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It’s much ado about movies at Oscars Outdoors this summer.
The screening series launched by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences last year is returning to Los Angeles this summer, along with some New York screenings in partnership with Rooftop Films Summer Series. READ FULL STORY »
Film students from the States and abroad have been selected as winners in the annual student competition sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The winning films were entered into regional competitions, then voted on by the Student Academy Awards Executive Committee to reach the final stage. The filmmakers behind the winning movies will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry-related activities before the awards ceremony.
Bob Saget, himself a Student Academy Award winner, will host the ceremony on June 8 in Beverly Hills. Films are given medals – gold, silver and bronze – at the awards. Since 1972, the Awards have been supporting college filmmakers – including past winners John Lasseter, Robert Zemeckis and Spike Lee.
This year’s winners are (listed alphabetically by film title): READ FULL STORY »
In Hollywood, there is a cult of Kubrick.
More than any other director, Stanley Kubrick is worshiped among his fellow filmmakers, and that reputation has only grown since his death in 1999. Paths of Glory, Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, and Full Metal Jacket are revered as sacred texts among those who make movies.
Though Kubrick never won a best picture or best director Oscar (his only trophy was for visual effects on 2001), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences chose to pay tribute to the filmmaker with a special showcase of his films and a reunion of four of his stars, who shared offbeat, funny, and often bizarre stories of the elusive filmmaker.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is moving forward with plans for a Hollywood history museum that would open in 2016.
A movie museum has long been a goal of the group, which also presents the Academy Awards, but it’s an expensive dream that has encountered assorted funding challenges over the years. Last year, the Academy redoubled its efforts with a fundraising campaign spearheaded by some well-known figures: Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger, and actors Annette Bening and Tom Hanks.
Today, the Academy announced it has reached its initial goal of $100 million toward a $250 million capital campaign to build the project.
In its continued quest to ramp up film preservation efforts, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday it will launch the first-ever Film-to-Film Festival, featuring films the Academy has preserved, running Sept. 27 through Sept. 29.
The festival will take place in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills and the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood, according to a press release. It stems from a highly-touted Academy initiative launched a year ago called Project Film-to-Film with the goal of preserving as many movies on film as possible over a two-year span by mainly using film stock to create new prints. So far, more than 390 new prints have been created, according to the Academy, ranging from the short Naked Yoga to 1962′s beautifully, strangely mysterious Carnival of Souls.
Festival tickets for the movies, which range from Terry Gilliam’s 1985′s wildly futuristic Brazil to Carnival of Souls and 1942′s Mr. Blabbermouth!, are $5 each for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. They can be purchased online or in person at the Academy box office, or by mail. Check the Academy’s site for a full list of screenings and ticket info.
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There will be more songs vying for Oscars at next year’s Academy Awards.
The motion picture academy said Thursday that there will be a minimum of five nominees in the original song category at next year’s ceremony.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences says that the five nominated songs receiving the highest number of votes from music branch members will be up for the final award. The voting process previously only allowed songs that earned an average score to be nominated.
Only two songs were nominated for the trophy earlier this year for the first time in Oscar history, with “Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets” winning the prize.
The 85th annual Academy Awards will be presented Feb. 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
Bright splashy colors, bright smiles, a love story soaked in summer-y jazz, set in Cuba, Hollywood and New York.
That’s Chico & Rita, nominated this past year for a best animated feature Oscar, and set for digital release on iTunes next Tuesday by Cinedigm Entertainment Group. A standard DVD and limited edition collector’s set on DVD and Blu-ray come out Sept. 18.
Directed by Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and artist Javier Mariscal, the movie is like a vibrant, beautifully drawn postcard come to life. Chico, a piano player, and Rita, a knock-em dead Christina Hendricks curvy singer, fall in love and lust in1948, and deal with heartbreak and separation.
Check out the exclusive clip below, a dream sequence filled with New York big band pizazz, and Chico imagining Rita with her hips going ba-da-bum down a staircase like a Cuban Marilyn Monroe.
It’s been more than 13 years since Stanley Kubrick died of a heart attack in 1999, and the 2001: A Space Odyssey director’s films still blast the minds of fans and movie lovers from Hollywood to Tokyo.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced Thursday they will co-present the first-ever American retrospective of Kubrick.
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