Samuel Goldwyn Theater
The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is a cinema theater on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California / USA. It is integrated into the seven-story main building of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ). Used it throughout the year for various events of the AMPAS, public screenings and film premieres, even from external it is rented. The best known, however, is traditionally held here yearly live television broadcast of the Oscar nominations in January ( the Oscars will center until February 2012 called Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland - performed). The theater is named after the movie producer Samuel Goldwyn.
Design and execution
The building and built cinema was built in 1975 by the Buckeye Construction Company, Inc. of Los Angeles. Architect was the resident himself in Beverly Hills Maxwell Starkman (1921-2004); He later designed, among other things, the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The acoustic design comes from Paul S. Veneklasen ( Veneklasen Associates). As a consultant for technology equipment functioned, the former technical director of the sound department of the Samuel Goldwyn Studios, Gordon Sawyer, a member of the Committee on Science and Technology of AMPAS. Consultant for the interior design of the movie theater was the production designer Robert " Bob" Boyle and his staff, the set designer Walter Scott ( on the interior of the main building AMPAS Dale Mickelson and Associates of Los Angeles has designed ).
Equipment
The auditorium of the Samuel Goldwyn theater measures 28.5 meters ( 93.5 feet) in width and 37.8 meters (124 feet) in depth. It offers 1012 seats, the arrangement was calculated in space so that optimal acoustics and sight is guaranteed. The seating is just like the flooring and the projection wall curtain kept in a wine-red color.
About the auditorium was drafted at the suggestion of acoustician no ceiling. Instead of reaching thus in principle up to the roof of the building space at the top by a horizontal suspended below the roof, black cloth lengths is bounded. Between these fabric panels and the (interior also painted black ) roof structure are fixed sound-absorbing elements. Other sound-insulating elements are attached to the walls. Through these measures results in a very high fidelity of the demonstrations.
The stage before the projection screen is almost 20 meters ( 65 feet ) wide and nearly 5 meters ( 16 feet ) deep. It can also be placed Orchestra, for example, the live accompaniment of silent movies. The stage is flanked by a monumental golden Oscar statue on black pedestals left and right.
The screen is curved toward the center to the rear, to allow certain dimensional Filmvorführtechniken. It has a maximum width of about 16.5 meters ( 54 feet ) and a height of 6.70 meters ( 22 feet ). It can all the formats of the Oscar-winning films, are presented from the 1920s on.
The projection and Tonwiedergabetechnik has always maintained from the beginning to date (today's digital 3D). Therefore, the AMPAS referred to the cinema as a "world-class theater ."
Movie Premieres
In Samuel Goldwyn Theater includes the debut of the following films took place: Raju Chacha (2000), Gladiator (2000 ), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Black Hawk Down ( 2001), AI - Artificial Intelligence ( 2001), Moulin Rouge ( 2001), Narc (2002), Wimbledon (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ( 2004), 127 Hours (2010), The Descendants ( U.S. Premiere, 2011).