Drawing on the Future: Mentorship in Animation
May 9 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater Animators James Baxter, Andreas Deja, Pete Docter and Eric Goldberg will spotlight the mentors who fostered their professional development, presenting clips from the masters’ work as well as their own work.
This exhibition highlights the work of artists who created the characters, storyboards, color keys, backgrounds, layouts, cels and thousands of other process artworks that went into such animated classics as Dalmations, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Iron Giant.
Hosted by Science and Technology Council member Bill Kroyer, “The Art, Science and Psychology of Production Design” will examine how new technologies and shifting collaborations are changing the way motion picture production designers approach their work.
The Academy celebrates the life and career of Robert Evans with a 40th anniversary screening of Rosemary’s Baby, a film that he brought to Paramount and oversaw through its production.
The 35th Annual Student Academy Awards ceremony will honor student filmmakers from across the country with Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards in the alternative, animation, documentary and narrative categories.
The Academy celebrates the centennial of James Stewart with a program of film clips and conversation with family, friends and colleagues from his distinguished film career.
“Pulling Back the Drapes” showcases the work of set decorators with re-created sets from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Iron Man, Get Smart, The Spiderwick Chronicles and more.
The Academy’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey continues with a special “behind the scenes” evening hosted by Douglas Trumbull and Tom Hanks, featuring never-before-seen images from the making of Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece.
As part of this conference exploring the history of Hollywood and the film industry between World War I and World War II, the Academy and the Institute on California and the West will host a dinner and a screening of A Star Is Born (1937) on May 30 at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater.
Academy Award®-nominated visual effects supervisor Craig Barron and Oscar®-winning sound editor Ben Burtt will explore some of the secrets behind the making of The Adventures of Robin Hood.
The 26th annual Contemporary Documentaries series is a showcase for feature-length and short documentaries drawn from the 2006 Academy Award nominations, including the winners, as well as other important and innovative films considered by the Academy that year.
The “Great To Be Nominated” series begins its fifth and final season with screenings of films that received the most nominations without winning the Best Picture award between 1993 and 2007.
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