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Arts, Briefly: New Musical Director for Oscars Show

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:05:43 +0000

If the Academy Awards show in March turns out to be teeming with original musical numbers or sexual puns, now you’ll know whom to thank or vilify: Marc Shaiman.

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Oscars tap music man

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:16:15 +0000

Film News: Shaiman to direct numbers for ceremony -- Marc Shaiman has been tapped as music director for the Oscarcast.

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Marc Shaiman's Wild Oscar Moments

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:46:01 +0000

By Steve Pond Marc Shaiman, who was announced as musical director for the 82nd Oscar show on Monday morning, has a long and colorful history with the Academy Awards. He received the first of his five Academy nominations 16 years ago, and was delighted to lose to Bruce Springsteen. Six years later, he was not so happy about losing to Phil Collins. He ticked off Keith Carradine before one Oscar show, angered Burt Bacharach leading up to another, and cost the Academy tens of thousands of dollars by persuading the show’s producers to hire an entire orchestra they didn’t really want...

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Marc Shaiman Named Oscars' Music Director

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:02:04 +0000

By Wrap Staff Oscar-nominated composer Marc Shaiman will serve as music director for the 82nd Academy Awards, telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic announced Monday. “With Marc on board, we are sure to have some great musical and, hopefully, hysterical moments,” Mechanic said in a statement. “Marc was my inspiration and musical partner on ‘Hairspray’ and he has been responsible for some of the most memorable moments in Oscar history, like Will Ferrell and Jack Black’s comedy numbers,” said Shankman. “He’s a genius! And he&...

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Good Morning, Oscar: November 23

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:22:55 +0000

By Steve Pond In this morning’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, “60 Minutes” showcases “Avatar,” Santa Barbara honors a quartet of actors and that “New Moon” money won’t impress Oscar. The Santa Barbara International Film Festival singles out four Oscar-contending actors for its Cinema Vanguard Award. Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Stanley Tucci and Christoph Waltz will receive their honors on February 12, by which point I expect that two or three of them will be Oscar nominees. (By my reckoning, Tucci and Waltz are...

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Brown Bag's 'Granny' Steps Closer to Oscars

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:29:00 +0000

Brown Bag Film's 'Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty' is one of ten animated short films that has advanced on in the 82nd Academy Awards voting process.

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Good Morning, Oscar: November 22

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:22:41 +0000

By Steve Pond In this weekend’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, the documentaries cause more controversy and the white noise gets louder and louder. Anne Thompson and Kris Tapley do their weekly “Oscar Talk,” covering the documentary shortlist, the Governors Awards (Anne loved it!), “Inglourious Basterds” (they both think Weinstein is nuts to campaign Melanie Laurent in the best-actress category) and Hal Holbrook in “That Evening Sun” (they both loved him). (In Contention) (Thompson on Hollywood) Sasha Stone assesse...

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Previewing Oscar's Animated Shorts

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:34:54 +0000

By Steve Pond The problem with the Oscar short film categories used to be that it was impossible to see most of the films, so they were just titles on a piece of paper, tie-breakers in Oscar pools that often as not simply revealed who made the best guesses. Now it’s a lot easier to find information, and even see the films. Most of the 10 films on the newly-announced shortlist for animated shorts, for example, are available online in one form or another. So here’s a look at what’s in the running for the five slots. “The Cat Piano”

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Pixar, Nick Park on Animated Shortlist

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:29:29 +0000

By Steve Pond Another day, another Oscar shortlist. This time it's the animated-short category, where 10 contenders have been chosen out of a field of 37 qualifying shorts. (That's low, by the category's usual standards.) Pixar, which often competes in this category but hasn't won since 2002, is represented once again by "Partly Cloudy," from director Peter Sohn. The other major play...

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Academy: 'Tyson' Extortion Charge Is False

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:11:21 +0000

By Steve Pond So much for that “extortion” plot that director James Toback said kept his film “Tyson” off the Oscar shortlist. In Friday’s New York Times, the director charged that during the voting process for the documentary feature award, he encountered an incident “which I fully put in the category of extortion.” He stood behind his comments in a statement released this morning: "I regret that I didn’t bring my concerns to the attention of the Academy sooner but I have now done so and I have been reassured that they are looking into ...

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Few frontrunners for revamped Oscars

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:24:08 +0000

Weekly: Will the new Governors Awards infuse Oscar night? -- Awards season is upon us, and here's the conundrum: There's not much out there yet that's screaming "Oscar!"

