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ACADEMY REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES Volume 4 No. 2 June 1992 FROM THE PRESIDENT Many of you probably have wondered when you'd be approached for a contribution to the Endowment Fund campaign for the new Center jor Motion Picture Study. Don't worry. We haven 'tforgotten you. You 're on our list. And you'll be hearing from us several times over the next few months. We're working on the final $5 million of the campaign goal now. We passed the $10 million mark injanuary. We'll be approaching each of you by branch, and our approach will be slightly different for each branch. Some of the branches are "adopting " Center programs or collections, and will be trying to create special endowments for those adopted programs. The Directors Branch has adopted the Special Collections Archive, the Public Relations Branch has adopted the Poster Collection and the Music Branch has adopted the Film Music Collection. Some branches are concentrating on generating "deferred" gifts from among the branch membership. A deferred gift is one that won't be paid until the death of the donor, and it could be a bequest, a life insurance policy or a charitable remainder trust. Deferred gifts often allow a potential donor to make a much more Significant gift than the donor could afford to make in cash. An estate planning seminar to describe some of these techniques was sponsored thefirst week o/june by the Sound Branch. I hope all of our members will think of this campaign as an opportunity to make a "lifetime" gift to the Foundation. We 've never asked our members for contributions before and we don 't expect to ask you again. So this is your chance to make a personal commitment to film history and preservation, to show your pride in an art form that 's been financially rewarding for most of us. The Center is preserving our work, our contributions to motion pictures. It 's our job to pass that work on to posterity. Think big. Think stupendous. Think Hollywood! 1 The Pure JOY of the Academy Awards o R T Four happy actors backstage at the Awards: Mercedes Ruehl, Anthony Hopkins, jodie Foster and jack Palance. In the printed program for the 64th Academy Awards, show producer Gilbert Cates explained, "Motion pictures proVide us with laughter, romance, adventure and a deeper understanding of ourselves. With all the extraordinary events that are taking place today it's wonderful that we can still get away to see a flim. That's what we're celebrating this year at the Oscars: The pure joy of the movies." And celebrate we did. Television viewers around the globe helped us celebrate, as movie fans in 90 countries tuned in to see what Cates, his team and During the Awards telecast on March 30, the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis beamed their congratulations to Thalberg recipient George Lucas while an Oscar floated weightlessly nearby. On May 27 that Oscar was returned to the the Academy voters had in store for them. The production team - ably captained by host Billy Crystal for the third year - also included director Jeff Margolis, writers Hal Kanter and Buz Kohan (with special material by David Steinberg, Bruce Vilanch, Robert Wuhl and Crystal), production designer Roy Christopher, music director Bill Conti, choreographer Debbie Allen and costume designer Ray Aghayan. Each viewer will retain his or her own memories of the event: For some, it will be the flim clip tributes to comedy and documentaries, painstakingly researched and (continued on page 4) Academy in a brief ceremony. Pictured (left to right): Show producer Gilbert Cates, Atlantis Commander Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin, Karl Malden, Mission Specialist David Leestma and Atlantis Pilot Brian Duffy.
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Title | Academy Report, Volume 4 Number 2, June 1992 |
Description | Pages 1-4; illustrations. Member newsletter. |
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences--Periodicals [lcsh] Motion picture industry--Periodicals [lcsh] |
Format | periodical |
Catalog Record | http://catalog.oscars.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=69417 |
Publisher | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
Date | June 1992 |
Source | AMPAS Reference collection |
Repository | Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
Rights | Copyright Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. For research or educational use only. |
Local Topic | Member newsletters |
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Title | Academy Report, Volume 4 Number 2, June 1992 |
Description | Page 1 |
Subject |
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences--Periodicals [lcsh] Motion picture industry--Periodicals [lcsh] |
Format | periodical |
Date | June 1992 |
Full text | ACADEMY REPORT TO THE MEMBERS OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES Volume 4 No. 2 June 1992 FROM THE PRESIDENT Many of you probably have wondered when you'd be approached for a contribution to the Endowment Fund campaign for the new Center jor Motion Picture Study. Don't worry. We haven 'tforgotten you. You 're on our list. And you'll be hearing from us several times over the next few months. We're working on the final $5 million of the campaign goal now. We passed the $10 million mark injanuary. We'll be approaching each of you by branch, and our approach will be slightly different for each branch. Some of the branches are "adopting " Center programs or collections, and will be trying to create special endowments for those adopted programs. The Directors Branch has adopted the Special Collections Archive, the Public Relations Branch has adopted the Poster Collection and the Music Branch has adopted the Film Music Collection. Some branches are concentrating on generating "deferred" gifts from among the branch membership. A deferred gift is one that won't be paid until the death of the donor, and it could be a bequest, a life insurance policy or a charitable remainder trust. Deferred gifts often allow a potential donor to make a much more Significant gift than the donor could afford to make in cash. An estate planning seminar to describe some of these techniques was sponsored thefirst week o/june by the Sound Branch. I hope all of our members will think of this campaign as an opportunity to make a "lifetime" gift to the Foundation. We 've never asked our members for contributions before and we don 't expect to ask you again. So this is your chance to make a personal commitment to film history and preservation, to show your pride in an art form that 's been financially rewarding for most of us. The Center is preserving our work, our contributions to motion pictures. It 's our job to pass that work on to posterity. Think big. Think stupendous. Think Hollywood! 1 The Pure JOY of the Academy Awards o R T Four happy actors backstage at the Awards: Mercedes Ruehl, Anthony Hopkins, jodie Foster and jack Palance. In the printed program for the 64th Academy Awards, show producer Gilbert Cates explained, "Motion pictures proVide us with laughter, romance, adventure and a deeper understanding of ourselves. With all the extraordinary events that are taking place today it's wonderful that we can still get away to see a flim. That's what we're celebrating this year at the Oscars: The pure joy of the movies." And celebrate we did. Television viewers around the globe helped us celebrate, as movie fans in 90 countries tuned in to see what Cates, his team and During the Awards telecast on March 30, the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis beamed their congratulations to Thalberg recipient George Lucas while an Oscar floated weightlessly nearby. On May 27 that Oscar was returned to the the Academy voters had in store for them. The production team - ably captained by host Billy Crystal for the third year - also included director Jeff Margolis, writers Hal Kanter and Buz Kohan (with special material by David Steinberg, Bruce Vilanch, Robert Wuhl and Crystal), production designer Roy Christopher, music director Bill Conti, choreographer Debbie Allen and costume designer Ray Aghayan. Each viewer will retain his or her own memories of the event: For some, it will be the flim clip tributes to comedy and documentaries, painstakingly researched and (continued on page 4) Academy in a brief ceremony. Pictured (left to right): Show producer Gilbert Cates, Atlantis Commander Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin, Karl Malden, Mission Specialist David Leestma and Atlantis Pilot Brian Duffy. |