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10 LIVE ACTION SHORTS ADVANCE IN 2015 OSCAR RACE

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 88th Academy Awards®.  One hundred forty-four pictures had originally qualified in the category.The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies: “Ave Maria,” Basil Khalil, director, and Eric Dupont, producer (Incognito Films)“Bad Hunter,” Sahim Omar Kalifa, director, and Dries Phlypo, producer (A Private View)“Bis Gleich (Till Then),” Philippe Brenninkmeyer, producer, and Tara Lynn Orr, writer (…
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Flashback to the Future: The Library of Congress 70 Years Ago

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A proud and patriotic tour through the Library’s reading rooms, book stacks, card catalogs and auditorium, the Academy Award-winning short documentary “Library of Congress” (1945), preserved by the Academy Film Archive, highlights the federal institution’s global and local impact.The journey of books from Washington D.C. to rural America bookends the film, reinforcing its theme of the Library as an ambassador of knowledge and free speech. The film emphasizes the diversity of the Library’s impressive collections, from American history collections that range from founding documents to Native…
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Go Behind the Scenes of a Spike Lee Joint

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What does it look like to be on the set of a Spike Lee film? That’s what you can find out in the photos of his brother, David Lee, who’s been capturing moments from the making of the 2015 Honorary Oscar recipient’s features through still unit work beginning with Spike’s first feature, She's Gotta Have It (1986), and up through 2012’s Red Hook Summer.David Lee has been the still unit photographer for many of the key American films and television series of the modern era, including King of the Hill (1993), Far from Heaven (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), The Bourne…
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16 ANIMATED FEATURES SUBMITTED FOR 2015 OSCAR® RACE

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Sixteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 88th Academy Awards®.

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How an Apocalypse Now Poster Led to Oscar-Winning Costumes for Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Francis Ford Coppola said that James V. Hart’s script for their 1992 movie Bram Stoker’s Dracula required the costumes to be the set. By collaborating with graphic designer Eiko Ishioka, Coppola fulfilled that vision and their work together resulted in some of the most memorable costumes ever made for these familiar characters. Image This was not the Dracula familiar to audiences from earlier Universal and Hammer vampire films. It would be an adaptation of the well-known legend that was told, Ishioka said, as though everyone had taken acid. Her…
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OFFICIAL SCREEN CREDITS FORMS DUE DECEMBER 2 FOR 2015 OSCARS®

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Wednesday, December 2, is the deadline to submit Official Screen Credits (OSC) forms to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 88th Academy Awards® consideration. 

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Robin Swicord shares her screenwriting secrets

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Oscar-nominated screenwriter Robin Swicord answered questions today via Facebook about the craft of writing a screenplay. 

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How Scary Movies Were Sold in the ‘30s

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Throughout the Studio Era, motion picture companies conceived elaborate marketing campaigns to promote their film product and the popular horror movies of the 1930s were no exception. Pressbooks, also known as showman’s manuals or exhibitor’s campaign books, were an important tool in this endeavor, created by studio publicity departments to guide theater owners in attracting audiences to their cinema – whether it be a big city movie palace or a small town picture house.  Image The manuals were generally oversized and sometimes included vivid…
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KATHY BAKER, O’SHEA JACKSON JR., FREIDA PINTO AND JIMMY SMITS TO PERFORM AT ACADEMY NICHOLL FELLOWSHIPS LIVE READ

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Actors Kathy Baker, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Freida Pinto and Jimmy Smits will perform a live reading of selected scenes from the five winning scripts at the 2015 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Wednesday, November 4, at 7:30 p.m.

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10 DOC SHORTS ON OSCAR’S 2015 SHORTLIST

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 88th Academy Awards® has been narrowed to 10 films, of which five will earn Oscar® nominations.

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