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HOLLYWOOD (AP) — Gandhi, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Tootsie, The Verdict and Sophie’s Choice were among the leading contenders for today’s 55th Academy award nominations. The probable nominees for best actress included: Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Julie Andrews. For best actor: Ben Kingsley, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, Peter O’Toole and Jack Lemmon. A record 245 news people were expected to attend the brief ceremony at the Beverly Hills headquarters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Two television crews arrived from Australia, one apiece from Japan and Arabia. Academy president Fay Kanin and Karl Malden, best supporting actor of 1951 for A Streetcar Named Desire, was to read the nominees for TV cameras and radio mikes. Immediately following the nomination announcements, studio representatives were set to confer on a schedule of screenings at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Beginning Friday all of the nominated films will be shown to Academy members. Final ballots will be mailed March 26, with an April 5 deadline for their return. The Oscars will be presented April 11 at the Los Angeles Music Center, with four emcees instead of Johnny Carson, who declined to return after four years of conducting the ceremonies. Liza Minnelli and Dudley Moore have been announced. The Academy this year is repeating a luncheon for nominees, which was initiated in 1982. The event will be held March 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The reasoning is that only the winners get attention on Oscar night — why not honor all nominees? Three Oscar winners already have been announced. The ageless Mickey Rooney will receive an honorary award for his half century in films. He has been nominated for his performances, but his only previous Oscar also was honorary — as a child star. Veteran producer Walter Mirisch is the recipient of the Jean Hersholt humanitarian award. The 40-year-veteran filmmaker received an Oscar in 1967 as producer for that year’s best picture, ‘‘In the Heat of the Night. In 1977 he was honored with the Ir ving G. Thalberg Memorial Memorial Award. John O. Aalberg, who started in films as a Chicago projectionist in 1914, has been announced for the second Gordon Sawyer award for scientific and technical con tributions. Aalberg was longtime sound chief at RKO.
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung
New Braunfels, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 17, 1983
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