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  • CITIZENFOUR, FINDING VIVIAN MAIER, POINT AND SHOOT Among Nominees For 2014 IDA Documentary Awards

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    The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced nominations for the 2014 IDA Documentary Awards set to take place on Friday, December 5th at the Paramount Theatre at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.  The five films nominated in IDA’s Feature category are: CITIZENFOUR, Laura Poitras’ portrait of whistleblowers, including Edward Snowden, and the disturbing state of surveillance of civilians in the post 9/11 age; FINDING VIVIAN MAIER, John Maloof and Charlie Siskel’s accounting of the discovery in an abandoned storage locker of what would turn out to be the work of one of the 20th Century’s greatest photographers; POINT AND SHOOT from Marshall Curry, the firsthand account of Matt Van Dyke’s personal odyssey in North Africa including fighting and imprisonment during the revolution in Libya;  THE SALT OF THE EARTH, directors Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado’s poetic examination of the life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado; and TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER, Nick Broomfield’s investigation of the notorious serial killer who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a twenty-five year span.

    2014 IDA Documentary Awards Nominations and Awards

    BEST FEATURE AWARD

    Citizenfour
    Director: Laura Poitras
    RADiUS-TWC, Participant Media, and HBO Documentary Films

    Finding Vivian Maier
    Directors: John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
    Sundance Selects

    Point and Shoot
    Director: Marshall Curry
    The Orchard

    The Salt of the Earth
    Directors: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
    Sony Pictures Classics

    Tales of the Grim Sleeper
    Director: Nick Broomfield
    HBO and SKY ATLANTIC

    BEST SHORT AWARD

    Ghost Train
    Directors: Kelly Hucker, James Fleming
    Premium Films (France)

    Our Curse
    Director: Tomasz Śliwiński

    Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall
    Director: Edgar Barens
    HBO Documentary Films

    Tashi and the Monk
    Directors: Andrew Hinton & Johnny Burke

    The Queen
    Director: Manuel Abramovich

    BEST CURATED SERIES AWARD

    American Experience
    Executive Producer: Mark Samels
    Senior Producer: Sharon Grimberg
    PBS

    American Masters
    Executive Producer: Susan Lacy
    PBS

    Independent Lens
    Executive Producer: Sally Jo Fifer
    Deputy Executive Producer: Lois Vossen
    Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with PBS

    POV
    Executive Producer: Simon Kilmurry
    Series Producer: Chris White
    POV/ PBS

    Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
    Executive Producer: Rick Bernstein
    HBO Sports

    BEST LIMITED SERIES AWARD

    Chicagoland
    Executive Producers: Mark Benjamin, Marc Levin, Laura Michalchyshyn, Robert Redford
    CNN/ BCTV and Sundance Productions

    COSMOS: A SpaceTime Odyssey
    Executive Producers: Brannon Braga, Mitchell Cannold, Ann Druyan, Seth MacFarlane
    FOX/ National Geographic Channel

    The Sixties
    Executive Producers: Gary Goeztman, Tom Hanks, Mark Herzog
    CNN/ Playtone and Herzog & Co

    Time of Death
    Executive Producers: Cynthia Childs, Dan Cutforth, Casey Kriley, Alexandra Lipsitz, Jane Lipsitz
    Co-Executive Producer: Miggi Hood
    Showtime

    Years of Living Dangerously
    Executive Producers: Daniel Abbasi, Joel Bach, James Cameron, David Gelber, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Weintraub
    Showtime

    BEST EPISODIC SERIES AWARD

    Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown
    Executive Producer and Host: Anthony Bourdain
    Executive Producers: Chris Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig
    CNN

    Morgan Spurlock Inside Man
    Executive Producer and Host: Morgan Spurlock
    Executive Producers Jeremy Chilnick, Mathew Galkin
    Warrior Poets/CNN

    Oprah’s Master Class
    Executive Producers: Jon Kamen, Jonathan Sinclair, Justin Wilkes, Oprah Winfrey
    OWN/ Harpo Studios

    Our America with Lisa Ling
    Executive Producers: Amy Bucher, Gregory Henry, Lisa Ling, David Shadrack Smith
    OWN

    VICE
    Executive Producer: BJ Levin, Bill Maher, Eddy Moretti, Shane Smith
    HBO

    BEST SHORT FORM SERIES AWARD

    A Short History of the Highrise
    Executive Producers: Jason Spingarn-Koff, Silva Basmajian
    National Film Board of Canada and The New York Times

    Last Chance High
    Executive Producer: Jason Mojica
    VICE News

    Op-Docs
    Executive Producer: Jason Spingarn-Koff
    The New York Times

    Planet Money Makes a T-shirt
    Executive Producer: Alex Blumberg
    NPR

    Russian Roulette
    Executive ProducersJason Mojica, Kevin Sutcliffe
    VICE News

    HUMANITAS AWARD

    How I Got Over
    Director: Nicole Boxer

    Keep On Keepin’ On
    Director: Alan Hicks
    RADiUS-TWC

    Limited Partnership
    Director: Thomas G. Miller
    PBS / Independent Lens

    DAVID L. WOLPER STUDENT DOCUMENTARY AWARD

    Cast in India
    Director: Natasha Raheja
    New York University

    Evaporating Borders
    Director: Iva Radivojevic
    CUNY – Hunter College

    Hotel 22
    Director: Elizabeth Lo
    Stanford University

    My Dad’s a Rocker
    Director: Zuxin Hou
    University of Southern California

    Solitary Plains
    Director: J. Christian Jensen
    Stanford University

    ABCNEWS VIDEOSOURCE AWARD

    1971
    Director: Johanna Hamilton
    Independent Lens/ PBS

    The Assassination of President Kennedy
    Executive Producers: Gary Goeztman, Tom Hanks, Mark Herzog
    CNN/ Playtone and Herzog & Co

    Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart
    Director: Jeremiah Zagar
    HBO Documentary Films

    Concerning Violence
    Director: Göran Hugo Olsson
    Kino Lorber

    The Joe Show
    Director: Randy Murray
    Investigation Discovery/ Film Buff

    CREATIVE RECOGNITION AWARDS

    BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY presented by Canon
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    CINEMATOGRAPHY BY: Hatuey Viveros Lavielle

    BEST EDITING
    Last Days in Vietnam
    EDITING BY: Don Kleszy

    BEST MUSIC
    Alfred and Jakobine
    MUSIC BY: Nick Urata

    BEST WRITING
    Finding Vivian Maier
    WRITTEN BY: John Maloof & Charlie Siskel

    PARE LORENTZ AWARD
    Tashi and the Monk
    Directors: Andrew Hinton, Johnny Burke

    EMERGING DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER AWARD sponsored by Red Fire Films and Modern VideoFilm
    Darius Clark Monroe

    CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
    Robert Redford

    PIONEER AWARD
    Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato

    PRESERVATION AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
    Rithy Panh

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  • “71” Leads with 9 Nominations for 2014 British Independent Film Awards Nominations

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    The nominations for the 17th annual Moët British Independent Film Awards were announced today and the highest number of nominations goes to ‘71 with nine nominations including Best British Independent Film; Best Director and Debut Director for Yann Demange; Best Screenplay for Gregory Burke; Best Actor for Jack O’Connell and Best Supporting Actor for Sean Harris. PRIDE picked up seven nominations and CATCH ME DADDY, FRANK and MR TURNER picked up five nominations each.  

