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The 1968 Best Picture nominee Funny Girl will be screened as the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' "Great To Be Nominated" series. Director William Wyler's only musical will be shown on Monday, June 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater from an IB Technicolor Stereo print. Anne Francis, who portrayed Georgia James in the film, and Maury Winetrobe, one of the film's three Oscar®-nominated editors, will participate in a panel discussion following the screening.
Funny Girl is the story of comedienne Fanny Brice from her early years on New York's Lower East Side through the aftermath of her stardom with the Ziegfeld Follies. The film received eight Oscar nominations and earned a leading actress Academy Award® for Barbra Streisand, in her film debut, as Fanny. Streisandaward was in fact tied with Katharine Hepburn, who also received a statuette that year for her performance as Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter. Funny Girl also was nominated for Best Picture (Ray Stark, producer), Actress in a Supporting Role (Kay Medford as Rose Brice), Cinematography (Harry Stradling), Film Editing (Robert Swink, Maury Winetrobe, William Sands), Score of a Musical Picture — original or adaptation (adaptation score by Walter Scharf), Song — original for the picture ("Funny Girl," music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Bob Merrill) and Sound (Columbia Studio Sound Department).
Oscar-nominated cartoon short The House that Jack Built (Wolf Koenig and Jim MacKay, producers) and Oscar-nominated live action short The Dove (George Coe, Sidney Davis and Anthony Lover, producers) will be shown prior to the screening.
Passes for "Great To Be Nominated" are still available at a cost of $30 for film buffs wishing to see the rest of the series. A $5 discount is available for those who wish to renew their passes from Parts One and/or Two of the series. Inclusive of Funny Girl there are 9 screening dates remaining in Part Three.
Tickets for each individual screening may be purchased at a cost of $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid I.D. Tickets may be purchased by mail, in person at the Academy during regular business hours or, depending on availability, on the night of the screening when the doors open at 6:30 p.m. Curtain time for all features is 7:30 p.m., and pre-show elements will begin at 7 p.m. The Academy is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more information, call (310) 247-3600.