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Katharine DeShaw Named Academy Museum Managing Director, Advancement And External Relations

Posted Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 09:15

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today announced the appointment of Katharine DeShaw as its Managing Director, Advancement and External Relations.

THE ACADEMY PRESENTS THE 2016 “CAREERS IN FILM SUMMIT” IN LOS ANGELES AND LONDON

Posted Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 10:45

The Academy, in support of President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative, will present the second annual Careers in Film Summit on Saturday, October 8, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The daylong event for high school and college students will bring together Academy members and other film industry guests to discuss their professions as well as the paths they took to achieve career success.

ACADEMY REVEALS WINNING NICHOLL SCREENWRITERS

Posted Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 13:15

Four individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.

DAVID RUBIN TO PRODUCE ACADEMY’S 2016 GOVERNORS AWARDS

Posted Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 11:15

Casting director and producer David Rubin will produce the 8th Annual Governors Awards for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced today.

THE ACADEMY NABS WILLIAM FRIEDKIN FOR 45TH ANNIVERSARY OF “THE FRENCH CONNECTION”

Posted Monday, September 26, 2016 - 12:45

The Academy celebrates the 45th anniversary of the 1971 Best Picture winner, “The French Connection,” on Friday, October 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Immediately after the screening, Oscar®-winning screenwriter Chris McQuarrie will host an onstage conversation with the film’s Oscar-winning director, William Friedkin.Based on Robin Moore’s 1969 nonfiction book of the same name, “The French Connection” follows NYPD detectives Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy “Cloudy” Russo (Roy Scheider) on a relentless pursuit of Alain Charnier (…

Medalists Revealed At 2016 Student Academy Awards®

Posted Thursday, September 22, 2016 - 20:45

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tonight honored 17 student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 43rd Student Academy Awards® ceremony, held at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal awards were announced and presented by actors Joel Edgerton, Lucy Liu, Daisy Ridley and Parker Sawyers.

JOEL EDGERTON, LUCY LIU, DAISY RIDLEY AND PARKER SAWYERS TO PRESENT AT 2016 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARDS

Posted Wednesday, September 14, 2016 - 13:00

Actors Joel Edgerton, Lucy Liu, Daisy Ridley and Parker Sawyers will be presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 43rd Student Academy Awards® on Thursday, September 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The awards ceremony caps a week of industry activities for the 17 winning student filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad.Edgerton is an Australian actor whose films include “Kinky Boots” (2005), “Animal Kingdom” (2010), “Zero Dark Thirty” (2012), “The Great Gatsby” (2013) and “Black Mass” (2015). He will next be seen in “Loving,” to be…

ACADEMY REVEALS NICHOLL SCREENWRITING SHORTLIST

Posted Monday, September 12, 2016 - 12:00

Eleven individual screenwriters and one writing team have been shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. Winners to be announced in late September.

JACKIE CHAN, ANNE V. COATES, LYNN STALMASTER AND FREDERICK WISEMAN TO RECEIVE ACADEMY’S 2016 GOVERNORS AWARDS

Posted Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 09:00

The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (August 30) to present Honorary Awards to actor Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. The four Oscar^® statuettes will be presented at the Academy’s 8th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 12, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center^®.

ABC SIGNS EXPANSIVE NEW AGREEMENT TO BROADCAST THE OSCARS®, HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGEST ENTERTAINMENT CEREMONY, THROUGH 2028

Posted Wednesday, August 31, 2016 - 03:15

ABC and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that they have expanded their agreement for eight more years, in which the Network will remain home to the Oscars^®, Hollywood’s biggest entertainment ceremony of the year, through 2028. The new agreement for the domestic network of the Academy Awards^® adds eight years to the existing contract, which was scheduled to expire in 2020.