DC Film Society's 14th Annual Party
to watch the Oscars Broadcast ... LIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN!

Sunday, March 5, 2006 at 7:00pm
The Arlington Cinema 'N' Drafthouse
2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA.
(1/4 mile east of Glebe Road )
Doors open at 6:30pm; tickets on sale at the door at 6:30pm.


Tickets are $15 for Film Society BASIC members and members of Women in Film and Video (WIFV); $20 for non-members and guests; FREE for GOLD members. Tickets may be purchased at the door beginning at 6:30pm (cash/check only). This event was nearly sold out last year so reserve your tickets early. Gold Members: e-mail with your name and card number. Basic Members: Send a check in advance to DC Film Society, Attn: Oscar Tickets, P.O. Box 65992, Washington, DC 20035-5992. For further information and updates, check out our website.

Join the Washington, DC Film Society at its 14th Annual Party FUN-raiser, “AND THE WINNER IS…”! Cheer the stars with fellow film fans on Oscars Night! The fun starts Sunday, March 5, 2006 at our favorite locale, the Arlington Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse, (2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA). Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; the one-hour, pre-Oscar show begins at 7:00 p.m. The year 2005 brought the serious, mature-themed movies like Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, and Munich. Catch the excitement of seeing which of your picks capture the top prizes with the Academy Awards show at 8:00 p.m.

Local film critics Joe Barber and Bill Henry return as the Party’s hosts, OUR men of the hour, while irreverent talk show host, Jon Stewart, debuts as host of the Oscar Night festivities in Hollywood. Watch the 78th Academy Awards broadcast live on the BIG screen at the Arlington Cinema ‘N’ Drafthouse, with a new digital projection system. It’s the next best thing to being there! Attendees also enjoy the casual comfort of an Art-Deco theatre with affordable food and drink, fun film promotional items, fabulous door prizes, a “Predict the Winners” contest, other trivia contests, and the best Silent Auction ever!

Silent Auction items (cash/check only) include dinner and hotel gift certificates, autographed movie posters (including The Constant Gardener, Transamerica, Hostel, and “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and Syriana), and movie and theatre tickets. Special items include autographed DVDs for Chicken Run, signed by Wallace & Gromit Director Nick Park; Remains of the Day, signed by The White Countess Director James Ivory; The Road to Perdition, signed by Layer Cake and Munich Actor and “new James Bond” Daniel Craig; Oscar-nominated “City of God, signed by The Constant Gardener Director Fernando Meirelles; Orlando, signed by The Chronicles of Narnia and Thumbsucker Actress Tilda Swinton and Yes Director Sally Potter; 28 Days Later, signed by Millions Director Danny Boyle; Chinatown, signed by Oscar-winning Screenwriter and Ask the Dust Director Robert Towne.

Film Society members had access to advance screenings of the following Academy Award-nominated movies during 2005: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Cinderella Man, Corpse Bride, Good Night, and Good Luck, A History of Violence, Hustle and Flow, Junebug, Match Point, Memoirs of a Geisha, Munich, The New World, North Country, Paradise Now, The Squid and the Whale, Transamerica, Walk the Line, and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

All proceeds support the work of the Film Society and its parent organization, the Washington , DC International Film Festival, Filmfest DC.