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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

    A Few Cubic Meters of Love

    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

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    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

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    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

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    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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  • The Academy Honors 15 Student Winners of 41st Student Academy Awards

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    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Saturday night honored fifteen student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 41st Student Academy Awards ceremony, held at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Hollywood.  The gold, silver and bronze medals were announced and presented by actors Adrian Grenier, Nate Parker and Oscar® nominee Demian Bichir, and the Oscar-winning directing/producing team from the animated feature “Frozen,” Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck and Peter Del Vecho.

    The 2014 Student Academy Award® winners are:

    Alternative
    Gold Medal: “Person,” Drew Brown, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Florida
    Silver Medal: “Oscillate,” Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New York

    Animation 
    Gold Medal: “Owned,” Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, Utah
    Silver Medal: “Higher Sky,” Teng Cheng, University of Southern California
    Bronze Medal: “Yamashita,” Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California

    Documentary
    Gold Medal: “The Apothecary,” Helen Hood Scheer, Stanford University
    Silver Medal: “White Earth,” J. Christian Jensen, Stanford University
    Bronze Medal: “One Child,” Zijian Mu, New York University

    Narrative
    Gold Medal: “Above the Sea,” Keola Racela, Columbia University, New York
    Silver Medal: “Door God,” Yulin Liu, New York University
    Bronze Medal: “Interstate,” Camille Stochitch, American Film Institute, California

    Foreign Film
    Gold Medal: “Nocebo,” Lennart Ruff, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany
    Silver Medal: “Paris on the Water,” Hadas Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    Bronze Medal: “Border Patrol,” Peter Baumann, The Northern Film School, United Kingdom

    This year saw first-time honors go to Tel Aviv University, Israel, and The Northern Film School, United Kingdom, in the foreign competition. 

    The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level.  Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards.  They include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

     image: via The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented its 41st Annual Student Academy Awards® on Saturday, June 7, in Hollywood.

    Front row (left to right): Teng Cheng, Zijan Mu, J. Christian Jensen, Wesley Tippetts, Lennart Ruff, Daniel Sierra, Peter Baumann and Drew Brown.

    Back row (left to right): Helen Hood Scheer, Hayley Foster, Camille Stochitch, Daniel Clark, Keola Racela, Yulin Liu and Hadas Ayalon.

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  • Academy Announces 2014 Student Academy Award Winners

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    Fifteen students have been selected as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 41st Student Academy Awards® competition.  They will arrive in Los Angeles for a week of industry activities that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 7, at 6 p.m., at the DGA Theater in Hollywood.  The medal placements – gold, silver and bronze – in the five award categories will be announced at the ceremony. 

    The winners are (listed alphabetically by film title):

    Alternative
    “Oscillate,” Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New York
    “Person,” Drew Brown, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Florida

    Animation 
    “Higher Sky,” Teng Cheng, University of Southern California
    “Owned,” Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, Utah
    “Yamashita,” Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California

    Documentary
    “The Apothecary,” Helen Hood Scheer, Stanford University
    “One Child,” Zijian Mu, New York University
    “White Earth,” J. Christian Jensen, Stanford University

    Narrative
    “Above the Sea,” Keola Racela, Columbia University, New York
    “Door God,” Yulin Liu, New York University
    “Interstate,” Camille Stochitch, American Film Institute, California

    Foreign Film
    “Border Patrol,” Peter Baumann, The Northern Film School, United Kingdom
    “Nocebo,” Lennart Ruff, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany
    “Paris on the Water,” Hadas Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel

    This year saw first-time honors go to Tel Aviv University, Israel, and The Northern Film School, United Kingdom, in the foreign competition.  Academy members voted the winners from a field of 49 finalists, announced earlier this month.

    The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared eight awards. They include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

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  • 41 Students Selected as Finalists for 41st Student Academy Awards

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    Forty-one students from 23 U.S. colleges and universities as well as 10 students from foreign universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 41st Student Academy Awards competition. 

    The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level.  Past Student Academy Award® winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared eight awards.  They include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

    Academy members will now vote to determine up to three winning films in each category. The winners, but not their medal placements, will be announced later this month.  The winning students will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 7, at 6 p.m., at the DGA Theater in Hollywood, at which time the gold, silver and bronze medalists will be revealed.

