN COLLECTION ON DISPLAY IN THE LIBRARY DURING THE PARTY.

A C ADEMY Q U ART ERLY R EP O RT · FOU RT H QUA RT ER 2004 13 FROM LEFT, TINA MAJORINO AND EFREN RAMIREZ, ACTORS IN "NAPOLEON DYNAMITE," JARED HESS, DIRECTOR AND CO·WRITER, AND JEREMY COON, PRODUCER AND EDITOR.

FALL HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM Is "DYNAMITE"

Belmont, Fremont, Lincoln, 1Il1CllOlY ___IIlSIllSCIOII:IS Asked what message they III Taft and Venice high schools mRWlHCAlIHPIIlJIIUIIP were trying to send to the audi­ PIISm participated in the fall 2004 THE ..mil UTEHICY PROJECT ence, Hess said, "just friendship FA1l2004 Media Literacy project, a joint and acceptance." twice-yearly program of the "There are so many Academy and the Urban outsiders and loners out there Education Partnership. whose stories deserve to be Students from the five Los heard," he said. "I feel like Angeles area high schools spent Napoleon was me and so many three days at the Academy in other people I knew growing up. October discussing stereotypes I wanted people to have an in film . The final day included a opportunity to get to know this screening of "Napoleon type of person where normally Dynamite," a film about an alien­ they wouldn't in real life. ated teen who decides to help a "Besides the fact I just really new friend win the class wanted to do a comedy." presidency in their small-town A 30-page booklet of student high school, and discussion papers, sketches and poems with writer-director Jared Hess, inspired by their three-day expe­ editor-producer Jeremy Coon and actors Tina rience was compiled and published by the Academy Majorino and Efren Ramirez. for distribution within the five participating schools.

1 4 ACA D EM Y QUA RTE R LY REPORT ' VO L UME 16 LEWIS GILBERT TRIBUTE Thf Powfll Piano Plays at Pickford

~ little over a year ago, Executive Director Bruce Davis asked in the Academy Report if there were any members who have "been stumbling over a baby grand that no one in the house seems to play anymore." Sure enough. Jane Powell, widow of long­

THE GANG WAS THERE. FROM LEFT: TOM CONTI, PAULINE COLLINS, time Academy governor and flrst WILLY RUSSELL, LEWIS GILBERT, RICHARD KIEL, JULIE WALTERS, SIR ROGER MOORE, vp Charles M. Powell, had an LADY KRISTINA MOORE, HYLDA GILBERT, DAN TRAVERS AND VIRGINIA MCKENNA. old family Welte grand sitting in London-based members were invited to a her Brentwood living room. November Academy tribute celebrating director-writer­ Manufactured arolmd 1920, the producer Lewis Gilbert's 60th anniversary in film . piano had been in Mrs. Powell's Gilbert is the director of more than 40 films, family since the early 1940s. including "Sink the Bismarck," "Alfie ," "Educating Rita" The nearly 85-year-old but still­ and three of the James Bond franchise movies. elegant piano has been moved to The evening was introduced by Academy President the Linwood Dunn Theater, lovingly Frank Pierson, hosted by Sir Roger Moore, and included tuned, and will now accompany the comments from Virginia McKenna, Michael Winner, Academy's many silent fUm programs in that venue. It looks Richard Kiel, Sir Kenneth Adam , Pauline Collins, Julie very comfortable in its new home. Walters and video remarks by Michael Caine, followed A plaque is afflxed noting that by a lively conversation between Gilbert and Moore. the piano is "A gift from Jane Powell The tribute was held at the Curzon Soho Cinema. and Mel Powell in honor of Charles M. Powell, 2004."

Eleven short and feature-length documentaries, including the Oscar­ winning "Fog of War" and two other nOminees, screened in Part One of the 2004 - 2005 Contemporary Documentary Series, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SCiences, the Academy Foundation and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The series kicked off in October with regular showings at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Except for one annual !MAX screening, it was the flrst time the "regular" fllms in the doc series had screened anywhere other than UCLA. All screenings in the series are free. Part Two of the series began in January at UCLA's Theater, the traditional venue for the fUms.

