Music by Prudence Articles
Roger Ross Williams, Prudence Mabhena Photo: Governors Ball 2010
Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams with Prudence Mabhena at the Governors Ball after the 82nd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, CA on Sunday, March 7, 2010. There was a quite a bit of talk after Williams' speech was cut short by fellow winner Elinor Burkett, who produced the Best Short Film, Documentary, winner Music by Prudence, which Williams directed. Photo: Greg [...]
MUSIC BY PRUDENCE: The Roger Ross Williams-Elinor Burkett Oscar Speech Duel-Duet
Best documentary short subject, Music by Prudence: Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett's Oscar Acceptance Speech. Note: Following her odd appearance onstage during which she cut into Williams' speech, former Salon contributor Burkett told that online publication's Kelly Lauerman: "What happened was the director and I had a bad difference over the direction of the film that resulted in a lawsuit that has settled amicably [...]
Oscar 2010: Documentary Short Subject Semi-Finalists
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak(top); The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (middle); China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (bottom) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the list of eight semi-finalists in the Documentary Short Subject category for the 2010 Academy Awards. Three to five of those shorts will end up with Oscar [...]