Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards were announced today (Tuesday, January 24) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and 2010 Oscar® nominee Jennifer Lawrence.

Sherak and Lawrence, who was nominated for an Academy Award® for her lead performance in “Winter’s Bone,” announced the nominees in 10 of the 24 Award categories at a 5:38 a.m. PT live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives. Lists of nominations in all categories were then distributed to the media in attendance and online via the official Academy Awards website, www.oscar.com.

Academy members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominations are selected by vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.

Nominations ballots were mailed to the 5,783 voting members in late December and were returned directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the international accounting firm, for tabulation.

Official screenings of all motion pictures with one or more nominations will begin for members this weekend at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings also will be held at the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and in London, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area.

All active and life members of the Academy are eligible to select the winners in all categories, although in five of them – Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject and Foreign Language Film – members can vote only if they have seen all of the nominated films in those categories.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m. ET. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

Read the full list of  the 84th Academy Awards Nominations on OSCAR News page

In anticipation of the 84th Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences has launched "Celebrate the Movies," a digital exhibition spotlighting iconic moments from 84 films.

Beginning today, January 23, the exhibition will appear on digital billboards in Los Angeles, and on ABC's digital "SuperSign," an electronic landmark in New York's Times Square. It will also be showcased on an online gallery on Oscar.com, and extend to youtube.com/Oscars, where fans can share their most memorable movie-going experiences through video or text.

Images will debut in groups of 20 within the next two weeks. The 84 films represented span eight decades, beginning with "Bride of Frankenstein" (1935) and culminating in "Avatar" (2009). Highlights from each decade include "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "Casablanca" (1942), "The Killers" (1946), "Sunset Boulevard" (1950), "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961), "True Grit" (1969), "The Exorcist" (1973), "Saturday Night Fever" (1977), "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980), "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), "Apollo 13" (1995), "Shrek" (2001), "Ray" (2004), and "The Dark Knight" (2008).  The exhibition highlights all of Hollywood's major genres, as well as independent, animated, foreign-language, and documentary films.

Included in the first 20 images are the eight that were featured in the key art campaign, which was unveiled in late December.

The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, at 5:30 a.m. PST in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar® presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

“CLYBOURNE PARK”

OPENS THIS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25

AT THE CTG/MARK TAPER FORUM
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play Continues Through February 26
 

Bruce Norris’ Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy “Clybourne Park” opens next Wednesday, January 25 at 8 p.m. at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum. “Clybourne Park” reunites the entire original Playrwights Horizons’ off-Broadway cast along with original director Pam MacKinnon for the Los Angeles run which continues through February 26. (Previews began Wednesday, January 11).

Photo: Annie Parisse and Jeremy Shamos in Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy "Clybourne Park". Photo by Joan Marcus.

Read more on Theatre in L.A. page.

Oscar.com Kicks Off Oscar® Season

with the Return of its Emmy-winning Digital Experience
Site Launches with Exclusive Billy Crystal Video
 

Upcoming Features Will Include Award-Winning Second Screen Experience That Gives Movie Fans Unparalleled Live Behind-The-Scenes Access, Exclusive Original Video Series, Popular My Picks Game, Photos and Insider Commentary

Oscar.com, the official online home of the 84th Academy Awards®, is launching its award-winning Oscar Digital Experience today with a first look at Billy Crystal's return to Oscar's stage. One of America's most beloved funny men, Billy starts the official countdown to the show talking about what the Oscars mean to him and setting the stage for weeks of extensive coverage on Oscar.com.

Read more on Academy News page.

Calibash – January 24^th, 2012 at STAPLES Center in downtown Los Angeles on South Figueroa Street between 11th Street/Chick Hearn Court and Pico Boulevard.

Mary Poppins

BROADWAY’S MAGICAL HIT MUSICAL
MAKES A SPECIAL RETURN TO LOS ANGELES
AS BONUS OPTION TO 2011-2012 SEASON
AT THE CTG/AHMANSON THEATRE
FOUR WEEKS ONLY - BEGINNING AUGUST 9
 

Center Theatre Group and producers Thomas Schumacher of Disney Theatrical Productions and Cameron Mackintosh announced today that the award-winning musical “Mary Poppins” will return to the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles for four weeks only, August 9 through September 2, 2012, as a bonus option to the 2011-2012 Ahmanson season. Press Opening Night is set for Friday, August 10 at 7:30 p.m.
“Mary Poppins” previously played a record-breaking run at the Ahmanson Theatre November 2009 - February 2010. The musical became Los Angeles’ highest grossing theatrical event of 2009, grossing $13.7 million at the box office and entertaining over 188,000 theatregoers during the 13-week engagement.

Read more on Theatre in L.A. page.

Photo:  Rachel Wallace and Nicholas Dromard in the National Tour of "Mary Poppins". Photo credit: Joan Marcus

9 Foreign Language Films Vie for Oscar®
 

Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 84th Academy Awards®. Sixty-three films had originally qualified in the category.

Read more on Academy News page.

COMPLETE CAST IS SET FOR

BECKETT’S “WAITING FOR GODOT” AT TAPER
OPENS MARCH 21, STARTS PREVIEWS MARCH 14

Academy Award nominee and three-time Emmy Award nominee James Cromwell (who will play Pozzo), Hugo Armstrong (Lucky) and LJ Benet (Boy) will join the previously announced prominent Beckett actors Alan Mandell and Barry McGovern in the classic tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot” opening at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum March 21, 2012. Written by Samuel Beckett and directed by Michael Arabian, “Waiting for Godot” begins previews March 14; performances will continue through April 22.

Read more on Theatre in L.A. page.

Photo: Alan Mandell will star in "Waiting for Godot". Photo credit Craig Schwartz

KIM BUMSOO – January 27th, 2012 at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE at 777 Chick Hearn Court, between Figueroa Street and Georgia Street.

EBONY REPERTORY THEATRE’S

“A RAISIN IN THE SUN”

OPENED JAN. 22
Performances Continue Through February 19

at the CTG/Kirk Douglas Theatre
 

The critically-acclaimed Ebony Repertory Theatre production of Lorraine Hansberry’s American classic “A Raisin in the Sun,” opened at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre Sunday, January 22. Performances continue through February 19, 2012.
Cast members include (in alphabetical order) Kenya Alexander, Keith Arthur Bolden, Brandon David Brown, Kevin T. Carroll, Jason Dirden, Deidrie Henry, Amad Jackson, Scott Mosenson, Kem Saunders, Kim Staunton and Ellis E. Williams.

Read more on Theatre in L.A. page

Photo: Deidrie Henry and Kevin Carroll in the Ebony Repertory Theatre production of  Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”. Photo credit: Craig Schwartz

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Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour By Cirque du Soleil – January 27th & 28^th, 2012 at STAPLES Center in downtown Los Angeles on South Figueroa Street between 11th Street/Chick Hearn Court and Pico Boulevard.

WWE RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES

FEBRUARY 24

Coming off one of the most epic Summerslams of all time, the WWE Superstars come to Los Angeles for the WWE RAW World Tour on February 24 at STAPLES Center. Don’t miss your favorite Raw Superstars including: The Miz, “The Second City Savior” CM Punk, Alberto Del Rio, R-Truth, “The Long Island Iced-Z” Zack Ryder, Kofi Kingston, John Cena, the WWE Divas and many more!

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