    Nominations for Best Actress go to Alicia Vikander for TESTAMENT OF YOUTH; Cheng Pei Pei for LILTING; Gugu Mbatha-Raw for BELLE; Keira Knightleyfor THE IMITATION GAME and Sameena Jabeen Ahmed for CATCH ME DADDY. Leading men hoping to take home the Best Actor award include Asa Butterfield for X+Y; Benedict Cumberbatch for THE IMITATION GAME; Brendan Gleeson for CALVARY; Jack O’Connell for ’71 and Timothy Spall for MR TURNER.  

    Best Supporting Actor nominations go to Andrew Scott and Ben Schnetzer, both for PRIDE; Michael Fassbender for FRANK; Rafe Spall for X+Y and Sean Harris for ’71.  Dorothy Atkinson for MR TURNER; Imelda Staunton for PRIDE; Maggie Gyllenhaal for FRANK; Sally Hawkins for X+Y and Sienna Guillory for THE GOOB are all nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Award.

    Directors who have delivered dynamic debuts this year and are fighting for the Douglas Hickox Award are Daniel Wolfe and Matthew Wolfe for CATCH ME DADDY; Hong Khaou for LILTING; Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard for 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH; Morgan Matthews for X+Y and Yann Demange for ’71.

    The Raindance Award nominees for 2014 include: FLIM: THE MOVIE; GREGOR; LUNA; KEEPING ROSY and THE BEAT BENEATH MY FEET. This award honours exceptional achievement for filmmakers working against the odds, often with little or no industry support.

    The Moët British Independent Film Awards announce the following nominees for this year’s awards:

    BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM

    ’71
    Calvary
    Mr Turner
    Pride
    The Imitation Game

    BEST DIRECTOR

    John Michael McDonagh – Calvary
    Lenny Abrahamson – Frank
    Matthew Warchus – Pride
    Mike Leigh – Mr Turner
    Yann Demange  – ’71

    THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR]

    Daniel Wolfe, Matthew Wolfe – Catch Me Daddy
    Hong Khaou – Lilting
    Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard – 20,000 Days on Earth
    Morgan Matthews – X+Y
    Yann Demange –  ’71

    BEST SCREENPLAY

    Graham Moore – The Imitation Game
    Gregory Burke  – ’71 
    John Michael McDonagh – Calvary
    Jon Ronson, Peter Straughan – Frank
    Stephen Beresford – Pride

     BEST ACTRESS

    Alicia Vikander – Testament of Youth
    Cheng Pei Pei – Lilting
    Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle
    Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
    Sameena Jabeen Ahmed – Catch Me Daddy

     BEST ACTOR

    Asa Butterfield  – X+Y
    Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
    Brendan Gleeson – Calvary
    Jack O’Connell – ’71
    Timothy Spall – Mr Turner

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

    Dorothy Atkinson – Mr Turner
    Imelda Staunton – Pride
    Maggie Gyllenhaal – Frank
    Sally Hawkins – X+Y
    Sienna Guillory – The Goob

     BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

    Andrew Scott – Pride
    Ben Schnetzer – Pride
    Michael Fassbender – Frank
    Rafe Spall – X+Y
    Sean Harris – ‘71

    MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER

    Ben Schnetzer – Pride
    Cara Delevingne – The Face of An Angel
    Gugu Mbatha-Raw – Belle
    Liam Walpole – The Goob
    Sameena Jabeen Ahmed – Catch Me Daddy

     BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION

    ’71
    20,000 Days on Earth
    Catch Me Daddy
    Lilting
    The Goob

     BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

    Chris Wyatt – Editing – ’71
    Dick Pope – Cinematography – Mr Turner
    Robbie Ryan – Cinematography – Catch Me Daddy
    Stephen Rennicks – Music – Frank
    Tat Radcliffe – Cinematography – ’71

     BEST DOCUMENTAR Y

    20,000 Days on Earth
    Next Goal Wins
    Night Will Fall
    The Possibilities Are Endless
    Virunga

     BEST BRITISH SHORT

    Crocodile
    Emotional Fusebox
    Keeping Up With The Joneses
    Slap
    The Kármán Line

    BEST INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM

    Blue Ruin
    Boyhood
    Fruitvale Station
    Ida
    The Badadook

     THE RAINDANCE AWARD

    Flim: The Movie…
    Gregor
    Luna
    Keeping Rosy
    The Beat Beneath My Feet

     THE RICHARD HARRIS AWARD (for outstanding contribution by an actor to British Film)

    To Be Announced

    THE VARIETY AWARD

    To Be Announced

    THE SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

    Announced at the Moët British Independent Film Awards on Sunday 7th December

     

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  • 134 Documentary Features Submitted For 2014 Oscar® Race

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    One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards®.

    The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:

