Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 8 p.m. in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater

Restored by The Academy Film Archive in Collaboration with 20th Century Fox and The British Film Institute

Presented in conjunction with the Academy's current exhibition, "F.W. Murnau: Film Pioneer," the Academy will screen Murnau's masterpiece, Sunrise. The winner of three Academy Awards^® at the very first "Oscar^®" ceremony, including a special prize given for "Unique and Artistic Picture," Sunrise tells an intense and emotional tale of seduction, betrayal and redemption in what remains one of the most technically innovative and visually stunning films ever made. It has been restored to the glory that won it the first Cinematography Academy Award, complete with the original accompanying musical score. The Academy's screening will open a three-week series, "The Films of F.W. Murnau," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Bodil Rosing, Margaret Livingston, J. Farrell Macdonald, Ralph Sipperly, Jane Winton, Arthur Houseman, Eddie Boland, uncredited: Gibson Gowland, Sidney Bracy, Phillips Smalley, Barry Norton, Sally Eilers, Herman Bing, Gino Corrado, Bob Kortmann, Robert Parrish, Leo White. Directed by F.W. Murnau. Screenplay by Carl Mayer after Die Reise nach Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann. Produced by William Fox. Photography by Charles Rosher, Karl Struss. Assistant director and assistant to Murnau Herman Bing. Assistant Cameramen Stuart Thompson, Hal Carney. Edited by Harold Schuster, Katherine Hilliker (uncredited). Titles by Katherine Hilliker, H.H. Caldwell. Art Director Rochus Gliese. Assistant Art Directors Edgar Ulmer, Alfred Metscher. Art Department Gordon Wiles. Comedy Consultant William Conselman. Special Effects Frank D. Williams. Synchronized Musical Score by Hugo Riesenfeld. Make-up Charles Dudley. Fox Film Corporation, 1927. Running time: 95 minutes. 35mm. Black and White. Silent. Print courtesy of Academy Film Archive.

Film restoration by: Academy Film Archive, 20th Century Fox, The British Film Institute.

Academy Award^® winner: Actress (Gaynor), Cinematography (Rosher, Struss), Unique and Artistic Picture (Fox). Academy Award nominee: Art Direction (Gliese).