Parties are rampant as usual at this point in awards season but the biggest new trend, or so it seems at least, is the number of publicized hosted screenings and endorsements for various contenders. There was a time when it was thought the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences officially frowned on having their members come out and ‘
Tag Academy
OSCAR: Campaigning At This Fevered Pitch All About Who You Know For Endorsements
Academy Narrows Visual Effects Oscar Field
Beverly Hills, CA ‘
Flackery Humiliates 'Buried' Screenwriter By Helping Him With Oscar Rule-Breaking
And here I thought only Los Angeles flackery mPRm’s name was moronic. Turns out this fish stinks at the head because its co-founder and president Mark Pogachefsky is now blaming his own client for an Oscar rule-breaking situation that the PR firm should have prevented instead of aided and abetted. First, let’s make it clear that Buried has zero chance of any awards this season. After a lot of Sundance hype because of its claustrophobic nightmare premise and star Ryan Reynolds, this movie came and went at the box office in record time after making only $1 million domestic. And not even distributor Lionsgate is campaigning it for an Academy Award or anything else. And yet mPRm while repping Buried let its screenwriter Chris Sparling commit an Oscar taboo even though he didn’t know the rules, as Pogachefsky is admitting. (“Weirdly, I would not be surprised if this was not a setup just to get attention,” Deadline’s awards columnist Pete Hammond comments to me. “How else would he get any notice?”) Entertainment Weekly’s Dave Karger scoops that Sparling sent a personal missive to members of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ writers branch gushing about his screenplay — “no film this year ‘
BAFFLING BAFTA: Explaining British Oscar
Extravagant film producer Alexander Korda first broached the idea of establishing a British equivalent of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over a suitably lavish dinner he was hosting for his fellow film swells at swank Claridge’
OSCAR: Rapunzel, Marty, Leo Start Campaigns
A Best Song nod could be Tangled’
OSCAR: Animation Entries Down To Wire; But Will There Be Enough For 5 Nominees?
Today the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences sent out a reminder confirming the 5 PM PT November 1st deadline for 2010 Best Animated feature entries. At this point there do not appear to be enough entries to trigger five nominations rather than the more common three but there is still time, brother. What wasn’
NO! Academy Won't Move Up 2012 Oscars
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences just issued this statement about the story I scooped back in June: that the Board of Governors was considering moving up the Oscars to January. The principle reason was so that the Academy Awards would not come last during awards season and have its thunder stolen by the Golden Globes, Hollywood Guilds, Film Indie Spirit awards, etc. (Of course, those awards could be just moved up as well.) The proposal was widely supported by the major film studios. But the technical logistics of 
moving up the Oscars were proving nightmarish, especially when it came to ensuring how and when Academy members could watch and vote on the coming films. So today’s announcement follows last night’s Board of Governors meeting as well as last night’s surprise that executive director Bruce Davis will retire in 2011. Here it is:
The Academy’
Sony Pictures’Waiting For Godard Might Not Be In Vain
The Academy responds to recent speculative reports that Jean-Luc Godard won’t attend the Academy Awards to accept his honorary Oscar:
Statement Regarding Jean-Luc Godard’
EMMYS: Waiting For That Producer List…
Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’
Will The Academy Awards Air In January Next Year??
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is reportedly going to consider moving up the air date of 2011 Academy Awards to January!
According to a source:
“The awards season is too long currently. This will shorten and reduce the amount of campaigning. Also, it will make the Oscars the definitive awards show again. The Globes [...]
83rd Oscar Telecast Producers Announced!
This is surprisingly early for such a big decision to be made. In fact, the earliest that the producers and director of the Academy Awards telecast have been chosen in recent years. But Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences President Tom Sherak just told me that he made up his mind last year to fill the two positions early before any of his candidates were already committed to other gig. Sherak did have a conversation with last year’s producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman but “they wanted time off… that show is tough,” Sherak noted. As for the reasons behind his selections, well, Don [...]
Kristen Bell At the ACM Awards
Kristen Bell may not have quite the T&A of some other chicks, but she’s cute and seems genuinely nice, so that’s good enough for me.
And her legs are nice, too.
She attended the Academy of Country Music Awards (ACM) for whatever reason.
Photos by Bauer-Griffin
Kate Winslet and husband split
Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes at the 81st Annual Academy Awards in 2009 Kate Winslet and her husband, Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty), are splitting up. I guess that’s what happens when your wife catches you wearing… …read full story
The 2010 Academy Awards: Just the attractive people
Bar Refaeli at the 2010 Academy Awards If you’re like me, when you think of the Academy Awards, one thing comes to mind: hot Jewish supermodels. Such as Bar Refaeli above. While she made most actresses on the red… …read full story
Jennifer Lopez: 2010 Academy Awards
Presenter Jennifer Lopez arrived at the 2010 Academy Awards in Armani Prive. JLo never disappoints, especially at the Academy Awards. …read full story
Hurt Locker Producer Banned From Attending the Oscars
One of the producers of the Oscar nominated war flick, “The Hurt Locker” will not be allowed to attend Sunday’s Academy Awards, because of e-mails which he sent urging academy members to vote for his movie.
But if indeed “The Hurt Locker” takes home a Best Picture award, Nicolas Chartier will have to receive his trophy [...]
OSCAR BARRED: Academy Of Shame Makes Decision That's Lame
So let me get this straight; Nicolas Chartier who financed The Hurt Locker and is one of the 4 officially credited producers can’t attend the Academy Awards because he sent a mass email that never even mentioned Avatar by name? And the Oscars governing body thinks his badmouthing is so much worse than what nearly everyone in the Best Picture category has done year after year? I find it ludicrous that the Academy of shame has made a decision so lame. So I must ask: is it mere coincidence that Academy president Tom Sherak (at one time a bigtime Fox movie exec), Oscars producers Bill Mechanic [...]
Academy Bars 'Hurt Locker' Producer Nicolas Chartier From Oscars For "Violating Campaigning Standards"
UPDATES ‘Hurt Locker’s Nicolas Chartier Admits Sending Private Emails About ‘Avatar’
UPDATES Academy May Discipline ‘The Hurt Locker’
Beverly Hills, CA ‘