    “Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq”
    “Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case”
    “Algorithms”
    “Alive Inside”
    “All You Need Is Love”
    “Altina”
    “America: Imagine the World without Her”
    “American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
    “Anita”
    “Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
    “Art and Craft”
    “Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
    “The Barefoot Artist”
    “The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
    “Before You Know It”
    “Bitter Honey”
    “Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity”
    “Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi”
    “Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”
    “The Case against 8”
    “Cesar’s Last Fast”
    “Citizen Koch”
    “CitizenFour”
    “Code Black”
    “Concerning Violence”
    “The Culture High”
    “Cyber-Seniors”
    “DamNation”
    “Dancing in Jaffa”
    “Death Metal Angola”
    “The Decent One”
    “Dinosaur 13”
    “Do You Know What My Name Is?”
    “Documented”
    “The Dog”
    “E-Team”
    “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me”
    “Elena”
    “Evolution of a Criminal”
    “Fed Up”
    “Finding Fela”
    “Finding Vivian Maier”
    “Food Chains”
    “The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden”
    “Getting to the Nutcracker”
    “Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me”
    “Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia”
    “The Great Flood”
    “The Great Invisible”
    “The Green Prince”
    “The Hacker Wars”
    “The Hadza: Last of the First”
    “Hanna Ranch”
    “Happy Valley”
    “The Hornet’s Nest”
    “I Am Ali”
    “If You Build It”
    “The Immortalists”
    “The Internet’s Own Boy”
    “Ivory Tower”
    “James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge”
    “Jodorowsky’s Dune”
    “Journey of a Female Comic”
    “Keep On Keepin’ On”
    “Kids for Cash”
    “The Kill Team”
    “Korengal”
    “La Bare”
    “Last Days in Vietnam”
    “Last Hijack”
    “The Last Patrol”
    “Levitated Mass”
    “Life Itself”
    “Little White Lie”
    “Llyn Foulkes One Man Band”
    “Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles”
    “Manakamana”
    “Merchants of Doubt”
    “Mission Blue”
    “Mistaken for Strangers”
    “Mitt”
    “Monk with a Camera”
    “Nas: Time Is Illmatic”
    “National Gallery”
    “Next Goal Wins”
    “Next Year Jerusalem”
    “Night Will Fall”
    “No Cameras Allowed”
    “Now: In the Wings on a World Stage”
    “Occupy the Farm”
    “The Only Real Game”
    “The Overnighters”
    “Particle Fever”
    “Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes”
    “Pelican Dreams”
    “The Pleasures of Being Out of Step”
    “Plot for Peace”
    “Point and Shoot”
    “Poverty Inc.”
    “Print the Legend”
    “Private Violence”
    “Pump”
    “Rabindranath Tagore – The Poet of Eternity”
    “Red Army”
    “Remote Area Medical”
    “Rich Hill”
    “The Rule”
    “The Salt of the Earth”
    “Shadows from My Past”
    “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
    “A Small Section of the World”
    “Smiling through the Apocalypse – Esquire in the 60s”
    “Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon”
    “The Supreme Price”
    “Tales of the Grim Sleeper”
    “Tanzania: A Journey Within”
    “This Is Not a Ball”
    “Thomas Keating: A Rising Tide of Silence”
    “Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People”
    “True Son”
    “20,000 Days on Earth”
    “Unclaimed”
    “Under the Electric Sky”
    “Underwater Dreams”
    “Virunga”
    “Waiting for August”
    “Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago”
    “Warsaw Uprising”
    “Watchers of the Sky”
    “Watermark”
    “We Are the Giant”
    “We Could Be King”
    “Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger”
    “A World Not Ours”

    Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process.  A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.

    Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories.

    The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

    The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.  The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

     

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  • European Film Academy to Honor Writer/Director, Agnès Varda

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    The European Film Academy will present Agnès Varda with the Lifetime Achievement Award for what they describe as her outstanding body of work.  As a writer and director, Agnès Varda continues to be an important voice in French and European cinema as well as in the world of art. Her first film, LA POINTE COURTE (1954), was hardly shown but it already gave a glimpse of her very personal style and earned her the title of «grandmother of the French New Wave». Her film CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7, 1961) was selected at Cannes Festival and won the French Critics’ Award. 

    Among her many films are LIONS LOVE (… and LIES) (1968), DOCUMENTEUR (1981), shot in Los Angeles, ONE SINGS THE OTHER DOESN’T (L’une chante, l’autre pas, 1976), JACQUOT (de NANTES) (1990)… All her films often combine the fictional with the documentary.

    She has won virtually every award there is, among them a Silver Bear in Berlin for HAPPINESS (Le Bonheur, 1965), a Golden Lion in Venice for VAGABOND (Sans toit ni loi, 1985), a European Film Award for THE GLEANERS AND I (Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, 2000), and a French César for THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS (Les Plages d’Agnès, 2008).
    Her work has been honoured with a Carosse d’Or at the Cannes Festival, an honorary César and a Pardo d’onore in Locarno.

    Agnès Varda has created more than 30 short, documentary and fiction films for both TV and cinema, and exhibitions of photographs and art installations: PATATUTOPIA, created at the Venice Art Biennale 2003, THE WIDOWS OF NOIRMOUTIER in a big exhibition at La Fondation Cartier in Paris (2006), A SHACK OF CINEMA shown at LACMA in Los Angeles (2013) and a solo exhibition, TRIPTYQUES ATYPIQUES at Obadia Gallery in Paris (2014).

    Agnès Varda will be an honorary guest at the 27th European Film Awards Ceremony on December 13, 2014. 

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  • 8 Doc Shorts On Oscar’s 2014 Shortlist

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    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 87th Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, of which three to five will earn Oscar® nominations.

    The eight films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies: 

    “Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1,” Perry Films
    “Joanna,” Wajda Studio 
    “Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Grace,” Show of Force
    “The Lion’s Mouth Opens,” Tree Tree Tree
    “One Child,” New York University 
    “Our Curse,” Warsaw Film School 
    “The Reaper (La Parka),” Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica 
    “White Earth,” Weary Traveler

    The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

    The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.  The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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  • Neil Patrick Harris to Host 2015 Oscars

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    Actor Neil Patrick Harris will host the 87th Oscars®, scheduled to air live on ABC on Oscar® Sunday, February 22, 2015. “It is truly an honor and a thrill to be asked to host this year’s Academy Awards.  I grew up watching the Oscars and was always in such awe of some of the greats who hosted the show,” said Harris. “To be asked to follow in the footsteps of Johnny Carson, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneres, and everyone else who had the great fortune of hosting is a bucket list dream come true.” 

    “We share Craig and Neil’s excitement in welcoming the incredibly talented Neil Patrick Harris,” said Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Academy President.  “He is the consummate entertainer.  Neil’s distinctive charm and showmanship make him the ideal host to honor the Oscar legacy and ensure we all enjoy another unforgettable celebration.”

    “Neil is a terrific actor, singer, risk-taker and collaborator,” said Dawn Hudson, Academy CEO. “We can’t wait to see the show that he and Craig and Neil create together.” 

    A triple-threat performer, Harris has enjoyed a successful career in entertainment.  He can currently be seen starring opposite Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike in David Fincher’s critically-acclaimed feature film, “Gone Girl.”  Harris garnered multiple Emmy® and Golden Globe award nominations for his role as Barney Stinson on the hit television series, “How I Met Your Mother,” and he won an Emmy for his guest-starring role on “Glee” in 2010.  He also recently starred in the title role of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” on Broadway, earning the 2014 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.  Harris served as host of the 61st and 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as the 63rd, 65th, 66th and 67th Tony Awards, for which he won four Emmys.  Most recently, Harris added the title of author to his list of accomplishments with the release of his autobiography from Crown Publishing, “Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography.”   

