THE ACADEMY ELECTS 2023–2024 BOARD OF GOVERNORS LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced its newly elected 2023–2024 Board of Governors. The governors will take office at the first scheduled board meeting of the new term. Incumbent governors reelected to the Board: Rob Bredow, Visual Effects Branch Ava…
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The Academy has attempted over the years to expand access to different markets for theatrical releases. It used to be a requirement that films had an exhibition in Los Angeles with New York added later and a further four cities being added after that. With this, they’ve further broadened the number of cities where a…
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THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES ANNOUNCES NEW ACQUISITIONS TO THE ACADEMY COLLECTION New Acquisitions to the Largest Film-Related Collection in the World Include Key Pieces from Best Picture Oscar® Winner Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022); Collections of Gregg Araki, Gale Anne Hurd, and Harold Ramis; and the Steven Spielberg Animation Collection,…
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Every week, we’ll take a look back in 5-year intervals at the box office past to explore how Oscar’s nominees were doing at the box office each weekend historically. The first section under each year is the positioning of all Oscar nominees during that weekend at the box office (as well as a section looking…
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The Ultimate List Face-Off event has now begun. We will be using Google Forms to process these polls due to their extensiveness and the ease of creating the polls. For more information on how the game works, click here. Here are this week’s batch: GOOGLE POLL.
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Born February 6, 1904 in New York, New York, Sam Leavitt began his career as a camera operator in 1926 and eventually became an occasional cinematographer in 1932. He became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers in 1935. He did not become a full-time cinematographer until 1952. Among the films on which Leavitt…
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