Press Release:
Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will launch the third part of its successful screening series "Great To Be Nominated" on Monday, April 10. The 19-week series will once again showcase the Best Picture nominees, this time from 1958 to 1976, that accumulated the most Academy Award® nominations in all categories in a particular year, but did not ultimately win the Oscar® for Best Picture. "Great To Be Nominated, Part Three," will screen a different film each Monday evening, plus one Tuesday night, at 7:30 p.m., in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The third installment of "Great To Be Nominated" will kick off with The Defiant Ones (1958), a breakthrough film in Hollywood's portrayal of race relations. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and took home the Oscars for Cinematography – Black-and-White (Sam Leavitt) and Writing (Story and Screenplay – written directly for the screen) (Nedrick Young* and Harold Jacob Smith). The Defiant Ones also was honored with four nominations in the acting categories: Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, both for Lead Actor, and Theodore Bikel and Cara Williams for Supporting Actor and Actress, respectively. Stanley Kramer was nominated in both the Directing and Best Motion Picture categories and Frederic Knudtson was nominated for Film Editing.
Curtis, Bikel and Williams will participate in a panel discussion following the screening.
The series will continue through August 28, when Part Three concludes. "Great To Be Nominated" will go on hiatus until Spring 2007, picking up where this installment of the series ends.
Other elements from each year, such as short subjects, behind-the-scenes footage, trailers and music, will be incorporated into each evening's program.
The complete screening schedule for Part Three is as follows:
April 10
"The Defiant Ones" (1958)
April 17
"The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959)
April 24
"Sons and Lovers" (1960)
May 1
"Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961)
May 8
"To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962)
May 15
"Cleopatra" (1963)
May 22
"Mary Poppins" (1964)
June 5
"Doctor Zhivago" (1965)
June 12
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966)
June 19
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967)
June 20 (Tuesday)
"Bonnie and Clyde" (1967)
June 26
"Funny Girl" (1968)
July 10
"Anne of the Thousand Days" (1969)
July 17
"Airport" (1970)
July 24
"Fiddler on the Roof" (1971)
July 31
"Cabaret" (1972)
August 7
"The Exorcist" (1973)
August 14
"Chinatown" (1974)
August 21
"Barry Lyndon" (1975)
August 28
"Network" (1976)
The Tuesday, June 20 screening is necessary because both Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and Bonnie and Clyde were honored with 10 nominations and two Academy Awards in 1967. Screenings will not be held on May 29 or July 3 as the Academy will be closed in observance of Memorial Day and Independence Day, respectively.
Passes for "Great To Be Nominated, Part Three" are available at a cost of $30 for film buffs wishing to see the series in its entirety. A $5 discount is available for those people who wish to renew their passes from Parts One and/or Two of the series. 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. They may be purchased by mail, in person at the Academy during regular business hours or, pending availability, 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 310-247-3000, ext. 111.
* Upon request of his widow and upon recommendation of the Writers Branch Executive Committee, the Board of Governors voted on June 22, 1993, to restore the name of Nedrick Young to the nominations and award presented to Nathan E. Douglas, Mr. Young's pseudonym during the blacklisting period.
THE DEFIANT ONES: Good intentions don't necessarily result in a good movie. But I must admit that's an important movie. Groundbreaking in a certain way.