Oscar Week in Review: August 22-28, 2010
There are several major announcements this week to cover, from Honorary Oscars to new Oscar contenders.
Oscar News
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Two awaited films are getting December releases from Roadside that could push them into Oscar consideration. I Love You Phillip Morris, starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor as a gay couple, got good buzz at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and will be released on December 3. Bitiful, which got great reviews at Cannes for leading man Javier Bardem, will be released sometime in December also.- The Academy announced the four recipients of the 2010 Honorary Oscars. The Irving Thalberg Award will go to five-time Oscar Winner Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II). Honorary Oscars will go to historian and film restorer Kevin Brownlow, French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard and actor Eli Wallach. Interestingly enough, none of those three recipients have ever been nominated for an Oscar. If you are interested in discovering how the decision was made, read this article from The Wrap.
- Predicting the animated film category may get a little tougher this year, after Disney announced they are removing themselves from participation in the Annie Awards. Apparently, they are unhappy with the membership process for the awarding body. The Variety article can be found here.
2010 Honorary Oscars Announced
This morning, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the recipients of the 2010 Honorary Oscars. Five-time Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Award, while honorary Oscars will go to preservationist Kevin Brownlow, director Jean-Luc Godard and actor Eli Wallach. The press release follows.
Beverly Hills, CA (August 25, 2010) — The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted last night to present the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-director Francis Ford Coppola and Honorary Awards to historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow, director Jean-Luc Godard and actor Eli Wallach. All four awards will be presented at the Academy’s 2nd Annual Governors Awards dinner on Saturday, November 13, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center®.
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Oscar Week In Review: August 14-21, 2010
This is a new feature here at CinemaSight, where every Saturday I will have a round-up of all the latest Academy Award related news of the week. For the next few weeks, we will probably be playing around with different titles and features, so please be patient.
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- Perhaps the biggest Oscar-related news of the week was the new release date for sudden Oscar contender The Tourist. GK Films and Sony Pictures Classic announced they are moving the spy film from 2011 to a December 10 release. The film is written by Oscar winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects), and is directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmark, whose film The Lives of Others won the Best Foreign Film Oscar a few years back. It stars Oscar winner Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted) and three-time Oscar nominee Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland, Sweeney Todd). If the buzz for this comes through as good, we could be looking at a strong contender View the rest of this article...
Tom Sherak re-elected President of the Academy
Tom Sherak will now enjoy his second year as leader of the most powerful film award organization in the world. And in commemoration (really it was something I've been needing to do and this is a good opportunity), I'm adding an rss feed for the Academy in the sidebar on the right.
Read the full press release below:
Beverly Hills, CA (August 3, 2010) — Tom Sherak was re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tonight (8/3) by the organization’s Board of Governors. This will be his second consecutive one-year term in the office.
Sherak is beginning his eighth year as a governor representing the Executives Branch. He had previously also served as treasurer for the Academy.
In addition, Public Relations Branch governor and past Academy president Sid Ganis was elected first vice president; Writers Branch governor James L. Brooks was elected to one vice president post and Phil Robinson, also from the Writers Branch, was re-elected to a vice president post; Producers Branch governor Hawk Koch was re-elected treasurer; and Actors Branch governor Annette Bening was elected secretary.
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Academy Announces New Board of Governors
The election of the officers of this board, including the president, will be announced in August and they will begin discussing various matters including this year's Honorary Oscar recipients. Tom Sherak is likely to be re-elected President of the Academy as this past year was his first term and not since Karl Malden was replaced by Robert Rehme in 1992 after only three terms has an Academy president not served at least four terms (a tradition dating back to Frank Capra).
Only four individuals have sought and won more than four terms as President of the Academy. Walter Wanger served six from 1939 to 1945. Charles Brackett also won six terms from 1949 to 1955. The latest was Robert Rehme who served five non-consecutive terms from 1992 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2001.
Oscar winners elected to AMPAS board
Bigelow, Moore, Coates are first-time members of the board
by Gregg Kilday
(Hollywood Reporter) -- Oscar winners Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Moore and Anne Coates have been elected to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' board of governors.
