Kodak Theatre Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Feb 23, 2007 11:33 AM
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This year’s Academy Awards ceremony will mark the five-year anniversary of Kodak Theatre at the Hollywood & Highland Center. The 79th Oscars telecast is one of the highlights of the Theatre’s year-long anniversary celebration.
Kodak Theatre is also the physical embodiment of Kodak’s longstanding relationship with Hollywood and the motion picture industry. This relationship began 105 years ago when George Eastman developed the long-roll coating machine that made long lengths of motion picture film possible, and continues today. Since the inception of the Academy Awards, every Best Picture Oscar® winner has been produced on KODAK film, and this year, once again, all five feature films nominated for Best Picture were produced on KODAK color negative film. Kodak itself has been awarded eight Oscars for contributions to the art of motion pictures and for scientific and technical achievements.
“Kodak invented the film technology that made the motion picture industry possible,” says five-time Oscar nominee Allen Daviau, ASC, this year’s recipient of the coveted American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award for his extraordinary and enduring contributions to the art of filmmaking. “You can trace the roots of the industry back to 1889, when Kodak provided film that Thomas Edison needed for his experimental motion picture camera. Kodak developed a close collaboration with the artists who pioneered the evolution of the art form, and has subsequently been in the forefront of virtually every important film breakthrough and techniques combining film with digital technology.”
For the past five years, the 3,400-seat Kodak Theatre has also become the home of other award shows, TV specials, touring Broadway productions, performances and concerts. Top artists including Alicia Keys, Celine Dion, Tyler Perry, Stevie Wonder and the American Ballet Theatre have graced its stage. In addition to the Academy Awards, this year Kodak Theatre will welcome back high-profile spectacles, including the American Idol finals, Miss USA® Pageant, ESPY Awards, GLAAD Media Awards, Daytime Emmy® Awards and the AFI Life Achievement Awards.
Guided tours at Kodak Theatre are offered seven days a week, with rare production and performance schedule exceptions, from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm, departing every 30 minutes. The walking tour offers visitors architectural highlights of the world-renowned venue, as well as a glimpse of the ultra glamorous side of Kodak Theatre that can be seen on Hollywood’s biggest night – the Oscars.
