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This year, instead of hiring a movie industry stalwart like recent Oscar show producers Steven Soderbergh or Will Packer — who separately oversaw Academy Awards broadcasts over the past couple of years that were, shall we say, memorable for all the wrong…

In an effort to get the Oscar telecast back on track, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Saturday announced that awards show and live television veterans Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner will produce the 95th annual Academy Awards, which will air on ABC on March 12, 2023. Ever since he was named CEO in…

This one won’t make any lists of “Oscar surprises.” The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has set Glenn Weiss to direct the 94th annual Academy Awards for a seventh consecutive time. "You need someone with the deep technical knowledge and creative insights of Glenn to create an Oscars show that truly…

No big shock here: Veteran director Glenn Weiss will be returning to helm the Oscars for the sixth straight year. The producers of the 93rd annual Academy Awards, Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh, made the announcement this morning, while further emphasizing that this year’s pandemic-affected broadcast…

Oscarcast producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain have set Glenn Weiss to direct the 92nd Academy Awards show, getting the gig for a fifth consecutive year. "We are so lucky that Glenn is back as our director this year," Howell Taylor and Allain said. “He is deeply creative and collaborative and has a…

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…

After stealing the show (and our hearts) at Monday night’s Primetime Emmys telecast by proposing to his girlfriend, Glenn Weiss and his new fiancee  Jan Friedlander Svendsen appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about The emotional highlight of the Emmys was when director Glenn Weiss, who won for directing the…

Netflix’s stock is up 2% this morning. Emmy’s ratings numbers are down 11%. The long, winding TV awards season campaign that started as far back as January finally has come to an end just as the long-winding Oscar season gets going in stride. But what can you say about a 70th Emmy year in which more money was spent…

Socially speaking, there was no surprise about that surprise wedding proposal during last night’s Emmy Awards broadcast: Glenn Weiss’ romantic gesture on stage was Facebook’s top social moment during the broadcast, just as it was on Twitter. And as of today, the “Epic Emmys Proposal” Facebook page had nearly 620,000…

This year’s 70th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, presided over by Saturday Night Live‘s ‘Weekend Update” anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che, set out to celebrate the most diverse list of nominees in Emmy history, opening with the production number “We Solved It”: We solved it We got with the times There's room for all…