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Oscar Forecast: Meryl Streep may finally have third-Oscar vehicle
Below is an article from The Hollywood Reporter showing Meryl Streep is taking on the role of legendary British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. This should be great news to fans who have been stymied over the years by her lack of ability to pick up a 3rd Oscar statuette. While many think she was robbed this past year, this may be the role that brings her that victory will stop her fans from getting angry every year that she doesn't win.
Meryl Streep to play Margaret Thatcher
By Borys Kit - The Hollywood Reporter
(THR) --Meryl Streep is in talks to reteam with her "Mamma Mia!" director Phyllida Lloyd for "The Iron Lady," a biopic of the controversial and long-governing former British prime minister.
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135 Invited to Join the Academy
While the below-the-line invitations aren't all that bad, if Tobin Bell and Adam Sandler aren't reasons enough to cringe, then I don't know what else to say.
(AMPAS ) Beverly Hills, CA (June 25, 2010) — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 135 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2010 to the Academy’s roster of voting members.
“The work of these individuals has been appreciated by moviegoers all around the world,” said Academy President Tom Sherak. “The Academy is proud to invite each and every one of them.”
The Academy’s membership policies would have allowed a maximum of 180 new members in 2010, but as in other recent years, the several branch committees endorsed fewer candidates than were proposed to them. Voting membership in the organization has now held steady at just under 6,000 members since 2003.
New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception at the Academy’s Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study in Beverly Hills in September.
The 2010 invitees are:
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Academy Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back…Maybe
Two items of importance this week for all of us Oscar fans. Let me get to the news, then I want to hear your thoughts.
The first, is that after the abysmal 82nd Telecast, the Academy has decided to bring in new talent. This can only be an improvement over this year's travesty.
The second is that the Academy is considering a new date for the 2012 (84th) Academy Awards...January. Academy members already have a hard enough time catching end-of-year releases as it is, cut off another month and you're basically saying "if you release in December, you might as well kiss your chances goodbye". Of course, it could have the opposite effect. Those December releases might be included even if the Academy member hasn't seen it. Think what might have happened with both Nine and The Lovely Bones this past year? They probably would have gotten several Oscar nominations based on hype and not evidence.
Anyway. What do you think? The full articles follow:
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Cannes 2010 and the Oscars
What can this year’s Cannes Film Festival tell us about the Oscars?
When it comes to prestige, the Cannes Film Festival is one of the most celebrated and respected film awards to receive. When it comes to the Academy Awards, though, the Cannes Film Festival doesn’t always line up too nicely with what gets honored on this side of the Atlantic. For every The Pianist or Pulp Fiction, you have many more films that completely fall out of the public eye (The Wind That Shakes the Barley is one recent example). Out of last year’s line-up, only four films managed Oscar Nods: Bright Star, Inglourious Basterds, A Prophet and The White Ribbon, and only one of those was nominated in one of the above line categories (although Precious, Up and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus played out of the main competition). Generally one or two of the foreign-language film nominees will come out of the festival, but choosing which ones this early is futile until countries start submitting films.
Only one American film was in competition this year, and that was Doug Liman’s Fair Game. The film got mixed reviews by the critics, but still looks like it could play very well over here (Matt Noler at The House Next Door called it “slick” and “porn for smug liberals”, a combination that seems destined for Oscar nods). I still think it will be a major contender next winter, and no one really seemed to hate the film, which should bode well for its future.
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Academy Sets Key Dates for 83rd Academy Awards
Below is the press release from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences detailing the key dates for the 83rd Academy Awards. These dates will be added into our calendar in the sidebar by the end of the day.
Beverly Hills, CA (March 25, 2010) — The 83rd Annual Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, Academy President Tom Sherak announced today.
The ceremony will again take place at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.
Key dates currently scheduled are:
- Saturday, November 13, 2010: Governors Awards presentation
- Wednesday, December 1, 2010: Official Screen Credits forms due
- Monday, December 27, 2010: Nominations ballots mailed
- Friday, January 14, 2011: Nominations polls close 5 p.m. PT
- Tuesday, January 25, 2011: Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PT, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
- Wednesday, February 2, 2011: Final ballots mailed
- Monday, February 7, 2011: Nominees Luncheon
- Saturday, February 12, 2011: Scientific and Technical Awards presentation
- Tuesday, February 22, 2011: Final polls close 5 p.m. PT
- Sunday, February 27, 2011: 83rd Annual Academy Awards presentation
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