    The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

    Alternative
    “Dreamers,” Joseph Dwyer, Boston University
    “Entropic Apogee,” Bill Manolios, Art Institute of California – San Francisco
    “Jaspa’ Jenkins,” Robert Carnilius, Columbia College Chicago
    “Oscillate,” Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New York
    “Passer Passer,” Louis Morton, University of Southern California
    “Person,” Drew Brown and Ramona Ramdeen, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Florida
    “The Private Life of Fenfen,” Leslie Tai, Stanford University
    “Staircases,” Steinar Bergoy Nedrebo, School of Visual Arts, New York

    Animation 
    “Baxter,” Ty Coyle, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia
    “Goodnight Boon,” Jeremy Jensen, New York University
    “Higher Sky,” Teng Cheng, University of Southern California
    “Marcel,” Eric Cunha and Seung Sung, School of Visual Arts, New York
    “Owned,” Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, Utah
    “Roadkill Redemption,” Karl Hadrika, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
    “Two Ghosts,” Amy Lee Ketchum, University of Southern California
    “Umbra,” Pedro Jesus Atienzar Godoy, Pratt Institute, New York
    “Yamashita,” Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California

    Documentary
    “The Apothecary,” Helen Hood Scheer, Stanford University
    “Eth“no”representation,” Ryan Metzler and Scott Kulicke, Occidental College, California
    “Heel’d,” Thomas Smith and McKenna Hinkle, Villanova University, Pennsylvania
    “Light Mind,” Jie Yi, School of Visual Arts, New York
    “My Sister Sarah,” Elizabeth Chatelain, University of Texas at Austin
    “One Child,” Zijian Mu, New York University
    “Punches & Pedicures,” Ashley Brandon and Dennis Höhne, Wright State University, Ohio
    “Scattered,” Lindsay Lindenbaum, School of Visual Arts, New York
    “White Earth,” J. Christian Jensen, Stanford University

    Narrative
    “AM800,” James Roe, University of New Orleans
    “Above the Sea,” Keola Racela, Columbia University, New York
    “Door God,” Yulin Liu, New York University
    “Interstate,” Camille Stochitch, American Film Institute, California
    “Istifa (Resignation),” Rahat Mahajan, Art Center College of Design, California
    “So You’ve Grown Attached,” Kate Tsang, New York University
    “Sweepstakes,” Mark Tumas, Temple University, Pennsylvania
    “Way in Rye,” Goran Stankovic, American Film Institute, California
    “What Remains,” Julie Koegl, University of North Carolina School of the Arts

    Foreign Film
    “Border Patrol,” Peter Baumann, The Northern Film School, United Kingdom
    “Intruder,” Geun Buem Park, Korean Academy of Film Arts, South Korea
    “Kam,” Katarina Morano, University of Ljubljana – Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Slovenia
    “Nocebo,” Lennart Ruff, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany
    “North,” Philip Sheerin, National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
    “Paris on the Water,” Hadas Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
    “Sacred Defense,” Nima Mohaghegh, Netherlands Film Academy
    “Souffle Court,” Johann Dulat, ENS Louis-Lumière – The National Film, Photography & Sound Engineering School, France
    “The Oasis,” Carl Marott, The National Film School of Denmark
    “Wo Wir Sind,” Ilker Çatak, Hamburg Media School, Germany

    To reach this stage, U.S. students competed in one of three regional competitions.  Each region is permitted to send to the Academy up to three finalists in each of the four categories.  The Student Academy Awards Nominating Committee screened and voted on the finalists in the Foreign Film category.

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  • Academy Announces Key Dates for The 87th Oscars

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    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network today announced the dates for the 87th Oscars.  The Academy Awards® presentation will air live on ABC on Oscar®Sunday, February 22, 2015.

