Lollipop Guild member Jerry Maren, Judy Garland’s son Joey Luft
Judy Garland’s son Joey Luft, Garland’s grandchildren Jesse and Vanessa Richards, Lollipop Guild member Jerry Maren, and Emerald City manicurist Dorothy Barrett were present at the “Hollywood’s Greatest Year” screening of The Wizard of Oz presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday, August 3, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
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Joey Luft
Dorothy Barrett, an Emerald City manicurist in The Wizard of Oz
Jesse Richards, Vanessa Richards, Judy Garland’s grandchildren
T-Rex in Jurassic Park; Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep in Death Becomes Her
Rick Carter to Receive Production Designer of the Year Award
Academy Award-nominated Production Designer Rick Carter, whose work will be featured in James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar, will receive the Hollywood Film Festival’s Hollywood Production Designer of the Year Award at the festival’s October 26 Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Carter’s Oscar nomination was for Robert Zemeckis’ Forrest Gump (1994). Additionally, he received two nominations from the Art Directors Guild for a couple of his collaborations with Steven Spielberg, Amistad (1997) and Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001).
Among Carter’s other screen credits are Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993), Munich (2005), and War of the Worlds (2005), plus The Goonies (1985), Three Fugitives (1989), and Zemeckis’ Back to the Future Part II (1989), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Death Becomes Her (1992), Cast Away (2000), What Lies Beneath (2000), and The Polar Express (2004).
He also worked on the Emmy Award-winning television series Amazing Stories from 1985-1986.
Previous recipients of the Hollywood Film Festival’s Production Designer Award are Robert Boyle, Henry Bumstead, Stuart Craig, William Creber, Dante Ferretti, Sarah Greenwood, Grant Major, Harold Michelson and John Myhre.
Tom Sherak Elected Academy President
Tom Sherak was elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Tuesday night, Aug. 18, by the Academy’s Board of Governors. He succeeds Sid Ganis, who served the maximum four consecutive one-year terms in office.
A marketing, distribution, and production executive, Sherak is currently a consultant for Marvel Studios and is just beginning his seventh year as an Academy governor representing the Executives Branch.
Previously, Sherak was a partner at Revolution Studios where he oversaw the release of more than 40 films, among them Black Hawk Down, Anger Management, Rent, and Across the Universe. He began his film industry career at Paramount Pictures in 1970, and later held various executive posts at 20th Century Fox.
In addition, Actors Branch governor Tom Hanks was elected first vice president; Producers Branch governor Kathleen Kennedy and Writers Branch governor Phil Alden Robinson were elected to vice presidents posts; and Short Films and Feature Animation Branch governor John Lasseter was elected secretary. Ganis, representing the Public Relations Branch, will serve as “immediate past president.”
Academy board members serve three-year terms, while officers serve one-year terms, with a maximum of four consecutive terms in any one office.
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