Chinatown, Marathon Man, Rosemary’s Baby and Wayne’s World are just a sampling of the films on Hollywood producer and former assistant director Hawk Koch’s resume, and next November the former Motion Picture Academy president will chronicle his career in a memoir titled Magic Time: My Life in Hollywood.
Publishing hous…
Former AMPAS president Hawk Koch has joined the chorus of voices seeking ways to remedy the exclusion of black nominees in the past two Academy Awards. Here is his open letter:
A Letter to the Entertainment Industry
I am a former President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and
volunteer on several com…
The first NYC edition of the PGA’s `Produced By’ confab launched this morning with a conversation between former PGA president and producer Hawk Koch and Nightcrawler‘s Jake Gyllenhaal, also in town prepping for his Broadway debut in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Constellations.
Pointing out that Gyllenhaal …
When I ran into Ben Affleck at the Golden Globes on Sunday he told me he thinks this wide open Oscar race won’t really come into focus until the<img class="alignright wp-image-660517" alt="Producers Guild of America" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" width="275" h…
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today that Hawk Koch rejoins Mark Gordon as President of the PGA after a leave to serve a one-year term as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Gordon and Koch were first elected Presidents of the PGA in 2010, and were reelected in 2012.
"We work t…
On Tuesday night the new Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-504941" title="academy logo" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" alt data-lazy-src="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2…
Today’s announcement revealing the results of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences‘ annual<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-541452" title="academy-post-new" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" alt data-lazy-src="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress…
Listen to (and share) episode 33 of our audio podcast Deadline Awards Watch With Pete Hammond. Deadline's awards columnist talks with host David Bloom about whether one of Hawk Koch's last initiatives, making the Motion Picture Academy membership more diverse, may have the most long-term impact; weekend events…
With 276 membership invitations going out today — exactly 100 more new members than were invited to join the elite 6000+Â organization last year — the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has clearly begun to live up to its goal of being more inclusive. And not only in increasing its numbers but also in the…
An insider tells me that, at the most recent and always secret Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences‘ Board Of Governors meeting, president Hawk Koch “went around the room asking if ‘anybody is friends with Nikki Finke?’ before beginning”. Gotta say, Hawk made my day…
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