A C ADEMY Q U ARTERLY R EPO RT · F OU RTH QUARTER 2004 15 2004 NICHOLL WINNERS NICHOU FEuows HAVE A STELLAR TRACK RECORD Six new screenwriters, two of whom wrote collaboratively, are the recipients of the Academy's 2004 Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. Since the program's inception in 1985, They are: Doug Davidson from Baldwin, New York, for his sCript titled "Letter 88 fellowships have been awarded, and a number of the fellows have aclrleved Quest"; Daniel Lawrence, Los Angeles, "The Gaza Golem"; Sean Mahoney, Nicasio, considerable success. This year saw the California, "Fenian's Trace"; Whit Rummel, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, "The Secret release of the critically acclaimed Boy"; John Sinclair and Nova Jacobs, Los Angeles, "Split Infinity." "Mean Creek," written and directed by The Nicholl Fellows received the first installment of the prestigious fellowship's Jacob Estes from his 1998 Nicholl-win­ $30,000 prize money at a dinner at the Regent Beverly Wilshire in November. They ning script, and ''Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," co-written by 1993 Fellow have to complete a different feature-length screenplay during the fellowship year to Victoria Arch. "Admissions" (aka "Island get the rest of the money. of Brilliance"), Dawn O'Leary's 1993 Academy Award winner Ed Zwick winning script, premiered at the Mill was the keynote speaker at the dinner. Valley Film Festival. 1998 Fellow Mike Writer/comedian Hal Kanter, a mem­ Rich wrote "Radio," 'The Rookie" and ber of the Nicholl Committee, served ''Finding Forrester," which was his Nicholl-winning script. Other produced again as master of ceremonies. Nicholl-winning scripts include 1998 A record 6,073 sCripts were Fellow Karen Moncrietrs "Blue Car" and submitted for this year's competition, 1996 Fellow Ehren Kruger's "Arlington which is open to any individual who Road." Kruger also wrote 'The Ring," has not sold or optioned a screenplay "Scream 3" and "Reindeer Games" and has three films slated for release in or teleplay for more than $5,000 or 2005. Allison Anders, a 1986 Fellow, is ABOVE: NICHOLL received a fellowship or prize that the co-writer and director of 'Things COMMITTEE CHAIR includes a "first look" clause, an behind the Sun" and the writer-director SUSANNAH GRANT option, or any other quid pro quo of "Gas Food Lodging" and "Mi Vida LISTENS TO FELLOW Loea." Grant, who joined the committee NOVA JACOBS DUR­ involving the writer's work. in 2001, received an Academy Award ING THE LUNCH FOR The five 2004 fellowship-winning nomination for her "Erin Brockovich" NICHOLL COMMIT­ scripts were selected from a pool of TEE MEMBERS AND screenplay, and also wrote or co-wrote FINALISTS. JACOBS' ten finalists by the Nicholl Committee, "28 Days," "Ever After" and WRITING PARTNER, chaired by writer and 1992 Nicholl "Pocahontas." 1992 Fellow Andrew JOHN SINCLAIR, IS Fellow Susannah Grant and com­ Marlowe wrote "Air Force One," AT LEFT. prising of writers John Gay, Fay "Hollow Man" and "End of Days." Raymond De Felitta, a 1991 Fellow, Kanin, Kanter, Dan Petrie Jr. and wrote and directed ''Two Family House" , cinematographer PRESENTATION DINNER (from his Nicholl Fellowship year KEYNOTE SPEAKER ED ZWICK. Steven Poster, editor Mia Goldman, script), "Cafe Society" and 'The Thing actor Eva Marie Saint, executive Bill About My Folks." 1986 Fellow Jeffrey Mechanic, producers Gale Anne Hurd, Eugenides won a 2003 Pulitzer Prize David Nicksay and Buffy Shutt, and for his novel "Middlesex." agent Ron Mardigian.

