The National Student Film Institute (NSFI), formerly the Los Angeles Student Film Institute (LASFI), was founded in 1978 by Brenda Norman, Dave Master, Jutti Marsh and Ralph Rogers as a festival for films made by children from kindergarten through ninth grade. Two years later it was expanded to include the work of all high school students. The first of what became an annual festival included approximately 350 students who entered 125 films. By 1993, the Student Film Festival involved over two thousand students throughout the Los Angeles area, who together entered over 300 films. The film festival was held each year at the Directors Guild Theater in Hollywood .
17-636: Delbert Martin Mann Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty (1955), adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America . In 2002, he received the DGA's honorary life member award. Mann
34-560: A plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the academy. For the first eleven years of the Academy Awards, directors were allowed to be nominated for multiple films in the same year. However, after the nomination of Michael Curtiz for two films, Angels with Dirty Faces and Four Daughters , at the 11th Academy Awards , the rules were revised so that an individual could only be nominated for one film at each ceremony. That rule has since been amended, although
51-718: A bachelor's degree on political science. During World War II , Mann served with the Army Air Corps as a B-24 bomber pilot and then as an intelligence officer with the 8th Air Force stationed in England . Mann also attended the Yale School of Drama , where he earned a master's fine arts degree in directing. Mann took a directing job at the Town Theatre , a community playhouse in Columbia, South Carolina . Mann
68-407: A longtime advisor to the institute, the award was created to draw attention to a concern shared by Scott and the institute that writing skills were not being emphasized as much as possible. The award acknowledges "A Good Story Well Told". Four Bill Scott Awards were awarded each year from 1986 onward. The judging criteria were graduated. The four awards were awarded to the following age groups: By
85-593: The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at age 87. Academy Award for Best Director The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing ) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in
102-638: The Scarritt College for Christian Workers . His mother was also a schoolteacher. Mann was head of his high school drama club when he met Fred Coe , the future television producer and director, who was leading a church-sponsored acting society. Coe would later figure prominently in Mann's career as a director. Coe would also serve as Mann's mentor. Mann studied political science in Vanderbilt University . He graduated there in 1941 with
119-432: The film industry . The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with the award being split into "Dramatic" and "Comedy" categories; Frank Borzage and Lewis Milestone won for 7th Heaven and Two Arabian Knights , respectively. However, these categories were merged for all subsequent ceremonies. Nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the directors branch of AMPAS; winners are selected by
136-489: The activities of the organization to include workshops for teachers, equipment loans, and support for filmmaking programs in schools. Prominent members of the film, television and animation industry came to support NSFI and its endeavors. On a corporate level involvement came from CBS , NBC , ABC , the Directors Guild , Amblin Entertainment , Warner Brothers , Universal , Lucasfilm and others. Individuals from
153-490: The award has been given to 75 directors or directing teams. As of the 96th Academy Awards ceremony, British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan is the most recent winner in this category for his work on Oppenheimer . In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release in Los Angeles County , California ; the ceremonies are always held
170-805: The film, television and animation industry who would serve on the Board of Advisors (and in other capacities) were: Steve Allen , Ralph Bakshi , Ray Bradbury *, Lloyd Bridges , Charles Champlin *, Jackie Cooper *, Bill Cosby , June Foray , Sharon Gless *, Tom Hatten , Arthur Hiller *, Cal Howard , Ollie Johnston , Chuck Jones *, Fay Kanin , Kathleen Kennedy *, Walter Lantz , Jack Lemmon , Bill Littlejohn , Lynne Littman , Leonard Maltin , Delbert Mann *, Walter Matthau , Bill Melendez , Lee Mishkin , Grim Natwick *, Daphne Maxwell Reid *, Tim Reid *, Joan Rivers , George Schaefer *, Frank Thomas , Arthur Wilde and Robert Wise . (*) indicates "Past Honorary Chairperson". Generally one person would hold
187-521: The following year. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31. For the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1, 1932, to December 31, 1933. Since the 7th ceremony held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31. National Student Film Institute As demand for workshops, advice and support for teachers grew, NSFI/L.A's Board of Directors expanded
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#1732793423425204-863: The late 1960s to the early 1990s, including Heidi (1968), David Copperfield (1969), Jane Eyre (1970) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1979). In addition to Marty (1955), other films directed by Mann include The Bachelor Party (1957), Desire Under the Elms (1958), Separate Tables (1958), Middle of the Night (1959), The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960), The Outsider (1961), That Touch of Mink (1962), A Gathering of Eagles (1963), Dear Heart (1964), Fitzwilly (1967), Kidnapped (1971) and Night Crossing (1982). Mann
221-474: The only director who has received multiple nominations in the same year was Steven Soderbergh for Erin Brockovich and Traffic in 2000, winning the award for the latter. The Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture have been very closely linked throughout their history. Of the 89 films that won Best Picture and were also nominated for Best Director, 68 won the award. Since its inception,
238-413: The position of Honorary Chairperson each year. The Grimmy Award was an annual award given to individuals who had supported the institute and student filmmaking. Generally one "Grimmy" was awarded to a luminary within the industry and one educator. The award was named after the institute's first honorary chairperson, Grim Natwick , the creator of Betty Boop . Established in the memory of Bill Scott,
255-785: Was affiliated with the Town Theatre from 1947 to 1949, before moving to New York to work with Coe in television. In 1949, at Coe's invitation, Mann joined him in New York, where he became a stage manager and assistant director at NBC . Within months, he became an alternating director of the anthology series, The Philco Television Playhouse . Between 1949 and 1955, Mann directed more than 100 live television dramas. But even after turning to films, he returned to television and directed productions for Playhouse 90 , Ford Star Jubilee and other dramatic television anthology series. He also directed more than two dozen films for television from
272-680: Was credited to have "helped bring TV techniques to the film world." Delbert Martin Mann Jr. was born on January 30, 1920, in Lawrence, Kansas , to Delbert Mann Sr. and Ora (Patton) Mann (died 1961). His father taught sociology at the University of Kansas from 1920 to 1926. In 1926, the Manns left Lawrence and moved to Pennsylvania and then Chicago before finally settling in Nashville in 1931. There, his father continued to teach sociology at
289-506: Was married to Ann Caroline Gillespie from 1942 until her death by Alzheimer's disease in 2001. They had four children: Fred, David, Steven and Susan. Susan died in a car accident in 1976. During the 1980s and 1990s, Mann served on the advisory board of the National Student Film Institute . He also served as honorary chairman of the institute for a one-year term. On November 11, 2007, Mann died of pneumonia at
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