    The last two Oscars telecasts, which were produced by Zadan and Meron, received a major spike in the ratings.  The 86th Oscars was TV’s most-watched entertainment event in 10 years and attracted the biggest viewership since 2000, with more than 45 million viewers.  The show resulted in dramatic gains in younger demos and social media conversation, with more than one billion impressions generated on Twitter and 25 million interactions happening on Facebook on Oscar Sunday.  Additionally, the star-studded “selfie” became the most retweeted photo of all time with 32.8 million views.

    The Oscars will be held at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network at 4 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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  • 83 Countries In Competition For 2014 Foreign Language Film Oscar

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    A record 83 countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 87th Academy Awards®.  Kosovo, Malta, Mauritania and Panama are first-time entrants.

    The 2014 submissions are:

    Afghanistan, “A Few Cubic Meters of Love,” Jamshid Mahmoudi, director;
    Argentina, “Wild Tales,” Damián Szifrón, director;
    Australia, “Charlie’s Country,” Rolf de Heer, director;
    Austria, “The Dark Valley,” Andreas Prochaska, director;
    Azerbaijan, “Nabat,” Elchin Musaoglu, director;
    Bangladesh, “Glow of the Firefly,” Khalid Mahmood Mithu, director;
    Belgium, “Two Days, One Night,” Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, directors;
    Bolivia, “Forgotten,” Carlos Bolado, director;
    Bosnia and Herzegovina, “With Mom,” Faruk Lončarevič, director; 
    Brazil, “The Way He Looks,” Daniel Ribeiro, director;
    Bulgaria, “Bulgarian Rhapsody,” Ivan Nitchev, director;
    Canada, “Mommy,” Xavier Dolan, director;
    Chile, “To Kill a Man,” Alejandro Fernández Almendras, director;
    China, “The Nightingale,” Philippe Muyl, director;
    Colombia, “Mateo,” María Gamboa, director;
    Costa Rica, “Red Princesses,” Laura Astorga Carrera, director;
    Croatia, “Cowboys,” Tomislav Mršić, director;
    Cuba, “Conducta,” Ernesto Daranas Serrano, director;
    Czech Republic, “Fair Play,” Andrea Sedláčková, director;
    Denmark, “Sorrow and Joy,” Nils Malmros, director;
    Dominican Republic, “Cristo Rey,” Leticia Tonos, director;
    Ecuador, “Silence in Dreamland,” Tito Molina, director;
    Egypt, “Factory Girl,” Mohamed Khan, director;
    Estonia, “Tangerines,” Zaza Urushadze, director;
    Ethiopia, “Difret,” Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, director;
    Finland, “Concrete Night,” Pirjo Honkasalo, director;
    France, “Saint Laurent,” Bertrand Bonello, director;
    Georgia, “Corn Island,” George Ovashvili, director;
    Germany, “Beloved Sisters,” Dominik Graf, director;
    Greece, “Little England,” Pantelis Voulgaris, director;
    Hong Kong, “The Golden Era,” Ann Hui, director;
    Hungary, “White God,” Kornél Mundruczó, director;
    Iceland, “Life in a Fishbowl,” Baldvin Zophoníasson, director;
    India, “Liar’s Dice,” Geetu Mohandas, director;
    Indonesia, “Soekarno,” Hanung Bramantyo, director;
    Iran, “Today,” Reza Mirkarimi, director;
    Iraq, “Mardan,” Batin Ghobadi, director;
    Ireland, “The Gift,” Tom Collins, director;
    Israel, “Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem,” Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz, directors;
    Italy, “Human Capital,” Paolo Virzì, director;
    Japan, “The Light Shines Only There,” Mipo O, director;
    Kosovo, “Three Windows and a Hanging,” Isa Qosja, director;
    Kyrgyzstan, “Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains,” Sadyk Sher-Niyaz, director;
    Latvia, “Rocks in My Pockets,” Signe Baumane, director;
    Lebanon, “Ghadi,” Amin Dora, director;
    Lithuania, “The Gambler,” Ignas Jonynas, director;
    Luxembourg, “Never Die Young,” Pol Cruchten, director;
    Macedonia, “To the Hilt,” Stole Popov, director;
    Malta, “Simshar,” Rebecca Cremona, director;
    Mauritania, “Timbuktu,” Abderrahmane Sissako, director;
    Mexico, “Cantinflas,” Sebastián del Amo, director;
    Moldova, “The Unsaved,” Igor Cobileanski, director;
    Montenegro, “The Kids from the Marx and Engels Street,” Nikola Vukčević, director;
    Morocco, “The Red Moon,” Hassan Benjelloun, director;
    Nepal, “Jhola,” Yadav Kumar Bhattarai, director;
    Netherlands, “Accused,” Paula van der Oest, director;
    New Zealand, “The Dead Lands,” Toa Fraser, director;
    Norway, “1001 Grams,” Bent Hamer, director;
    Pakistan, “Dukhtar,” Afia Nathaniel, director;
    Palestine, “Eyes of a Thief,” Najwa Najjar, director;
    Panama, “Invasion,” Abner Benaim, director;
    Peru, “The Gospel of the Flesh,” Eduardo Mendoza, director;
    Philippines, “Norte, the End of History,” Lav Diaz, director;
    Poland, “Ida,” Paweł Pawlikowski, director;
    Portugal, “What Now? Remind Me,” Joaquim Pinto, director;
    Romania, “The Japanese Dog,” Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, director;
    Russia, “Leviathan,” Andrey Zvyagintsev, director;
    Serbia, “See You in Montevideo,” Dragan Bjelogrlić, director;
    Singapore, “Sayang Disayang,” Sanif Olek, director;
    Slovakia, “A Step into the Dark,” Miloslav Luther, director;
    Slovenia, “Seduce Me,” Marko Šantić, director;
    South Africa, “Elelwani,” Ntshavheni Wa Luruli, director;
    South Korea, “Haemoo,” Shim Sung-bo, director;
    Spain, “Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed,” David Trueba, director;
    Sweden, “Force Majeure,” Ruben Östlund, director;
    Switzerland, “The Circle,” Stefan Haupt, director;
    Taiwan, “Ice Poison,” Midi Z, director;
    Thailand, “The Teacher’s Diary,” Nithiwat Tharathorn, director;
    Turkey, “Winter Sleep,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director;
    Ukraine, “The Guide,” Oles Sanin, director;
    United Kingdom, “Little Happiness,” Nihat Seven, director;
    Uruguay, “Mr. Kaplan,” Álvaro Brechner, director;
    Venezuela, “The Liberator,” Alberto Arvelo, director.

