Producers Articles

Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock in John Lee Hancock's The Blind Side (top); Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (bottom) Producer credits for 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees The Blind Side and The Hurt Locker have been determined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Producers Branch Executive Committee. Credits are as follows: The Blind Side – Gil Netter, [...]

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's Daratt (top); Kevin Bishop, Siobhan Hewlett, Marianne Faithfull in Irina Palm (middle); Nadja Uhl, Thekla Reuten in Twin Sisters (bottom) The European Film Academy has announced that the winners of the 2009 Prix Eurimages, an award "acknowledging the decisive role of co-productions in the European film industry," will go to two producers "who have combined their efforts to develop and promote European cinema": [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the 1969 Best Picture winner Midnight Cowboy as part of the "Monday Nights with Oscar" series on Monday, March 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the Directors Guild of America Theatre in New York City. Pictured above (from left to right): composer John Barry, costume designer Ann Roth, cinematographer Adam Holender, Oscar-nominated actress Sylvia Miles, former United [...]

"The Wedding of the Painted Doll" number from the musical The Broadway Melody (1929), the first talkie to win a best picture Academy Award; Louis B. Mayer, director Reginald Barker, Irving Thalberg on the set of The Dixie Handicap (1925); Norma Shearer and Chester Morris in the popular pre-Code melodrama The Divorcee (1930).   HOLLYWOOD DREAMS MADE REAL: IRVING THALBERG AND THE RISE OF M-G-M [...]