Oscar 2007 Make-Up Symposium
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will for the first time present the 2007 Oscar nominees in the make-up category at a special symposium at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The Make-Up Symposium will be hosted by Make-Up Branch Governor Leonard Engelman, whose film credits include The Witches of Eastwick, Batman Forever, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
The event will screen clips of each nominated film, and audience members will be able to ask questions to the nominated make-up artists (subject to availability), who will also take part in a panel discussion.
The 2007 nominees for Achievement in Make-Up are:
- Apocalypto, Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
- Click, Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
- Pan’s Labyrinth, David Marti and Montse Ribe
Free advance tickets to the Make-Up Symposium are necessary to secure admission. There is a two-ticket per person limit. Tickets will be available beginning February 1 at the Academy’s ticket office. For ticket order information, call (310) 247-3600 or visit the Academy’s website.
Doors open at 1 p.m. All seating is unreserved. The Academy’s ticket office is located at its headquarters at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.
The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at the Academy’s Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study at 1313 North Vine Street in Hollywood. Free parking is available behind the building through the entrance on Homewood Avenue. For more information, call (310) 247-3600.
The Academy Awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, Feb. 25, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center.
Oscar 2007: “Shorts!” in New York City
The New York City version of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual “Shorts!” program, featuring the year’s Oscar-nominated narrative short films, will be presented on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Academy Theater.
The screenings will be hosted by Robert Osborne, Turner Classic Movies host, The Hollywood Reporter columnist, and official biographer of the Academy Awards.
The screening films are:
Short Film (Animated)
- The Danish Poet, Torill Kove, director (a Danish poet travels to Norway to meet a celebrated writer)
- Lifted, Gary Rydstrom, director (alien abductor-in-training tries to get a sleeping farmer onto its spaceship)
- The Little Matchgirl, Roger Allers, director; Don Hahn, producer (Hans Christian Andersen’s sad tale of the little girl and her matches)
- Maestro, Geza M. Toth, director (a singing bird gets ready for its grand performance)
- No Time for Nuts, Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier, directors (while trying to bury a nut in the Ice Age, Scrat discovers a time machine)
Short Film (Live Action)
- Binta y la gran idea / Binta and the Great Idea, Javier Fesser, director; Luis Manso, producer (A seven-year-old African girl talks about her father, who has an idea he believes will change the world)
- Éramos Pocos / Too Few of Us, Borja Cobeaga, director (after his wife leaves him, Joaquín enlists his son to get the woman’s mother to help them keep house)
- Helmer & Son, Soren Pilmark, director; Kim Magnusson, executive producer (a man must go to a rest home to deal with his father, who has locked himself up inside an armoire)
- The Saviour, Peter Templeman, director; Stuart Parkyn, producer (a Mormon evangelist finds himself in love with a married woman)
- West Bank Story, Ari Sandel, director (no tragic Palestinian-Israeli romance here; instead, this is a musical comedy set in the falafel stands of the West Bank)
Tickets for “Shorts!” are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID. All seating is unreserved. Tickets may be reserved by calling 1-888-778-7575. Depending on availability, tickets may be purchased the day of the screenings. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. The Academy Theater is located at 111 East 59th Street in New York City.
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