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Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 20:30
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the indie comedy hit "Napoleon Dynamite" with writer-director Jared Hess and star Jon Heder participating in a live commentary screening and conversation on Monday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Bing Theatre on the LACMA campus.
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Posted Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 04:30
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the seminal film "Do the Right Thing" with writer-director Spike Lee and members of the film's cast and crew at two special screening events: on June 27 in Los Angeles at the Bing Theater, and on June 29 in Brooklyn at the BAM Harvey Theater.
Posted Friday, January 31, 2014 - 04:00
Leading up to The Oscars®, the Academy will present a slate of public events celebrating this year's nominees. This year's activities in Los Angeles will include a live concert at UCLA's Royce Hall highlighting the nominated musical scores and songs. Events at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills will focus on the films nominated for Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, and...
Posted Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 12:00
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates animator Richard Williams with the first public screening of the original version of his film "The Thief and the Cobbler" on Tuesday, December 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Posted Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 05:15
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences celebrates a creative turning point in cinema history with a screening of shorts and feature excerpts from 1913 in "A Century Ago: The Films of 1913" on Friday, December 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
Posted Monday, November 11, 2013 - 02:30
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will explore cinema's roots in stage magic and sleight of hand and show how visual deception drove the development of movie special effects, on Wednesday, November 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Posted Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 02:30
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a special screening of the documentary "John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums," on Friday, November 22, the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination. Oscar®-winning writer Aaron Sorkin will introduce the commemorative screening, which will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
Posted Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 04:00
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Bpeace, the Business Council for Peace, will co-present a special screening of the 2013 documentary "Finding Hillywood," which examines the budding film industry in Rwanda, on Monday, October 21, at 7 p.m. at the Academy Theater in New York City.
Posted Thursday, September 19, 2013 - 04:00
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the classic Western "Shane" with a screening of a new digital restoration from Paramount Pictures on Monday, September 16, at the Academy Theater in New York City, with a special video message by director Woody Allen; and on Monday, October 7, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, with an in-person introduction by director James Mangold.
Posted Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 04:00
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present "This Amazing Medium," an animation master class and retrospective tour with Oscar®-winning animator Richard Williams, on Friday, October 4, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.