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Wednesday, March 23,1994
Hollywood Elite Turns Out for Motion Picture Academy Awards
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES No longer will he
be known as the whiz kid who couldn't sit
with the grown-ups. Steven Spielberg now
finds himself at the head of the table.
He got there with the most adult film
imaginable, “Schindler’s List,” a searing,
three-hour portrait of heroism and evil
during the Holocaust, shot mostly in black
and white and without any Hollywood
stars. The childlike wonder of “E.T. The
Extra-Terrestrial” had been replaced by
the honor of genocide.
“It’s such a dream,” Spielberg said of
finally having won an Academy Award,
“and it comes from such a nightmare.”
The film won seven Oscars Monday
night, includingbest picture and best direc
tor.
The industry seemed anxious to make
up for 20 years of snubbing its own box
office champion. As Spielberg’s dry spell
at the Academy Awards was finally bro
ken, his peers stood and applauded long
and loud, as if to honor his whole career
and not just “Schindler’s List.”
“I actually have friends who have won
this before, and I swear I have never held
one before,” said a beaming Spielberg,
clutching the statuette forbest director. His
only prior honor from the academy was an
Irving Thalberg a ward in 1987. Thataward,
which is not in the shape of an Oscar,
honors a filmmaker’s body of work.
Spielberg reacted calmly at first, run
ning down a list of thank yous. He ended,
however, in a choked voice as he spoke of
the “six million who can’t be watching this
... tonight,” a reference to the Jews killed
by the Nazis.
When he won a few minutes later for
best picture, he urged teachers to get in
touch with the “350,000 survivors of the
Holocaust alive today.”
“I implore all of the educators who are
watching this program— please do not
allow the Holocaust to remain a footnote
in history.... Please listen to the words and
the echoes and the ghosts, ” Spielberg said.
Spielberg Finally Gains Recognition As Master Director
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES One winner was
left wide-eyed and gasping for breath, an
other choked back tears as he spoke of the
plight of AIDS victims and a third welled
up as he honored the memory of Jews
killed in the Holocaust.
The66thannualAcademy Awards show
Monday night offered few surprises but
plenty of drama.
The evening’s emotional climaxes came
when Steven Spielberg accepted Oscars for
best direction and best film for “Schindler’s
List” and when Tom Hanks-was named
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“Schindler’s List,” which led all com
petitors at the 66th annual Academy
Awards with 12 nominations, also won for
screenplay adaptation, art direction, film
editing, cinematography and John Will
iams’ original score. It was the most wins
for a single film since “Dances With
Wolves” three years ago.
Much ofMonday night’s ceremony was
a contrast between celebration and sad
ness, with “Schindler’s List” by no means
the only film with grim material to receive
any Oscars.
Tom Hanks of “Philadelphia” was cited
as best actor for his portrayal of a lawyer
with AIDS. Rock star Bruce Springsteen’s
“The Streets of Philadelphia” took the
Oscar for best original song.
“This is the first song I ever wrote for a
motion picture; I guess it’s all downhill
from here,” Springsteen joked as he ac
cepted the award.
“It’s hard to find a graceful way of
best actor for “Philadelphia.”
Spielberg ended a long list of thank yous
by acknowledging in a choking voice the
“six million who can’t be watching this...
telecast tonight,” a reference to the Jews
killed by the Nazis.
In a tribute to the victims of AIDS,
Hanks said: “The streets of heaven are too
crowded with angels. We know their
names; they number a thousand for every
red ribbon worn tonight.”
As expected, it was a big night for
Spielberg. “Schindler’sList,” aboutaGer
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accepting the award when there’s so much
suffering going on around the issue (of
AIDS),” Springsteen said backstage.
“The streets of heaven are too crowded
with angels, ” Hanks said in tribute to people
who have died of AIDS. “We know their
names; they number a thousand for every
red ribbon worn tonight.”
Holly Hunter won the best actress award
for her depiction of an unhappy, mute
bride in a forced New Zealand marriage.
She thanked director Jane Campion, who
won the Oscar for best original screenplay.
“Thank you for giving me a character
and an experience that was so difficult to
say goodbye to because it’s everybody’s
now,” Hunter said.
In the most unexpected win, 11-year
old Anna Paquin captured the supporting
actress Oscar for her part as Miss Hunter’s
interpreter in “The Piano.”
Paquin’s eyes lighted up with amaze
ment when she heard her name. The ac-
more than 1,000 Jews during World War
11, led all films with seven Oscars,
Spielberg’s dinosaur fantasy “Jurassic
Park, ” the highest-grossing film of all time,
received three Oscars.