    Key dates for the Awards season are:

    Saturday, November 8, 2014 The Governors Awards
    Wednesday, December 3, 2014 Official Screen Credits and music submissions due
    Monday, December 29, 2014 Nominations voting begins 8 a.m. PT
    Thursday, January 8, 2015 Nominations voting ends 5 p.m. PT
    Thursday, January 15, 2015 Oscar nominations announced
    Monday, February 2, 2015 Oscar Nominees Luncheon
    Friday, February 6, 2015 Final voting begins 8 a.m. PT
    Saturday, February 7, 2015 Scientific and Technical Awards
    Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Final voting ends 5 p.m. PT
    Oscar Sunday, February 22, 2015 87th Academy Awards begins 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT

    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.  The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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  • Martial Arts Film THE GRANDMASTER is the Big Winner, with 7 Awards, at 8th Asian Film Awards

     Asian Film Awards 2014

    The 8th Asian Film Awards (AFA) was held last month in Macau, and Mr  Wong Kar Wai’s martial arts film, THE GRANDMASTER, which topped the AFA nominees’ list with 11 nominations out of 14 categories, scooped up the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematographer, Best Production Designer, Best Composer and Best Costume Designer, while Zhang Zi yi was also crowned the Best Actress for her performance in the movie.

    Indian actor Irrfan Khan with THE LUNCHBOX won Best Actor, and the film also claimed the Best Screenwriter. The incredible acting skills of HUANG Bo and YEO Yann Yann earned them Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards for their roles in NO MAN’S LAND and ILO ILO, while JIANG Shuying from SO YOUNG won for Best Newcomer. The 8th Asian Film Awards Academy conferred the Life-Time Achievement Award on Taiwanese celebrated director Hou Hsiao-hsien for his contribution to the film industry.

    The full list of nominees and winners of 8th Asian Film Awards (AFA):

    Best Film

    No Man’s Land (Mainland China)

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    THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER
    The Great Passage (Japan)
    The Lunchbox (India)
    Snowpiercer (South Korea/U.S./France)
    Stray Dogs (Taiwan)

    Best Director

    Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer (South Korea/U.S./France)
    Anthony Chen, Ilo Ilo (Singapore)
    Hirokazu Koreeda, Like Father, Like Son (Japan)
    Tsai Ming-liang, Stray Dogs (Taiwan)

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    Wong Kar-wai, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER

    Best Actor

    Masaharu Fukuyama, Like Father, Like Son (Japan)

    Irrfan Khan, THE LUNCHBOXIrrfan Khan, THE LUNCHBOX

    Irrfan Khan, THE LUNCHBOX (India)  – WINNER
    Lee Kang-sheng, Stray Dogs (Taiwan)
    Tony Leung, The Grandmaster (Hong Kong/Mainland China)
    Song Kang-ho, The Attorney (South Korea)

    Best Actress

    Eugene Domingo, Barber’s Tales (The Philippines)
    Han Hyo-joo, Cold Eyes (South Korea)
    Paw Hee-ching, Rigor Mortis (Hong Kong)
    Maki Yoko, The Ravine of Goodbye (Japan)

    Zhang Ziyi, THE GRANDMASTERZhang Ziyi, THE GRANDMASTER

    Zhang Ziyi, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER

    Best Newcomer

    Choi Hon-yick, The Way We Dance (Hong Kong)
    Im Si-wan, The Attorney (South Korea)

    Jiang Shuying, SO YOUNGJiang Shuying, SO YOUNG

    Jiang Shuying, SO YOUNG (Mainland China)  – WINNER
    Misaki Kinoshita, The Backwater (Japan)
    Keita Ninomiya, Like Father, Like Son (Japan)

    Best Supporting Actor

    Mark Chao, So Young (Mainland China)

    Huang Bo, NO MAN’S LANDHuang Bo, NO MAN’S LAND

    Huang Bo, NO MAN’S LAND (Mainland China)  – WINNER
    Jung Woo-sung, Cold Eyes (South Korea)
    Joe Odagiri, The Great Passage (Japan)
    Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tokyo Family (Japan)

    Best Supporting Actress

    Yu Aoi, Tokyo Family (Japan)
    Mavis Fan, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Taiwan)
    Kim Young-ae, The Attorney (South Korea)
    Fumi Nikaido, Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Japan)

