The Academy celebrates the art of the amateur filmmaker. You bring it, they'll screen it! The Cinefamily goes bonkers for bizarro Bollywood horrors, then goes Dracula disco dancing!
LAist Film Calendar 10/13-10/16: All-American Amateurs & Hindi Horrors
It's About Time: L.A. Is Getting a Proper Movie Museum!
In the city built in part by the film biz, it's surprising we don't have a definitive film museum. Now, the pairing of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) means we are on the way to getting a movie museum.
Oscars Relaunch Website: We Do More Than Just the Oscars
"The Academy Awards is this wonderful, huge phenomenon, and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who doesn't know what that is," Executive Administrator Ric Robertson of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said. "In a way, that makes it difficult for us to let the world know all the other stuff the academy does." And that's why the Academy overhauled their website, which was released today. The websites about their upcoming Hollywood museum, edcucational programs, grants, their library and much more.
Sacha Baron Cohen, Diablo Cody Invited to be Oscar Voters
105 people were invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to become voting members today. Among those were actors Sacha Baron Cohen, Marion Cotillard, Allison Janney, Cody Diablo and Jet Li.

