Academy to Honor Bernstein Tonight; LACMA to Host Weekend Film Series

Elmer Bernstein will be honored at 8 tonight at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills.

Carl Reiner will host the event, which will include tributes from directors John Landis (“National Lampoon’s Animal House”) and Carl Franklin (“Devil in a Blue Dress”); producer Noel Pearson (“My Left Foot”); actor James Coburn (“The Magnificent Seven”); composer Terence Blanchard; and Cecelia DeMille Presley, granddaughter of director Cecil B. DeMille (“The Ten Commandments”).

Tickets, which may still be available, are $5 for the public and $3 for academy members. Information: (310) 247-3600.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art will begin a four-weekend series of Bernstein films in its Leo S. Bing Theater at 7:30 p.m. Friday with a double bill of “The Man With the Golden Arm” (1956) and “Sweet Smell of Success” (1957), two of his seminal jazz scores. At 7:30 p.m. Saturday,composer Cynthia Millar will interview Bernstein before a screening of “The Age of Innocence,” the 1993 film for which Bernstein was Oscar-nominated.

Also in the screening series at LACMA: “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) and “Summer and Smoke” (1961) on Nov. 16; “The Magnificent Seven” (1960) and “The Tin Star” (1957) on Nov. 17; “The Great Escape” (1963) on Nov. 23; “Stripes” and “An American Werewolf in London” (both 1981) on Nov. 24; “Birdman of Alcatraz” (1962) on Nov. 30; and “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” Bernstein’s Oscar winner in a new print of the original roadshow version, on Dec. 1.

Tickets are $7; $5 for museum or American Film Institute members, senior citizens and students. (323) 857-6010.