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Beverly Hills, CA, June 23, 2008 — The 2001 Best Picture nominee “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series. The fantasy about a hobbit and his epic quest to end the reign of evil in his land by destroying an ancient ring will screen on Monday, June 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Following the screening, producer Barrie Osborne, executive producer Mark Ordesky, film editor John Gilbert, supervising sound editor Ethan Van der Ryn, Oscar®-winning visual effects supervisor Jim Rygiel and U.S. casting director Victoria Burrows will participate in a discussion about the film.    » read more »

The 1998 Best Picture nominee "Saving Private Ryan" will be screened as the next feature in the "Great To Be Nominated" series on Monday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater

Beverly Hills, CA, June 3, 2008 — The 1998 Best Picture nominee “Saving Private Ryan” will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series. The story of eight United States soldiers trying to locate a fellow soldier behind enemy lines during WWII will screen on Monday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.    » read more »

Beverly Hills, CA, May 27, 2008 — Actresses Shirley Jones, Ann Rutherford and Carroll Baker will join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in a special centennial tribute to Academy Award®-winning actor James Stewart on Thursday, June 12, at 8 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The celebration will feature film clips and onstage conversations with Stewarts’ friends and colleagues as well as daughters Kelly Stewart Harcourt and Judy Stewart Merrill.

Jimmy Stewart: Pictured here: Publicity portrait of James Stewart, 1947. (credit: Courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library)    » read more »

Beverly Hills, CA, May 7, 2008 — “Two Hands,” “Dear Talula” and “Deliver Us from Evil” will screen as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Spring 2008 “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, May 21, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.

The 2006 Oscar®-nominated documentary short subject “Two Hands" spotlights pianist Leon Fleisher, who at the height of his career lost the ability to play with his right hand. The documentary tells the story of his 35-year quest to find a cure for his mysterious ailment, and how he went on to reinvent himself as a teacher, conductor and performer of music written for the left hand.    » read more »

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Beverly Hills, CA, May 5, 2008 — The 1996 Best Picture nominee “Fargo” will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To Be Nominated” series. The dark comedy about a kidnapping, a string of murders and their investigation by a pregnant cop will screen on Monday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Following the screening, cast member Peter Stormare (“Gaear Grimsrud”), art director Thomas P. Wilkins, set decorator Lauri Gaffin, supervising sound editor and rerecording mixer Skip Lievsay, costume designer Mary Zophres, casting director John Lyons, and line producer John Cameron will participate in a panel discussion about the film.    » read more »

Beverly Hills, CA, May 8, 2008 — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen a Warner Bros. digital restoration of the 1938 classic “The Adventures of Robin Hood” on Sunday, June 1, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The program also will explore behind-the-scenes secrets from the making of the film.

Robin Hood Gallops onto Academy’s Screen: Pictured are Lili Damita visits her husband Errol Flynn during the production of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, 1938, on location at Bidwell Park in Chico, Calif., which depicted the film's Sherwood Forest setting. (Photo credit: Courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library Via Oscars.org)    » read more »

March 26, 2008, Beverly Hills, CA – As part of its Gold Standard series and in conjunction with its Fourth Floor Gallery exhibition “Casting a Shadow: Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film,” the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a double feature of Hitchcock films, “Shadow of a Doubt” and “Lifeboat,” on Friday, April 18, at 7 p.m. in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. New prints of both films from the Academy Film Archive will be screened.

“Shadow of a Doubt,” the 1943 thriller starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten,received an Academy Award® nomination for Writing – Original Motion Picture Story (Gordon McDonell). The film is set in Santa Rosa, California, where small-town bliss is interrupted by an evil visitor.    » read more »