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I take great pride when I read news stories in my Hollywood Reporter about young people from a wide array of ethnic groups making their entry into the wonderful world of motion pictures. Last month, almost 400 people, many from the Asian, African-American and Latino communities, were invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. More than a few of them have experienced hardship, discrimination and intolerance, but they persevered and can now take great pride in being members of the film industry’s most prestigious organization.
I know the feeling well.
I was born on the Lower East Side in 1939. My parents were born in Europe and were lucky to arrive in this country before the Holocaust, unlike other members of our family who were murdered by the Nazis. We lived in the projects just off the East River Drive.
I take great pride when I read news stories in my Hollywood Reporter about young people from a wide array of ethnic groups making their entry into the wonderful world of motion pictures. Last month, almost 400 people, many from the Asian, African-American and Latino communities, were invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. More than a few of them have experienced hardship, discrimination and intolerance, but they persevered and can now take great pride in being members of the film industry’s most prestigious organization.
I know the feeling well.
I was born on the Lower East Side in 1939. My parents were born in Europe and were lucky to arrive in this country before the Holocaust, unlike other members of our family who were murdered by the Nazis. We lived in the projects just off the East River Drive.
- 8/2/2022
- by Rabbi Marvin Hier
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The program for the Governors Ball after the 2002 Oscars, which was designed by Arnold Schwartzman, was a portfolio of vintage postcards depicting the 10 theaters that had hosted the Academy Awards. Here are the images from that program, along with a vintage postcard of this year’s site, Union Station.
Roosevelt Hotel – This Hollywood hotel was build in 1927, and its Blossom Room was the site of the first Oscars in 1929. In recent years, the room has often been used for AFI Fest parties.
Ambassador Hotel – The second Oscars, in 1930, moved to the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel. The hotel would host the five more times in both the Cocoanut Grove and the Fiesta Room, and in 1968 would be the site of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Biltmore Hotel – In 1931, the Biltmore hosted the first Oscar show to take place in downtown Los Angeles, and it would be the site of...
Roosevelt Hotel – This Hollywood hotel was build in 1927, and its Blossom Room was the site of the first Oscars in 1929. In recent years, the room has often been used for AFI Fest parties.
Ambassador Hotel – The second Oscars, in 1930, moved to the Cocoanut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel. The hotel would host the five more times in both the Cocoanut Grove and the Fiesta Room, and in 1968 would be the site of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination.
Biltmore Hotel – In 1931, the Biltmore hosted the first Oscar show to take place in downtown Los Angeles, and it would be the site of...
- 4/22/2021
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Hollywood Film Awards® was founded in 1997 and honors excellence in filmmaking and traditionally signals the Official Launch of the Award Season®. The HFAs showcase to the public at large previews of quality films released during the calendar year. The first-ever Hollywood Film Awards® gala took place in October 1997 in the historic Blossom Room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in Hollywood. Kirk Douglas took home the inaugural “Hollywood Lifetime Achievement Award.” The Hollywood Film Awards launch the awards season. Over the past 18 years, prior honorees have gone on to garner many Oscar nominations and wins. With participating Hollywood insiders, our Advisory Team identifies and selects the recipients of our honors. Our winners are pre-selected to receive our awards. Our selection is based on their outstanding achievement and contribution to the art of cinema. They are not “nominees.” 2014 honorees included some of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Keira Knightley,...
- 10/2/2015
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Hollywood Film Awards honor established Hollywood artists. The criteria for these awards is based on the recipient’s body of work and/or a film that they have coming out this year. These awards are bestowed in all disciplines of filmmaking*: Career, Leadership, Producer, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Editor, Film Composer, Production Designer, Costume Designer, Animation, and Visual Effects. Our award/tribute recipients are selected by our Advisory Team which is comprised of a cross section of Hollywood professionals. To read more about the Hollywood Film Awards The selection process for our honorees takes multiple elements into consideration and involves attending pre-press private industry screenings, press screenings, festival screenings, and research. It also includes the support and participation of established entertainment industry executives, from agents, critics, directors, managers, producers, publicists, screenwriters and studio execs to members of the craft guilds. With participating Hollywood insiders,...
- 10/2/2015
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
This story first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap magazine. It took an odd sequence of events for Arnold Schwartzman to end up designing posters, programs, menus and more for the Academy Awards. A British art director who’d gotten his start with the London music show “Ready, Steady, Go” in the 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles in 1978 to take a job as head of design for the company run by his friend, legendary designer Saul Bass — and while he didn’t like that job, he stuck around and accepted another gig for which Bass.
