Oscar News: From The Host to No More Screeners!
Pete Clark, Edmund DiGiulio, Richard Edland, Jonathan Erland, Phillip Feiner, Richard Glickman, Douglas Greenfield, David Inglish and Richard Stumpf.
"This is a very critical time for the technology of our industry," said Rogers. "We faced just such a time 75 years ago, when the Academy was conceived, with the advent of sound. Today it's the era of the 'digital revolution,' and , as was true 75 years ago, if new technology is to serve the art form, rather than dominate it, this Academy needs to resume its significant leadership position."
For the first few years after its founding in 1927, the Academy's role in technical research nearly overshadowed its other activities. The technicians branch set up technical committees, such as the Aperture Committee and the Screen Illumination Committee, which worked with organizations like the American Society of Cinematographers and the Association of Motion Picture Producers. The committees were consolidated in 1929 into the Academy Producers-Technicians Joint Committee and in January 1930, the Technical Bureau of the Association of Motion Picture Producers was transferred to Academy jurisdiction and absorbed into the Producers-Technicians Joint Committee.
The Academy reorganized its technical activities in 1932 into a Research Council. During World War II, the Research Council ran a training course for Signal Corps officers, schools for Signal Corps and Marine Corps motion picture cameramen and still photographers and assigned training film projects to the studios. The Research Council even determined officers' commissions for motion picture people who joined the armed forces.
In 1948, the Research Council was transferred to the Association of Motion Picture Producers and renamed the Motion Picture Research Center, which continued to function until the late 1970s.
So that's it for this week ... the October films will soon be coming our way, and we'll see how they shape the 2003 film awards season. But I still expect the majority of the major Oscar contenders to come from the months of November and December ... as usual! Until next time ...
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