    The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

    The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.  The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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  • Cinema Eye Honors Names 2015 “Shorts List” 10 Finalists for 2015 Outstanding Nonfiction Short Film Award

    The Lion’s Mouth OpensThe Lion’s Mouth Opens

    Ten nonfiction short films were announced as finalists for the 2015 Cinema Eye Honors, the 8th edition of the largest annual celebration for and recognition of the nonfiction film artform and the creators of those films.  Among the notable films and filmmakers on this year’s Shorts List is Lucy Walker’s The Lion’s Mouth Opens. Walker won the 2014 Cinema Eye Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction Film on Television for The Crash Reel. She is a two-time Academy Award nominee for Waste Land and The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom.

    The announcement of the annual Cinema Eye Shorts List was made on the opening day of the 2014 Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), a key festival partner of the Cinema Eye Honors. For the first time, all ten films, which are among the most acclaimed short documentaries of the year, screened at the 10th Annual Camden International Film Festival.  

    It’s the third year that the CEH Shorts List has been announced in Camden and the first year that all ten films on the list will screen at the festival.  This January will mark the sixth year that CIFF hosts their annual reception on the eve of Cinema Eye’s award ceremony.  A key part of Cinema Eye Week, a multi-day event held in New York City in January, the CIFF reception has become the largest single event for nonfiction film in the city and an important kickoff for the new year in the documentary community.

    Other notable films and filmmakers on this year’s Shorts List:

    Steven Bognar’s Foundry Night Shift. Bognar was a 2010 Academy Award nominee for The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant and a 2007 Primetime Emmy Award winner for A Lion in The House.

    Deborah Stratman’s Hacked Circuit. Stratman was a 2010 Cinema Eye nominee for Outstanding Cinematography for her film O’er the Land and was named to the 2012 Shorts List for Ray’s Birds.

    From the ten finalists on this year’s Shorts List, five films will be named as nominees for the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking Award.  Nominees in that category and nearly a dozen feature film categories will be announced on Wednesday, November 12 in Copenhagen, Denmark at an event at CPH:DOX.  Awards will be presented during Cinema Eye Week in New York City in January 2015.

    This year’s ten finalists are:

    Foundry Night Shift (United States) Directed by Steven Bognar

    Hacked Circuit (United States) Directed by Deborah Stratman

    Joanna (Poland) Directed by Aneta Kopacz

    The Lion’s Mouth Opens (United States) Directed by Lucy Walker

    Notes on Blindness (United Kingdom) Directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney

    One Year Lease (United States) Directed by Brian Bolster

    The Queen (Argentina) Directed by Manuel Abramovich

    Santa Cruz del Islote (United States) Directed by Luke Lorentzen

    Unlocking the Truth (United States) Directed by Luke Meyer

    Vegas (United Kingdom) Directed by Lukasz Konopa

    Finalists for the Short Filmmaking award were determined in voting by top short film/documentary programmers from international film festivals.  Members of this year’s Short Film Nominations Committee included: Karen Cirillo (True/False Film Festival), Charlotte Cook (Hot Docs), Hussain Currimbhoy (formerly of Sheffield Doc/Fest), Cara Cusumano (Tribeca), Ben Fowlie (Camden International Film Festival), Claudette Godfrey (SXSW), Doug Jones (formerly of the Los Angeles Film Festival), Ted Mott (Full Frame), Veton Nurkollari (Dokufest Kosovo), Rachel Rosen (San Francisco), Sky Sitney (formerly of AFI Docs) and Kim Yutani (Sundance).

    This is the fifth year that Cinema Eye has presented an award for Nonfiction Short Filmmaking.  Previous winners in the category include The Poodle Trainer (directed by Vance Malone, 2011), Diary (Tim Hetherington, 2012), Goodbye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima) (Robert-Jan Lacombe, 2013) and A Story for the Modlins (Sergio Oksman, 2014).

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  • Harry Belafonte, Jean-Claude Carrière, Hayao Miyazaki And Maureen O’Hara To Receive Academy’s Governors Awards

    Harry Belafonte, Jean-Claude Carrière, Hayao Miyazaki And Maureen O’Hara To Receive Academy’s Governors Awards

    The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted Tuesday night (August 26) to present Honorary Awards to Jean-Claude Carrière, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O’Hara, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Harry Belafonte.  All four awards will be presented at the Academy’s 6th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 8, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®.

    “The Governors Awards allow us to reflect upon not the year in film, but the achievements of a lifetime,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.  “We’re absolutely thrilled to honor these outstanding members of our global filmmaking community and look forward to celebrating with them in November.”

    Carrière, who began his career as a novelist, was introduced to screenwriting by French comedian and filmmaker Pierre Étaix, with whom he shared an Oscar® for the live action short subject “Heureux Anniversaire (Happy Anniversary)” in 1962.  He received two more nominations during his nearly two-decade collaboration with director Luis Buñuel, for the screenplays for “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” and “That Obscure Object of Desire.”  Carrière also has collaborated notably with such directors as Volker Schlöndorff (“The Tin Drum”), Jean-Luc Godard (“Every Man for Himself”) and Andrzej Wajda (“Danton”).  He earned a fourth Oscar nomination for “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” with director Philip Kaufman.

    Miyazaki is an artist, writer, director, producer and three-time Oscar nominee in the Animated Feature Film category, winning in 2002 for “Spirited Away.”  His other nominations were for “Howl’s Moving Castle” in 2005 and “The Wind Rises” last year.  Miyazaki gained an enormous following in his native Japan for such features as “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,” “Laputa: Castle in the Sky,” “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Kiki’s Delivery Service” before breaking out internationally in the late 1990s with “Princess Mononoke.”  He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a renowned animation studio based in Tokyo.

    O’Hara, a native of Dublin, Ireland, came to Hollywood in 1939 to star opposite Charles Laughton in “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”  She went on to appear in a wide range of feature films, including the swashbucklers “The Black Swan” and “Sinbad the Sailor,” the dramas “This Land Is Mine” and “A Woman’s Secret,” the family classics “Miracle on 34th Street” and “The Parent Trap,” the spy comedy “Our Man in Havana” and numerous Westerns.  She was a favorite of director John Ford, who cast her in five of his films, including “How Green Was My Valley,” “Rio Grande” and “The Quiet Man.”