HAL KANTER EMCEES THE PRESENTATION JUST VISITING By HOWARD LOBERFELD Have you been invited to speak at sponsored by a non-profit group, you your alma mater, participate in a panel can suggest that the host institution discussion, serve on a fJ1m festival apply to the Visiting Artists Program jury or spend time as an "artist in resi­ for transportation ftmds. All they dence," yet the sponsoring organization need to do is submit a written pro­ can't afford to get you there? Then you posal outlining the history and scope should know about the Academy of the inviting organization, a break­ FOlmdation's Visiting Artists Program. down of how the Visiting Artist's Many members aren't aware of the time will be utilized and the expected Foundation's longstanding program impact the visit will have on the which pays for members' travel to and audience involved. from scholarly engagements at schools, The Academy Foundation will fUm festivals and other nonprofit carefully consider all proposals and organizations. Through the Visiting will evaluate them on the basis of Artists Program, Academy members merit and need. can receive airfare as well as grOlmd Questions about the Academy's transportation to and from their Visiting Artists Program should be home airport. addressed to Randy Haberkamp, coor­ The 35-year-old program was dinator of the Academy's educational MILLIE PERKINS, LEFT CENTER, AND DIANE designed to allow schools and organiza­ BAKER, WHO APPEARED IN GEORGE STEVENS' programs and special projects, at tions to experience direct contact with "THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK," WERE (310) 247-3000, extension 196, or via working ftlm professionals, establishing ACADEMY VISITING ARTISTS IN SAN RAFAEL. e-mail to [email protected]. THEY ARE FLANKED BY RICHARD PETERSON, an important link between the academic DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING AT THE study of ftlms and the people who make CHRISTOPHER B. SMITH THEATER, LEFT, AND Howard Loberfeld, the MARK FISHKIN, FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE them. Over the years it has been utilized DIRECTOR OF THE CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE. Academy's credits coordinator, to send members everywhere from is a former journalist. Sacramento to Sarajevo. While institutions and organizations use the program for help procuring Visiting Artists, coordinator Randy Haberkamp reports that approximately half of the proposals come from Academy members themselves. When actress Lisa Eichhorn was invited to visit the National Theatre in war­ tom Kosovo, she did so with the help of the program. Director and former Academy President Arthur Hiller led a master class in Greece, executive Barbara Boyle critiqued student pitches at New York University, actor Joe Pantoliano participated in the Florida Film Festival and writer Joan Tewkesbury delivered a keynote address at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania - all through the Visiting Artists Program. Recent uses of the program include documentary branch governor Arthur Dong's visit to Warsaw, Poland, for the Human Rights and International Film Festival, and a screening of "The Diary of Anne Frank" in San Rafael, CalifOrnia, featur­ ACADEMY GOVERNOR ARTHUR DONG, LEFT, IN WARSAW, POLAND, ing the fJ1m's co-stars, Diane Baker and Millie Perkins. WITH THE DIRECTOR OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, MACIEJ NOWICKI, CENTER, AND FESTIVAL MAN AGER If you have been invited to an out-of-town college, media MARIANNE CHODKOWSKA. art center, fJ1m festival, conference or other ftlm-related event

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CATES AND ROCK FOR 77TH OSCAR TELECAST

Gilbert Cates has received his 12th "I'm delighted that Frank has asked me to assigrunent as producer of the annual rejoin the Academy for a twelfth stint as producer Academy Awards telecast, and he will captain of a show that I love to do," said Cates. "I the 77th Awards scheduled for broadcast at already have ideas whirling around in my head 5 p.m. on Slmday, February 27,2005, on the and can't wait to see them through to fruition ABC Television Network. (We don't want on Oscar Night." you to forget that date. And remember to One of Cates' ideas was to ask comedian tell your friends.) Chris Rock to take on the hosting duties for Cates, who has eleven telecasts to his the show. credit since 1990, has produced more Oscar "I'm a huge fan of Chris Rock," Cates said. shows than any other producer. "He always makes me laugh and he always has "With eleven shows under his belt, no LOUIS J . HORVITZ, LEFT, AND something interesting to say. Chris represents the other producer, living or dead, even comes GIL CATES AT THE 76TH best of the new generation .of comics. Having AWARDS GOVERNORS BALL. close to the depth of Gil's experience," him host the Oscars is terrific. I can't wait." Academy President Frank Pierson said. This will be Rock's flrst stint as Oscar hOSt. "We're lucky to have him back!" The telecast will be preceded once again by the telecast Cates' previous outings as producer have garnered 85 on ABC of the Academy's official arrivals pre-show from Emmy nominations and 21 Emmy Awards. Cates won the 5 to 5:30 p .m. Cates also will serve as executive producer of Emmy himself in 1991 for producing the 63rd Annual that show. Academy Awards telecast.

