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Telluride Film Festival Flashback: Werner Herzog

Telluride Film Festival
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In conjunction with this year’s much-discussed Telluride Film Festival, we take a look back at the sixth annual festival, which was held in 1979.In this excerpt, noted filmmaker Werner Herzog, already a Telluride favorite, lingers with a small crowd after a mountaintop panel discussion. Herzog shares his thoughts about the fearlessness of war reporters who step into harm’s way because they feel sheltered behind their cameras. To help demonstrate his point, Herzog, who often filmed under challenging circumstances, trades places with the cameraman.Can anyone help identify the gentleman Herzog…
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2015 Nicholl Fellowship Finalists

Nicholl Felllowships Finalists 2015
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Congratulations to our new Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting finalists!

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Rocky Mountain High: Telluride, Colorado

Laura Linney, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Diablo Cody, and others
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“Thank you both so much for that fantastic experience,” wrote historian and filmmaker Kevin Brownlow to Bill and Stella Pence after the 8th Telluride Film Festival in 1981. When festival attendees enthuse over the event, it is frequently in reverent, semi-religious tones, and the word “experience” is invoked more often than not, facts immediately apparent in the clippings, correspondence and other documents contained in the Telluride Film Festival records, which were recently cataloged for Special Collections at the Margaret Herrick Library.Brownlow was evidently still stunned by what perhaps…
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JULIE LYNN AND BONNIE CURTIS TO PRODUCE ACADEMY’S 2015 GOVERNORS AWARDS

Governors Awards Producers
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Producers Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis will produce the 7th Annual Governors Awards. 

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DAVID HILL AND REGINALD HUDLIN TAPPED TO PRODUCE 88TH OSCARS®

Oscars Producers
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Emmy-winning live television producer David Hill and Oscar-nominated producer-director Reginald Hudlin will produce the 88th Oscars telecast.

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Questions: What's The Biggest Lesson You've Learned In Your Career?

Biggest Lesson
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In this week's Academy Originals we asked several filmmakers what's the biggest lesson they've learned so far in their career.

 
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Spike Lee, Debbie Reynolds And Gena Rowlands To Receive Academy’s 2015 Governors Awards

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The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (August 25) to present Honorary Awards to Spike Lee and Gena Rowlands, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Debbie Reynolds.  All three awards will be presented at the Academy’s 7th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 14, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®.

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A Rare Early Look at Southern California Beaches

Southern California
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As we near the end of summer, let's take a look at some Southern California beaches, roughly 90 years ago. Recently rediscovered at the Academy Film Archive, this gorgeous silent footage includes aerial shots of Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Balboa Island, and Laguna Beach. The tinted imagery showcases seaside cliffs, orange groves, families at the beach, oil fields peppering Huntington Beach, and boats exploring Newport Beach’s harbor.Produced by Herman Fowler around 1925, the film appears to be part of a short documentary series titled Know Your Own Country, which profiled the landscape…
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ACADEMY REVEALS 2015 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS

Student Academy Awards 2015
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All winning films now eligible for Oscars®Los Angeles, CA — The Academy has voted fifteen students as winners of the 42nd Student Academy Awards competition. The Academy received a record number of entries this year — 1,686 films from 282 domestic and 93 international colleges and universities — which were voted upon by a record number of Academy members. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 47 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared eight awards.  Previous winners include Pete Docter, John Lasseter, Spike Lee, Trey Parker and Robert Zemeckis.The winners are (…
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20 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENTS UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR 2015 ACADEMY AWARDS

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The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 20 scientific and technical achievements, involving 11 distinct investigations, have been selected for further consideration for 2015 Academy Awards.The list is made public to allow individuals and companies with similar devices or claims of prior art the opportunity to submit achievements for review.The deadline to submit additional entries is Tuesday, September 1, at 5 p.m. PT.The committee has selected the following technologies for further consideration: A remote-…
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