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Academy Doc Series Spotlights Communities in Peril

Beverly Hills, CA – The 2010 Oscar® nominees “Sun Come Up” and “Waste Land” will screen as the next installment in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 30th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, October 5, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings in the series is free.

Directed by Jennifer Redfearn, who produced the film with Tim Metzger, “Sun Come Up” tells the story of the 3,000 residents of the Carteret Islands who face hunger and relocation as the effects of global warming transform their South Pacific paradise. The film earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Short Subject.

“Waste Land” documents the lives of garbage pickers scavenge among the mountains of discarded materials in Brazil’s Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest landfill. Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, who uses trash to create his work, travels to the landfill to photograph the people whose livelihood is dependent on the things that others throw away. Directed by Lucy Walker and produced by Angus Aynsley and Hank Levine, the film earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Feature. Walker will be present to take questions from the audience following the screening.

The 30th annual “Contemporary Documentaries” series continues through December 7, showcasing feature-length and short documentaries drawn from the 2010 Academy Award® nominations, including the winners, as well as other important and innovative films considered by the Academy that year.

All films will screen at the Linwood Dunn Theater at the Academy’s Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study on Wednesdays at 7 p.m., except for the IMAX presentation on December 7. Doors open at 6 p.m. All seating is unreserved. The filmmakers will be present at screenings whenever possible.

The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood. Free parking is available through the entrance on Homewood Avenue (one block north of Fountain Avenue). For additional information, visit www.oscars.org or call (310) 247-3600.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world’s preeminent movie-related organization, with a membership of more than 6,000 of the most accomplished men and women working in cinema. In addition to the annual Academy Awards – in which the members vote to select the nominees and winners – the Academy presents a diverse year-round slate of public programs, exhibitions and events; provides financial support to a wide range of other movie-related organizations and endeavors; acts as a neutral advocate in the advancement of motion picture technology; and, through its Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, collects, preserves, restores and provides access to movies and items related to their history. Through these and other activities the Academy serves students, historians, the entertainment industry and people everywhere who love movies.

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50th Anniversary Of JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG To Be Celebrated By Academy

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen “Judgment at Nuremberg,” in honor of the film’s 50th anniversary, on Tuesday, October 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Hosted by television and radio personality Larry King, the evening will feature an onstage discussion with Oscar®-winning actor Maximilian Schell; Oscar-winning documentarian Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center; and Mrs. Karen Sharpe Kramer, widow of Stanley Kramer, the film’s producer and director. Video messages from journalist Tom Brokaw, actor Alec Baldwin (who appeared in the “Nuremberg” TV miniseries) and “Judgment at Nuremberg” co-star William Shatner also will be presented.

Today, more than 60 years after the Nuremberg Trials, war tribunals and international criminal courts still dominate human rights discussions. In the Best Picture-nominated “Judgment at Nuremberg” (1961), producer-director Kramer created – only 14 years after the historical events – one of the first narrative films to address the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Based on the “Justice Trial” carried out in Nuremberg in 1947 against the Nazi regime and its conspirators, the film broaches more than the subject of crimes against humanity, delving into the complicity of the officials who carried out Nazi policies.

The cast includes Schell, who took home the Best Actor Oscar for his performance, fellow nominees Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift and Judy Garland, as well as Burt Lancaster, Marlene Dietrich and Shatner. The film garnered a total of 11 nominations, and won a second Oscar for its adapted screenplay by Abby Mann.

Schell will travel from his home in Austria to participate in an onstage discussion prior to the screening. In addition to his Academy Award for this performance, Schell was nominated two more times, for his roles in “The Man in the Glass Booth”(1975) and “Julia” (1977). His 1984 documentary portrait of “Nuremberg” co-star Marlene Dietrich, “Marlene,” also received an Oscar nomination.

Tickets for “Judgment at Nuremberg” are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID, and will be available for purchase starting Friday, September 30, online at www.oscars.org and by mail.

The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All seating is unreserved. For more information, call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org.

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Documentary Feature Film Entries Due September 15 for 2011 Oscars(R)

Beverly Hills, CA – Thursday, September 15, 5 p.m. is the deadline for filmmakers to submit documentary features to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the 84th Academy Awards®.

