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my ex officio privilege at a meeting of one of Friday, J.... 23 - __ GoIdwyn Theater: committees last month when I was dealt an Academy Standards Screenings: 7:00 p.m., DINlm AT lesson in humility. A question had arisen about EIGHT; 9:00 p.m., GWD Hom.

for one of the policies governing our foreign .1liiy 5 ...... A.s' 9, six COIIS4KWIive Wetlaesdays - 1:00 p. .., AcadeIIy UtIle rds I and I referred the group to an argument r d Theater: Seminar: Producers on Producing, induding space in last quarter's Academy Report. Mace Neufeld, Robert Rehme, Lawrence Bender. members present, only two had read the remarks designed to let every Academy member become an 1MscIay, .1liiy 20 - 8.-GO ,&, s-eI GoIdwyn Theat.: SOIh Anniversory Screening of I

ON THE COVER: The cover portrait of Myrna Loy is one of the 60 George - ARTHUR HIlLER Hurrell photos on display in the Academy Gallery June 17 through August 27. ACADEMY GRANTS BRANCH STATUS TO VISUAL EFFECTS MEMBERS FIRST NEW BRANCH IN 42 YEARS

isual effects members of the Academy will elect their first The last increase in the number of branches was in 1953, when full representatives to the Academy's Board of Governors the Board of Governors created the Administrators Branch. That Vnext month. They were granted bran ch status by the board branch lasted for 17 years. In June of 1970, it was absorbed into in February. the Executives Branch. The number of governors, however, was It is the first new Academy branch in 42 years. Branch status will increased from 24 to 36 in 1973 when the number of representatives permit the roughly 130 visual effects specialists w ho are currently from each branch was increased from two to three. members at large to elect three of their company as governors of the "Visual effects artists are advancing the art of moviemaking in Academy. This will increase the size of the board to 39. Some visual virtually every type of film," Academy President Arthur Hiller effects specialists who presently are members of other branches also said . "By granting branch status to our visual effects members, may choose to transfer to the new Visual Effects Branch. tlle Academy is acknowledging another important set of contributors The branch's first nominating committee met in late May to select to state-of-the-art filmmaking as it really exists today." the slate. Three members of the new branch will be elected, one "Visual effects specialists have made contributions that go well each to a three year, two year and one year term to put them beyond their own craft," Erland said. "Visual effects are not immediately into the rotation system that sees a third of the limited to action or science fic tion movies, they can heighten Academy's governors up for election each year. emotions of a dramatic film. The range of movies that use effects Jonathan Erland has sat as a non-voting member of the board, in a subtle but important way just continues to grow." representing visual effects members, since August of 1993.

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IT ALL STARTED WITH FIVE BRANCHES SHORT FILMS BRANCH When the Academy began in 1927, it was organized into five branches: GETS LONGER NAME Actors, Directors, Producers, Technicians and Writers. In 1939, the Technicians Branch was renamed the Science Branch and established The Short Films Branch of the Academy is now known as the four sections: Art Directors, Cinematographers, Film Editors and Sound. Short Films and Animation Branch. Two new branches were created in 1941, Music and Short Subjects, The Board of Governors of the Academy voted the name while the Producers Branch was renamed the Producers and Executives change in January, Academy President Arthur Hiller said, in an Branch. Two years later saw the creation of the Public Relations Branch, effort to "create a logical home for animators who work primarily which was formed from a committee established in 1940 called the in feature animation." Public Relations Institute. Some 150 animators had been members of the "short fi lms" branch even though many newer members have worked exclusively In 1947, the branches and sections evolved into 12 branches, or almost so on feature-length animated films, Hiller said. grouped into Arts Branches and Sciences Branches. The Arts Branches The Academy defines a feature-length film as a motion picture included Actors, Directors, Executives, Music, Producers, Public "over 40 minutes in running time." Relations, Short Subjects and Writers. The Sciences Branches included The new name of the branch reflects the actual make-up of its Art Directors, Cinematographers, Film Editing and Sound. The Short members, Hiller said . "They are animators of both shorts and Subjects Branch changed its name to Short Films in 1974, and again in features, as well as makers of live action short films." January of this year to Short Films and Animation. The reference to Arts The name change took effect immediately and does not affect and Sciences subgroupings is no longer used. the administration or membership of the branch, or the short film ca tegories of the annual Academy Awards.

