Responding to the Academy’s decision to present four Oscar categories–cinematography, film editing, live-action shorts and makeup and hairstyling–during commercial breaks at the 91st Oscars broadcast, the American Society of Cinematographers president Kees van Oostrum sent a letter to the 380 members in which he called the move “most unfortunate,” adding, “We cannot quietly condone this decision without protest.”
Hollywood 2019: Chris Pratt Responds to Ellen Page Charges
February 11, 2019 by
After Oscar nominated actress Ellen Page called his church “infamously anti-LGBTQ” in a tweet last week, Chris Pratt has responded by saying “nothing could be further from the truth.”
Hollywood 2019: Oscar Winner Juliette Binoche on Disgraced Mogul Harvey Weinstein
February 7, 2019 by
Berlin Film Fest 2019–French actress Juliette Binoche said Thursday that Harvey Weinstein has “had enough” public excoriation and that “now justice has to do its work.”
Oscar 2019: All Five Nominated Songs Will be Performed, After All
January 31, 2019 by
In response to the widespread backlash to its initial plan to only spotlight two of the Best Original Song nominees on the Oscar telecast, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS) is now planning to have all five nominated songs performed on the February 24 show.
Hollywood 2019: Bryan Singer–New Allegations about Sex With Minors
January 24, 2019 by
In the Atlantic report, four men allege that director Bryan Singer had sexual encounters with them when they were teenagers in the late 1990s; one was 13..
