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Music Superstar Adam Levine To Perform At The Oscars®

Posted Monday, January 26, 2015 - 10:00

Grammy®-winning singer, songwriter and actor Adam Levine will perform the Oscar®-nominated song “Lost Stars” at the 87th Oscars, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today. The Oscars, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, will air on Sunday, February 22, live on ABC.

“Let It Go” Oscar®-Winning Team Kristen Anderson-Lopez And Robert Lopez Write Original Musical Number For Oscar Host Neil Patrick Harris

Posted Monday, January 26, 2015 - 22:00

Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris and show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron shared that the Oscar-winning songwriting team from “Frozen,” Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, are in the midst of writing an original multimedia, musical sequence, “Moving Pictures,” which Harris will perform on Oscar Sunday, February 22, on ABC. Harris made the initial announcement on his Twitter account, posting the network’s first tweet using its new mobile video camera feature.

Unseen Interviews with Previous Oscar Nominees

Posted Wednesday, January 21, 2015 - 10:30

Documentarian Errol Morris was commissioned to create a package of clips called “The Nominees” for the 79th Academy Awards, which were held on February 25, 2007. Morris interviewed 129 nominees for the segment and recorded more than 23 hours of footage. What follows is never-before-seen footage from those interviews. From the collection of the Academy Film Archive.

ACADEMY’S FEBRUARY SCREENINGS TO FEATURE “BACK TO THE FUTURE,” “BLADE RUNNER,” “THE GOONIES,” AND “THE DEPARTED”

Posted Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 11:30

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences launches in February a new screening series, Return to Oz: Costuming the Big Adventures of 1985, and continues the series Two Sides of a Costume Designer, both in conjunction with the landmark Hollywood Costume exhibition now on view. All screenings will be held at the Bing Theater in Los Angeles.

What's a film you love that most people haven't seen?

Posted Monday, January 19, 2015 - 11:15

In this week's Academy Originals we asked several filmmakers from David O. Russell to Lupita Nyong'o to Daniel Radcliffe and others to share with us a movie they love that most people haven't seen. How many of these have you seen? How would you have answered? When we asked Patton Oswalt that same question he said "Blast of Silence," so we invited him to our film archive and screened it for he and his friend. Check out that short film here.

87TH OSCARS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

Posted Thursday, January 15, 2015 - 05:15

Directors Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams, actor Chris Pine and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the nominations for the 87th Academy Awards® today (January 15). For the first time, nominees in all 24 categories were announced live.

Cuarón and Abrams announced the nominees in 11 categories at 5:30 a.m. PT, followed by Pine and Boone Isaacs for the remaining 13 categories at 5:38 a.m. PT, at the live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives. For a complete list of nominees, visit the official Oscars website, www.oscar.com.

Chasing Down THE FRENCH CONNECTION

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 17:00

Upon seeing The French Connection for the first time, legendary producer Darryl F. Zanuck proclaimed the chase sequences “the greatest [he had] ever seen.” Although the film won five Academy Awards, including those for Best Picture and Directing, it is the thrilling pursuit through New York City streets that many moviegoers remember most. These excerpts from director William Friedkin’s notes reveal how he conceived each shot of the gripping chase sequences. With the help of cinematographer Owen Roizman and a talented second unit, Friedkin filmed the…

21 Scientific And Technical Achievements To Be Honored With Academy Awards®

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 10:15

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 21 scientific and technical achievements represented by 58 individual award recipients will be honored at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation on Saturday, February 7, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills.

How the movie community saved a video store

Posted Monday, January 12, 2015 - 10:30

In this week’s Academy Originals episode, we share the story of Vidiots, a unique Los Angeles video rental store that has survived on the strength of its community for more than 30 years.

ACADEMY TO ANNOUNCE OSCAR NOMINATIONS IN ALL 24 CATEGORIES LIVE

Posted Friday, January 9, 2015 - 11:00

NOMINATIONS TO BE DELIVERED IN NEW TWO-PART PRESENTATIONCHRIS PINE AND ACADEMY PRESIDENT CHERYL BOONE ISAACS TO PRESENT NOMINATIONS IN 13 CATEGORIES INCLUDING BEST PICTUREALFONSO CUARÓN AND J.J. ABRAMS TO PRESENT SPECIAL EARLY ANNOUNCEMENT OF 11 CATEGORIESGLOBAL LIVE STREAM AVAILABLE AT OSCARS.ORG/LIVEOscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced today that actor Chris Pine, Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, and directors Alfonso Cuarón and J.J. Abrams, on Thursday, January 15, will announce the nominations in all 24 Oscar categories at a special two-part live news conference at…