3 eorge and Gracie. Lucy and Ricky. Academy members." Redford and Newman. Micky and The venerable hotel and the distinguished GMinnie. Perfect matches are few and Academy have "dated" almost since the far between, but when the right chemistry is property opened in 1912. Darryl F. Zanuck, a struck, sparks fly and "magic" is inevitable. founding member of the Academy The Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows, Foundation, was one of the frequent guests which reopened June 3 after a of EI Jardin, renamed the Polo Lounge in two-and-a-half-year closing for a 1941 by hotelier Hernando Courtwright for complete restoration, hosted its Zanuck and his polo-playing friends, who gala opening party to benefit the included Will Rogers, Tommy Hitchcock and Academy Foundation. Spencer Tracy. Robert Wagner and Robert Kerman Beriker, chief executive officer Stack later joined these gentlemen in the and general manager of the hotel, was game of polo, played in the bean fields aiming for $100,000 to be raised for behind the hotel. In more recent years, the the Center for Motion Picture Study. Academy has hosted many functions at the "We have always been proud to be hotel, including the Scientific and Technical associated with the Academy," said Beriker. Awards, the Student Academy Awards, and, "We believe this is a natural partnership for for many years, a Foreign Language Film the celebration of our reopening, especially Award press conference the Saturday before since so many of our longtime guests are also the Oscar Show.

A February tribute featuring clips from Academy Award-winning and nominated animation from the past 25 years, as well as personal appearances by a number of the greatest living animators, served as the opening night of the Grand Lobby exhibition, "The Best of Soviet Animation Art. " The impressive collection of drawings, (0 Hoedemon, Academy Award·winning animator, THE SAND CASTLE (1977). sketches, cels and puppets from the former Soviet Union dated back to 1918 and were loaned to the Academy by the Mike and Jeanne Glad Family Tru st. Author and critic Leonard Maltin presided over the tribute evening , which featured Prescott Wright, William Littlejohn , Terry Th oren, Co Hoedeman, Ishu Patel, Frederick Frederic Bock, who won Animated Short Film Oscars for (lAC! (19811 and THE Back and Bill Kroyer. MAN WHO PlANTED TREES (19871. ------nen 0 fffi V "fPO T-

CHUCK JONES DELIVERS 2ND DAVIS LECTURE

Chuck Jones, the maestro behi nd Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner, Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig , and one of the most important figures in the history of film animation , delivered the Marc Davis Lecture on Animation in April at the Clint Eas1wood, Steyen Spielberg, George Lucas Chuck Jones, leM, with Mor( Dovis, for whom the onnuollecture on Samuel Goldwyn Theater. onimotion is nomed, ot 0 reception preceding his tolk . Jones' career spans more than 60 years. During that time WORLD'S FI LM ARCHIVES he made more than 250 films, including THE DOT AND THE LINE (1965) , for which COMETO los ANGELES FORFIAF 1995 he took home an Academy Award in the Short Subject (Cartoon) category. The Marc Davis Lecture on Animation was establi shed in 1994 and named in A galaxy of star-power directors discussed film preservation honor of the man who gave life to such characters as Flower, Br'er Rabbit, at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater during the 1995 Cinderella, Tinkerbell , Maleficent and Cruella DeVil. Congress of the International Federation of Film Archives in April, the largest gathering ever of film archivists . ••••••• • ••• •• ••• ••••• • ••• ••••••• •• ••• ••• • ••• ••• • Assembled on the Goldwyn stage in two panels moderated by UCLA's Robert Rosen were Clint Eastwood , Steven LESSER FAMILY GIVES Speilberg, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese (who sat on both panels), Peter Bogdanovich, Charles Burnett and Nora Ephron. MICROFILM READER-PRINTER TO LIBRARY The Academy Film Archive co-hosted the Congress with the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute. More than 300 archivists from 50 nations took part. Academy Film Archive Director Michael Friend served on lhe Congress organizing committee and moderated a panel on New Technologies for Preservation at Sony Studios during the eight-day Congress.

