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24 unusual facts about Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences


Alias Systems Corporation

On March 1, 2003, the company was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with an Academy Award (Oscar) for scientific and technical achievement for their development of Maya software.

Andrew Kriss

He received a Student Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2009 as the producer of The Bronx Balletomane.

Britt Leach

In 2007, Leach did not renew his membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and wrote of his frustration with DVD screeners in a satirical piece on his website.

Carlos Clarens

Upon his death, tributes were held at New York's Little Theatre at the Public Theater, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Paris' Cinematheque.

Cesare Danova

Danova died of a heart attack in 1992, aged 66, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences headquarters in Los Angeles while attending a meeting of the Foreign Language Film committee.

Charles Evans, Jr.

Worried that producer credits were getting out of hand, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences changes its rules to permit no more than three producers to receive an Oscar for a Best Picture film.

Cineon

The major components of the system (scanner, workstation software, and recorder) have all received AMPAS Scientific and Technical Awards.

Elwy Yost

When Yost retired from TVOntario in 1999, a copy of the library of interviews was donated to the Motion Picture Academy.

Feature film

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Film Institute, and British Film Institute, a feature film runs for 40 minutes or longer, while the Screen Actors Guild states that it is 80 minutes or longer.

Film awards in the Philippines

In 1981, President Ferdinand Marcos passed Executive Order 640-A, which established the Film Academy of the Philippines, the Philippines' official counterpart of the United States' Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Fred Niblo

He was an important personality in the early years of Hollywood and was one of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Fritz Sennheiser

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Sennheiser in 1987 with its Scientific and Engineering Award for the development of the MKH 816 shotgun microphone.

GBFTE

Professionals in the industry have long recognised the importance of editing to finished films and television programmes, with awards from the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Oscars), the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs) and many film festivals.

James A. Moorer

In 1999, he won an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award for his pioneering work in the design of digital signal processing and its application to audio editing for film.

Jesse L. Lasky

In 1927, Lasky was one of the thirty-six people who founded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

John Kenneth Hilliard

(1935) Academy Award for best Sound Recording on the film Naughty Marietta

Margaret Herrick

Margaret Herrick (September 27, 1902-June 21, 1976), was the librarian and director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Milton Sills

On May 11, 1927, Sills had the distinction of being among the original 36 individuals in the film industry to found the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures.

Natalie Kalmus

Her personal papers are now in the Margaret Herrick Library at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Otto Plaschkes

On Valentine's day 2005, Plaschkes, as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, had just attended a West End screening of Kay Pollak's As It Is in Heaven, which had been nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film.

Otto Spoerri

Spoerri, who started as a temporary accountant at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences inherited the two sensitive roles of distributing tickets to The Oscars and making the seating arrangements.

Richard H. Ranger

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Ranger with an Oscar in 1956 for his development of the tape recorder and synchronization of film and sound.

Showmen's Trade Review

The publisher's set of bound volumes is held in the collection of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, California.

Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales

She allegedly revealed she had given the footage to the Academy Film Archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and intended to give the film to Rain.


Beverly Hills Film Festival

The venues for screening include premier spots like the AMPAS, Writers Guild, Chinese Theater and The Clarity Theatre.

Carmine Caridi

On January 13, 2004, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that it had identified a pirate copy of the film Something's Gotta Give, circulated illegally on the Internet, as carrying markings identifying it as coming from a video sent to Caridi in his role as an Oscar voter.

Jodi Leib

The film has also screened at Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Laemmle Sunset 5, New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival, Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films and Market, and most recently at the Screen Actors Guild.

She's a Fox

She's a Fox was an Official Selection in numerous film festivals throughout the United States and internationally, most notably the Cannes Short Film Corner, Heartland Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival and the Academy-accredited LA Shorts Fest.

Silent Star

A year later, she would donate her own scrapbooks to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where they are currently available for viewing by researchers at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library.