Women in Film Celebrates the 46 Female Oscar Nominees
This may have been the year of #OscarsSoMale, but let’s not lose sight of the actual numbers. Women in Film didn’t. In what has become a highly anticipated awards season tradition, the organization feted the 46 femmes that received Academy Award nominations. Last year’s best actress winner Brie Larson and WIF president Cathy Schulman hosted Women in Film’s 10th annual pre-Oscar cocktail party at West Hollywood’s...
It’s Meryl Time at the Costume Designers Guild Awards
“Live from the Meryl Streep Ballroom,” said actress Mandy Moore as she began her hosting duties for the 19th Costume Designers Guild Awards, held Tuesday February 21 in what is otherwise known as the Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom. Ms. Streep was not only the elephant in the room, she was actually in the room to receive the Guild’s Distinguished Collaborator Award as the capper to the evening, which annually honors costume...
Things Get Political as ‘Arrival,’ ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Atlanta’ Score Big at WGA Awards
It was certainly telegraphed that there would be a comedic mash-up of politics and performance at the 2017 Writers Guild Awards when the West Coast ceremonies kicked off with a brief video that focused on the ethnicities of Guild members and ended with a hammer and sickle woven into the WGA logo. Host Patton Oswalt, in his second year running as emcee of the ceremonies, then brought out the “trophy girls,” two Russian Army soldiers....
Awards Season’s Most Acclaimed Filmmakers Reveal Their Challenges
For going on two decades, it is an event that has become an anticipated awards season tradition, shining a spotlight not only on the creators of the most acclaimed films of the year but also upon the cultural and societal landscape of which they become part and parcel. Last year’s Beyond Words panel discussion with the Writers Guild Award-nominated screenwriters was set smack dab in the middle of the raging #OscarsSoWhite controversy....
‘Arrival,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘O.J.’ Top ACE Eddie Awards, Abrams Honored
It would be difficult to find a group of professionals that is more supportive of each other than the members of the American Cinema Editors. So it was no surprise that the mood in the room was ebullient as they gathered for the 67th annual ACE Eddie Awards presented in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton on January 27. 67 years ago, it was noted off the bat by ACE President Stephen Rivkin, Ronald Reagan, then starring in...
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