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Entertainment public relations executive Tony Angellotti has implemented, supervised and/or executed the publicity campaigns for more than 250 motion pictures, scores of television projects, dozens of entertainment companies, and actors. During that time he has headed the publicity departments of two motion picture companies, served as an executive at a major public relations agency, as a partner in a prestigious boutique agency and as the head of his own agency.

The Angellotti Company was founded in 1997, following Angellotti's partnership in Weissman/Angellotti. The Angellotti Co. plans and executes publicity strategies for films, filmmakers, production companies, industry events and Golden Globe and Oscar campaigns. Angellotti has assisted Universal with all its awards campaigns since 2000, with such nominees as "American Gangster," "United 93," "Children of Men," as well as best picture nominees "Munich," "Ray," "Seabiscuit," best picture winner "A Beautiful Mind," picture nominee "Erin Brockovich" and multi-nominees "King Kong," "Cinderella Man," and "Billy Elliot" among others. He has also assisted Disney with its animation Oscar campaigns, beginning in 2001, including Oscar nominees "Ratatouille," "Cars," "Howl's Moving Castle," Oscar-winner "The Incredibles," Oscar-winner "Finding Nemo," "Monsters, Inc." Oscar winner "Spirited Away," "Brother Bear," "Lilo & Stitch," and "Treasure Planet." He also assisted Miramax Films with its awards campaigns from 1990 through 2000 (more than 100 Oscar nominations during this time), including best picture winners "The English Patient" and "Shakespeare In Love," as well as best picture nominees "Chocolat," "The Cider House Rules," "Life is Beautiful," "Good Will Hunting," "Il Postino," "Pulp Fiction" and "The Piano," and multiple nominees "Malena," "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "Sling Blade," "Wings of the Dove," "Mrs. Brown," and all other Miramax films during this time. He assisted Miramax with all its foreign language awards campaigns, including winners "Life is Beautiful," "Kolya" and nominees Iran's "Children of Heaven," Brazil's "Four Days in September," France's "Red" and "Queen Margot," Japan's "Shall We Dance" and Hong Kong's "Farewell My Concubine." TAC has also represented scores of additional foreign language films, including 2001 foreign language winner "No Man's Land," "The Last Kiss, (Italy)" "Artemesia" (France), "Lower City" (Brazil), "Keys to the House" and "The 100 Steps" (Italy), and dozens of others. He also worked previously on the Oscar campaigns for such films as "GoodFellas," "Presumed Innocent," and "Reversal of Fortune" among others as well as on numerous important feature films including "Dances With Wolves," the Oscar nominated "Secrets & Lies," and films for every major independent company. Angellotti has also represented dozens of documentaries, including "The Kid Stays in the Picture," "New York Doll," "Uncovered: The War on Iraq," the award-winning "Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol," "Paris Is Burning," Erroll Morris's "Mr. Death," Michael Moore's "The Big One," and Barbara Kopple's "American Dream." TAC later has also represented numerous IMAX format films, including "Dolphins" (Oscar nominee), "Caves," and Jim Cameron's "Ghosts of the Abyss." The Company has represented such "indie" release campaigns as "Hot Fuzz," "The Illusionist," "Pride and Prejudice," "Saw," "Shaun of the Dead," "Door in the Floor," all the Blue Collar Comedy features, all of Kevin Smith's films, "Gods and Monsters," "Shadow of a Vampire," "Hamlet," Oscar-winner "The Red Violin "Smoke Signals," "Sliding Doors," and "Mrs. Brown," and scores of others.

The Company also represents production entities and creative talent, such as directors Peter Berg, Kevin Smith, and producers/production companies Davis Entertainment, Strike Entertainment, Misher Films, Parallel Entertainment, Larry Gordon Productions, Sidney Kimmel Entetainment, Leomax Entertainment, and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, among many others. Angellotti served as vice president of worldwide marketing and public relations for Empire Entertainment, responsible for worldwide publicity and promotions for the Los Angeles and Rome-based film company, which involved the marketing of the company's product at the major foreign film markets and festivals. Previously he was director of worldwide publicity and promotions at New World Entertainment, responsible for supervising corporate, film, television and video publicity. Prior to that he was a V.P. with ICPR Public Relations, one of the largest Hollywood entertainment publicity agencies at that time.

Angellotti is a member of AMPAS and several of its committees, as well as the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has been nominated four times by the Publicists Guild of America for excellence in entertainment publicity. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.A. in English Literature and a journalism minor.

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