AND THE TEAMS ARE RETURNING ...

.. . TO THE PRODUCTION Roy CHRISTOPHER, production designer , musical director

MICHAEL SELIGMAN DENNIS DoTY, pre-show producer CHECKS RED CARPET DANETTE HERMAN, executive in charge of talent RAIN PREPARATIONS AT THE 76TH AWARDS. LOUIS J. HORVITZ, director MICHAEL SEUGMAN, associate producer

...TO THE GOVERNORS BALL

SID GANIS AND CHERYL CHERYL CECCHETfO, Governors Ball producer BOONE ISAACS PREVIEW SID GANIS , Governors Ball co-chair THE TABLE SETTINGS FOR THE 77TH AWARDS , Governors Ball co-chair GOVERNORS BALL. WOLFGANG PuCK, Governors Ball executive chef

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A design by an always been my pas­ unknown newcomer has sion, so it's unbeliev­ been selected by the ably gratifying that Academy of Motion my work will be used Picture Arts and to promote such a Sciences for the 77th prestigious event." Academy Awards Davidson studied commemorative poster. both film and graphic Brett Davidson, who design at the has been on staff at the University of Miami in Academy for 10 years Florida. After moving and currently serves as to Los Angeles in the organization's infor­ 1994, he continued mation systems support his design studies at specialist, was compet­ the University of ing against dozens of Southern California established artists who while taking a job at submitted designs for the Academy. the 77th Oscar poster. His work at the BRETT DAVIDSON Davidson's design organization has was chosen through a blind selection process by been in the Information Technology department, mak­ Academy executives and members of its Board of ing sure that the computers that serve the Academy Governors. are up-to-date and functioning smoothly. "We looked at dozens of designs but there was Elements of Davidson's poster design are being something about Brett's image that we all were drawn utilized in motion graphics, press kits and numerous to; it was a unanimous decision," said Academy other promotional materials as part of the Academy's Executive Director Bruce Davis. "It was only after we marketing and public relations campaigns for the had made the decision that we found out the designer . was one of our own staff. It's great for Brett to have In addition, 50,000 Oscar posters have been this opportunity." distributed nationwide. The commemorative poster will Davidson's design incorporates brilliant quadrants be available for purchase until March 14 on the as a colorful backdrop for the Oscar statuette. Academy's website www.oscars.org/publications, or via "I was so excited when I found out my design had phone at 1-800-554-1814. It is the sixth consecutive year been chosen ," said Davidson. "Graphic design has the poster has been offered for purchase to the public.

ACA D EMY QUA R TERLY R EPO R T ' FOURTH QUA RTE R 2004 21 Sci T,(h (ommitt" R,vi,ws D,vi(,s for Pot,ntial Awards

EIGHT DEVICES BEING CONSID­ ERED FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACADEMY AWARDS THE OSCARS ARE WERE DEMONSTRATED MID-OCTOBER FOR THE SCIENTIFIC IN MARCH IN 2006 AND TECHNICAL AWARDS

The Board of Governors has selected Sunday, COMMITIEE AND SEVERAL OF ITS ADVISORY COMMITIEES. March 5, as the date for the 78th Academy THE DEMOS WERE HELD FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE liNWOOD Awards in 2006, so the show will fall a week DUNN THEATER AT THE ACADEMY'S PICKFORD CENTER FOR later in the calendar than in 2004 and 2005. MOTION PICTURE STUDY IN HOLLYWOOD. The shift will avoid a conflict with the clos­ IN THE TOP PHOTO , ATIENDEES CHECKED OUT THE SPARROW ing ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics, HEAD BICYCLE AND MOTORCYCLE CAMERA MOUNTS BEING which are scheduled to fall on the Academy's DEMONSTRATED BY DOGGICAM SYSTEMS. BOTIOM: MEMBERS new "natural" date of Sunday, February 26, OF THE SPECIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ADVISORY GROUP GATHERED Academy President Frank Pierson said. "It didn't AFTER THE DEMOS TO EVALUATE WHAT THEy'D SEEN. seem fair to make viewers have to choose THE EIGHT DEMON- between these two special events." STRATED ACHIEVEMENTS Pierson said the Academy is very pleased WERE AMONG 22 with what had originally been characterized as a ASSESSED BY THE two-year experiment in moving the Awards pre­ COMMITIEE FOR THE sentations almost a month earlier than in the past, and that late-February broadcasts of the 77TH ACADEMY AWARDS, Oscars will resume in 2007. CHAIR RICHARD EDLUND The 2006 and 2007 broadcasts, as well as SAID. THE COMMITIEE 2005's 77th Awards on Sunday, February 27, will RECOMMENDED be carried, as they have for the most recent 14 AWARDS. thirty years, live by ABC.

