Tom Hanks, Annette Bening, Warren Beatty: Governors Awards 2009
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Norman Jewison, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Remains of the Day, The Da Vinci Code), who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Norman Jewison, whose socially conscious cop drama In the Heat of the Night won the best picture Oscar in 1968
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Board of Governors posed for a group photo following the 2009 Governors Awards
Front Row (left to right): Sid [...]
by Joan Lister | November 15, 2009
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Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Dino de Laurentiis: Governors Awards 2009
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Warren Beatty, who also won a best director Oscar for Reds in 1982, at the presentation of the Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Steven Spielberg, who also won two best directors Oscars, for Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan
Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Dino de Laurentiis, the producer of classics such as La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, The Great War, The Stranger, and Serpico
Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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by Anna Robinson | November 15, 2009
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Warren Beatty, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg: Governors Awards 2009
Past Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Norman Jewison, Walter Mirisch, Steven Spielberg presenting this year’s Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman, the producer-director of numerous low-budget films including Attack of the Crab Monsters, Carnival Rock, Bloody Mama, and House of Usher
Honorary Award recipient Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as The Godfather, Annie Hall, and Manhattan, with Jeff Bridges, one of the stars of Bad Company, a 1972 Western shot by Willis
Richard Harbaugh (Willis/Bridges, group photo), Matt Petit (Corman) / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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by Anna Robinson | November 15, 2009
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Tags: 2010 Oscar, Academy Awards, Film Awards, George Lucas, Gordon Willis, Governors Awards, Honorary Oscar, Jeff Bridges, Photos, Roger Corman, Steven Spielberg, Warren Beatty
Awards 2010: Warren Beatty to Receive ADG Honor
Warren Beatty will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award, "given to an individual whose body of work in the film industry has richly enhanced the visual aspects of the movie-going experience," at the ADG Awards ceremony on February 13, 2010, at the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Nine other ADG awards will also be presented, along with a Lifetime Achievement Award for production designer Terence Marsh (Mary Queen of Scots, A Touch of Class, Clear and Present Danger, The Green Mile). Additionally, three production designers will be inducted into the ADG’s Hall of Fame: Malcolm F. Brown, Bob Keene, and Ferdinando Scarfiotti.
Among the 72-year-old Beatty’s [...]
by Andre Soares | November 10, 2009
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Shadows of Russia: Communism on TCM
Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (top); Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford in The Way We Were (bottom)
From the Romanovs’ last stand to Warren Beatty’s first solo directorial effort: On every Wednesday in January 2010, Turner Classic Movies will present the 20-film festival "Shadows of Russia," a showcase of Hollywood movies portraying Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) and the sociopolitical reverberations of Communism throughout the 20th century.
Among the scheduled films are classics such as Ninotchka, The Manchurian Candidate, and Reds, in addition to lesser-known fare like Counter-Attack, I Was a Communist for the FBI, and The Strawberry Statement. Get ready for some laughs and a few tears — mostly laughs. And mostly of the unintended kind.
I must red-facedly [...]
by Andre Soares | November 4, 2009
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Tags: Barbra Streisand, Classic Movies, Ernst Lubitsch, Greta Garbo, Leo McCarey, Mission to Moscow, My Son John, Ninotchka, Reds, Shadows of Russia, The Way We Were, Turner Classic Movies, Walter Huston, Warren Beatty
Hal Ashby Tribute
Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon in Harold and Maude (top); Julie Christie, Warren Beatty in Shampoo (bottom)
Cameron Crowe and Peter Bart will host a panel discussion with Haskell Wexler, Jon Voight, Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, Diablo Cody, and Ashby’s agent Jeff Berg as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences salute to Oscar-winning film editor and director Hal Ashby (right) on Thursday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The panel discussion will be followed by a screening of Ashby’s quirky 1971 classic Harold and Maude, starring Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon.
The salute will also kick off a weekend retrospective screening series [...]
by Andre Soares | June 16, 2009
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Tags: Classic Movies, Coming Home, Hal Ashby, Harold and Maude, Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Julie Christie, Los Angeles Screenings, Ruth Gordon, Shampoo, Warren Beatty
Gavin Lambert at LACMA
Author-screenwriter Gavin Lambert, who died last July at age 80, is being honored by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with the series "A Tribute to Gavin Lambert," which kicks off on Friday at the Leo S. Bing Theater. The first two films of the series are The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961, above) and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), both of which Lambert co-adapted from novels.
Based on Tennessee Williams‘ novel and directed by Jose Quintero, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone follows an aging actress, delicately played by Vivien Leigh, as she looks for both companionship and her lost youth in the streets of Rome. She succeeds in her quest — [...]
