What’s On the Table at the Oscars Governors Ball
Picture yourself at the 97th Academy Awards inside the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood. The ceremonies, which will be hosted by Conan O’Brien and broadcast live on ABC and streaming on Hulu, usually run for more than three hours. The show starts at 4 p.m. PT (7 p.m. ET), so when it’s over and the winner of Best Picture is announced, it’s dinner time and guests head upstairs to the Ray Dolby Ballroom for the Academy of Motion...
Warming Up for the Emmy Awards with Nominated Performers
If you’re one of the nominees for Emmy’s highest-profile categories, it’s hard to relax 48 hours before the big night. That doesn’t mean you can’t let your hair down, tip a glass or two and have a good old time. After all, that’s the tradition at the Television Academy’s Performer Nominees reception held on Friday night before the Primetime Emmy Awards – again this year at Wolfgang...
Academy Awards Governors Ball Showcases Wolfgang Puck’s Winning Cuisine
As soon as the last envelope for best picture is ripped open, it’s showtime at the Ray Dolby Ballroom for 1,600 guests who will make their way over from the theater at the Oscars for some high class sustenance after the lengthy ceremony. A much smaller number got an exclusive preview of the 2013 Governors Ball the night before in what’s become an annual tradition—a full dress rehearsal of the food, drink and design overseen by...
Enough Angelina and J. Lo: It’s All About the Oscar Parties
Oscar Week is an opportunity for people in Los Angeles to put on their party shoes, mix, mingle, eat and drink for literally five nights in a row, culminating in the granddaddy of celebrations for the big night on Oscar Sunday, the vaunted Vanity Fair post-party at the Sunset Tower Hotel. Here’s a look at some of the select bashes that went on around town: Wednesday night, Global Green at the Avalon: we were not...