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It just may turn out to be that the one, maybe only, thing the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival may have in common with the Oscars is that it is most remembered for screwing up the presentation of the big winner. As you recall, in 2017 Best Picture winners Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were handed the wrong envelope…

A stray thought for Hollywood: Just because Donald Trump is campaigning for free speech—last week, he announced a class-action anti-censorship lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook and Google—doesn't mean it's a bad idea. Free speech, that is. I don't know about the lawsuit, which will have to reconcile the tech giants'…

Oscar winner Yuh-Jung Youn, who took Supporting Actress in April for Minari, along with a number of her recent fellow acting nominees including Maria Bakalova, Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, Leslie Odom Jr., Paul Raci, and Steven Yeun, are among the new class of 395 artists and executives who have been invited to join the…

Rules and regulations for the 94th annual Oscars have been approved by the AMPAS board of governors and were released Wednesday morning. As previously announced, most of the pandemic-related changes instituted last year — including loosening requirements of eligibility for streaming and VOD movies — will remain intact…

When Wenting Xu and Diedrik van Hoogstraten sent their omnibus resignation letter to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in mid-June, I had to look twice at the sixth bullet point. It's the one that begins: "Internal transparency, never great to begin with, has actually decreased since February, so members don't…

The story that has dominated Los Angeles’ social media over the past two days may have a bit of a happy ending. According to reports, herd of about 40 cows escaped a Pico Rivera-area slaughterhouse Tuesday night. Video of cows roaming the neighborhood — and police cars giving chase — delighted many who rooted for the…

The Oscars was only two months ago, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences already is working on the next recipients of the most desired award in the motion picture industry. At Tuesday night’s Board meeting, Danny Glover, Samuel L. Jackson, Elaine May and Liv Ullmann became the latest chosen to receive…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday announced its newly elected 2021–2022 Board of Governors. Among the first-timers is Rita Wilson for the actors branch, while Oscar- and Emmy-winning director Susanne Bier returns for a new term in the directors branch, as does two-time Oscar show producer…

If you were hoping the Oscars might be returning to an earlier date next year, you probably can blame the Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl for making you wait, but we’ll get to that. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has landed on Sunday March 27 as the date for the 94th annual Academy Awards, with…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is tightening new membership numbers by roughly half of the large class annually admitted in recent years, an initiative originally begun in 2016 when the previous year’s number of new members was doubled. This was largely in order to correct the imbalance of the…

Producer Michael Shamberg's lawsuit against the Academy of Motion Picture of Arts and Sciences and its governing board will go forward, as Judge H. Jay Ford of the Los Angeles County Superior Court this morning said he will overrule the Academy's demurrer in the case. Shamberg has been asking the court to rule that he…

"At this point, let's call ABC what it really is, Disney-," Jimmy Kimmel quipped in a scathing roast of all thing small screen Wednesday during Disney's Virtual Upfront. "Isn't there something to be said for dying with dignity," the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host added. "Somehow when everyone's stuck in their houses with…