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contribution of over $10,000 for the purchase of a new microfilm reader-printer has been made by the Sol Lesser Family to the AMargaret Herrick Library. The reader-printer will replace the one given by Sol Lesser when the Academy first moved into its 8949 Wilshire Boulevard headquarters. Shown in photo with Library Nora Eplvoo Director Linda Mehr, second from left, are Lesser's son, Julian "Bud" Lesser, daughter Marjorie L. Fasman and grandson Stephan O. Lesser.

5 'Twas the night Johnson distributed the spots in the Goldwyn Theater. nominations list to Executive At 4 a.m., slides of nominees Director Bruce Davis and the were checked, sorted, re-checked before the Academy staff (2). and installed in five projectors Within minutes, the Awards by Dave Taylor of Audio Visual nominations Publicity staff began culling Headquarters, left, and Doug photos and bios. Zan Gaudioso Stewart of D.M.S. Production announcement, wheeled nominees' pictures and Services (11) . Academy President bios to the Academy's 7th floor Arthur Hiller and co-announcer and all through boardroom. (3) Angela Bassett (12) reviewed Academy Historian Patrick names and pronunciations, the Academy... Stockstill (4) began pulling director Jeff Margolis and historic material about associate producer Michael OK, if the voting really nominations, much of which he Seligman (13) readied the set is secret, how does the had prepared in advance, for rehearsals and logistics based on guesswork. Davis, coordinator Tracy Fowler (14) Academy always have Stockstill and Awards publicist reviewed security placements the right photos and Frank Lieberman (5) gathered with Pinkerton's George Reed, in Stockstill's office to write left, and Academy Executive information in the press sidebar materials. Administrator Ric Robertson. kits at 5:30 in the morning Staff spent the next three or At 5:30 a.m., following a when each year's nomi­ four hours collating the material continental breakfast, press into press kits ( 6). rushed for the Goldwyn nations are announced? This year the material also Thea ter (1 5) to hear Hiller Here's how: was computer formatted by and Bassett read the announce­ John Hurst and Dave Mangone ments live at 5:38:30 a.m . (16). of Visualize (7) for the For the next 45 minutes, In December, the Academy Academy's Internet website. assembled press scrambled to asked studios to provide 400 (The nominations information interview Bassett (17), Hiller, copies of photos, bios and other was accessed 106,193 times by and (lS) show producer Gil information for any film, acting the end of February and almost Cates and director Margolis or directing achievement they half a million times to date. and to pick up press kits (19). thought had even a ghost of a Take a look at the Academy's Finally at 6:15 a.m., Theater chance of being nominated. website yourself. It's at http:/ Operations Coordinator Michael Awards publicity staff sorted /www.ampas.org/ampas/ and Angel convened studio represen­ the accumulated material by it's open 24 hours, seven days!) tatives to select by lottery screening category (photo 1). LD.s were handwritten onto days and times for each nominated Locked in the photo 35mm slides (S). picture (20). copy room at the Academy At midnight, satellite trucks At 9 a.m., fresh staff handled from 9 a.m. the morning before -jockeyed into position in the the day's barrage of phone calls the announcement, Price rain on the A vis lot next door to and requests for nomination Waterhouse staff printed 1,400 the Academy (9), and publicist lists, while the all-nighters copies of the nominations press Lindajo Loftus (10) directed wended their ways home to release. At 9 p.m., PW's Frank their crews to pre-assigned welcome beds. ncnOfmv RfPOR1 -

7 mOnTHS Of PRf- 8ROROCRST [YfnTS I Beginning in November, the Acodemy Awards Public Relations Coordinating CommiHee begins meeting under the guidance of Public Relations Branch Governor Morvin levy, second from right, with fellow PR Branch Governors Sid Ganis ond Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Telecast Producer Gil Cotes.

Governors Boll Choir Alan Bergman, Academy President Arthur Hiller and Boll CommiMee Member Nino Foch with Spago's PaMy Samuels and Ball Coordinator Cheryl CeccheMo at a tasting at Spago to determine menu and table decor.

Oscarcast Producer Gil Cates with presenter Jamie lee Curtis at the Scientific and Technical Awards dinner, held this year at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel. A Beacon litho technician checks the Soul Boss-designed poster as 7,000 copies roll off the press.

work and the Oscor billboard cover couldn't be lilted off Fred Haymon's annual Oscar fashion preview has become one of Oscar season's most popular events. Above, Harry Winston stunt, Academy President Arthur Hiller offered to climb representatives adorn a model with some of the millions of dollars worth of precious jewelry worn . I of covering camero crews. lno TO TH[ USCnA SHorn nno n3~.S HnTInG

Sorely pressed to find 0 quiet spot, Academy President Arthur Hiller grabbed a few moments in the still·under·construction press tent.

