ARTIE SHAW: TIME IS ALL YOU’VE GOT, DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA: Oscar’s Docs
As the next installment of "Oscar’s Docs, Part Three: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries 1977–1988," the Oscar-winning documentaries Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got (top photo) and Down and Out in America (lower photo), which tied in the Documentary Feature category in 1986, will be screened on Monday, November 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Oscar-winning actress Lee Grant will join Oscar-winning producers Brigitte Berman and Joseph Feury in post-screening discussions.
Produced by Berman, Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got chronicles the life of the bandleader and clarinetist. This screening will feature a new print from the original negative.
Produced by Feury and Milton Justice, and directed by Grant, Down and Out in America takes a look at a cross-section of poor Americans, while highlighting the societal conditions that contributed to their poverty. This screening will feature a new print.
"Oscar’s Docs" is a comprehensive screening series of every short subject and feature to win the Academy Award for documentary filmmaking since the category was established in 1941.
Tickets to "Oscar’s Docs" are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. Tickets are available for purchase online at www.oscars.org, by mail, or at the Academy box office during regular business hours. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All seating is unreserved.
The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood. Free parking is available through the entrance on Homewood Avenue (one block north of Fountain Avenue). For additional information, visit www.oscars.org/events or call (310) 247-3600.
Photos: Courtesy Bridge Film (Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got), Courtesy Joseph Feury Productions (Down and Out in America)
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