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Posted Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 10:15
Color management and image interchange system targets production, mastering and long-term archiving of motion picturesACES Logo Program encourages industry-wide adoptionAcademy exhibits ACES at 2015 NAB Show® in April – Booth C9132 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the launch of the Academy Color Encoding System (ACES), a free, open, device-independent color management and image interchange system that offers a critically needed global industry standard for motion picture and television production. From image capture through editing, VFX, mastering,...
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Posted Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 08:30
In the golden era of Hollywood, legendary restaurants such as the Brown Derby, Romanoff’s, La Rue, Perino’s, and Scandia attracted celebrity clientele and high society with some of the finest culinary delights, impeccable service, and the chance to see and be seen.Among these notable restaurants in Los Angeles that flourished from the1930s through the 1960s were the Brown Derby Restaurants. The most famous of the four Derbies, the Hollywood Brown Derby opened in 1929, located at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. It was the hub of Hollywood - surrounded by broadcasting...
Posted Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 17:30
This rarely seen footage of adventure filmmaker Aloha Wanderwell Baker, the first woman to travel around the world by car, was recently preserved by the Academy Film Archive. The Aloha Wanderwell Film Collection at the Archive is a unique assortment of 16mm and 35mm films, revealing the story of Aloha’s around-the-globe adventures that captured the people, cultures and historical landmarks of five continents from the 1920s and 1930s.[[{"fid":"55656","view_mode":"full","fields":{"format":"full","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":""},"type...
Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2015 - 12:30
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will examine the creative leaps and technical innovations that went into crafting “Big Hero 6,” this year’s Oscar® winner for Best Animated Feature Film, on Thursday, April 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.Hosted by Academy governor Bill Kroyer, “Deconstructing Big Hero 6” will include illustrative film sequences, “making-of” clips and onstage discussions with key members of the film’s creative team as they chart their journey from creating Baymax, a robot like no other, to populating the hybrid city of “San...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 10:15
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and to pay tribute to Mabel Normand during Women’s History Month, we feature this shamrock-bearing sheet music cover for “Molly O (I Love You).”The song was written for the 1921 film Molly O’, based on Mack Sennett’s tender love story of an Irish girl’s struggle to overcome her lowly beginnings. Mabel Normand plays Molly O'Dair, the penniless daughter of an Irish washerwoman and a ditchdigger who falls in love with a millionaire bachelor.[[{"fid":"55216","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","...
Posted Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 11:15
The Academy is now accepting entries for its 2015 Student Academy Awards competition. All Student Academy Award® winners become eligible for Oscars consideration. The 42nd Student Academy Awards presentation will be held on Friday, September 18, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Beginning this year, students are able to submit their films online using FilmFreeway, a widely used festival and competition platform. Also new this year, the entry deadline has moved to June 1, and the awards ceremony date has been changed from June to September to better...
Posted Monday, March 9, 2015 - 11:45
This extraordinary silent footage housed at the Blackhawk Films Collection housed at the Academy Film Archive provides a look at the spectacular 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. An almost year-long celebration staged in San Francisco, California, the Expo celebrated the completion of the decade-long construction of the Panama Canal.The City by the Bay embraced the opportunity to rebuild its community following a devastating and destructive earthquake that fell on its citizens’ shoulders in 1906. The Expo took three years to construct and opened to great fanfare on February 20,...
Posted Monday, March 2, 2015 - 10:15
In this week's Academy Originals we go behind the scenes with a group of young social media artists who went behind the scenes of last week's Oscars. Last month we invited a small group of photographers and video stars (Kyle Huber, Zach King, Paul Octavious, Sarah Palmer, Lauren Randolph, Anthony Samaniego, and Blake Wilson) the opportunity to do their thing in and around the 87th Academy Awards. Be it backstage, on stage, on the red carpet or high above the Pacific, we granted these creative minds unprecedented access so they could show off...
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 10:15
Final days include extended hours and public programsThe critically acclaimed exhibition Hollywood Costume, in the final days of its worldwide tour at Los Angeles’s historic Wilshire May Company building, will have extended hours through its closing on Monday, March 2. Presented by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Hollywood Costume celebrates and examines costume design as an essential tool of cinematic storytelling. It brings together more than 150 iconic costumes from Hollywood’s Golden Age to the present, including such treasures...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 10:45
In the introduction to her book, Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume Design, Deborah Nadoolman Landis sums up the job of the costume designer: “Ultimately, a costume must perfectly describe the individual for whom it was designed—not the superficial shell of a character but the outward expression of inner experience, the concrete manifestation of the character’s self-image.” Costume design extends beyond the realm of fashion and personal style. Unconcerned with setting trends, the costume designer aims to add depth and believability to the identities of the characters in the film. A...
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Singer, songwriter and actress Rita Ora will perform the Oscar®-nominated song “...