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Karl Malden Re-elected Academy President On August 2, Karl Malden was Well, they're going selected by the Board of Gover­ to let me do this for nors to serve a second term as another year. I en­ Academy president. joyed the first time around, although The Board also returned to office I'll admit Lwouldn 't four other incumbents. Public I ,_ " .. mind it if the pace relations branch governor slowed down just a Charles M. Powell was elected to bit this year. his second term as first vice president. Executives branch

If we can get both governor Robert Rehme was re- l..L---,__ -",,""---","---,-,,-, buildings open and elected to one of the remaining Academy Officers: (sitting I. to r.) Robert Rehme, Karl Malden, CharlesM. Powell; (standing I. to r.) Donn Cambern, Fay Kanin, Karl Malden functioning before vice president spots, as was film December, win the editor Donn Cambern. john A . Bonner. appeal on our Oscar copyright case, pre­ Incumbents returned to the Board were pare the first volume of "Oscar's Greatest Sound branch governor John A. Bonner Academy President Karl Malden, actors Moments" for launching, line up the was the only newcomer to take office, as branch; Gilbert Cates, directors; Robert middle $5 million in pledges for the En­ he was elected to his first term as treasurer. Rehme, executives; Charles M. Powell, dowment Campaign and maybe put on Writer and former Academy President public relations; Saul Bass, short films; another rip-roaring Oscar show, that'll Fay Kanin will serve as secretary for the and Kay Rose for the sound branch. second year in a row. be enough for me. I won't be looking for Governors continuing on the Board are any new projects. All officers serve one-year terms. Richard Dreyfuss and Jack Lemmon, ac­ The question I hear most often these days Three First-Time Governors tors branch; Robert F. Boyle and Jerry from our Los Angeles -area members is Wunderlich, art directors; Linwood G. when we'll have our Samuel Goldwyn Added to Board Dunn and Harry Wolf, cinematographers; and Little Theaters open again. The sec­ The Branch elections conducted last Arthur Hiller and Norman Jewison, direc­ ond most - asked question is why the month placed three first-time governors tors; Robert A. Daly and Frank Mancuso, Goldwyn needed any work at all when it on the 36-member Board. Newly elected executives; Donn Cambern and Tom Rolf, was clearly one of the better theaters in to the Board were Albert Brenner, repre­ film editors; Alan Bergman and Arthur sentin the art directors bran~h' Peter E. HamiltQn, usic- ..samuel Berger, ftlm editors branch; and Bruce and Saul Zaentz, producers; Robert The short answer is that the Board didn't Broughton, music branch. Dingilian and Cheryl Boone Isaacs, pub­ think that better was good enough. Call lic relations; June Foray and William C. Also elected and returning after an inter­ it organizational egotism ifyou like, but Littlejohn, short films; John A. Bonner val off the Board were Charles F. Wheeler, the feeling in the Board Room is that our and Donald C. Rogers, sound; and Fay representing the cinematographers theater should, in its technical condi­ Kanin and Hal Kanter, writers. tions, set a world standard for the quality branch, Howard W. Koch for the produc­ of the motion picture experience. Acous­ ers branch and Daniel Taradash, writers All governors serve three-year terms. tical theory and the technology of sound branch. Both Koch and Taradash are past Voting was conducted by Price and projection have all moved on in the presidents of the Academy. Waterhouse. fifteen years since the Goldwyn opened, 1 and it was time for the Academy to set the bar higher again. Academy Foundation Elects .Officers and Trustees Film industry executive Robert Rehme elections held during the August 2 Board And while we were at it we improved the was elected to his third term as president meeting-vice presidents Samuel climate controls, safetyfeatures , seats and of the Academy Foundation, the cultural Goldwyn, Jr. and Karl Malden, treasurer live peiformance capabilities. When we and preservational arm of the Academy Fay Kanin and secretary Alan Bergman. move back in some time in November, I of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. promise you'll agree it was worth the wait. Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Bruce Broughton Four other incumbents were also re- and Daniel Taradash were elected to the 1 turned to office for the 1990-91 year in (continued on page 4) I' \(.1 .! \( \ 1>1 '" IU POlO DeMille, Hope Gifts to Endowment Fund The drive to create a $15 million endow­ bestowed life membership on him for his DeMille's name has become virtually syn­ ment for the Academy Center for Motion "many services to the Academy." onymous with epic-style filmmaking, and Picture Study received a double-barreled his work has been duly honored by the boost in recent weeks when Bob Hope In 1952, Hope was presented with an Academy membership. In 1949, he won and the Cecil B. DeMille Trust made Oscar "for his contribution to the laughter a special Oscar "for 37 years of distin­ pledges to the campaign of $l-rnillion of the world, his services to the motion guished showmanship," and in 1952 he each. The gifts are the largest to date. picture industry and his devotion to the was awarded the Irving Thalberg Memorial American premise," and in 1959 he re­ Award. That same year, DeMille pro­ Two major components of the new Cen­ ceived the third Jean Hersholt Humani­ duced TIlE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTIl, ter will be named in honor of Hope and tarian Award ever given. He was also which won Best Picture honors, and for DeMille. When the Center opens later honored with a special gold medal from which he was a Best Director nominee. this year, visitors will enter the building the Academy in 1965. He also directed and produced Best Pic­ through the Bob Hope Grand Lobby; The DeMille gift is the largest single ture nominee THE TEN COMMANDMENTS then, if the Margaret Herrick Library is in 1965. their destination, the Cecil B. DeMille contribution ever given by the Cecil B. Reading Room will be their first stop. DeMille Trust. The three trustees, Cecilia The Hope and DeMille gifts bring the DeMille Presley, Peter DeMille Calvin campaign's total monies raised to almost Hope and the Academy have enjoyed a and Joseph W. Harper, Jr., are grandchil­ 40 percent of the $15-million goal. long association, one that begins with the dren of the legendary filmmaker. 1 comedian's record 26 appearances on the Oscar telecast. He was awarded a special silver plaque by the organization in 1940, Academy Library To Close and in 1944, the Board of Governors If you're one of the thousands each year the last day to place photo orders, which who visits or calls the Academy's Mar­ must be picked up by August 31. That garet Herrick Library - whether to con­ Friday also marks the last day when the duct weeks of research for a book or have library will be open for the use of all other a simple question answered - you'd holdings, including books, files, scripts better take note: the library is closing. and periodicals. After 15 years of service at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, the Library will soon close in The Center for Motion Picture Study, set preparation for its move to the Academy's to open in December, will house the Center for Motion Picture Study. Herrick Library and the Academy Film Archive. The 63-year-old structure, lo­ During July and August, library services cated at La Cienega and Olympic boule­ have been interrupted in stages. Special vards in La Cienega Park, is currently in Collections materials were removed from the final stages of renovation. 1 service at the end of July. August 17 was On May 30, Robert Rehme, Academy Foundation president, greeted Tom Pollack of MCA/Universal and Raymond Dutfield of Technicolor, Ltd., at a Comden & Green, Mankiewicz Programs in NYC reception hosted by the Century Plaza Hotel and After a summer hiatus, the Academy TO THREE WIVES, THE BAREFOOT Tower. The occasion allowed the Academy to celebrate the fourteen inaugural corporate donors returns to New York with a pair of special CONTESSA, GUYS AND DOLLS and SUD­ to the endowment fund campaign now underway programs. A tribute to writers Betty DENL Y, LAST SUMMER. Director-writer­ for the Academy's Center for Motion Picture Study. Com den and Adolph Green featuring producer Mankiewicz will be present, highlights from their along with several films ON TIlE TOWN, of his celebrated ACADEMY SINGIN' I TIlE RAIN, colleagues, to dis­ REP 0 R T TIlE BAND WAGON cuss his long and and BELLS ARE RING­ Published Quarterly in February, May, August distinguished career. and November by the ING will be staged Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday, Octo­ Both New York pro­ 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, ber 18. Musical per­ grams will be held Beverly Hills, California 90211-1972 formances and a in the Titus Theater I (213) 278-8990 President ...... Karl Malden conversation with at the Museum of First Vice President .. Charles M. Powell Miss Comden and Modern Art and are Vice President ...... Robert Rehme Mr. Green will round presented in col­ Vice President ...... Donn Cambern out this gala event. joseph Mankiewicz's ALL ABOUT EVE, with (/. to r.) laboration with Treasurer ...... John A. Bonner Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe and MoMA. Both the Secretary . . . . Fay Kanin On Thursday, No­ George Sanders; was nominated for 14 Academy Comden and Green Executive Director ...... Bruce Davis Awards in 1950, still the most everfor a single film. vember 29, a tribute and Mankiewicz Co-Editors ...... Greg Beal Mikel Kaufman to four-time Oscar-winner Joseph L. programs will be reprised for Los Angeles Mankiewicz will feature clips from such members in the newly remodeled Samuel This newsletter has been printed on recycled paper. classic works asALL ABOUT EVE, A LETTER Goldwyn Theater. 1 \( \1>1 '" HI P()H I I' \(.. , Oral History Program 17th Annual Student film Unveils the Origins of Awards Presented in June

