It was a whirlwind week for Oscar. Between Brett Ratner’s hasty resignation as the Oscarcast producer followed immediately by Eddie Murphy bowing out of his hosting duties and Brian Grazer stepping in to join fo...
Quick, how many title sequence designers can you name? I'm willing to bet most of you got no further than Saul Bass, which says more about him than it does about us -- the man responsible for some of the most ubiquito...
A couple of things are unusual about the Academy Salute to Vanessa Redgrave, an AMPAS tribute evening (not to be confused with the Governors' Awards) dedicated to the Oscar-winning British acting legend, and taking pl...
Gil Cates, longtime Academy Awards producer and governor of the organization's Director's branch, passed away at the age of 77. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released the following after the ne...
A few months ago it was announced that Oprah Winfrey, James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith would be the recipients of Honorary Oscars this year. The awards will be handed out at the Governors Awards on Novemb...
Hollywood's most powerful organizations released a joint statement today calling for the release of six Iranian filmmakers including director Jafar Panahi and actor Marzieh Vafamehr. Lauded as one of Iran's grea...
Last week, Sasha Stone held one of her Oscar Roundtable discussions at Awards Daily, where one of the issues raised was the Academy's recent flurry of rule changes, particularly in the Best Picture category.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) made a surprising announcement tonight that should bring the long awaited Academy Museum to life. On Tuesday night...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that Brett Ratner and Don Mischer will produce the 84th Academy Awards telecast.
Hell has officially frozen over in Oscar land.
In case you were una...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 178 new members to join the movie industry's most premier voting club this year and, happily, it continues the recent tradition of skewing the organization young...
