Features start at 7:30 p.m. with shorts starting at 7 p.m.

The “Great To Be Nominated” series, featuring the picture from each Academy year which received the most nominations without winning the Best Picture Award, concludes for this year with five more titles. Each evening will also include animated and live action short subjects, original advertising trailers, out-takes, newsreels and other surprises to recreate an evening at the movies of that particular year. The very best prints available will be screened at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, one of the finest screening facilities in the world.

Monday August 1, 2005, at 7:30 p.m.

(1954) Grace Kelly shed her glamour image in this breakthrough dramatic role which earned her the Best Actress Oscar, pairing her with Bing Crosby and William Holden in George Seaton’s film of Clifford Odets’ play about an alcoholic actor and his self-sacrificing wife. The film received seven nominations including Best Picture, Actor (Crosby), Art Direction – Black-and-White (Hal Pereira, Roland Anderson, Sam Comer and Grace Gregory), Cinematography – Black-and-White (John F. Warren), Directing (Seaton) and won for Actress (Kelly) and Writing – Screenplay (Seaton). The film will be preceded by cartoon nominee Touché, Pussy Cat from Warner Bros. and Live Action winner A Time Out of War, as well as highlights from the Academy’s first nominations broadcast special.

Monday, August 8, 2005, at 7:30 p.m. - DOUBLE FEATURE!!

(1955) Italian star Anna Magnani made her Hollywood debut in this adaptation by Hal Kanter, of Tennessee Williams’ stage drama, winning the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of an Italian-American widow romanced by truck driver Burt Lancaster. The film received eight nominations including Best Picture, Supporting Actress (Marisa Pavan), Costume Design – Black-and-White (Edith Head), Film Editing (Warren Low), Music – Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Alex North) and won for Actress (Magnani), Art Direction – Black-and-White (Hal Pereira, Tambi Larsen, Sam Comer and Arthur Krams) and Cinematography – Black-and-White (James Wong Howe).

(1955) Han Suyin’s autobiographical novel A Many-Splendoured Thing, about the relationship between a Eurasian doctor in Hong Kong and a Western journalist, was turned into this smash hit romantic drama which paired Jennifer Jones and William Holden, introduced the Oscar-winning hit song, and even inspired a long-running TV soap opera. The film received eight nominations including Best Picture, Actress (Jones), Art Direction – Color (Lyle Wheeler, George W. Davis, Walter M. Scott and Jack Stubbs), Cinematography – Color (Leon Shamroy), Sound Recording (20th Century Fox Studio Sound Dept., Carl W. Faulkner, Sound Director) and won for Costume Design – Color (Charles LeMaire), Music – Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Alfred Newman) and Music – Song (“Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing,” Music by Sammy Fain; Lyrics by Paul Francis Webster). The films will be preceded by cartoon nominee The Legend of Rock-a-Bye Point, directed by Tex Avery and starring Chilly Willy.

Monday August 15, 2005, at 7:30 p.m.

(1956) George Stevens won his second Best Directing Oscar for this American epic based on Edna Ferber’s novel covering decades in the life of a Texas family, with Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor giving two of their finest performances, and James Dean receiving a Best Actor nomination for his final role. The film received ten nominations including Best Picture, Actor (Dean), Actor (Hudson), Supporting Actress (Mercedes McCambridge), Art Direction – Color (Boris Leven, Ralph S. Hurst), Costume Design – Color (Moss Mabry, Marjorie Best), Film Editing (William Hornbeck, Philip W. Anderson and Fred Bohanan), Music – Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture (Dimitri Tiomkin), Writing – Adapted (Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat) and won for Directing (Stevens). The film will be preceded by the animated nominee Gerald McBoing Boing on the Planet Moo.

Monday August 22, 2005, at 7:30 p.m.

(1957) This Josh Logan-directed romantic drama from the James Michener novel about American-Japanese relations was one of Marlon Brando’s most popular films of the decade, and earned acting Oscars for Supporting players Red Buttons and Miyoshi Umeki. The film received ten nominations including Best Picture, Actor (Brando), Cinematography (Ellsworth Fredericks), Directing ( Logan), Film Editing (Arthur P. Schmidt, Philip W. Anderson), Writing – Screenplay based on material from another medium (Paul Osborn), and won for Supporting Actor (Buttons), Supporting Actress (Umeki), Art Direction (Ted Haworth, Robert Priestley) and Sound Recording (Warner Bros. Studio Sound Dept., George Groves, Sound Director). The film will be preceded by the animated nominee Trees and Jamaica Daddy from UPA and the live-action nominees A Chairy Tale and City of Gold.

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