FROM THE PRESIDENT Through Aprn 8 - Academy galleries - r Photographing People: Hollywood Moments by Leigh Wiener," 110 portraits of Hollywood stars and ON THE LOOKOUT FOR personalities taken by photographer Leigh Wiener over a remarkable 50-year caree r. MORE SPACE The 18th Annual Contemporary Do(umentary Series, presented by the Academy, the Academy Foundation and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, wi ll I t sometimes seems that the Academy has been looking for (ontinue through March 14 at UCLA 's James Bridges more offi ce and storage space for its entire 73 years . Theater at 7:30 p.m. Included in the remaining series We moved fo r the first time within six months of our screenings are three Academy Award-nominated films . Filmmakers will be present whenever possible to discuss fou ndin g, then again within three years, once more in five their films and take questions from the audience. All years , and into our own building 11 years later. screenings in the series are free and open to the public. I'm sure that the day after we moved into our first owned Jcnay 23 - MyAMERKAN FATHER and PoP & ME. offi ces in th e Marquis Th eater on Melrose Avenue, somebody February 6 - UCO MMONFRIE NOS Of THE TWENTIETH CE NTURY said "Hey , we're out of space l " and TH ESOURCE . There are people working at the Academy who February 13 - KIN GGI MP(Academy Award winner), re member those offi ces, board meetings in the library room , LimE SECRET and ONTH ERoPES (Academy Award winner). collecti ons stored beh ind the screen - and the Players February 20 - MO NTEHEL lMAN: AMERICAN AUTEUR and Directory up the block across the street. AMERICAN MOVIE. But we stayed there for 20 years before building the March 6 - CROSSING TH EL INEand ONED AYIN SEPTEM BER current headquarters and moving in in 1975. The next day, of (Academy Award winner) . course , somebody probably said, "Hey .. .. " Mar(h 13 - FIVEWI VES, THREE SECRETARIESA NOME and It was only three or four years before a search for new WISCO NSI ND EAT HT RA P. space for the library began, although it was 1991 before we The James Bridges Theater is located in Westwood on the northeast corner of the UCLA campus, near the intersection moved into the abandoned Beverly Hills waterworks building of Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue. Parking is on La Cienega Bou levard. available in Lot 3, adjacent to the theater, for $5. For Sure enough, the next day .. .. more information, call 31O-206-FILM. It was the Academy Film Archive that ran out of space Saturday, Mar(h 24 - 10 a.m., Samuel Goldwyn fi rst, with th e Margaret Herri ck Library right behind, and then Theater: The annual seminar featuring the directors of the five films nominated for Best Foreign the 8949 buil din g itself. Language Film. So , for several years now, we've been looking for storage space for the Film Archive. Early this year we hope to move the Archive to leased, but sufficiently roomy quarters. The nCnO[ffiV R[PORT Li brary will smoothly fi ll in the space left behind. Published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Also within the next few months, the Players Directory 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, Californ ia 90211-1972 (3 10) 247-3000 · www.oscars.org may move out of its fourth floor offices to new space. President • Robert Rehme And the next day, I'm going to walk around to each First Vice President • Alan Bergman Vice President • Sid Ganis of the buil di ngs, listeni ng for the inevitable, "Hey , we're out Vice President • Frank R. Pierson of space!" Treasurer • Donald <. Rogers Secretary • Kathy Bates - Robert Rehme Executive Director • Bruce Davis Photos: unless otherw ise idenlified, by Long Photogrophy Design: Liso Carlsson, Edler Carlsso. Ink On the Cover: Screening and panel discussion highlighted 0 fall Aca demy tribute to Polis h OSla , Oscars·, Academy Awards·, Academy Awar , fil mw riter-director Krzysz tof Kies lowski. See stOlY on page 8. Photo (redit: Kieslowski portroit A.M.P .A.S.· , and Oscar Nigh , are the trademarks, and the Oscar statuette is the registered design mark and copyrighted property of the by Marla Ki eslowska. Academy of Motion P'Klure Arts and SdeMes. 