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Director Sidney Lurnet will receive an Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, during the 77th Annual Academy Award Presentations to honor his "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture." "Lurnet is one of the most important film directors in the history of American cinema," said Academy President Frank Pierson, "and his work has left an indelible mark on both audiences and the history of film itself. It was a great personal pleasure and professional honor to call Sidney to tell him he'd won his profession's highest honor." The son of actor Baruch Lurnet and dancer Eugenia Wermus, Lurnet was born in Philadelphia and made his stage debut at New York's Yiddish Art Theater at the age of four, acting until the 1950s when he began working as a television director. Lurnet made his feature film debut in 1957 with the widely praised "12 Angry Men," which earned him an Academy Award nomination for directing. He has earned three additional directing nominations, for "" (screenplay by Pierson) in 1975, "Network" in 1976 and ''The Verdict" in 1982, as well as a nomination for adapted screenplay (with Jay Presson Allen) for " of the City" in 1981. His more than 40 films include such additional titles as "Running on Empty," "The Wiz," "Equus," "Murder on the Orient Express," "Serpico," "Fail-Safe," "The Pawnbroker" and "Long Day's Joumey into Night."

·: .K(>GIR MAYER - THE J EAN H ERSHOLT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

Roger Mayer, president of Tumer Entertainment Co., will receive the Jean Hersholt Hurnanitarian Award during the 77tl1 Annual Academy Award Presentations. The award, an Oscar statuette, is given to an individual in me motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry. "The board was persuaded in large measure by Roger's longtime efforts on behalf of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, as well as his efforts in film preservation," Academy President Frank Pierson said. "Throughout a more than half-century-Iong career in the motion picture industry Roger has been a fixture on the boards of a wide variety of charitable organizations. He has always given his time to support the needs of his industry." Mayer has served the Motion Picture and Television Fund for over 25 years, eight of them as chair of its board of trustees. (One of the organizers of the MPTF, which originally was called the Motion Picture Relief Fund, was Jean Hersholt, who served as its president and for whom the award Mayer will receive is named.) Mayer is the founding chair of the board of directors of the National Film Preservation Foundation, created by Congress in 1996 to preserve "orphan films ," which have no studio or other entity with an economic motive to save them. He also is a member of the National Film Preservation Board, which advises the Librarian of Congress concern­ ing films to be added to the National Film Registry, and he has been active with the Permanent Charities Committee of the Entertainment Industry, the United Jewish Welfare Fund and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Silent Film Gala.

MlYAGISIDMA - T HE G ORDON E. SAWYER AWARD

Takuo Miyagishima, one of the most notable design engineers in the motion picture industry, will receive me Gordon E. Sawyer Award, an Oscar statuette, at the Scientific and Technical Awards Dinner on February 12 at the Ritz Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. Established in 1981 , the Sawyer Award is "presented to an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." Miyagishima is the 18th reCipient. "Tak has been and continues to be a leading design engineer," said Richard Edlund, chair of me Scientific and Technical Awards Committee. "His work with Panavision, in particular the technologies he has created, revolutionized the industry." Miyagishima began his award-Winning career with Panavision in 1955. Under his guidance, Panavision received two Oscars, first in 1978 for the Panaflex Motion Picture Camera System and again in 1993 for the Auto Panatar anamor­ phic photographic lens. He received both a Technical Achievement Award and a Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy in 1998 (with Albert Saiki) for the design and development of the Eyepiece Leveler and the mechanical design of the Primo Lens Series, respectively. He also won an En1my Award for the Lens Series in 2ool. In 1999, Miyagishima received the Academy's John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, awarded for "outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy." That same year the American Society of Cinematographers gave him (and Albert Mayer) its President's Award honoring his contributions to the industry.

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