Overlooked?

Despite a slew of celebs, who helped net a hefty $85,000 for the evening, the AIDS Hospice Foundation’s Oscar night fund-raiser at the Directors Guild of America got scant press coverage last week. One trade paper columnist mistakenly referred to it as “the DGA party.”

A spokesman for the evening attributed the lack of media attention to a soft publicity push: “Since it was our first one, we didn’t want to oversell.”

The Schutrum-Piteo Foundation, a nonprofit group that provides care to single seniors, underwrote the event, which was produced by the Friends of the AIDS Hospice. Maple Drive, 72 Market St. and a dozen other posh restaurants provided food and waiters. Studios pitched in personnel. And so on.

In a unique fund-raising twist, the foundation arranged for sponsors to put up $1,000 for every celebrity who signed a guest book before the crowd. Among the stars showing up: Anjelica Huston, ex-Gov. Jerry Brown, Edward James Olmos, Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson, Dudley Moore, Sally Kirkland, Robert Downey Jr., Estelle Getty, Rob Lowe. Bob Goen, host of the daytime “Wheel of Fortune,” emceed.

Biggest moment of the evening: when “Common Threads: Stories From the (AIDS) Quilt” won the Oscar for best documentary.