    An actor, producer, singer and lifelong activist, Belafonte began performing in theaters and nightclubs in and around Harlem, where he was born.  From the beginning of his film career, he chose projects that shed needed light on racism and inequality, including “Carmen Jones,” “Odds against Tomorrow” and “The World, the Flesh and the Devil.”  He was an early supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, marching and organizing alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. and often funding initiatives with his entertainment income.  Belafonte was named a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1987 and currently serves on the boards of the Advancement Project and the Institute for Policy Studies.  His work on behalf of children, education, famine relief, AIDS awareness and civil rights has taken him all over the world.

    The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given “to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy.”

    The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, also an Oscar statuette, is given “to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.”

    images Credit: 
    Harry Belafonte at the Vienna International Film Festival 2011. Taken by Manfred Werner via Wikimedia.
    Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière giving a lecture on scenario writing at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during the festival Paris-Cinéma. Taken by Roman Bonnefoy via Wikimedia.
    Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. Taken by Thomas Schulz via Wikimedia.
    O’Hara at the 2014 TCM Film Festival. Taken by Greg Hernandez via Wikimedia.

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  • Cheryl Boone Isaacs Re-Elected Academy President

    Cheryl Boone IsaacsCheryl Boone Isaacs

    Cheryl Boone Isaacs was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Tuesday night (August 5) by the organization’s Board of Governors.

    In addition, Jeffrey Kurland was elected first vice president, Leonard Engelman and John Bailey were elected to vice president posts, Dick Cook was elected treasurer, and Bill Kroyer was elected secretary.

    Boone Isaacs is beginning her second term as president and her 22nd year as a governor representing the Public Relations Branch. Last year Kurland served as vice president. Both Engelman and Cook were re-elected to their posts. These will be the first officer stints for Bailey and Kroyer.

    Boone Isaacs currently heads CBI Enterprises, Inc., where she has consulted on marketing efforts on such films as “The Call,” “The Artist,” “The King’s Speech,” “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” “Spider-Man 2” and “Tupac: Resurrection.”Boone Isaacs previously served as president of theatrical marketing for New Line Cinema, where she oversaw numerous box office successes, including “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” and “Rush Hour.” Prior to joining New Line in 1997, she was executive vice president of worldwide publicity for Paramount Pictures, where she orchestrated publicity campaigns for the Best Picture winners “Forrest Gump” and “Braveheart.” This year, she was inducted into the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Hall of Fame, and received the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) Horizon Award and the 2014 Trailblazer award from Essence magazine.

    Academy board members may serve up to three consecutive three-year terms, while officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive years in any one office.

    Press Release via AMPAS

     

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  • Michael Fassbender, Sally Hawkins Among 271 Invited to Join Academy

     Sally Hawkins in Blue JasmineSally Hawkins in Blue Jasmine

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 271 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.  Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2014.

    “This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.  “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”

    The 2014 invitees are:

    Actors
    Barkhad Abdi – “Captain Phillips”
    Clancy Brown – “The Hurricane,” “The Shawshank Redeption”
    Paul Dano – “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners”
    Michael Fassbender – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”
    Ben Foster – “Lone Survivor,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
    Beth Grant – “The Artist,” “No Country for Old Men”
    Clark Gregg – “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
    Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine,” “Happy-Go-Lucky”
    Josh Hutcherson – “The Hunger Games,” “The Kids Are All Right”
    Julia Louis-Dreyfus – “Enough Said,” “Planes”
    Kelly Macdonald – “Brave,” “No Country for Old Men”
    Mads Mikkelsen – “The Hunt,” “Casino Royale”
    Joel McKinnon Miller – “Super 8,” “The Truman Show”
    Cillian Murphy – “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Inception”
    Lupita Nyong’o – “Non-Stop,” “12 Years a Slave”
    Rob Riggle – “21 Jump Street,” “The Hangover”
    Chris Rock – “Grown Ups 2,” “Madagascar”
    June Squibb – “Nebraska,” “About Schmidt”
    Jason Statham – “Parker,” “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”
    David Strathairn – “Lincoln,” “Good Night, and Good Luck.”

    Casting Directors
    Douglas Aibel – “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The Immigrant”
    Simone Bär – “The Monuments Men,” “The Book Thief”
    Kerry Barden – “August: Osage County,” “Dallas Buyers Club”
    Nikki Barrett – “The Railway Man,” “The Great Gatsby”
    Mark Bennett – “Drinking Buddies,” “Zero Dark Thirty”
    Risa Bramon Garcia – “Speed,” “Wall Street” 
    Michelle Guish – “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” “Nanny McPhee”
    Billy Hopkins – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” “Disconnect”
    Ros Hubbard – “Romeo & Juliet,” “The Mummy”
    Allison Jones – “The Way, Way Back,” “The Heat”
    Christine King – “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,” “Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith”
    Beatrice Kruger – “To Rome with Love,” “The American”
    Marci Liroff – “Mean Girls,” “Pretty in Pink”
    Debbie McWilliams – “Skyfall,” “Quantum of Solace”
    Joseph Middleton – “TheTwilight Saga: New Moon,” “Legally Blonde”
    Robi Reed – “For Colored Girls,” “Do the Right Thing”
    Kevin Reher – “Monsters University,” “Finding Nemo”
    Paul Schnee – “August: Osage County,” “Dallas Buyers Club”
    Gail Stevens – “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Slumdog Millionaire”
    Lucinda Syson – “Gravity,” “Fast and & Furious 6”
    Fiona Weir – “J. Edgar,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
    Ronnie Yeskel – “The Sessions,” “Atlas Shrugged Part 1”

    Cinematographers
    Sean Bobbitt – “12 Years a Slave,” “The Place beyond the Pines”
    Philippe Le Sourd – “The Grandmaster,” “Seven Pounds”
    James Neihouse – “Hubble 3D,” “Nascar: The IMAX Experience”
    Masanobu Takayanagi – “Out of the Furnace,” “Silver Linings Playbook”
    Bradford Young – “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” “Pariah”

    Costume Designers 
    William Chang Suk Ping – “The Grandmaster,” “In the Mood for Love”
    Pascaline Chavanne – “Renoir,” “Augustine”
    Daniela Ciancio – “The Great Beauty,” “Il Divo”
    Frank L. Fleming – “Draft Day,” “Monster’s Ball” 
    Maurizio Millenotti – “Hamlet,” “Otello”
    Beatrix Aruna Pasztor – “Great Expectations,” “Good Will Hunting”
    Karyn Wagner – “Lovelace,” “The Green Mile”