Jeon Hersholt Humonitorion Award honoree Quincy Jones was feted at a luncheon at Universol Studios aHended by Academy President Arthur Hiller, behind Jones, and past Hersholt recipients Walter Mirisch, David L Wolper, Lew R. Wasserman, Howard W. Koch and Charlton Heston.

Executive Administrator Ric Robertson is interviewed by one of dozens of television crews which documented what seemed like every second of Oscor weekend.

Associate Producer Michael Seligman confers with telecast writers Hal Kanter ond BUll Kohan.

The New York Events CommiHee, under the chairmonship of Arthur Manson, hosted its sixth annual east coast celebration ,of the Academy Awards Presentation with a gala dinner and screening at the Russian Tea Room on Oscar Night. Among guests feasting on seared tronche of salmon ond Executive Administrator Ric Robertson and Progrom Coordinator Mikel pan roasted filet mignon as they enjoyed the 67th Academy Awards was actress Penelope Ann Kaufman discuss video wall angles in the Governors Ball site, Miller, who cuddled up to Oscar during the reception.

9 ACADEMY TWICE REPRISES TRIBUTE TO HOLLYWOOD IN WW II

tribute to Hollywood's on- and off-screen Deauville, by Robert Osborne, author of 65 Years of the war efforts, which was originally staged by Oscar. Participating in New York were Academy A the Academy at the Deauville Film Festival President Arthur Hiller, last September, has been presented twice more, in writer Garson Kanin and January in New York City in cooperation with the actress Teresa Wright. Film Society of Lincoln Center, and in May at the In Los Angeles, partic­ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in celebration of the 50th ipants included director anniversary of V-E Day. Edward Dmytryk, actors Through film clips and personal appearances, Bob Hope and Robert "Films for the Fight: Hollywood in World War II" Stack and International honored the contributions of the American film Combat Cameraman's industry to the international war effort made during Association members and after World War II. Russ Meyer and Harrold The program was moderated, as it was in A. Weinberger. Bob Hope was a press foYorite in los Angeles • newly restored print of PATHER P ANCHALI, the first film of Indian A filmmaker Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy, had its Los Angeles premiere at the Academy in April. P ATHER P ANCHALI is one of several Ray films that the Academy Film Archive has restored with the help of producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory, through their Merchant Ivory Foundation. Merchant was present to introduce the film, which looks at a poverty-stricken Indian family in Bengal. The print was screened courtesy of Sony Picture Classics. A collaborative project was begun in 1993 between the Academy and the Merchant Ivory Foundation to preserve and restore the work of the Indian director, with Academy Film Archive Director Michael Friend overseeing the restoration and preservation work, Merchant and Ivory providing financial support, and several archives around the world lending film elements. Besides PATHER PANCHALI, work is completed or underway on eight other Ray titles. HCHOfffiV RfPORT ------

TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF NICHOLL 5CREENWRITING FELLOWSHIP BEGINS

The tenth annua~ Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screen writing competition is underway with as much as $125,000 to be awarded to up to five new screenwriters later this year. Last year's competition drew a record number of entries - 3,934 - from every state and 20 foreign countries. A new rule that prohibits the submission of scripts previously entered has slightly diminished the total number of entries this year, but you couldn' t tell by looking at the piles of scripts facing Nicholl Fellowships Administrator Greg Beal (photo). Entries have been received so far from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In addition, scripts have come in from 23 countries, including first-time-ever entries from the Bahamas, Colombia, Czech Republic, Israel, Jamaica, Mexico, the Philippines and Russia. Up to five grants of $25,000 each are awarded with the understanding that the recipients will each complete a new feature screenplay during the fellowship year. Past winners include writer-director Allison Anders (GAS FOOD LODGING, MI VIDA LocA), writer-director Radha Bharadwaj (CLOSET LAND) and Susannah Grant, who recently finished work on Disney's POCAHANTAS. Andrew Marlowe, a 1993 Nicholl Fellow, recently sold a script written during his fellowship year. One of last year's recipients, Mikhaila Max Adams, sold a script to Columbia Pictures almost immediately after being named a Nicholl Fellow.

