---~. R+E+ P+O+R+T YOlUm( G ISSU( ~ fHll 1994 • • • OHmn YHnHffS • • • FILM CAST REUNITES AT ACADEMY Story Page 6 en m 1 Thru October 16 - Fourth Floor Gallery: FROM THE PRESIDENT FILMSCAPES: SPIELBERG, ZEMECKIS AND THE ART OF MAKING AWORLD - a mojor exhib~ i on featuring art created or collected by Production Designer Rick Corter from the fllm worlds of Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis. ey, there's more to the Academy Apre ­ produllion drawing than the Academy Awards. from BACK TOTlt E Our Awards are so prestigious and world-acclaimed that FUTUIE Pm II they sometimes tend to blind the public to the wonderful pro­ grams we do all year, as we ll as to the glories of our Center Sunday, September 4 - Auditorium Michel d'On.-o, for Motion Picture Study. Deauville, FrlllKe: Atribute to Hollywood and World War \I So I'm deputizing all of you : let's get the word out wher­ followed by a week of screenings of World War \I Hollywood ever we can - in interviews, in seminars, in teaching, in just features, shorts and dIKumentories ut the Deauville Film talking to friends and in responding to all those people who Festival. Participants will include Maureen O'Hara, Von stop you with "Oh, just one question ." Johnson, Moxene Andrews, Roddy McDowall and Arthur Hiller. Speaking, or should I say writing , about the Center, may I Friday, September 16 - 8 p.m., quote our brochure: "Housed in the old Beverly Hills Waterworks Buil ding, SOIIIUel GaldW'fll Theater - Academy Standard Screening: this world-class research and preservation facil ity contains the Margaret THE PRIMEOF MISS JEAN BRODIE and GOOOBYI MR_CHIPS . Herrick Library ; the Academy Photographic Still s Archive, with over 6,000,000 prints; and the Academy Film Archive with wel l over 12,000 titles . Academy Standard Screenings, Third Friday af each month Open to the public, the Center is used by hundreds of patrons each week ." - 8 p.m. -Samuel Goldwyn Theoter. It also contains the scripts and papers of filmmakers from Mack Sennett up Friday, Octaller 14 - 8 p.IIL. ScnueI GaIdwyn 11Ieater to artists still in mid-career. - Academy Standard Screening: Aspeciol3Oth Anniversary screen­ Have you visited our Center? If you haven't, you 're in for an unbeliev­ ing of MArY Poi'PINS, oIIended by many of the film's principal cost able treat. Do visit. Don 't just say you 're going to do it. Do it! and crew. Lectures and seminars are another aspect of the Academy's work. Every year we present lectures on areas of filmmaking like screenwriting, Thursday, October 27 - Samuel Goldwyn Theater: animation, comedy, fantasy and the like. We offer multi-week seminars on Asolute to the Br~ish Expotriote in Hollywood, part of the Academy's participation in the citywide UK/LA celebration of topics such as music for films, cinematography, art direction and the just­ British arts, hightlghting the coree~ of Chortle Choptll, Alfred concluded si weeks on directing. H~cIKIKk and Cory Grant. Tributes and special programs are presented half-a-dozen times each year. In the past year or so we saluted Mary Pi ckford , Marlene Dietrich, November thru January - Fourth Floor Gallery: CECIl Johnny Green and the Kanin family. Recent special programs have includ­ B. DEMILLE: LIGHTS, CAMERA, ArnON - An exhib~ion of ed a wonderf I tribute to the visual effects field and 20 of its masters and a muteriok reluting to the career of Cecil B_DeMille as seen through the work of his mony longtime colloboruto~. program devoted to the glorious movie palaces of downtown LA Some of these programs were presented in New York as well as in Los Angeles. And let's mot forget our exhibitions. Our Fourth Floor Gallery, and some­ times our looby, annually feature half-a-dozen public museum-calibre exhibits of such things as jewelry from films, production designers' draw­ ings, costume designs and our highlight this past year - "Director's Published by the Drawings," a multi-media exh ibit that included drawings by Fellini , Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 8949 Wilshire Boulevard Kurasawa, Scorsese and Hitchcock. Beverly Hills. California 90211 -1972 The Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting award up to five fellowships of (3 10) 247-3000 $25,000 annually to talented new screenwriters. President Arthur Hiler Our Student Academy Awards seek out and honor excellence in film­ rlrst V'Ke President · Alan Bar,... making by students of colleges or universities. (Past winners include the · V'Ke President • FayK_ likes of Spike Lee and Robert Zemeckis!) V'Ke President Sidney Ganis Why do I suspect that some of you reading this weren 't even aware of Treamer · some of these programs and so missed out on wonderful, exciting and stim­ · Arth.r Hlllliton ulating evenings? We announce them all in our Academy Report, in our Seaet.., · o-Id C. Rogers monthly scheaules and in the press, so keep your eyes and ears open for Photos: "'5' otherwise identified. by looog Photography these Acade y activities, and keep your mouths open, too, so that other film Desigo: Uso Tudler, ElL lovers and stutients will be aware of our wonderful, wonderful programs. ONT HE (OVER: Onstage prior to the Academy Standard Screening of DAM NY ANKEES, Jean Stapleton and Gwen Verdon seem oblivious to the audience as they swap stories_ 2 HILLER RE-ELEGED ACADEMY PRESIDENT FIVE ELEGED To Director Arthur Hiller has been Hiller was first elected to the Board re-elected unanimously by the Board of of Governors in 1978 to fill an unex­ AMPAS BOARD; Governors to a second pired term and re-elected to one-year term as the a full three-year term in SEVEN RETU RN Academy's president. 