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"Turner Classic Movies to Premiere Oscar®, New Documentary by Academy Award®–Winners Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman"

Turner Classic Movies
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 Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will present the world premiere of Oscar, a brand-new documentary tracing the history of the Academy Awards®, as part of its annual 31 Days of Oscar showcase, leading up to ABC’s live Academy Awards telecast on March 2.  Produced by Telling Pictures, Inc., in association with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (The Academy) and Hollywood Newsreel,this fascinating special will take movie lovers on a journey through Hollywood history as it tells its story of the
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The Academy Unspools Hollywood Home Movies

Hollywood Home Movies
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 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will kick off a day-long celebration of home movies on Saturday, October 12, at noon, with “Home Movie Day Los Angeles,” a free event that welcomes Angelenos, their families and friends to watch their personal home movies on the big screen.  At 7 p.m.
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New Casting Directors Branch Elects Three To Academy Board Of Governors

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Three members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ newly created Casting Directors Branch have been elected to the Academy Board of Governors.

The first-time governors are David Rubin, who is elected to a three-year term; Bernie Telsey, who is elected to a two-year term; and Lora Kennedy, who is elected to a one-year term.
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76 Countries In Competition For 2013 Foreign Language Film Oscar® 

The 86th Academy Awards
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A record 76 countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 86th Academy Awards®.  Moldova and Saudi Arabia are first-time entrants; Montenegro is submitting for the first time as an independent country.

The 2013 submissions are:

Afghanistan, "Wajma – An Afghan Love Story," Barmak Akram, director;
Albania, "Agon," Robert Budina, director;
Argentina, "The German Doctor," Lucía Puenzo, director;
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Academy, Mary Pickford Foundation Celebrate Silent Film With Two Restored Classics 

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Mary Pickford Foundation will continue their annual celebration of silent film with screenings of two silent film classics from 1928 – “The Crowd” on Tuesday, October 22, and “The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg” on Thursday, October 24 – at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.  Film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow, who supervised the restoration of both films, will introduce the screenings, which feature a stereo m
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Academy Film Scholar Donald Crafton Examines Animation's Power To Create Imaginary Worlds

Donald Crafton
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In the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ latest celebration of works by Academy film scholars, Donald Crafton, professor of film, television and theater at the University of Notre Dame, will present highlights from his book Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation on Wednesday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
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8 Doc Shorts On Oscar's 2013 Shortlist

The 86th Academy Awards
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 86th Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, of which three to five will earn Oscar® nominations.

Voters from the Academy’s Documentary Branch viewed this year’s 40 eligible entries and submitted their ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers for tabulation.
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Experience 85 Years of the Oscar® - Osborne Book Available October 29

Osborne Book
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 The official history of the Academy Awards, 85 Years of the Oscar captures the thrill of the film industry’s most significant and popular event with more than 750 photographs and an informative text by renowned film historian and Hollywood insider Robert Osborne.  Published by Abbeville Press in association with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this extensively researched volume will be available in select bookstores and online retailers starting October 29.
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Winners Announced For Prestigious Academy Nicholl Fellowships

Academy Nicholl Fellowship
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Four individual writers and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2013 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition.  Each winner will receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at an awards presentation on Thursday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.  For the first time, the event will also feature a live read of selected scenes from the fellows’ winning scripts.
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