Tag: Oscars
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Were the 93rd Oscars really about Mogul vs Mogul?
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent ‘Congratulations to Searchlight Pictures for NOMADLAND that just swept the 93rd Oscars with Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress.’ You can hear the echo of the celebrations (however low-key) last night after the telecast beamed ‘round the world, online and on Zoom. But what was this Oscar year…
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Big Boy of Alloy: The 93rd #Oscar Noms & Oscartini Recipe FYI
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent It’s not enough that this Award Season 2021 went virtual right out of the gate due to the Pandemic? But the Academy actually decided that the foreboding Ides of March, or March 15, would be an auspicious date for the Nominations Announcement for the 93rd Oscar Presentation. Who knows…
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Award Season’s first salvo is Gary Oldman’s Oscar-worthy MANK
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent “Times are changing, Mr. Mankiewicz,” says GOT’s Charles Dance as William Randolph Hearst in the Gary Oldman starrer MANK, but have they really changed? Hearst is TPTB or the powers that be, paying half the salary of CITIZEN KANE screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz without his knowledge. And that’s the…
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Borat backlash: Turkish Americans & Kazakh Cultural Media blows into Hollywood
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Has the cultural-appropriation boom finally been dropped on the BORAT franchise? If you are Sacha Baron Cohen right now, you might be wondering. Remarkably, the Association of Turkish Americans of Southern California and the Kazakh Cultural Media Association have teamed up for a public pillorying of the most recent release,…
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May Day: LA LA LAND For All Streaming & Jamie Lee Curtis, Fundraiser on Lionsgate Live!
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Heck those cute kids, they literally tap-danced their way into stardom in LA LA LAND. What? Okay, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling were already big stars, but this pairing made them huge. Emma Stone even won the Best Actress (she would prefer ‘actor’) award that year… But wait, a…
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SHORTSTV™ Will Actually Screen Oscar Nom Short Films Nationwide in Jan. 2020
Curated by Screenmancer Staff from STORTSTV & Magnolia Pictures LOS ANGELES, CA: ShortsTV™, ShortsTV, the pioneering platform dedicated to short entertainment (www.shorts.tv), working with Magnolia Pictures, will open “THE 2020 OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORT FILMS” on more than 500 screens across the United States on January 31, 2020, marking the 15th year of the release. The 2020 Oscars® season kicked off…
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HONEY BOY Will Mess You UP, But FORD V FERRARI Is a Great Chaser at FF919
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent You know it’s a great film festival when you lose track of the calendar count on your daily coverage, meaning today is Day Three, hopefully? Blame Shia LaBeouf’s autobiography-coaster HONEY BOY. Film Fest 919 in Chapel Hill, NC, is showing Shia’s written testament to a Hollywood Childhood on the…
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Party Like It’s 919, But Seriously This IS Film Fest 919 in Chapel Hill, NC
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Once upon a time in Palm Beach and Santa Barbara, there were no smash-hit film festivals and then along came some powerhouse women and made it happen… You have to imagine John Forsythe saying this because Film Fest 919 happening this week in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is literally…
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HATSHEPSUT Short Closing Night 9/19 Laemmle
Okay, here they are – my Superstars – Director Sonia Machado-Hines who directed my script HATSHEPSUT as a short now up for Awards Consideration & my best Dog Park Friend, Diane Ford, Neonatal Nurse, saves babies at Kaiser.https://t.co/V5TX2FbXX3 pic.twitter.com/B6TTfjnmPt — Quendrith Johnson (@Quendrith) September 19, 2019
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A Nominee is Born: Renee Zellweger is JUDY Garland Right Now
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent So, who else was skeptical about blonde Laplander Renée Zellweger doing Judy Garland? Doubt no more, sincerely, as Zellweger blows the roof off award season in this behind-the-scenes look at JUDY, (Judy: The Legend Behind the Rainbow) to be released Sept. 27. Two words: stunning, Renée. Just stunning… Watch…
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