1981. He was elected again ive new branch representatives He was unopposed to the board in 1989 and re­ have been elected to the Board of Governors, and seven governors and was elected by elected in 1992. He is have been re-elected, all for three­ acclamation. beginning the third year of year terms. New Academy governors are John Four other incum­ his most recent term. Bonner, Sound Branch ; Kathleen Kennedy, bent officers were Ganis' election as Producers; Karl Malden, Actors ; Roger Mayer, Executives and Frank J. Urioste, returned to their posts. vice president marks his fi rst Film Editors. They are Alan Bergman, turn as an officer of the Re-elected to serve another term were Carl Bell, Short Films; Robert F. Boyle, Art first vice president; Fay Academy. He has served Directors; Arthur Hamilton, Music; Cheryl Kanin, vice president; four terms as a governor, Boone Isaacs, Public Relations; Norman Jewison, Directors; Hal Kanter, Writers and Arthur Hamilton, trea­ being elected in 1973, 1975 Haskell Wexler, Cinematographers. surer; and Donald C. and 1979 for two-year terms Malden and Urioste replace Jack Lemmon and Donn Cambern, respectively, Rogers, secretary. Sidney Gani s, presi­ and in 1992 for the three-year term he both of whom had served the maximum nine dent of worldwide marketing for Sony currently is serving, his first since the consecutive years as governors. Roger Mayer replaces Ashley Boone, who died Pictures Entertainment, was elected to Academy inaugurated three-year terms while in the final year of his first term. Three the final vice president seat, the on ly for governors in 1981 . of the five new governors, Kennedy, Mayer and Urioste, have never served on the new officer named. Academy's Board of Governors. Malden, president of the Academy from 1989 through , 1991, was returned to the board after his mandatory one-year absence. Bonner has been absent from the board since 1991 . Governors whose positions were BERGMAN RE-ELEGED FOUNDATION PRESIDENT not up for re-election and who remain on the Board are: Saul Bass, Short Films; Alan Bergman, Music; Bruce Broughton, Academy Music Branch Governor Alan Bergman has been re-elected to his third Music; Martha Coolidge, Directors; term as president of the Academy Foundation; Public Relations Branch Governor Robert A. Daly, Executives; Allen Daviau, Cinematographers; June Foray, Short Films; Sidney Ganis and Sound Branch Governor Donald C. Rogers have been named vice Sidney Ganis, Public Relations; Conrad L Hall, presidents and Sound Branch Governor John Bonner and Actors Branch Governor Cinematographers; Don Hall, Sound; Arthur Hiller, Directors; Fay Kanin, Writers; Howard Karl Malden were elected to the Foundation's Board of Trustees. W. Koch , Producers; Marvin Jay Levy, Public Directors Branch Governor (and Academy President) Arthur Hiller was named to Relations; Frank G. Mancuso, Executives; Roddy McDowall, Actors; Gregory Peck, his second consecutive term as treasurer of the Foundation and Writers Branch Actors, Frank R. Pierson, Writers; Donald C. Governor Fay Kanin was re-elected to her fourth consecutive term as secretary. Rogers, Sound ; Tom Rolf, Film Editors; Arthur Schmidt, Film Editors; Albert Wolsky, Academy Executive Director Bruce Davis remains executive secretary of the Art Directors; Jerry Wunderiich, Art Directors Foundati on. and Richard D. Zanuck, Producers. Jonathan Erland, who was elected a Trustees of the Foundation re-elected by the Academy's governors are: Bergman; year ago to a non-voting term as a represen­ Ganis; Hiller; Kanin; Rogers; Saul Bass, Short Fil ms Branch; Bruce Broughton , Music; tative from the visual effects membership of the Academy, will continue to serve in that Robert A. Daly, Executives; June Foray , Short Films; Don Hall, Sound; Arthur Hamilton, capacity while the Academy examines the Music; Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Public Relations; Roddy McDowall, Actors; and Jerry possibility of permanent board representa­ tion for the visual effects membership, who Wunderlich, Art Directors. currently are members-at-Iarge. 3 ACADEM' TO PRESER When the Academy Board of Governors voted to present Ray with an Honorary Oscar at the 64th f Academy Awards, segment pro­ ducer Richard Schickel contacted i Merchant and Ivory to help with I the acquisition of Ray material for the tribute.