THE ACADEMY INVITES 322 TO MEMBERSHIP
Actors
Elizabeth Banks – “Love & Mercy,” “The Hunger Games”
Choi Min-sik– “Lucy,” “Oldboy”
Benedict Cumberbatch – “The Imitation Game,” “Star Trek Into Darkness”
Martin Freeman – “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Hot Fuzz”
Heather Graham – “The Hangover,” “Boogie Nights”
Tom Hardy – “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Inception”
Kevin Hart – “The Wedding Ringer,” “Ride Along”
Felicity Jones – “The Theory of Everything,” “Like Crazy”
Stephen Lang – “Avatar,” “The Men Who Stare at Goats”
Jodi Long – “A Picture of You,” “Beginners”
John Carroll Lynch – “Shutter Island,” “Zodiac”
Gugu Mbatha-Raw – “Beyond the Lights,” “Belle”
Denis O’Hare – “Milk,” “Michael Clayton”
Michael O’Neill – “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Transformers”
David Oyelowo – “Selma,” “A Most Violent Year”
Dev Patel – “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” “Slumdog Millionaire”
Rosamund Pike – “Gone Girl,” “Pride & Prejudice”
Chris Pine – “Into the Woods,” “Star Trek”
Daniel Radcliffe – “Kill Your Darlings,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2”
Eddie Redmayne – “The Theory of Everything,” “Les Misérables”
Jason Segel – “The Five-Year Engagement,” “The Muppets”
J.K. Simmons – “Whiplash,” “Juno”
Sonny Skyhawk – “Geronimo: An American Legend,” “Young Guns II”
Song Kang-ho – “Snowpiercer,” “The Host”
Emma Stone – “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance),” “The Help”
Many more after the jump
Photos from the making of From Here to Eternity (1953). The film won eight Oscars: Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra), Supporting Actress (Donna Reed), Director (Fred Zinnemann), Screenplay (Daniel Taradash), Cinematography (Burnett Guffey), Sound (John Livadary), Editing (William Lyon).
Technology and The Evolution of Storytelling
“There’s a famous statement by Henry Ford that before the Model T if you asked people what they wanted, they would say, ‘A faster horse.’”
Dearly beloved, on this day in 1984, Prince released the album “Purple Rain”. The film of the same name premiered a month later. In 1985 Prince, along with Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, accepted their Oscar for Original Song Score for the music in the film “Purple Rain”.
LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL APPROVES ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURES PROJECT
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CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULED TO BEGIN THIS SUMMER
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that the Los Angeles City Council, in a unanimous vote, approved plans for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Construction will begin this summer, and ceremonial groundbreaking festivities will occur this fall.
“I am thrilled that Los Angeles is gaining another architectural and cultural icon,“ said Mayor Eric Garcetti. "My office of economic development has worked directly with the museum’s development team to ensure that the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will create jobs, support tourism, and pay homage to the industry that helped define our identity as the creative capital of the world.”
“We are grateful to our incredible community of supporters who have helped make this museum a reality,” said Dawn Hudson, the Academy’s CEO. “Building this museum has been an Academy goal for many years and we wouldn’t be here today without our neighbors on Museum Row, our Board of Governors, our current and past Academy Presidents, members, and of course, our generous donors.”
“I couldn’t think of a better home for the Academy Museum than Museum Row. The museum will be an iconic addition to our city and will inspire generations to come,” said Councilmember Tom LaBonge, during the final days of his 14 years representing Council District 4, which includes the Academy Museum site on the Miracle Mile.
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, the Academy Museum will restore and revitalize the historic Wilshire May Company building at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue. The Academy Museum will feature six floors of exhibition spaces, a movie theater, education studios, special event spaces, conservation areas, and a café and store. A new spherical addition will connect to the May Company building with glass bridges and will feature a state-of-the-art 1,000-seat theater and a rooftop terrace.
