MOVIES - March 27, 1987

Arthur Cohn, four-time Oscar-winning producer (three times for best foreign film, once for best documentary), fielded questions from the audience after a screening of his 1976 film “Black and White in Color” Wednesday night at the American Film Institute Film Festival--and got a particularly interesting question from an audience member: “Did your first Oscar make it easier to finance subsequent projects?” When Cohn wistfully replied in the negative, the questioner seemed rather crestfallen, and no wonder: He was Arnold Kopelson, producer of “Platoon,” and if the much-lauded Vietnam movie wins, it would be Kopelson’s first Oscar.