2019 Oscars: Academy Reverses Decision After Industry Protest; All 24 Categories Will Be Broadcast Live
After a truly wild week of social media uproar and industry backlash from actors, directors and editors, cinematographers and makeup & hairstylists guilds, the Academy... Read More
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Can the Academy Save Itself From Itself?
It was one thing that film fans and Oscar fans alike joined forces to decry the Academy’s decision to move four categories – Cinematography, Film... Read More
Academy Reveals the Four Categories Being Presented During Commercial Breaks
The Academy today revealed the categories that the viewing audiences will not see and will instead be presented during commercial breaks and edited into the... Read More
Alexander Valley Film Society’s Oscar Red Carpet Fundraiser
Living in a small town, away from LA and the glitz and glam of Hollywood, I’m always supportive of my local film festivals, be it... Read More
Oscars: Full breakdown of speech length for 2018 Oscar winners
Earlier this week I detailed what it would take to get to a 3-hour Oscar telecast (and why I think they shouldn’t do it) that... Read More
2019 Oscars: Production team for 91st Academy Awards announced
Production Team Welcomes New Faces, Includes Veterans Producers Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss today announced 11 key members of the production team for the 91st... Read More
Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney will return to the Oscar stage
Here we go again. Just days after the most recent controversy by the Academy and 91st Oscars producers Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss, last year’s... Read More
2019 Oscars: What it will take to have a 3-hour show and why they shouldn’t do it
In the face of dwindling ratings and a huge yearly cost to put on the Academy Awards, New ABC president Karey Burke doubled down at... Read More
2019 Oscars: Awkwafina, Chris Evans, Charlize Theron, Daniel Craig, Tessa Thompson among first round of Oscars presenters
First 2019 Oscar presenters announced: Awkwafina, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Tina Fey, Whoopi Goldberg, Brie Larson, Jennifer Lopez, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Amandla Stenberg, Charlize Theron, Tessa Thompson,... Read More
Academy backtracks; All Oscar-nominated songs will be performed
Not long after it was leaked (intentionally?) that only two Original Songs would be performed at this year’s Oscars and encountered tons of backlash, the... Read More
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