Beverly Hills, CA - Producer and executive Laura Ziskin has been tapped to produce the 74th Annual Academy Awards telecast, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Frank Pierson announced today. Before forming Laura Ziskin Productions in 1999, Ziskin had served for five years as founder and president of Fox 2000. I intend to borrow shamelessly from my predecessors, including Gil Cates, the Zanucks, Quincy Jones and others, and I will do everything I can to make the 74th Academy Awards Show one you will be happy you stayed up to watch. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and three acting nods, and its stars, Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt, took home the leading role Oscars in the acting categories. Academy Executive Administrator Ric Robertson said the guidelines have been tightened and the potential penalty for violation strengthened.
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The change is echoed throughout the guidelines wherever graphics are addressed, including videotape and DVD packaging. This item prohibits mention of or links to websites in email or traditional mail. A website guideline has been added, equating website contents with those activities, materials and media that are not subject to the guidelines. Commercial packaging is no longer allowed for tapes or DVDs already in release to the home video market. It's a good thing, ultimately, since there will be another major institution to award films that perhaps has less to do with the financial success and more to do with the quality of the film.