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Good Morning, Oscar: November 20

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:28:31 +0000

By Steve Pond In this morning’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, “Tyson” strikes back, things fall apart, and Nic Cage gets weird. When I said yesterday that the omissions in this year’s documentary shortlist “aren’t going to stir up any grand talk of conspiracies,” I guess I wasn’t taking “Tyson” director James Toback into account. Toback tells the New York Times that during the first-round committee screening process, he experienced something “which I put fully in the category of extortion.” ...

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Academy Says New Director Won't Take Jobs

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:43:02 +0000

By Steve Pond Oscar staffers don’t have as much to fear from the show’s new director, Hamish Hamilton, as they originally feared. Responding to a post in this column that followed the announcement of the British director’s hiring, an Academy spokesperson says that Hamilton will not be bringing a large UK crew to the Oscar show, a fear that some disgruntled staff members had expressed to me. He will bring his “vision mixer,” a technical-director-type position that doesn’t normally exist in American television, as well as his main associate director. ...

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Oscar Short List of Documentaries Draws Controversy

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:46:04 +0000

A screening committee from the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences overlooked at least a half-dozen prominent films.

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The Lessons of Oscar's Doc Shortlist

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:02:35 +0000

By Steve Pond The first of three rounds in the documentary-feature judging has been completed, and in narrowing the contenders to 15 the Academy’s documentary screening committees have kicked a few big names out of the race. Goodbye, Michael More. It’s a TKO, Mike Tyson. You won’t be winning a second Oscar this year, Davis Guggenheim. Your fairy-tale story isn’t getting this particular happy ending, Anvil. The documentary committee is no stranger to controversy (remember “Hoop Dreams”?), but this year’s omissions aren’t going to stir up any...

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Good Morning, Oscar: November 19

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:26:40 +0000

By Steve Pond In this morning’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, the doc shortlist gets scrutinized and the top categories get analyzed. New Gurus of Gold charts. “Precious” is now in the top slot, “Up in the Air” drops to second, “Invictus,” “The Hurt Locker” and “An Education” follow. But “Precious” director Lee Daniels is only fourth on the best-director chart, behind Jason Reitman, Kathryn Bigelow and Clint Eastwood. Unsurprisingly, “Up” dominates the animated-feature pr...

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Hamish Hamilton to direct Oscars broadcast

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:00:00 +0000

British director has helmed concert shows with Britney Spears and U2, and the MTV awards. > At 82, the Academy Awards are long overdue for some cosmetic enhancement. And the show's producers have tapped a new director they hope can do the job.

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Place plays a power role

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Preview: 2009 films use far-flung sites to enhance stories -- International locations have played a role in the stories of countless Oscar-winning pics. This year's contenders were shot in environments as far-flung as a shantytown in South Africa for Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" and the sandblasted streets of Amman, Jordan, for Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker."

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‘Downfall’ parodies up

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Preview: Viral satires prompted by scene from Hitler biopic -- The 2004 Oscar foreign-language film nominee "Downfall," depicting Adolf Hitler's final days, is certainly an unlikely source for a mass Internet comedy explosion.

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Award contenders on location

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:00:00 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Preview: A look at the location behind 'Cheri,' 'District 9' -- Films of 2009 took advantage of locales to complement stories and augment personnages. Here is a list of possible contenders:

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Oscars pick director, unveil documentary shortlist (Reuters)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:38:34 +0000

Reuters - Oscar organizers joined the MTV generation on Wednesday, naming Hamish Hamilton as director of March's movie awards ceremony, and they also unveiled their shortlist of films vying for a best documentary nomination.

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Oscars pick director, unveil documentary shortlist (Reuters)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:38:34 +0000

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Michael Moore, Rock Docs Left Off Oscar Shortlist

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:38:40 +0000

By Steve Pond The Academy has released the shortlist of 15 documentaries that will move into the next round of competition for the 82nd Academy Awards, and several of the year's highest-profile documentaries are not on the list. Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" was not included on the shortlist, which was chosen by the Documentary Branch Screening Committee, volunteers who viewed and scored all the eligible films. Neither was director James Toback's well-received "Tyson," which covered the life of boxer Mike Tyson in his own words. And the screening...

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'Basterds' a Best-Pic Winner? Nope

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:43:29 +0000

By Steve Pond Over at Gold Derby, Tom O’Neil loves making bold pronouncements about the Oscar race. Lives for it, in fact. He has fun with the game, and more power to him. His latest bold pronouncement, in which he explained why “Inglourious Basterds” would win the Oscar for best picture, has been stirring up lots of talk in Oscar-blogging circles, where we all love to sit around and talk about what each other is saying. And his theory does bear a little examination (and a little disputation), since he’s predicting that Quentin Tarantino will sail to victory based ...

