Oscar Scandals Articles

Vanessa Redgrave Academy Salute: From Pariah to Honoree [Photo: Vanessa Redgrave, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Natasha Richardson, as ballerina Isadora Duncan in Isadora.] Later on, at the behest of producer Daniel Melnick (Straw Dogs, Making Love) screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky (The Goddess, Network) prefaced his announcement of the Best Screenwriting Oscar with the following (also via Inside Oscar): Before I get on to the writing [...]

Vanessa Redgrave, 1978 Oscar ceremony (© AMPAS) Vanessa Redgrave, Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner for Julia, will be the recipient of an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences salute on Sunday, November 13, in London. "An Academy Salute to Vanessa Redgrave" is billed as the Academy's "first-ever European tribute to an actor." Two-time Oscar nominee David Hare (The Hours, The Reader), will host the [...]

Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple; Avery's "Dear God" trade paper ad Long before the Nicolas Chartier/vote-for-The Hurt Locker-not-Avatar e-mail and the Robert Wise/Miramax's Gangs of New York Oscar ads caused a stir, lots of eyebrows were raised when both Margaret Avery and God found themselves taking part in the Oscar race. That was back in early 1986, when Steven Spielberg's [...]

Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier will be facing some sort of punishment from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences following multiple e-mails he sent out asking Academy members to vote for the Kathryn Bigelow-directed Iraq War drama and not an unnamed "$500 million film" widely known as Avatar as the Best Picture of 2009. [...]