“Renzo’s design embodies the museum’s mission: Just as it links the past and present by connecting the May Company building with the new sphere, our exhibitions and programs will explore the history and future of cinema,” said Kerry Brougher, the Academy Museum’s director. “Our museum will, for the first time, open up the western edge of the campus to the surrounding community, inviting our neighbors onto an open public piazza. Renzo’s sensitivity to location and urbanism will transform this site and make it a gathering place in Los Angeles.”
The main lobby level of the museum will feature public areas including a free introductory gallery. The lobby will connect to the outdoor public piazza and a new pedestrian walkway. The museum also will have a main entrance on Wilshire Boulevard, facilitating easy access for pedestrians and mass transit riders.
“The museum will be the year-round public face of the Academy,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “We will draw on the immense talents of our members to tell the story of motion pictures from a global perspective, for a global audience.”
The Academy Museum’s architectural team is composed of Renzo Piano Building Workshop, design architect, in collaboration with Gensler as executive architect. Morley Builders and Taslimi Construction Company are the general contractors, and the building developer is Paratus Group. The museum is scheduled to open in late 2017.
The Academy Museum will feature a core historical exhibition and rotating temporary exhibitions, complemented by special projects, publications, digital initiatives and a slate of public programs that will include screenings, premieres, panel discussions, gallery talks and K–12 education initiatives. The Museum’s exhibitions and programs will convey the magic of cinema and offer a glimpse behind the screen, illuminating the creative, collaborative process of filmmaking.
The Academy launched the Museum’s $300 million capital campaign in 2012, chaired by Bob Iger and co-chaired by Annette Bening and Tom Hanks. The Academy has already secured more than $250 million in pledges from more than 1,300 individual donors globally.
The bottom photo is Elia Kazan, Celeste Holm and 20th Century Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck backstage at the 20th Academy Awards in 1948 with their Oscars for their work on Gentleman’s Agreement.
The film is about a journalist who pretends to be Jewish for a few months in order to expose anti-semitism in New York shortly after World War II.
Zanuck was inspired to produce the film soon after he was declined membership at an LA country club when he was falsely identified as a Jew.
Kazan won the Oscar for directing, Holm for Supporting Actress and the film was awarded Best Picture. Zanuck accepted the statuette for Best Picture and thanked, among others, Laura Z. Hobson who wrote the novel of the same name, from which the film was adapted.
Sliding into Summer
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With summer upon us, we hark back to a time when the warmer months allowed films to be shown outdoors at airdomes, and theatergoers were familiar with the glass slides that were part of the show. In their earlier days, glass slides, also known romantically as “lantern slides,” were part of an entertainment device called the magic lantern. A precursor to motion pictures, magic lanterns were popular both in the home and in theaters in the 18th and 19th centuries. They projected the images from hand-tinted glass slides onto a screen or wall through the use of candles or lanterns, which grew in power as the decades progressed.
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From the silent era to the 1930s, glass slides found their way into motion picture theaters, where their uses included advertising upcoming films, making announcements on behalf of the theater management and providing lyrics for sing-alongs, among other things. They measured approximately 3 inches by 4 inches, and were sometimes meticulously hand-colored. Many glass slides were matted together by paper and another piece of glass, which helped protect the beautiful images from dust and scratches.
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The Margaret Herrick Library’s Special Collections Department collection of glass slides contains more than 600 slides, including some related to World War I.
More images from the glass slides collection can be found online in our Digital Collections.
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Go to our Facebook page and ask questions to Bernard Telsey, the man who casted “Into the Woods”, “A Most Violent Year”, “Across the Universe” and many more.
Fred Niblo, standing far right with hand behind back, directs Conrad Nagel and Greta Garbo in The Mysterious Lady (1928). According to the caption, Niblo stands on an ‘elevator-perambulator’ that lets the camera film the actors’ progress down the stairs. With unidentified others, including crew, extras, and set musicians.