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Beverly Hills, CA, March 31, 2008 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ John Huston Lecture on Documentary Film will acknowledge the lecture series’ namesake with a special screening of both of his controversial documentary classics from World War II, “San Pietro” and “Let There Be Light,” on Tuesday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Linwood Dunn Theater. Tony Huston, John’s son, will introduce the films on the family’s behalf.    » read more »

28 March 2008 -- Iran's Foreign Ministry says European governments should move to stop the showing of a film by a far-right Dutch lawmaker that says the Koran incites violence.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mohammed Ali Hosseini, called the film anti-Islamic and anti-cultural.

The filmmaker, Geert Wilders, posted the film on his political party's Internet site on Thursday after Dutch television refused to broadcast it.

The film, called "Fitna," alternates pictures of terrorist attacks - including the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 - with quotations from the Muslim holy book.

Wilders says one of his main points in making the film was a belief that rising Muslim immigration threatens democratic values in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe.    » 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 »

March 17, 2008, Beverly Hills, CA — A weekend-long salute featuring five of director Ingmar Bergman’s Academy Award®-nominated and winning films will be presented by the Academybeginning Friday, April 4, at 7 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.    » read more »

March 10, 2008, Beverly Hills, CA — The deadline for U.S. student filmmakers to submit their films for consideration in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 35th Student Academy Awards is Tuesday, April 1. The Student Academy Awards is a national annual competition designed to recognize and encourage promising new filmmakers.    » read more »

March 5, 2008, Beverly Hills, CA — “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Who Killed the Electric Car?” will kick off the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Spring 2008 “Contemporary Documentaries” series on Wednesday, March 19, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission is free.    » read more »

March 3, 2008, Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is now accepting entries for the 2008 Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. As many as five $30,000 fellowships will be awarded through the program later this year.

Application forms may be downloaded from the Academy’s Web site and mailed with the other required materials, or they may be completed and submitted online. Interested parties should go to oscars.org/nicholl.    » read more »

21 February 2008, Los Angeles (By Mike O'Sullivan) -- The stars will be out in Hollywood Sunday for the highlight of the year in the movie industry, presentation of the Academy Awards, known as Oscars. Mike O'Sullivan looks ahead to the celebration.    » read more »

February 20, 2008, Beverly Hills, CA — Holding onto dreams of future Oscar® glory, 50 students from Inner-City Filmmakers (ICF), a training and film industry job development program, will carry the Oscar statuettes for the 80th Academy Awards® down the red carpet and into the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center® on Saturday, February 23, at 10 a.m.    » read more »

February 20, 2008, Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off its March calendar of public events with “The Art of Sound,” an evening celebrating the Oscar® nominees and winners from the 2007 Sound Editing and Sound Mixing categories, on Saturday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.    » read more »

Trailer Airs Exclusively on ABC's 'Good Morning America' Then Fans Out to IndianaJones.com and Yahoo! Movies

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Feb 11, 2008 -- Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm Ltd. announced today that the first teaser trailer for the highly anticipated Indiana Jones adventure ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,'' directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford in the title role, will debut in theaters across the globe on February 14, 2008.    » read more »

February 8, 2008, Beverly Hills, CA — The evolution of color in motion pictures and the corporate history of RKO Radio Pictures will be the topics explored by John Belton and Richard B. Jewell, respectively, the eighth pair of Academy Film Scholars selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.    » read more »

29 January 2008 -- The film No Country for Old Men won the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles Sunday, becoming the front-runner for the Oscars in February.

No Country, directed by Ethan and Joel Coen, took the award for best ensemble cast. The film also won the Directors Guild Award on Saturday and has eight Oscar nominations.

Julie Christie, 66, won best actress in a feature film for her portrayal of a woman losing her battle with Alzheimer's in Away From Her.    » read more »

'American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile' Stars John White, Ross Thomas, Jake Siegel, Jessy Schram And Eugene Levy

NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- COMEDY CENTRAL(R) is serving up a slice of the pie! The World Television Premiere of "American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile" debuts Saturday, February 9 at 10:00 p.m. only on COMEDY CENTRAL.    » read more »

January 23, 2008 -- New Line Cinema's The Golden Compass and Picturehouse's La Vie en Rose and Mongol received nominations on Jan. 22 for the 80th Annual Academy Awards.

Marion Cotillard is a nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a leading role for her portrayal of legendary singer Edith Piaf in the biopic La Vie en Rose. The film is also nominated for Achievement in Costume Design (Marit Allen) and for Make-Up Didier Lavergne and Jan Archibald).    » read more »