2 RCROfffiV AfPOAT M ichael Pogorzelski, who has held the position of Film Archivist and Preservation Officer at the Academy Film Archive since 1996, has been named director of the Academy Film Archive by Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis. Pogorzelski had been serving as Interim Director since the departure of Michael Friend in August. "We had an extraordinary pool of applicants," Davis reported , "and our executive administrator, Ric Robertson , and I made our decision very carefully. At the end we concluded that the guy we had inside gave us an irresistible combination of strengths: an excellent rapport with our existing staff, absolutely first-rate technical skills, innate diplomacy and an energetic approach to the job. We think Michael is going to insure that the Academy's archive will be a leader in the field for decades to come." A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Pogorzelski has already served as restoration supervisor or co-supervisor on several prominent projects for the Academy, including How GREEN WAS My VALLEY, OLIVERI , ALL ABOUT EVE, ALL THE KING'S MEN, PRIMARY , THE HOODLUM and THE STORY OF G.!. JOE. He started his career as a volunteer archivist at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Th eater Research. Academy Film "I'm looking forward to maintaining and Archive Director further enhancing the world-class reputation Mike Pogorzelski. of the Academy Film Archive ," said Pogorzelski. "We have several exciti ng projects in the works now and I think our re lationships with the archival community will continue to evolve in ways that will bring us even greater distinction in the fields of preservation and restoration. " In addition to being actively engaged in preservation and restoration of motion pictures of all genres and from throughout the world , the Academy Film Archive now contains over 23,000 film and video titles dating from the earli est era of the cinema to the latest achievements in visual effects. The scope of the Archive's activity continues to expand, through partnerships with other archives, studios and laboratories, and through organizations including the International Federation of Film Archives (FI AF), the Association of Moving Image The new film archive director was honored at a reception at L'Ermitage. From left, Pogorzelski; Academy Governor Roger Moyer; UCLA Film Archive Archivists (AMIA) , the Film Foundation and the Sony Director Tim Kittleson. Preservation Committee. Department of Corrections The Academy's summer exhibition of the production design work of Eugenio Zanetti failed to credit illustrators Greg Aronowitz, Mauro Borelli, Oscar Chichoni, George Jenson, Simon Murton and Joseph Musso, whose work was included in the show. The Academy regrets that it was not provided with information on their contributions in time to credit these artists at the time of the exhibition. 3 ACADEMY GALLERIES To FEATURE PORTRAITS By LEIGH WIENER A lot of famil iar faces can be seen around the Academy through early April - 110 of them , in fact. They are portraits of Hollywood stars and personalities taken by photographer Leigh Wiener over a remarkable 50-year career. "Photographing People: Hollywood Moments by Leigh Wiener," will be featured in the Fourth Floor and Grand Lobby galleries until April 8. While working for numerous Jimmy Durante, July 1965 newspapers and magazines, including the Los Angeles Times, Life, Fortune, Sports Illustrated and Time , Wiener photographed politicians, sports figures, jazz legends, the homeless, international Warren Beatty, September 1961 subjects, playwrights, poets, writers, visual artists, captains of industry and heads of state . This new Academy exhibition focuses on the remarkable moments captured by Wiener's camera lens in Hollywood at occasions like the Academy Awards, Sam Goldwyn's 75th birthday party, fundraising dinners with Robert F. Kennedy and Liz Taylor, Frank Angie Dickinson, February 1962 Sinatra's performances with the "Rat Pack," Marion Davies embracing Hedda Hopper at the Brown Derby and Judy Garland reuniting with Mickey Rooney on a television sound stage in the early '60s. Groucho Marx, November 1966 Wiener died in 1993. D irector Gregary Nava, left, speaks with students and teachers from Los Angeles high schools following a screening of El N ORTE and a Q-ond-A with Nava at the Academy. Students from Taft, Manual Arts, Lincoln and Fremont high schools participated in the second of two three-day sessions that are part of a media literacy program conducted annually by the Academy and the Los Angeles Education Partnership. 4 ACADfmy HfPOHT ACADEMY ESTABLISHES AWARD CATEGORY FOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE ( 0 U L D B E G I V E N FOR F I L M S o F 200 1 n Academy Award ca tegory for feature-length animated minutes in length, "primarily animated," and meet the other A films, the first new award category since 1981, was created by general requirements for feature film eligibility as published the board of governors in September. It could be presented for the annually in the Academy first time at the 74th Annual A ward Rules. The overseeing Academy A ards in March 2002. committee is expected to Long a dream of develop criteria for the Hollywood's animators, the definition of "primarily animated" new award for Best Animated in the coming months. Feature will be triggered by Films could use cel the release of eight or more animation, computer eligible films in a calendar animation, stop motion or year.