ABC just began rolling out commercial spots for the 91st annual Academy Awards, which airs on February 24, but for the first time in a long while those ads had not a single mention of a host, traditionally a known fact in most similar Oscar TV spots in recent years. But then again, this coming Oscar show does not have …

Well, the mystery of who gets the enviable — or unenviable — job of producing the 91st annual Academy Awards, airing February 24 on ABC, has been answered. And in choosing Oscar winner and multiple nominee Donna Gigliotti as producer and live TV and awards show veteran Glenn Weiss as “co-producer,” as well as director…

And the Oscar producing gig goes to … Donna Gigliotti. The veteran producer won the Best Picture Academy Award for 1998’s Shakespeare in Love and has been nominated three times since, for The Reader, Silver Linings Playbook and Hidden Figures. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also said today that Glenn…

For Donna Gigliotti, like the rest of the collaborators who eventually boarded the project, Hidden Figures was an undeniable proposition. The true story of three black women employed at NASA's segregated facility in Virginia in the 1960s, whose mathematic and technical talents were integral to the early days of the…

On a weekend when A Medea Halloween is a serious fright to the Da Vinci super-franchise, the profitability of diversity was an all but inevitable topic of conversation at the Produced By New York conference today. To put it another way: “There’s gold in them thar hills,” as Hidden Figures producer Donna Gigliotti put…

Ever wonder what movie and TV producers talk about when they’re alone? Star salaries might be near the top of the list, if a lively panel at today’s Produced By: NY 2015 conference is any indication. “Studios will pay an actor $20 million, which is f***ing crazy,” said veteran producer Paula Weinstein to audience…