The envelope, please.
Awards will be presented on the big screen and in Port Angeles and Sequim today during Oscar night celebrations.
North Olympic Peninsula residents can dress up and attend “Hollywood Nights,” Port Angeles’ Academy Awards celebration, and Sequim’s “A Night at the Oscars.”
The fourth annual “Hollywood Nights” dinner and Oscar-viewing party will begin at 4 p.m. at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 W. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
In Sequim, Readers Theatre Plus is hosting “A Night at the Oscars” beginning at 3:30 p.m. at the Elks Club, 143 Port Williams Road.
Tickets were $60 to the Olympic Medical Center Foundation benefit in Port Angeles, while they were $35 for the Sequim benefit for the Sequim-Shiso Sister City Association.
No tickets are available at the door.
Dewey Awards
In addition to dinner and a live video feed of the television show, Sequim’s event will feature the first-ever Dewey Awards, presented to local actors, directors, playwrights and productions of the past year.
The awards, named for Port Angeles-based musical maestro Dewey Ehling, include honors for the best lead and supporting actors and actresses, best ensemble in a local theatrical production, best locally written play, best production, best musical and best director.
Notable guests
In Port Angeles, notable guests this year include actress Lynda Day George of Gardiner, who starred in the original “Mission: Impossible”; Port Angeles resident Stanley Feldman, whose films include “Nixon,” “Amistad” and “Get Shorty”; and Craig and Gabe Rygaard of the History Channel’s “Ax Men” television series.
The guest of honor is Roger Oakes, a 1960 graduate of Port Angeles High School who went on to a long career as a physician here.
Oakes served as a combat infantry surgeon in Vietnam, then worked at the Olympic Primary Care Clinic during the 1970s and later became Olympic Medical Center chief of staff. He retired in August after 37 years of practice in Port Angeles.
No gala in PT
The Port Townsend Film Festival, which has long hosted Academy Awards galas in Jefferson County, is not doing so this year.
Instead, it plans other events, such as screenings of “Miss Representation,” a documentary about images of women in popular culture, at Fort Worden State Park’s JFK Building on March 7, and “Inuk,” the story of a 16-year-old Greenland boy, at Port Townsend’s Rose Theatre on March 10.
For details, visit www.PTFilmFest.com or phone 360-379-1333.
