3 NEW ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE AT UCLA

Film maker Stanley Kramer, art director George Jenkins and playwright Samuel Taylor have been named distinguished artists in residence at UCLA’s College of Fine Arts Department of Theater, Film and Television.

Kramer’s pictures have received 65 Academy Award nominations and 15 Academy Awards. In 1962, he received the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award from the academy for his body of work. Among his films are “The Caine Mutiny,” “The Defiant Ones” and “Judgment at Nuremberg.”

Jenkins, who won an Oscar for his art direction in “All the President’s Men,” has worked in professional theater and motion pictures since 1943. Taylor, over his 30-year career, has written 13 stage plays, including “Sabrina Fair” and “The Happy Time.”

Kramer, Jenkins and Taylor, respectively, are teaching the graduate courses “Motion Picture Direction,” “Problems in Design” and “Advanced Motion Picture/Television Writing” during the university’s winter quarter.