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| Nineteen features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 86th Academy Awards®. |
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| The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce a recent acquisition by the Margaret Herrick Library of costume design drawings and related production materials documenting the career of costume designer Michael Woulfe. |
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| Wendy Aylsworth, Rob Bredow, Douglas Greenfield, Rob Hummel and Bev Pasterczyk have accepted invitations to join the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, bringing the Council's 2013–2014 membership roster to 25. |
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| Four individual writers and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Each winner will receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at an awards presentation on Thursday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. For the first time, the event will also feature a live read of selected scenes from the fellows' winning scripts. |
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| The official history of the Academy Awards, 85 Years of the Oscar captures the thrill of the film industry's most significant and popular event with more than 750 photographs and an informative text by renowned film historian and Hollywood insider Robert Osborne. Published by Abbeville Press in association with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this extensively researched volume will be available in select bookstores and online retailers starting October ... |
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| The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 86th Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, of which three to five will earn Oscar® nominations. |
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| In the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' latest celebration of works by Academy film scholars, Donald Crafton, professor of film, television and theater at the University of Notre Dame, will present highlights from his book Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation on Wednesday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. |
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| The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Mary Pickford Foundation will continue their annual celebration of silent film with screenings of two silent film classics from 1928 – "The Crowd" on Tuesday, October 22, and "The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg" on Thursday, October 24 – at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. |
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| A record 76 countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 86th Academy Awards®. |
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| Three members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ newly created Casting Directors Branch have been elected to the Academy Board of Governors. |