    Yeo Yann Yann, ILO ILOYeo Yann Yann, ILO ILO

    Yeo Yann Yann, ILO ILO (Singapore)  – WINNER

    Best Screenwriter

    Ritesh Batra, THE LUNCHBOX (India)  – WINNER
    Bong Joon-ho, Kelly Masterson, Snowpiercer (South Korea/U.S./France)
    Li Qiang, So Young (Mainland China)
    Kensaku Watanabe, The Great Passage (Japan)
    Wong Kar-wai, Zou Jingzhi, Xu Haofeng, The Grandmaster (Hong Kong/Mainland China)

    Best Cinematographer

    Kim Byung-seo, Yeo Kyung-bo, Cold Eyes (South Korea)
    Liao Pen-jung, Shong Woon-chong, Lu Qing-xin, Stray Dogs (Taiwan)
    Philippe Le Sourd, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER
    Man-ching Ng, Rigor Mortis (Hong Kong)
    Aziz Zhambakiyev, Harmony Lessons (Kazakhstan/Germany/France)

    Best Production Designer

    William Chang, Alfred Yau Wai-ming, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER
    Hao Yi, No Man’s Land (Mainland China)
    Hisao Inagaki, Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Japan)
    Ken Mak, Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Mainland China/ Hong Kong)
    Ondrej Nekvasil, Snowpiercer (South Korea/U.S./France)

    Best Composer

    Zeke Khaseli, Yudhi Arfan, What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love (Indonesia)
    Ehsaan Noorani, Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa, Run Milkha Run (India)
    Shigeru Umebayashi, Nathaniel Mechaly, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER

    Best Editor

    William Chang, Benjamin Courtines, Poon Hung-yiu, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)
    Du Yuan, No Man’s Land (Mainland China)
    Junichi Ito, Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Japan)
    David M. Richardson, Rigor Mortis (Hong Kong)
    Shin Min-kyung, Cold Eyes (South Korea)  – WINNER

    Best Visual Effects

    Shuji Asano, Real (Japan)
    Pierre Buffin, The Grandmaster (Hong Kong/Mainland China)
    Enoch Chan, Rigor Mortis (Hong Kong)

    MR. GOMR. GO

    Jung Sung-jin, MR. GO (South Korea/Mainland China)  – WINNER
    Kim Wook, Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Mainland China/ Hong Kong)

    Best Costume Designer

    William Chang, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER
    Catherine George, Snowpiercer (South Korea/U.S./France)
    Lee Pik-kwan, Bruce Yu, Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Mainland China/ Hong Kong)
    Shim Hyun-sub, The Face Reader (South Korea)

    main image via 8th Asian Film Awards

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  • Jason Priestley’s “Cas & Dylan” and Woody Allen’s “Blue Jasmine” Win Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards

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    Jason Priestley’s Cas & Dylan and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine are the winners of Toronto International Film Festival’s 10th annual Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards. Cas & Dylan was named Best Canadian Film and Blue Jasmine was selected as the Best International Film.

    “It is an unbelievable thrill and honour for us to be chosen as Best Canadian Film by the 2013 Film Circuit audiences,” said Priestley. “For our film to receive such accolades is an unexpected pleasure. Thank you.”

    In Priestley’s directorial debut, Cas & Dylan, screen legend Richard Dreyfuss stars as Dr. Cas Pepper, a curmudgeonly surgeon who makes the abrupt decision to leave Winnipeg and drive west to British Columbia—and to an uncertain future. Before departing, he meets an aspiring young writer named Dylan (TIFF Rising Star Tatiana Maslany; Canadian Screen Award winner for Orphan Black) who possesses a life-altering secret of her own. The two unlikely companions hit the road, encountering a series of bizarre twists and turns along their cross-country journey.Cas & Dylan has screened in over 40 communities across Canada with Film Circuit and has been seen by over 5,500 people to date.

    Blue JasmineBlue Jasmine

    Blue Jasmine follows a high-society New York housewife forced to deal with the economic and emotional consequences of her husband’s crooked financial dealings. Jasmine (Cate Blanchett, in an Oscar-winning role) is used to a life of wealth and privilege, but when her husband (Alec Baldwin) is jailed for a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme, she loses everything and is forced to move in with her blue-collar sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) in San Francisco. As she struggles to build a new life for herself, Jasmine must learn to accept her new reality and face up to the past.

    Now in its tenth year, the annual Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards are decided by audiences across the country who vote for their favourite film shown at a Film Circuit screening.

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