Despite turning out giant hits from
“Jaws” to “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,”
Spielberg had never won for best picture or
director.
Deborah Kerr won a lifetime achieve
ment award and Paul Newman received a
humanitarian award. Both brought the
audience to its feet for a sustained ovation.
Ken, a multiple nominee and nonwinner,
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On location in Poland, Steven Spielberg directs ‘Schindler's List,' starring Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a
German industrialist who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jewish workers sheltered in his factory.
tress, who said earlier she had not prepared
a speech because she doubted she would
win, stood trembling and shaking after
being handed her statuette, then rushed
through a series of “thank yous.”
The favorites for supporting actress this
year had been Winona Ryder (“The Age of
Innocence”) and Rosie Perez (“Fearless”).
Tommy Lee Jones, the dogged pursuer
of “The Fugitive,” won forbest supporting
actor. Jones, his head shiny and his face
ebullient, came to the stage and cracked,
“The only thing I can say at a time like this
seemed frail, but her honeyed voice was
unchanged.
The years have failed to dull Newman’s
appeal. Or his sassiness. When a woman
reporter backstage suggested he was sexier
thanTomCruise.Newmanmuttered, “Lis
ten, I’m lucky to have a pulse.”
After his most triumphant year in film
history—the biggest moneymaker and all
those Oscars the question arises: What
does Spielberg do for an encore? “All the
reports of my demise have been greatly
exaggerated,” he told reporters. “I’m only
retiring'from directing for about a year.”
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is that I’m not really bald. I’m happy to be
working.” He had shaved his head for a
movie role as baseball great Ty Cobb.
Among those Jones defeated was Ralph
Fiennes, the brutal concentration camp
commander in “Schindler’s List.”
Still, it was Spielberg’s night.
The “Schindler’s List” wins capped the
most astonishing year in an already re
markable career. “Jurassic Park,”
Spielberg’s science-fiction fantasy that rec
reated dinosaurs with dazzling realism and
record box-office success, won awards in
Campus Calendar
WEDNESDAY
11 a.m. Sigma Gamma Rho and Alpha Phi
Omega will co-sponsor a bloodmobile until 4:30
p.m. in the Union Great Hall.
NOON: The Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural
Center will feature “New Jack City" in the BCC.
12:30 p.m. The International Center will offer a
tax seminar for international scholars in Union 224.
2:30 p.m. The Bicentennial Observance Office
will hold a sign-up session for anyone interested in
volunteering for “Carolina Saturday.”
2:45 p.m. University Career Services will present
Getting Credit for Your Internship in 209 Hanes.
3 p.m. The International Center will have a tax
seminar for international students in Union 224.
4:45 p.m. The Marine Action Committee will
meet in the Campus Y.
5 p.m. UNC College Republicans will host N.C.
party Chairman Jack Hawke in 105 Gardner Hall.
UNC-SETA will meet in 301 Bingham Hall.
Carolina Association of Black Journalists will
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all three categories for which it was nomi
nated visual effects, sound and sound
effects editing.
“Mrs. Doubtfire,” starring Robin Will
iams as a rejected husband who disguises
himself as a nanny to be near his children,
won for best makeup. “The Age of Inno
cence” was cited for costume design. Hon
orary Oscars went to Paul Newman and
Deborah Kerr. Spain’s “Belle Epoque,” a
sexy romp set in the 1931 pre-Franco era,
was an underdog winner as best foreign
language film.
meet in the Faculty Lounge of Howell Hall.
5:30p.m. Kappa Alpha Psiwillholdabanquet in
Union 205 to recognize minorities who had a grade
point average of 3.0 or more last semester.
6 p.m. N.C. Hillel Mitzvah Corps will visit
children at UNC Hospitals.
7 p.m. The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societ
ies will meet on third-floor New West.
Sigma Gamma Rho will hold a forum on “Drugs
and AIDS in the Black Community” in the BCC.
The Carolina Comic Book Club will meet in
Union 220.
POWER will sponsor a forum on eating disorders
in Union 210.
SARR will meet in the Campus Y.
7:30 p.m. The Coalition Against Genocide will
meet in 335 Rosenau Hall.
8 p.m. The BSM Central Committee will meet in
Chase Hall’s Upendo Lounge.
The Daily Tar Heel will have a mandatory staff
meeting in Union 208 to discuss editor selection.