To be eligible, the documentaries must complete seven-day commercial runs in both Los Angeles County and the Borough of Manhattan in New York between September 1, 2010, and December 31, 2011. (The September 1 to December 31 period is one-time only; in future years, eligibility will follow only the calendar year.) For films completing their qualifying runs by August 15, all paperwork must be completed and received by the Academy no later than 30 days after the end of the qualifying runs. For films completing their qualifying runs after August 15, all paperwork, including legal contracts, must be completed and received by the Academy by the September 15 deadline.
Each completed entry form must be accompanied by supporting materials, including an English-language synopsis of the film, a list of film credits, filmographies of the director(s) and producer(s) when applicable, 30 DVD copies of the film, and proof of seven-day qualifying exhibitions.

Additional information about the documentary awards categories may be obtained by visiting http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/rule12.html or contacting assistant awards coordinator Michelle Ayala at (310) 247-3000, ext. 1117, or via e-mail at mayala@oscars.org.

The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar® presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world’s preeminent movie-related organization, with a membership of more than 6,000 of the most accomplished men and women working in cinema. In addition to the annual Academy Awards – in which the members vote to select the nominees and winners – the Academy presents a diverse year-round slate of public programs, exhibitions and events; provides financial support to a wide range of other movie-related organizations and endeavors; acts as a neutral advocate in the advancement of motion picture technology; and, through its Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, collects, preserves, restores and provides access to movies and items related to their history. Through these and other activities the Academy serves students, historians, the entertainment industry and people everywhere who love movies.

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Academy to Unveil Hitchcock’s Rediscovered THE WHITE SHADOW

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will present the American re-premiere of the first three reels of “The White Shadow,” the 1924 movie thought to be the earliest surviving feature film work of Alfred Hitchcock, on Thursday, September 22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Following the screening, Oscar®-winning actress Eva Marie Saint, who starred in Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest,” will offer a description of the remaining scenes which are still lost. Michael Mortilla and Nicole Garcia will provide live musical accompaniment on piano and violin.

The evening also will include a screening of “Won in a Closet” (1914), a film starring and directed by Mabel Normand, and “Oil’s Well,” a Monty Banks comedy. Both films were part of the New Zealand Film Archive collection and have now been added to the collection of the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art, respectively.

The tinted print of “The White Shadow,” an atmospheric melodrama starring Betty Compson in a dual role as twin sisters, one angelic and the other “without a soul,” was discovered during the National Film Preservation Foundation’s second round of research to identify prints of early American films held at the New Zealand Film Archive. It was among the many silent-era movies salvaged by New Zealand projectionist and collector Jack Murtagh. After Murtagh’s death in 1989, the highly flammable nitrate prints were sent to the New Zealand Film Archive for safekeeping by Tony Osborne, Murtagh’s grandson.

“The White Shadow” is among the “lost” films from the New Zealand Film Archive being preserved and accessed through the five major American film archives that are collaborating with the NFPF on the project: the Academy Film Archive, George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, and the UCLA Film & Television Archive. The title is being preserved at Park Road Post Production in New Zealand, and the new preservation master and exhibition print will be added to the Academy Film Archive’s permanent collection.

This will be the Academy’s latest presentation in a screening series of archival rediscoveries unspooling under the banner “Lost and Found.”

Tickets to “Lost and Found: The White Shadow” are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID, and are available for purchase online at www.oscars.org, at the Academy’s box office (8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ), or by mail. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m.

The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at the 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more information call (310) 247-3600 or visit www.oscars.org.

ABOUT THE ACADEMY
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world’s preeminent movie-related organization, with a membership of more than 6,000 of the most accomplished men and women working in cinema. In addition to the annual Academy Awards – in which the members vote to select the nominees and winners – the Academy presents a diverse year-round slate of public programs, exhibitions and events; provides financial support to a wide range of other movie-related organizations and endeavors; acts as a neutral advocate in the advancement of motion picture technology; and, through its Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, collects, preserves, restores and provides access to movies and items related to their history. Through these and other activities the Academy serves students, historians, the entertainment industry and people everywhere who love movies.

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