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FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS

Nine features will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 87th Academy Awards®.  Eighty-three films had originally been considered in the category.

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reese witherspoon

Every week we chat with groundbreaking filmmakers in Los Angeles and New York for our Academy Conversations. As the year winds down the chats heat up. Here are some of the best quotes from over the last few weeks.

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Team Oscar
Winning Filmmakers to Appear on Oscars® Telecast Channing Tatum, Oscar producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and the Academy today launched “Team Oscar” by inviting the next generation of filmmakers to create a short video and vie for the opportunity to appear onstage during the live Oscar broadcast.  Winners will deliver Oscar statuettes to celebrity presenters at the 87th Academy Awards® on Oscar Sunday, February 22, 2015, live on ABC.“We are thrilled to bring the Team Oscar competition back to the show for the third year, and that Channing Tatum will be our spokesperson and one of the…
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starring Ann Gillis

In the Golden Age of Hollywood, studios were fond of unusual promotions to grab the attention of the public. When it came to the holiday season, Paramount Pictures found an especially charming way of spreading the yuletide spirit. In December 1938, Paramount released Little Orphan Annie, the second big screen adaptation of the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same name.

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makeup and hairstyling

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that seven films remain in competition in the Makeup and Hairstyling category for the 87th Academy Awards.

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David Seidler Creative Spark

David Seidler, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of  The King's Speech shows us how he catches creativity.

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original song
The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by film title and song title:"It's On Again" from "The Amazing Spider-Man 2""Opportunity" from "Annie""Lost Stars" from "Begin Again""Grateful" from "Beyond the Lights""Big Eyes" from "Big Eyes""Immortals" from "Big Hero 6""The Apology Song" from "The Book of Life""I Love You Too Much" from "The Book of Life""The Boxtrolls Song" from "The Boxtrolls""Quattro Sabatino" from "The Boxtrolls""Ryan's Song" from "Boyhood""Split The Difference" from "Boyhood""No Fate Awaits Me"…
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Original Score
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 114 scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2014 are in contention for nominations in the Original Score category for the 87th Oscars.The eligible scores along with their composers are listed below, in alphabetical order by film title:"American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs," Vivek Maddala, composer"Anita," Lili Haydn, composer"Annabelle," Joseph Bishara, composer"At Middleton," Arturo Sandoval, composer"Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?," Elia Cmiral, composer"Bears," George Fenton…
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Best picture
Three hundred twenty-three feature films are eligible for the 2014 Academy Awards, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.To be eligible for 87th Academy Awards consideration, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by midnight, December 31, and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days.Under Academy rules, a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes and must have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format.  Feature films that receive…
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Anna Maria Falconetti

These photographs from the 1928 French masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc represent a recent donation of over 50 rare original stills from the classic film to the Academy by Miss Diane Lapworth.  The photos were originally a given to her stepfather from the film’s cinematographer, Rudolph Maté; the two had met during the making of the film in France in 1928, and remained close friends for decades after.