    Designers
    William Arnold – “Lovelace,” “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”
    K.K. Barrett – “Her,” “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
    Susan Benjamin – “Saving Mr. Banks,” “The Blind Side”
    Bill Boes – “The Smurfs 2,” “Fantastic Four”
    Tony Fanning – “Contraband,” “War of the Worlds”
    Robert Greenfield – “Priest,” “Almost Famous”
    Marcia Hinds – “I Spy,” “The Public Eye”
    Sonja Brisbane Klaus – “Prometheus,” “Robin Hood”
    David S. Lazan – “Flight,” “American Beauty”
    Diane Lederman – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” “Tower Heist”
    Heather Loeffler – “American Hustle,” “Silver Linings Playbook”
    Christa Munro – “Jack Reacher,” “Erin Brockovich”
    Andy Nicholson – “Gravity,” “The Host” 
    Adam Stockhausen – “12 Years a Slave,” “Moonrise Kingdom”

    Directors
    Hany Abu-Assad – “Omar,” “Paradise Now”
    Jay Duplass – “Jeff, Who Lives at Home,” “Cyrus”
    Mark Duplass – “Jeff, Who Lives at Home,” “Cyrus”
    David Gordon Green – “Joe,” “Pineapple Express”
    Gavin O’Connor – “Warrior,” “Miracle”
    Gina Prince-Bythewood – “The Secret Life of Bees,” “Love and Basketball”
    Paolo Sorrentino – “The Great Beauty,” “This Must Be the Place”
    Jean-Marc Vallée – “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Young Victoria” 
    Felix van Groeningen – “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” “The Misfortunates”
    Denis Villeneuve – “Prisoners,” “Incendies”
    Thomas Vinterberg – “The Hunt,” “The Celebration”

    Documentary
    Malcolm Clarke – “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life,” “Prisoner of Paradise”
    Dan Cogan – “How to Survive a Plague,” “The Queen of Versailles”
    Kief Davidson – “Open Heart,” “Kassim the Dream”
    Dan Geller – “The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden,” “Ballets Russes”
    Dayna Goldfine – “The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden,” “Ballets Russes”
    Julie Goldman – “God Loves Uganda,” “Gideon’s Army”
    Sam Green – “Utopia in Four Movements,” “The Weather Underground”
    Gary Hustwit – “Urbanized,” “Helvetica”
    Eugene Jarecki – “The House I Live In,” “Why We Fight”
    Brian Johnson – “Anita,” “Buena Vista Social Club”
    Ross Kauffman – “E-Team,” “Born into Brothels”
    Morgan Neville – “20 Feet from Stardom,” “Troubadours”
    Matthew J. O’Neill – “Redemption,” “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province”
    Rithy Panh – “The Missing Picture,” “S-21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine”
    Lucy Massie Phenix – “Regret to Inform,” “Word Is Out”
    Enat Sidi – “Detropia,” “Jesus Camp”
    Molly Thompson – “The Unknown Known,” “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer”
    Cynthia Wade – “Mondays at Racine,” “Freeheld”

    Executives
    Adrian Alperovich 
    Sean Bailey 
    Len Blavatnik
    Nicholas Carpou
    Nancy Carson
    Charles S. Cohen
    Jason Constantine
    Peter Cramer
    William Kyle Davies
    Christopher Floyd
    David Garrett
    David Hollis
    Tomas Jegeus
    Michelle Raimo Kouyate
    Anthony James Marcoly
    Hiroyasu Matsuoka
    Kim Roth
    John Sloss

    Film Editors
    Alan Baumgarten – “American Hustle,” “Gangster Squad”
    Alan Edward Bell – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “The Amazing Spider-Man”
    Dorian Harris – “The Magic of Belle Isle,” “The Mod Squad”
    Sabrina Plisco – “The Smurfs 2,” “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”
    Tatiana S. Riegel – “Million Dollar Arm,” “The Way, Way Back”
    Julie Rogers – “Wreck-It Ralph,” “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl”
    Mark Sanger – “Gravity”
    Joan Sobel – “Admission,” “A Single Man”
    Crispin Struthers – “American Hustle,” “Silver Linings Playbook”
    Tracey Wadmore-Smith – “About Last Night,” “Death at a Funeral”
    Joe Walker – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”
    John Wilson – “The Book Thief,” “Billy Elliot”

    Makeup Artists and Hairstylists
    Vivian Baker – “Oz The Great and Powerful,” “Conviction”
    Adruitha Lee – “Dallas Buyers Club,” “12 Years a Slave” 
    Robin Mathews – “Dallas Buyers Club,” “The Runaways”
    Anne Morgan – “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone,” “A Little Bit of Heaven”
    Gloria Pasqua-Casny – “The Lone Ranger,” “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”

    Members-at-Large
    Peter Becker
    Jeff Dashnaw 
    Kenneth L. Halsband
    Jody Levin
    Tom MacDougall
    Chuck Picerni, Jr.
    Spiro Razatos 
    Mic Rodgers
    Kevin J. Yeaman

    Music
    Kristen Anderson-Lopez – “Frozen,” “Winnie the Pooh”
    Stanley Clarke – “The Best Man Holiday,” “Boyz N the Hood”
    Earl Ghaffari – “Frozen,” “Wreck-It Ralph”
    Steve Jablonsky – “Lone Survivor,” “Ender’s Game”
    Robert Lopez – “Frozen,” “Winnie the Pooh”
    Steven Price – “Gravity,” “The World’s End”
    Tony Renis – “Hidden Moon,” “Quest for Camelot”
    Angie Rubin – “Pitch Perfect,” “Sex and the City”
    Buck Sanders – “Warm Bodies,” “The Hurt Locker”
    Charles Strouse – “All Dogs Go to Heaven,” “Annie”
    Eddie Vedder – “Eat Pray Love,” “Into the Wild”
    Pharrell Williams – “Despicable Me 2,” “Fast & Furious”

    Producers
    Jason Blumenthal – “Hope Springs,” “Seven Pounds”
    Dana Brunetti – “Captain Phillips,” “The Social Network”
    Megan Ellison – “American Hustle,” “Her”
    Sean Furst – “Daybreakers,” “The Cooler”
    Nicola Giuliano – “The Great Beauty,” “This Must Be the Place”
    Preston Holmes – “Waist Deep,” “Tupac: Resurrection”
    Lynette M. Howell – “The Place beyond the Pines,” “Blue Valentine”
    Anthony Katagas – “12 Years a Slave,” “Killing Them Softly”
    Alix Madigan – “Girl Most Likely,” “Winter’s Bone”
    Paul Mezey – “The Girl,” “Maria Full of Grace”
    Stephen Nemeth – “The Sessions,” “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
    Tracey Seaward – “Philomena,” “The Queen”
    John H. Williams – “Space Chimps,” “Shrek 2”

