1992 Oscar Ceremony to Celebrate Women in the Film Industry

The Oscar ceremonies, marked this year by controversy over the role of women in the film industry, will be designed next year to honor women, organizers said Wednesday.

“Oscar Celebrates Women and the Movies” will be the theme of the 65th Academy Awards, film and TV producer Gilbert Cates revealed at an event where it was announced that he will produce the internationally televised awards show for a fourth consecutive year.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Robert Rehme disclosed the appointment of Cates for the March 29 show at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Cates, who is also dean of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television, said in an interview: “The Oscar show each year reflects what people talk about, what they do.

“In 1989, we emphasized the international aspects of film because of all the major world events that occurred. In 1990, we celebrated the 100 years of the birth of film. And this year, since there was so little to celebrate, we celebrated the pure joy of going to the movies. Now it seems to be, as they say, ‘the year of the woman,’ in so many ways, not just in politics. So we’re going to celebrate women on screen and behind the camera.”

Other than acting, women have historically been most nominated in costume design and writing categories. In the awards for 1991, given out last March, a lingering controversy about bias against women was stirred up when Barbra Streisand was not nominated for director, even though her film “The Prince of Tides” had been nominated for best picture.