OSCARS IN ANIMATION

New exibition will open August 1, 2002

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Ever since the Academy gave out its first Oscar to an animated film (Disney's short, "Flowers and Trees"), the Academy has had a child-like love of cartoons. The list of films honored by the Academy over the decades reads like a comprehensive summary of film animation's colorful history, from the earliest days of cel animation to today's digital age. Over the years animated films have competed in a wide variety of awards categories: Cartoon Short, Comedy Short, Novelty Short, Animated Short, Original Score, Original Song, Writing and, as of the last award season, Animated Feature.

This exciting and comprehensive exhibition displays rare and original animation art from every year since 1933 to the present, all of it from Oscar-nominated or -winning films. At times whimsical and fantastical, at other times avant-garde and unsettling, but always beautiful and compelling, this compendium of art represents some of the most significant animated films ever made.

The exhibition is comprised of original cells, pre-production sketches, storyboards, "progression videos" and 3-dimensional artist models from such classic titles as "Dumbo," "Gerald McBoing-Boing," "Gulliver's Travels," "The Lion King," "Luxo Jr.," "Monsters Inc.," Pinocchio," "Sleeping Beauty," "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Toy Story" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." These pieces represent the work of such luminary animators as Frederic Back, Cordell Barker, Walt Disney, Max Fleischer, Chuck Jones, Walter Lantz and John Lasseter. Examples of the award-winning films originate not only from the United States, but from Canada, the former Czechoslovakia, Russia, Hungary, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Gallery Hours:
Admission is free and open to the public. Academy Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and weekends from noon to 6 p.m. Closed Monday. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills. For more program information, please call (310) 247-3600.
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