Hollywood-hating conservatives are going to have a field day with this:
Beverly Hills, CA – A trio of Oscar® recipients – director Kathryn Bigelow, film editor Anne Coates and documentarian Michael Moore – make up the year’s first-time electees to Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors. Coates received her award for the editing of “Lawrence of Arabia,” Moore won in the Documentary Feature category for “Bowling from Columbine,” and Bigelow received Oscars® this year in the Directing category and as one of the producers of “The Hurt Locker.” In addition, nine incumbents were reelected and three other filmmakers will return to the Board after a time away.
The reelected governors are Curt Behlmer, Sound Branch; Rosemary Brandenburg, Art Directors; Richard Edlund, Visual Effects; Leonard Engelman, Makeup Artists and Hairstylists; Charles Fox, Music; Jim Gianopulos, Executives; Hawk Koch, Producers; Marvin Levy, Public Relations; and Frank Pierson, Writers.
Returning to the board after a hiatus are John Bailey, Cinematographers; Ed Begley, Jr., Actors; and Jon Bloom, Short Films and Feature Animation. Bailey previously served on the board from 1996 to 2002; Begley and Bloom both were governors from 2000 to 2009.
Fourteen of the Academy’s 15 branches are represented by three governors, who may serve up to three consecutive three-year terms. Terms are staggered so that each branch elects or reelects one governor each year. The Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Branch is represented by a single governor.
Governors who were not up for reelection and who continue on the Board are Annette Bening and Tom Hanks, Actors Branch; Jim Bissell and Jeffrey Kurland, Art Directors; Caleb Deschanel and Owen Roizman, Cinematographers; Martha Coolidge and Edward Zwick, Directors; Rob Epstein and Lynne Littman, Documentary; Robert Rehme and Tom Sherak, Executives; Donn Cambern and Mark Goldblatt, Film Editors; Bruce Broughton and Arthur Hamilton, Music; Mark Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers; Robert G. Friedman and Sid Ganis, Public Relations; Bill Kroyer and John Lasseter, Short Films and Feature Animation; Don Hall and Kevin O’Connell, Sound; Craig Barron and Bill Taylor, Visual Effects; and James L. Brooks and Phil Robinson, Writers.
Yeah because we’re so worried what Hollywood haters think… WHO CARES?
Oh, please. All of us in fly-over country know that Michael was just accepted into the equivalent of the high school student council. And you wonder why the TV viewership for the Oscars continues to decline? Can anyone say “insulated”?
You people on the left coast need to get a clue what is important in life…
You win! First ‘bagger to respond to a headline that literally calls you out! Are you a regular DHD reader with a vested interest in the entertainment industry, or were you just trolling for RED STATE ALERTS? Take that bait, little buddy. Take that bait!
This is why we do our jobs and you do yours.
Also note that in American English, punctuation marks go inside the quotation marks.
Say what you will about Michael Moore, he managed to turn the documentary into a populist artform in an unprecedented way. Love or hate his politics, he’s had a major influence on filmmaking.
Conservatives may say a few things but I think a more accurate commentary would have been. “Conservative-hating and American-hating, Michael Moore is going to have a field day”
Yeah, I don’t see why anyone (conservative or liberal) would have a field day with this extremely boring news.
If you said, “Michael Moore plans on directing a movie about the Black Panthers’ fight against the government and their right to intimidate voters at voting booths,” then yeah.
Why would anybody in a red, blue, or purple state be suprised that Hollywood would elect this liberal hack to the academy board?
It’s just more of the same…
Hey Dave, Fox News is on, go get your talking points like a good little teabagger.
It’s liberals like him that largely explain why I can’t call myself a liberal anymore. He just makes everyone look bad.
Ann Coats is pretty great though. A genuine legendary talent.
I don’t hate hollywood. I dislike political bias storytelling. This usually comes from liberal film directors like Oliver Stone, Michael Moore, and Steven Sodeburgh (ha, good thing his Che bs movie was snubbed at the oscars and lost money), who don’t believe in allowing the audience to make up their own mind.
Right, because right wingers NEVER include political bias in their work. lol
Moore and Uwe Boll should fight for the seat. Filming it would be the closest Moore actually came to being a documantarian.
Moore may be annoying but a hack he is not. He is original, smart, challenging and even funny, certainly not afraid. He’ll shake us all up. That’s what artists are supposed to do.
I actually agree with you, but Moore has gotten comfortable and I seriously doubt is he would “document” Obama’s miserable response to the Gulf oil disaster.
Let Director Oliver Stone make a movie about micheal moore. Now that would be funny. Seriously if Moore could change the outlook say on indie films within the academy? just a point to ponder.
Michael has made some excellent films since Roger & Me, including four of the top nine highest-grossing documentaries of all time.
Global warming will create a good reason for him to remake the first feature-length documentary: Nanook of the North by Robert Flaherty (1922).
Say what you will about Michael Moore,”? Ok,Fat puss gut,hypocritical rich asshole that claims he is against capitalism but sure loves the money and lifestyle. And the oscars?I haven’t watched those nor cared about them or anything hollywood for decades. Funny how the so called celebrities, which are nothing more than court jesters, think that thier oppinion on anything matters to people, idiots.
Does this mean from now on only left-wing films about gays, global affairs, American misdeeds and the like will be nominated? Oh yea, I forgot, that’s already the case!
Wow, yet another reason not to watch the Oscars or give hoot who wins the awards… as if I needed another.
OMG! A Hollywood insider gets to decide which other Hollywood insiders will be rewarded for making dumb movies. Who cares? Moore is just as good as any liberal lackey to get the job done.
You got it all wrong, Nikki. We conservatives don’t hate Hollywood per se. Some of the greatest conservative movies ever made, from BEN HUR to DIRTY HARRY to MAN ON FIRE are anthemic to conservatives. What we don’t like is the politicization of most every film that comes out of Hollywood these days against conservatives (Whom outnumber liberals 2-to-1 in America), and even the politicization of who works in Hollywood and who doesn’t through political litmus tests. It is in fact McCarthyism of the worst order.
That is not the American Way. Nor is it the American way for A-listers to slander their audiences like Megan Fox and Megan Mulally have done. The fawning Iran trip was the Academy’s biggest faux pas in decades. Fact is, we could care less that Michael Moore is on the Academy board now. What else is new? Wake us up when they appoint a conservative like Gary Sinise, Robert Davi or Michael Moriarty. Then you’ll have something juicy to report! Until then, SSDD.