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The 20th anniversary of a contemporary classic

The Academy spotlights three partnerships from Hollywood’s Golden Age in The Perfect Match: Hollywood Costume Collaborations during the month of December.  

Costume designers Bart and Kurt explain how they put together the looks for Oscar-winners Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto.

Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron today announced 13 key members of the production team for the 87th Academy Awards®, which will air live on Oscar® Sunday, February 22, 2015, on ABC.

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Wednesday, December 3, is the deadline to submit Official Screen Credits (OSC) forms to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 87th Academy Awards® consideration.
 

An all-star group of Hollywood moviemakers huddled around a speakerphone in the Academy’s headquarters on an impossibly sunny day, poised to change the lives of several people around the world.

On Saturday, November 10, the Academy honored four exceptional talents at the 6th Annual Governors Awards in Hollywood: Harry Belafonte, Jean-Claude Carrière, Maureen O’Hara and Hayao Miyazaki.

I ate, slept and breathed fillm" - Brett Ratner

With a remarkable acting career spanning more than six decades, Maureen O’Hara had her first starring film role as the beautiful and spirited “Esmeralda” in William Dieterle’s classic 1939 movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Soon after, the Irish-born actress starred in several war dramas, including Jean Renoir’s This Land Is Mine. Later, frequent collaborator John Ford directed John Wayne and O’Hara in The Wings of Eagles, the true story of Frank “Spig” Wead, a U.S. Navy pilot turned Hollywood screenwriter.