the Oscar Statuette Culminating what was for them an excit­ ing and exhausting week of activities, the The Academy's Oral History Program has winners of the 17th Annual Student Film recently added to its list of goals the Awards received their prizes in a cer­ documentation of this institution's own emony at the Director's Guild on June 10. history. In a recent talk with Kathleen Morris, the first wife of the original After a warm welcome from Academy Oscar-statuette sculptor, the late George President Karl Malden, the evening Stanley, oral historian Barbara Hall re­ opened with Burt Lancaster presenting corded many faSCinating and delightful the Honorary Foreign Film Award to stories about Stanley's art background, Holland's Mike van Diem for his film his various meetings with Cedric Gibbons, ALASKA. who designed the statuette, the subse­ John Musker, co-director of THE LITfLE quent sculpting and casting of the figure Sculptor George Stanley and finally, Oscar's appearance at the first MERMAID , then presented this year's Achievement Award in Animation in ab­ awards banquet. The following ~e.I:pL want a male figure, " and they came up sentIa to Stacy Steets-uhtre-tJnrc· rpf"'cit-.;rnH-­ from the interview with Mrs. Morris re­ with two ideas. One was Oscar. eo er counts the development of the Oscar: was a figure that was half-kneeling on Colorado. Ms. Steers, just days away from one knee and he had a large sword in his the birth of her third child, had remained So George gets a portfolio ready and . . . hand pointing downward. That was home on doctor's orders. Her extraordi­ has an interview and it seems that Mr. never really finished. George never-both­ nary film WATUNNA is a hand-painted re­ Gibbons was quite impressed with what ered to finish it, because they liked Oscar telling of South American native creation he saw. So they talked it over and he told so well that I think they settled it right myths. The Merit Award in Animation him what he wanted - a trophy, to be ili~ . 1 was presented to UCLA's Andrew Artz for awarded every year- and he said, "We THE YODEL CONTEST. The Documentary Achievement Award, Awards Show "Kinnies" Restored presented by Louise Fletcher, went to Kelly Clement and Ellen Osborne of San From 1952 to 1965, Academy Awards Ten years ago, the kinescopes were Francisco State University for their inspir­ telecasts were recorded on 16mm kine­ transferred to 3/ 4" video tape to protect ing CLOWNING AROUND. USC student scopes for historical reference purposes. the original material from additional Richard Kassebaum's moving portrait of After years of use, these kinescopes­ damage. With use and natural aging, the his grandfather, ALF LANDON: MY TALK filmed records of a live broadcast shot tapes have begun to wear and now need WITH PAPA, and Stanford University stu­ directly off of a television screen - have to be replaced. These priceless materials dent Ellen Bruno's SAMSARA: DEATH AND become tattered and worn. In order to contain not only the history of an insti- REBIRTH IN CAMBODIA received Docu­ preserve and rejuvenate these precious tution, but also reveal much about the mentary Merit Awards. records of Academy history, the Acad­ history and evolution of an art form, an emy Film Archive is overseeing the res­ industry and a culture. In order to ensure Martin Landau presented Columbia toration process. Each film is inspected that quality copies of Oscarcasts are not University'S Adam Davidson with the fOE-p erforation dama~~we !lk or yo~ r~ lost to future generations, the Archive Dramatic Achievement Award for THE splices are repaired, and brittle celluloid plans to retransfer the Academy Award L UNCH avidson a so won e is lubricated. kinescopes to I" digital video tape in the Director's Guild Student Award, which near future. 1 was presented by DGA President Arthur ______Hilkr. Meill Awar~ in ilie Dmmatic Category were given to Suzanne Johnson Oscar's Going to Oxford from New York University for her film GO TO HELL and Dennis McKenna and During October and November, several each guest's films will be screened on Mark Squier of the American Film Insti­ distinguished Academy members will campus. tute for THE BLUE MEN. journey over the pole to England to participate in a series of three . lectures Instrumental in setting up the program, During their week in Los Angeles, the collectively titled "Oscar Comes to Ox­ Academy First Vice President Charles M. award-winning filmmakers were given ford. " Among those scheduled to take Powell will serve as moderator for all demonstrations at Iwerks Entertainment part are Academy President Karl Malden three evenings. Assisting Powell in es­ and Apogee Productions and had discus­ and Oliver Stone. tablishing the series is London-based sions with working filmmakers at both member and Oxford Don Lawrence the American Society of Cinematogra­ The lectures will be presented on con­ Bachmann. Academy Executive Director phers and ilie DGA. The Student Film secutive Tuesday evenings at All Souls Bruce Davis will also take part, discuss­ Awards were sponsored by Colgate­ College before an audience of approxi­ ing the history of ilie organization from its Palmolive. 