The Academy has instituted Best Picture hiring and representation ‘Oscar Diversity’ quota requirements whose goals and potential effectiveness are debatable.
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Jamie Dornan shirtless. Jamie Dornan shirtless postponed: Pecs to become available on Valentine’s Day Valentine’s Day 2015 will get a lot kinkier than Valentine’s Days of years past – well…
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Penélope Cruz Penélope Cruz as next ‘Bond Girl’? Whether you find “age-appropriateness” all-important or just another politically correct inanity, it’s both surprising and good news that 39-year-old Academy Award winner…
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Tony Awards: ‘Lucky Guy’ with Tom Hanks. Tony Awards 2013: Tom Hanks, Nora Ephron & Cicely Tyson among nominees April 30 update: The Tony Awards 2013 nominations were announced earlier…
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Skyfall: James Bond Movie is most successful ever even when factoring in inflation? It’s indisputably biggest Daniel Craig hit to date.
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Ann Roth. Ann Roth: Academy Award-winning costume designer to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at The Hamptons Film Festival Ann Roth, an Academy Award-winning costume designer for The English Patient, will…
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Gypsy 1962 with Rosalind Russell. Barbra Streisand won’t be playing Mama Rose in a film version of the Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents Broadway hit Gypsy, Laurents himself told The Hartford…
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Tony-winning actress Natasha Richardson, Liam Neeson’s wife and daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and the late Tony Richardson, was taken off life support earlier today after being declared brain dead following…
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Revolutionary Road Movie: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet photos + Christopher Plummer autobiography and views on Marlon Brando + Robert Williams.
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Gaping narrative issues hinder Sam Mendes’ gangster noir Road to Perdition, otherwise a great showcase for stars Tom Hanks and Paul Newman.
Leos Carax madness + John Hawkes’ Virgin In but DiCaprio + Spielberg Out: Film Critics and Academy members scrambling to watch potential award contenders.
Anne V. Coates: Film editor. ‘Perspectives on Editing’: Animation Sept. 23: The art and craft of editing animated films will be explored in the second installment of the Academy of…