The Board Of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted a special honorary Oscar (statuette) to director Alejandro G. Inarritu’s extraordinary virtual reality installation Carne y Arena. It will be presented at the upcoming Governors Awards on November 11 to be held at the Ray Dolby…

At an airport hangar on the French Riviera, Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Emmanuel “Chivo” Lubezki are presenting a project that promises to birth an entirely new medium. Previous experiments with virtual reality have been promising, delivering a mix of cinema and gaming in an immersive technology that allows viewers a…

There has been much written about the potential of virtual reality as a new medium for artists, but Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s CARNE y ARENA, the first VR project selected for the Cannes Film Festival, might be as definitive for this art form as the Lumières’ L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat was for film; the…

EXCLUSIVE: The One Percent, MRC’s drama series from Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu, is on the move. The project, which originally was picked up by Starz in summer 2014 with a 10-episode straight-to-series order, is now in turnaround after several production start delays led to the pay cable network…

UPDATED with Academy letter to members at bottom: Well, it doesn’t look like Oscar will be kicking any nuns or many senior citizens to the curb after all. With Tuesday’s clarification of what “active voters” really means, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences might have dodged a potential bullet. In January…

“Welcome to the Academy Awards,” Chris Rock said near the top of Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, “otherwise known as the ‘White Peoples’ Choice Awards.’ If they nominated hosts, I wouldn’t even get this job — you'd be watching Neil Patrick Harris.” That comment, along with a few others sprinkled through the 3 1/2-hour ABC…

With Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Oscar win tonight as Best Director for The Revenant, the director became part of Academy history by becoming the first director in 65 years to win back-to-back directing Oscars. The only other two in that elite club are helmers John Ford and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Inarritu also directed…

This issue of AwardsLine went to press moments before Alejandro G. Iñárritu took the top DGA Awards prize last weekend, but without question the big shocker in the AMPAS list—and isn't there always at least one of those in this category?—was the omission of veteran Ridley Scott for his superb work on The Martian…

As he was leaving the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza ballroom tonight, Steve Golin, producer of dueling nominees Spotlight  and The Revenant, said of the latter’s DGA victory for director Alejandro G. Inarritu, “Well, now I guess it is getting really interesting.” That’s an understatement as both his movies continue to…

With such strong Oscar Best Picture contenders as The Revenant, The Big Short, Spotlight, Mad Max: Fury Road and The Martian dominating the DGA’s list of five directing nominees this morning, there really was no surprise at all with the inclusions on this lineup. Although in my view there was a real eye opener with…

The act — or was it real? — grew tiresome even before the end of Ricky Gervais’ comparatively brief, zinger-laden monologue launching the 73rd Golden Globes on Sunday. His quiver of zingers was full as the sour comic scorched Jennifer Lawrence on equal pay for women, NBC for lacking nominees, Jeffrey Tambor for the…

Clearly, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association loves Alejandro G. Iñárritu, and so it is that, in what may turn out to be a dry run for next month’s Oscars, the group has awarded 20th Century Fox’s brutal period thriller The Revenant with the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture Drama. The Revenant won big tonight…