Tom Sherak Articles

Nominations for the 84th Academy Awards in several categories will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24 at 8:30 a.m. ET / 5:30 a.m. PT by Academy President Tom Sherak and Winter's Bone's 2011 Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence, who'll next be seen in The Hunger Games and would surely like to plug her upcoming film. The categories announced on live television –and that'll be live streamed online (see [...]

Oprah Winfrey James Earl Jones, THE EXORCIST Makeup Artist Dick Smith Receive Honorary Oscars Many were surprised and/or upset that the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was going to be handed to a television — not film — personality. Although Oprah Winfrey did receive a Best Supporting Oscar nomination for Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple back in 1985, her participation in the world of filmmaking has [...]

James Earl Jones, Mary J. Blige James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey, and Dick Smith were honored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards on Saturday, November 12, at the ballroom adjacent to Hollywood & Highland's Kodak Theatre. Jones, a Best Actor nominee for The Great White Hope (1970), and Smith, Oscar-winning makeup artist for Amadeus (with Paul LeBlanc), were the recipients [...]

Eddie Murphy is out as host of the 2012 Academy Awards telecast. After a terse announcement that Brett Ratner would no longer be co-producing the Oscar ceremony with Don Mischer, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has released another terse statement announcing Murphy's (not at all unexpected) departure. Ratner and Murphy worked together on Tower Heist, a box-office disappointment that opened this past [...]