‘Water’ Wins, McDormand Rules as 90th Annual Academy Awards Go Down in the History Books
The 2018 Oscars will go down in history for several reasons, notwithstanding the fact that the broadcast received the lowest ratings in a decade, with about 26 million people watching on ABC as Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the second year running. In her rousing acceptance speech for Best Actress, after she put her Oscar on the floor and asked all of the other female nominees to stand up, Frances McDormand brought a new phrase into the...
TAO Social Media Takes Over Four Seasons for Pre-Oscar Gift Lounge
From social media to IRL–to the Academy Awards. TAO, a company expert in social, took the plunge into real life big time, with its first ever pre-Oscar lounge. TAO Social Media set up shop at the Four Seasons Hotel on Doheny Drive—known as the epicenter of awards season for all of the A-list out-of-towners who make the luxurious digs their home away from home. There was no way that anyone planning the TAO Social Media Pre-Oscar...
Cheers to GBK Pre-Oscars Luxury Lounge at St. Supéry Tasting Room on Rodeo Drive
You know the saying: location, location, location. And GBK Productions always comes up with a good one for its GBK Pre-Oscars Luxury Lounge. This year for the 10th annual edition of the event, it set up shop at the St. Supéry Tasting Room on Beverly Hills’ famed Rodeo Drive. It’s a dramatic, two-story venue with a sweeping double staircase in the heart of the high-end shopping street that was once home to the Lladró store–...
Get Out! Independent Spirit Awards Laud Jordan Peele and his Groundbreaking Film
Even the rainy weather could not put a damper on the exuberance on display at the 33rd Film Independent Spirit Awards held Saturday, March 3 in a tent next to the Santa Monica Pier and broadcast live on IFC and Facebook Watch. The indie darlings of awards season, just about every one of them – got their due with statuettes at the celebration, which honors artists-driven films with budgets under $20 million that embody diversity,...
EcoLuxe Lounge is the Green Place to be on Oscar Weekend
Producer Debbie Durkin prefers that her EcoLuxe Lounge events be held outdoors. But the weather on the Friday of Oscar weekend did not cooperate with her plans. She moved the event from the outdoor Wilshire Gardens of the Beverly Hilton to one of its indoor ballrooms because of the torrential rain. So Durkin brought some welcome splashes of color indoors with large pieces by artist Rolland Berry to make her Oscar lounge even more...
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