- 2/18/2015
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
BAFTA La executive director and COO Donald Haber will step down from the organisation on May 31 after 20 years of service.
Haber joined the BAFTA La board in 1994, was elected treasurer in 1996, executive director in 1998 and COO in 2006.
He will stay on to help with the selection and transition of a new chief executive.
During his tenure Haber worked alongside seven BAFTA La Chairpersons: Arnold Schwartzman, Su Lesser, Gary Dartnall (two separate terms), Peter Morris, Nigel Lythgoe, Neil Stiles, and current incumbent Nigel Daly.
“Donald has provided exceptional leadership, overseeing significant growth of BAFTA La these past 20 years,” said Daly, Screen International’s head of North American sales, advertising and business development.
“Our membership, staff, financial resources, community outreach, screenings and learning programs, Britannia Awards and the popular Tea Parties – all have grown dramatically despite two recessions and major changes in our industries.
“Haber has also been a leader in creating closer bonds with BAFTA in the UK...
Haber joined the BAFTA La board in 1994, was elected treasurer in 1996, executive director in 1998 and COO in 2006.
He will stay on to help with the selection and transition of a new chief executive.
During his tenure Haber worked alongside seven BAFTA La Chairpersons: Arnold Schwartzman, Su Lesser, Gary Dartnall (two separate terms), Peter Morris, Nigel Lythgoe, Neil Stiles, and current incumbent Nigel Daly.
“Donald has provided exceptional leadership, overseeing significant growth of BAFTA La these past 20 years,” said Daly, Screen International’s head of North American sales, advertising and business development.
“Our membership, staff, financial resources, community outreach, screenings and learning programs, Britannia Awards and the popular Tea Parties – all have grown dramatically despite two recessions and major changes in our industries.
“Haber has also been a leader in creating closer bonds with BAFTA in the UK...
- 5/13/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Donald Haber announced today that he will retire as executive director and COO of BAFTA Los Angeles, effective May 31, 2015. Having informed the board earlier this year of his decision, he will help with the selection and transition of a new chief executive. Haber joined the BAFTA Los Angeles board of directors in 1994, was elected treasurer in 1996, was appointed executive director in 1998, and was awarded the additional title of COO in 2006. During his tenure, he worked alongside seven BAFTA L.A. chairpersons: Arnold Schwartzman, Su Lesser, Gary Dartnall (who served two separate terms), Peter Morris,
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- 5/13/2014
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Nik Xhelilaj in Artan Minarolli’s Alive! The 2010 edition of Los Angeles’ South-East European Film Festival kicks off this evening with a screening of Arnold Schwartzman’s one-minute "photo-documentary" The Wall, about the bit-by-bit destruction of the Berlin Wall, at 7 p.m. at the Goethe-Institut in the Mid-Wilshire Area. Schwartzman, the Oscar-winning director of the documentary feature Genocide (1982), will be present to introduce his film. The Wall will be immediately followed by an intriguing double-bill: the Us premiere of Boris Mitic’s Serbian documentary Goodbye, How Are You?, and the Los Angeles premiere of Artan Minarolli’s Albanian social-drama-cum-thriller Alive!. Minarolli will be present for a q&a after the screening. Mitic’s Goodbye, How Are You? is described as a quirky look back at the [...]...
- 4/29/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Jodie Foster is being slammed by tinseltown bosses over her new movie about Adolf Hitler's favorite film-maker. Jodie is involved with production of the controversial movie about Leni Riefenstahl, now 97. British film-maker Arnold Schwartzman says, "A lot of people in Hollywood are horrified at this. Leni used her skills to rouse the German people into going along with Hitler." Foster says, "I've talked to her on the telephone several times. She was a tremendously gifted woman, but made a lot of ugly choices at a terrible time in history."...
- 10/6/2000
- WENN
Steven Spielberg is being given the opportunity to follow in the footsteps of his former friend and mentor Stanley Kubrick. The legendary director is being honoured by the BRITISH ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION by receiving the Stanley Kubrick BRITANNIA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM Award. Spielberg will be given the accolade, which was previously won by Kubrick, in Los Angeles later this year and proceeds from the event will be donated to the SHOAH FOUNDATION. BAFTA L.A. chairman Arnold Schwartzman says, "We can think of no one more deserving of our highest honor than Steven, whose very name evokes a generation of brilliant unforgettable motion pictures. " Past winners include John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman and Harvey Weinstein.
- 5/4/2000
- WENN
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