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Oscars choose MTV awards veteran to direct show (AP)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:06 +0000

AP - Academy Awards overseers have chosen an entertainment veteran to direct the next Oscar show.

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Oscars choose MTV awards veteran to direct show (AP)

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:05 +0000

AP - Academy Awards overseers have chosen an entertainment veteran to direct the next Oscar show.

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British Invasion Worries Oscar Staffers

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:58:28 +0000

By Steve Pond The selection of Hamish Hamilton to direct the 82nd Academy Awards was met with jubilation by many hoping for a more up-to-date Oscars, one that will be more entertaining and lure in more viewers. Among people who work on the show, though, the reaction was considerably more measured -- and coupled with a very real fear that in these economic times, giving key Oscar jobs to a British director and his team is not a message the Academy should be sending. “There’s a lot of animosity right now,” said one veteran crew member who expects to work on this Oscar show a...

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MTV Awards-Show Director Tapped for Oscars

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:40:35 +0000

By Josh L. Dickey The Oscars want their MTV. Hamish Hamilton has been named director of the 81st Annual Academy Awards, a sign that first-time producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman may push the Oscars further into the musical performance-heavy territory that the telecast found critical and ratings traction with last time around. The 43-year-old Brit has steered the stylish and freewheeling MTV Video Music Awards going back to 2006, and this year helmed “Neil Diamond: Hot August Night/NYC” and “Be the Change Inaugural Ball.”

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Good Morning, Oscar: November 18

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:15:24 +0000

By Steve Pond In this morning’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, Peter Jackson cranks ups the suffering in “Lovely Bones,” while Alec Baldwin shrugs off the pressure. Entertainment Weekly lists 25 longshots they’d love to see win Oscars. All their picks are for either best picture or the acting categories, five each. I’m with them on some of their faves (Viggo Mortensen in “The Road,” Ben Foster and Samantha Morton in “The Messenger” … ), but the gallery leaves me with a few questions. For instance, is &...

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Hamish Hamilton to direct Oscars

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:05:14 +0000

Film News: Veteran director to helm telecast -- Hamish Hamilton, a veteran helmer of live events, has been tapped to direct the upcoming Oscarcast.

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The Academy Likes 'Mr. Fox' ... Probably

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:00:19 +0000

By Steve Pond Sunday afternoon should have been the time when we got a good idea about whether Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" had enough Academy support to win one of the (presumed) five slots in the best animated feature race. The film, after all, screened at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater that afternoon -- and the amount of applause at members screenings at the Goldwyn is often a good judge of how eagerly Oscar voters embrace the movies they see there. The Academy, though, hates it when the media gets reports from members who've attended these screenings -- and in Ande...

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Golden Globes Expands Animation to Five

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:03:40 +0000

By Steve Pond Following the lead of the Oscars, the Golden Globes have recognized the strong year in animation by expanding the number of nominees in their "best animated feature" category to five. A new rule from the Hollywood Foreign Press specifies that the category will have five nominees any time more than 12 films qualify and three nominees if between eight and 11 films qualify; if fewer than eight films are eligible, the award will not be handed out. In this year's Oscar competition, 20 films qualified for consideration. The Golden Globe for feature ani...

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Good Morning, Oscar: November 17

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:20:37 +0000

By Steve Pond In this morning’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, Oscar music takes center stage with Jeff Bridges, Kate Hudson, Randy Newman, Alexandre Desplat and more. Kris Tapley crops a photo from the Governors Awards and comes up with … Jeff Bridges holding an Oscar statuette. “It really does feel like things are going to go Bridges’s way this Oscar season,” he says. So far this season, I want nothing more than for Bridges to win an overdue Oscar for his stunning work in “Crazy Heart.” And I think it'll happen. ...

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Opportunities for indie filmmakers, pop composers

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:55:44 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Music Preview: Alt songwriters are cheaper, have emo resonance -- For years it was common for studios to cross-market a film with a well known performer, but today niche artists are landing more tracks in films and reaping the spoils, especially around award season.

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Marvin Hamlisch cues comedy score

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:50:35 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Music Preview: Veteran composer returns for Soderbergh film -- Marvin Hamlish -- the '70s wunderkind who won Oscars for "The Way We Were" and "The Sting" and went on to conquer Broadway with "A Chorus Line" -- is back. And his music for "The Informant" is possibly the most eyebrow-raising score of the year.

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Film scorers cue character

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:37:39 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Music Preview: Eshkeri, Goldenthal note each key role through scores -- Three composers take unique approaches to their film scores.

