2003 Oscar Articles

Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Oscar Campaign Scandal: Robert Wise, Miramax & GANGS OF NEW YORK Part I Back to Robert Wise (right) and Gangs of New York: The plot got even thicker when Murray Weissman and others later claimed that Wise himself had approached Miramax after reading another Op-Ed piece, this one published in Variety (Feb. 3, 2003) and penned [...]

Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York Nicolas Chartier, one of the four Oscar-nominated producers of The Hurt Locker, has been penalized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because of e-mails he sent out a couple of weeks ago asking various Academy members to vote for his low-budgeted Iraq War drama and not for "a $500M film" — [...]