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Dr. Deborah Mitchell, associate professor of English and Public Relations, has made her predictions for the Academy Award winners.
"I believe Brokeback Mountain will get Best Film; its director Ang Lee will get the Best Director award; and it will also get the Best Adapted Screenplay," Mitchell said. "Best Actor will go to Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote. Best Actress will be Felicity Huffman for Transamerica, although this one could be close because Reese Witherspoon is a strong contender for her role as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line.
"The Supporting Actor Award should go to Paul Giamatti for Cinderella Man and the Supporting Actress will go to Catherine Keener for Capote, although you can never count Frances McDormand out for North Country. Original Screenplay, well this is a tough one, but I'm betting on Good Night, and Good Luck, as a nod to George Clooney."
Mitchell's background includes film studies, literature, composition, public relations, print and broadcast journalism, and advertising. She completed her doctoral work in film studies at Case Western University under the direction of Dr. Louis Giannetti, author of Understanding Movies, Flashback and Masters of the American Cinema. Mitchell's work has appeared in Literature and Film Quarterly and she has presented several papers at national film and literature conferences. She presented her paper on Australian film at the Millennium Film Conference in Bath, England in the summer of 1999 and recently helped initiate the film studies minor at Westminster College. She has written and produced television commercials, television programs, and printed material.
Mitchell's book Diane Keaton: Artist and Icon was published in 2001, and along with Dr. Elizabeth Ford, a Westminster professor of English Emeritus, she co-authored The Makeover in Movies: Before and After in Hollywood Films, 1941-2002.
Contact Mitchell at (724) 946-7030 or e-mail dmitchel@westminster.edu for more information.
The International Film Festival continues at Westminster College Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in the McKelvey Campus Center Theater.
Kappa Delta Pi, the international education honor society at Westminster College, will read poetry to children Friday, April 20, from 6-8 p.m. in the children's room of McGill Library.
T.J. Arant, executive director of the East Central Colleges, will speak at Westminster College Faculty Forum, Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 11:30 a.m. in Patterson Hall room 131.
Five Westminster College students have advanced to the final stage of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) business competition, which will be held Feb. 16 at PICPA headquarters in Philadelphia.
In November, the members of the Westminster College team submitted a business plan for starting a new small business from scratch. It was this plan for Steel City Messenger Service that earned them a chance to move on to the second phase of competition, which was awarded to only five Pennsylvania teams.
A Westminster College student will perform her capstone organ recital Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Will W. Orr Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Westminster College's Celebrity Series will feature one of Broadway's finest entertainers, Brian Stokes Mitchell, at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in Orr Auditorium.
Westminster College hosted a workshop on translation studies and Westminster's undergraduate humanities curriculum June 2-6.
Dr. Michael Aleprete, Westminster College assistant professor of political science, was a member of the "Regions, Borders, and Democracy" panel at the 50th annual meeting of the International Studies Association Feb. 15 in New York City.
Joyce Hoellein, Westminster College lecturer of education, and elementary education majors from her "Teaching Mathematics in the Elementary School" class attended the annual Pennsylvania Council for Teachers of Mathematics conference Nov. 5 in Pittsburgh.
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