    Public Relations
    Larry Angrisani
    Nancy Bannister
    Christine Batista
    Karen Hermelin
    Marisa McGrath Liston
    David Magdael
    Steven Raphael
    Bettina R. Sherick
    Dani Weinstein

    Short Films and Feature Animation
    Didier Brunner – “Ernest & Celestine,” “The Triplets of Belleville”
    Scott Clark – “Monsters University,” “Up”
    Pierre Coffin – “Despicable Me 2,” “Despicable Me”
    Esteban Crespo – “Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me),” “Lala”
    Peter Del Vecho – “Frozen,” “The Princess and the Frog”
    Kirk DeMicco – “The Croods,” “Space Chimps”
    Doug Frankel – “Brave,” “WALL-E”
    Mark Gill – “The Voorman Problem,” “Full Time”
    David A. S. James – “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” “Megamind”
    Fabrice Joubert – “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax,” “French Roast”
    Jean-Claude Kalache – “Up,” “Cars”
    Jason Katz – “Toy Story 3,” “Finding Nemo”
    Jennifer Lee – “Frozen,” “Wreck-It Ralph”
    Baldwin Li – “The Voorman Problem,” “Full Time”
    Nathan Loofbourrow – “Puss in Boots,” “How to Train Your Dragon”
    Lauren MacMullan – “Get a Horse!,” “Wreck-It Ralph”
    Tom McGrath –  “Megamind,” “Madagascar”
    Dorothy McKim – “Get a Horse!,” “Meet the Robinsons”
    Hayao Miyazaki – “The Wind Rises,” “Spirited Away”
    Ricky Nierva – “Monsters University,” “Up”
    Chris Renaud – “Despicable Me 2,” “Despicable Me”
    Benjamin Renner – “Ernest & Celestine,” “A Mouse’s Tale (La Queue de la Souris)”
    Michael Rose – “Chico & Rita,” “The Gruffalo”
    Toshio Suzuki – “The Wind Rises,” “Howl’s Moving Castle”
    Selma Vilhunen – “Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitta? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?),” “The Crossroads”  
    Anders Walter – “Helium,” “9 Meter”
    Laurent Witz – “Mr. Hublot,” “Renart the Fox”

    Sound
    Niv Adiri – “Gravity,” “The Book Thief”
    Christopher Benstead – “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” “Gravity”
    Steve Boeddeker – “All Is Lost,” “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
    Beau Borders – “Million Dollar Arm,” “Lone Survivor”
    David Brownlow – “Lone Survivor,” “The Book of Eli”
    Chris Burdon – “Captain Phillips,” “Philomena”
    Brent Burge – “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
    André Fenley – “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “All Is Lost”
    Glenn Freemantle – “Gravity,” “Slumdog Millionaire”
    Greg Hedgepath – “Frozen,” “The Incredible Hulk”
    Craig Henighan – “Noah,” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
    Tony Johnson – “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” “Avatar”
    Laurent M. Kossayan – “Red Riding Hood,” “Public Enemies”
    Thomas L. Lalley – “Mr. Peabody & Sherman,” “Star Trek Into Darkness”
    Ai-Ling Lee – “Godzilla,” “300: Rise of an Empire”
    Stephen Morris – “Monsters University,” “Fruitvale Station”
    Jeremy Peirson – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “Looper”
    Mike Prestwood Smith – “Divergent,” “Captain Phillips”
    Alan Rankin – “Iron Man 3,” “Star Trek”
    Oliver Tarney – “Captain Phillips,” “Philomena”
    Chris Ward – “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”

    Visual Effects
    Gary Brozenich – “The Lone Ranger,” “Wrath of the Titans”
    Everett Burrell – “Grudge Match,” “Pan’s Labyrinth”
    Marc Chu – “Noah,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
    David Fletcher – “Sabotage,” “Prisoners”
    Swen Gillberg – “Ender’s Game,” “Jack the Giant Slayer”
    Paul Graff – “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Identity Thief”
    Alex Henning – “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Hugo” 
    Evan Jacobs – “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” “Olympus Has Fallen”
    Chris Lawrence – “Edge of Tomorrow,” “Gravity” 
    Eric Leven – “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2,” “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1”
    Steven Messing – “Godzilla,” “Oz The Great and Powerful”
    Ben Matthew Morris – “Lincoln,” “The Golden Compass”
    Jake Morrison – “Thor: The Dark World,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
    Eric Reynolds – “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”
    David Shirk – “Gravity,” “Elysium”
    Patrick Tubach – “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
    Bruno Van Zeebroeck – “Lone Survivor,” “Public Enemies”
    Tim Webber – “Gravity,” “The Dark Knight”
    Harold Weed – “G.I. Joe: Retaliation,” “Star Trek”

    Writers
    Chantal Akerman – “A Couch in New York,” “Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”
    Olivier Assayas – “Summer Hours,” “Irma Vep”
    Craig Borten – “Dallas Buyers Club”
    Scott Z. Burns – “Side Effects,” “Contagion”
    Jean-Claude Carrière – “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie”
    Steve Coogan – “Philomena,” “The Parole Officer”
    Claire Denis – “White Material,” “Beau Travail”
    Larry Gross – “We Don’t Live Here Anymore,” “48 Hrs.”
    Mathieu Kassovitz – “Babylon A.D.,” “Hate (La Haine)”
    Diane Kurys – “For a Woman,” “Entre Nous”
    Bob Nelson – “Nebraska”
    Scott Neustadter – “The Spectacular Now,” “(500) Days of Summer”
    Jeff Pope – “Philomena,” “Pierrepoint – The Last Hangman”
    John Ridley – “12 Years a Slave,” “Undercover Brother”
    Paul Rudnick – “In & Out,” ”Jeffrey”
    Eric Warren Singer – “American Hustle,” ”The International”
    Melisa Wallack – “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Mirror Mirror”
    Michael H. Weber – “The Spectacular Now,” “(500) Days of Summer”
    Terence Winter – “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Get Rich or Die Tryin’”

    Associates
    Matt Del Piano
    Joe Funicello
    Robert Hohman
    Paul Christopher Hook
    David Kramer
    Joel Lubin
    David Pringle
    Melanie Ramsayer
    Beth Swofford
    Meredith Wechter

    Each year Academy members may sponsor one candidate for membership within their branch.  New member application reviews take place in the spring.  Applications for the coming year must be received by March 19, 2015.

    New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception in September.

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