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'Precious' song was personal for Blige

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:29:14 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Music Preview: Recording artist lives the music that she writes -- When noteworthy recording artists pen songs for films, it's an opportunity for them to flex their creative muscles and brand themselves in another arena, but rarely do you hear about a hired performer exorcising their demons.

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'Avatar' scorer's brave new music world

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:21:09 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Music: Horner matches visuals with audible vocabulary -- James Horner put in 15-hour days, six days a week, from March into November scoring James Cameron's "Avatar." "Draining" was his one-word explanation of a process that has required him to score scenes multiple times, invent instrumentation for a civilization that does not exist and create music that will fall with familiarity on the audience's ears.

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Giacchino prides himself on wide range

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:15:50 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Music: Composer crafts robust themes for 'Up,' 'Trek' -- With Paramount's "Star Trek" and Disney/Pixar's "Up," Michael Giacchino continues to demonstrate his flair for crafting robust themes so evocative and so memorable that moviegoers can take them home in their heads.

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Kent's movie music fills in the blanks

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:45:26 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Music: Composer provides back story for 'Air,' 'Goats' -- Rolfe Kent's jazzy score for "Sideways" provided the perfect accompaniment to a story about two guys on a semi-improvisational trip.

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Randy Newman

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:31:04 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Music Preview: The Princess and the Frog -- New Orleans in the early part of the 20th century - the setting of Disney's animated "The Princess and the Frog" - is territory that composer Randy Newman has trod before.

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Newman mines Big Easy music for 'Frog'

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:31:04 +0000

Eye on the Oscars: Music Preview: Composer digs into New Orleans' rich history -- New Orleans in the early part of the 20th century - the setting of Disney's animated "The Princess and the Frog" - is territory that composer Randy Newman has trod before.

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Dominating Performance Lifts 'Orson Welles'

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:50:14 +0000

By Steve Pond Over the years, Orson Welles has been portrayed on film and on TV by Vincent D’Onfrio, Live Schreiber, Danny Huston, Carsten Hayes and more than a dozen more actors, all of whom tried to embody the enormous, larger-than-life actor, filmmaker and mercurial genius responsible for “Citizen Kane,” the “War of the Worlds” radio panic, the groundbreaking Mercury Theater, and those regrettable Paul Masson wine commercials, among his other accomplishments. Some of the actors have fallen short, some have been terrific, and some have played it for laughs. B...

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Good Vibes and 'Bad Weed' at the Governors Awards

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:06:38 +0000

By Steve Pond Not everything that happened at Saturday night's Governors Awards ceremony fit into theWrap's initial report on the evening. Herewith, more random happenings, tidbits and musings from the lengthy, emotional evening, the first of its kind and the first significant Oscar event of the season: Given the event's low profile and only 550 guests, the usual Oscar crowds were nowhere in sight – not that the public could have gotten a glimpse of any of the attending luminaries, whose cars were routed through a roundabout path, entering from the back of the Hollywood & High...

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Good Morning, Oscar: November 16

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:42:43 +0000

By Steve Pond In this morning’s roundup of Oscar news ‘n’ notes from around the web, the Academy shows off lots of Governors Awards footage, and “Nine” finally screens … but who’s talking? Rob Marshall’s “Nine,” one of the big four films yet unseen by most Oscar-watchers, screened this weekend in New York for the Hollywood Foreign Press. All who saw it were under a strict embargo that forbade them from writing, tweeting, or saying anything about what they thought. But that’s not to say that some first impressions didn’t lea...

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Lauren Bacall's golden moment as she gets early Oscar aged 85

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:25:56 +0000

It has a reputation for glitz, glamour - and running late. Perhaps that's why the organisers of the Oscars chose to present Lauren Bacall with her golden statuette nearly four months before the ceremony.

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Oscars honor three greats, while hinting at show to come

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:56:51 +0000

The Oscars took a look back, and some Oscar hopefuls took a step forward.Three lifetime achievement Academy Awards were presented ...

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Screen legend Lauren Bacall given Oscar for life's work (AFP)

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:30:09 +0000

AFP - Hollywood presented its first Oscars of the awards season late Saturday, honoring screen acting legend Lauren Bacall with a statuette for her life's work in film.

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Hollywood Dinner Has Oscars on Menu

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:29:49 +0000

Something remarkable happened at the new awards ceremony sponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences: Hollywood let its guard down.

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Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman & Gordon Willis Earn Honorary Oscars

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:15:00 +0000

There's nothing like an Oscar statuette to kick off the holiday season. Iconic actress Lauren Bacall, B-movie maven Roger Corman and Godfather cinematographer Gordon Willis were all...

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