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS USE FILM IN CLASS THRU ACADEMy/TIMES PROGRAM

A pilot program to use film and newspapers to enhance the learning experience began in April when nearly 750 eleventh graders from seven schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District gathered at the Academy to interact with Los Angeles Times movie critic Peter Rainer and writer-director Radha Peter Rainer Bharadwaj in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The Academy, the Los Angeles Times' Times in Education Program and the Los Angeles Educational Partnership (Humanitas) have designed the program with the District and are participating jointly. Students will attend three screenings at the Academy, screen tapes Radha Bharadwoj in their classrooms and receive the Los Angeles Times each day. The screenings and use of the newspaper center around thematic units in their American High School students interact with Rainer and Bharadwoj Literature and U.S. History courses. in the Samuel Galdwyn Theater.

11 GOOD SAMARITANS RETURN STOLEN OSCAR TO MARGARET O'BRIEN By Frank H. Lieberman The miniature Oscar interested in purchasing it kept doubting him . The price was statuette presented $100 for all three awards. I should have bought it then , but I'm to Margaret O'Brien into baseball and have no interest in Hollywood memorabilia. at the 17th Academy Last December, this time at the monthly swap meet at Awards was returned Pasadena City College, I saw it again. Th is time a lady was to her in February, sell ing the three awards for $600." ending a 37-year Again, Neimand passed. A short time later he met Nash, search. The statuette also at the swap meet searching for baseball memorabilia. was given back to Neimand told him about the Oscar and other awards. "Mark O'Brien at Academy said that 'things like this happen for a reason . Let's offer her and Mark $500 and we'll split it,'" Neimand recalled. "We memorabilia coll ectors who bought them and within minutes a photographer it, and two additional magazine friend saw us and asked us what we'd bought. longing to O'Brien, at a Pasadena We told him the story and he said that an auction house was doing a Hollywood memorabilia sale received the Special Award as and they'd probably resell it for us." child actress of 1944" on March Photos of the Oscar and other awards were put into the auction catalog . When Academy by a housekeeper" whose main Executive Director Bruce Davis heard about the to look after her ill mother. upcoming auction he called casting director ng," sm il ed O'Brien . "I never Marvin Paige, who he knew was a close friend of be returned. I have looked for O'Brien 's. Paige confirmed that the three awards years in the same type of places had been missing for some 40 years, and the found. I'm an antiques person. Academy undertook to get them returned to her. meets and antique stores all Margaret O'Brien with the miniature Neimand was immediately receptive to the Oscar she won as ' autstand ing child actress of 1944." idea of returning the awards to the performer who was always shining the Oscar. had earned them. she did it at our house , other times she took it O'Brien , who has just completed a world cruise performing ned O'Brien. "I can't remember the exact date "Love Letters" with Russ Tamblyn, and has a film entitled red it was missin g. But it was right after the SUNSET AFTER DARK scheduled for release, was thrilled about for not showing up for work." getting the Oscar returned . first saw th e missing treasure two years ago at a "It was special and I did miss it ," she said. ''I'm so thankful swap meet. to both gentlemen. I hope they won't mind joining me the next was arguing with a customer about it, " Neimand time I go to a swap meet looking for antiques. It's obvious, they vendor insisted it was real and the guy have keen eyes." - FRANK H. LIEBERMAN was Print and Photo Publicity Coordinator for the 67th Annual Academy Awards.

ixty large-format black-and-white photographs taken by famed studio photographer George Hurrell will go on display at the opening of the newly-remodelled Academy Gallery on June 17. Two-thirds of the images Shave not been published since their original appearances in the fan magazines of the 1920s, 30s and 40s. "Unseen Hurrell: Classics and Rediscovered Works" includes photos of Greta Garbo, Robert Montgomery, Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Lon Chaney, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Russell, James Cagney, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and many others. The images are all from Margaret Herrick Library collections. Hurrell was one of the most important studio photographers to emerge during the era that defined Hollywood glamour for the filmgoing public. All of the photos on display were taken between 1928 and 1941. The exhibition will run for ten weeks, through August 27, before traveling to 10 other cities. Academy Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to S p.m., and weekends, noon to 6 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public. The Academy gallery is located on the fourth floor of the Academy's headquarters at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.