Arthur Hiller to Receive Hersholt Humanitarian Award at 74th Academy Awards(R)

Beverly Hills, CA - Director Arthur Hiller has been voted the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian 
Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 
Academy President Frank Pierson announced today.  The award, an Oscar statuette, will be 
presented to Hiller during the 74th Academy Awards Presentation on March 24.

The Hersholt Award is given to an individual in the motion picture industry whose 
humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.

"The board was persuaded not by Hiller's participation in a single cause, but by the wide 
diversity of his charitable and educational interests," Pierson said.  "In a long and 
productive career as a director and producer, Arthur has been extraordinarily generous with 
his time, a most precious commodity in the hell-for-leather pace of motion picture making.  
His activities extend far beyond the community of film to the society at large."

Hiller has been involved with such charitable organizations as the Motion Picture and 
Television Fund, KCET, Amnesty International, Inner City Filmmakers, the Los Angeles Central 
Library's reading program, the Deaf Arts Council, the Anti-Defamation League, Los Angeles 
County Museum programs on film and television, Humanitas, the Streisand Centre at UCLA and 
the Venice Family Clinic.  Hiller is a frequent participant in classes and workshops at 
universities, festivals and other organizations in the United States and abroad.

Hiller was nominated for an Academy Award in 1970 for directing "Love Story," and served as 
Academy President from 1993 through 1997. Hiller's other film credits include "The 
Americanization of Emily," "The Out-of-Towners," "Plaza Suite," "Man of La Mancha," "The 
Hospital," "The In-Laws," "Silver Streak," "Author! Author!," "Outrageous Fortune" and "The 
Man in the Glass Booth."

Hiller's career spans many years and several media.   It began in Canadian radio and moved 
into television in 1954 when he started  directing for CBC Television.  Shortly after, he was 
brought to the United States by Matinee Theatre and worked on many other prestigious 
television series such as "Playhouse 90," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Gunsmoke" and 
"Naked City."

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2001 will be presented on Sunday, March 
24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland(R) and televised live by the ABC 
Television Network beginning at 5:30 p.m. (PST).  A half-hour arrival segment will precede 
the presentation ceremony at 5 p.m.

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