1 mately 200 Oxford University students founding in 1927 to the present. 1 and Dons. Prior to the lecture, several of (,\(,1 I \( \1>1'" IU (,OHI former Executive Director Sam Brown Dies Sam E. Brown, former Academy executive director, died on July 20 in the Frances Goldwyn Lodge at the Motion Picture and Television Country House in Woodland Hills. He was 79. Brown first came to the Academy in 1938 as assistant executive secretary. In 1946, after four years in the Army, he returned to the Academy and was soon appointed assistant executive director. In 1952, Brown became an Academy member, and in 1965 he was made a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. In January 1971, Brown succeeded Margaret Herrick to become the Academy's executive director. Unfortunately, his career was cut short when he suffered a stroke in February of that year, forcing him to resign his position several months later. How­ ever, he remained a valuable consultant to the Academy for the next several years. After a marriage of fifty years, Brown's wife Jacqueline passed away in January. He is survived by his son Jamie and daughters Valerie and Laurie Beth. An articulate and astute administrator, Brown was responsible as assistant executive director for the Academy's technical area including theater ·management, the technical branches and the Sci-Tech Awards. "Sam and I enjoyed a harmonious relationship for nearly two decades," remembers Jim Roberts, Brown's successor as executive director. "For Sam, his work was a labor of love and dedication on a seven-day-a-week basis." Working closely with Margaret Herrick and Roberts, Brown was intimately involved in the growth of the Academy's prestige and financial security during his tenure with the organization. 1 1990 Awards Season Underway!? While it may seem as if the 1989 Oscars were just presented, in Nicholl Screenwriting Competition fact the 1990 Awards Season is already upon us. First on the agenda is the difficult information-gathering process of the Attracts Record Number of Entries Scientific or Technical Achievement Awards Committee. Now in its fifth year, the Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Deadline for the submission of information regarding "any Screenwriting are fast becoming one of the most sought-after device, method, formula, discovery or invention of special and prizes of their kind. The 1990 Nicholl competition received a outstanding value" was August 15. The Committee will meet record 2,888 entries prior to its June 1 deadline; that more than during early September to determine which submissions will be doubles the number of submissions last year. Nicholl entrants considered for achievement awards. 1 must be U.S. citizens who have not worked profeSSionally in Visiting Artists Go East and West film or television. In the heat of the summer, Academy visiting artists journeyed For the past several months a crew of readers, conSisting of far and wide to colleges and film symposia to share their industry development executives, producers, writers and story thoughts and experiences. Director Jeremy Paul Kagan and analysts, has pored over the thousands of scripts in the process cinematographer David Walsh spent successive weekends of winnowing the total to a more manageable number. talking and screening films for students at the University of During August and September, the 182 surviving quarterfinalist Hawaii at Manoa. Students at the Southeastern Media Institute screenplays are being read by volunteer judges drawn from the in South Carolina hosted Cinematographer John Le Blanc and ranks of Academy members. In October, the approximately 60 gaffer Mark Viulle for a weekend of screenings, demonstrations semifinalists will be reduced to under a dozen; those scripts will and discussions. Their visit focused on the critical relationship then be forwarded to the Nicholl Committee. From that number between the director of photography and the gaffer. 1 up to five winners will be selected, each to receive a $20,000 fellowship which will support their work on a new script during Academy Foundation Elections (continued from page 1) the upcoming year. three spots on the Foundation's Board of Trustees left open by the departure of outgoing Academy members. Nicholl Fellows Update: During June, Radha Bharadwaj, one of the 1989 Fellowship recipients, took her winning script Established in 1942, the Academy Foundation is a sister CLOSET LAND into production for Imagine Entertainment. Serv­ organization of the Academy and is guided by 16 trustees ing as both writer and director, Bharadwaj is currently in post­ drawn from the Academy's 36-member Board of Governors. production. A 1991 release is antiCipated. 1987 Fellowship The Foundation oversees all of the educational, preservational winner Priscilla Waggoner-Thode has recently been hired by and cultural activities of the Academy. 1 A & M Films to write a feature screenplay. 1