Nikki Finke has some early word, which isn't a lot yet...
Oscar Can't Always Get What He Wants By Nikki Finke | Category: Uncategorized | Friday October 16, 2009 @ 4:52pm I've learned that the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences board of governors wanted a complete do-over of last year's Oscar broadcast that broke a string of low, lower, lowest TV ratings. I've already reported that AMPAS went to Larry Mark and Bill Condon and asked them to respectively produce and direct again. But Mark is producing Jim Brook's next movie, and Condon is prepping his Richard Pryor biopic. So they turned down the always prestigious offer. Now I'm told that AMPAS is about to check on the availability of Hugh Jackman to host for the 2nd year in a row. What an honor for the Aussie actor, who recently helped the show win the Emmy. But I've learned people around Jackman are going to privately recommend against him doing it twice. "He's a movie star, not a song and dance man," one rep told me, especially since Hugh also hosted the Tony's. So it looks as if new AMPAS president Tom Sherak is back at square one. Meanwhile, I hear that Hawk Koch and Joel Silver separately offered to produce the Academy Awards last year. And Sherak could always go to his longtime business intimate Joe Roth who produced the 76th Oscars in 2004. Ah, but getting a host is always the hardest part. I've learned none will be announced until AMPAS pins down the producer who has final say over everything to do with the telecast.
(If there is already a thread for this please let me know and I'll put this there and delete this.)
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Hugh did a good job, really. But I want Wanda Sykes to host the Oscars. lol
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<<I really loved 5 previous winners praising all the current nominees in the acting categories.>>
And shame on any other group that tries to steal it, and any actor who participates in any other show that does.
That said, one of the things that made it special was that it was a surprise. Now there will be politics and speculation and some nominees wanting to choose their presenter and all sorts of tsuris.
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Originally posted by ETHELCHARLES: I really loved 5 previous winners praising all the current nominees in the acting categories.
Yeah, that was something I especially loved. I hope they can do that again.
One element that really interesting about it was that it allowed each nominee to be singled out and praised moreso than usual and deservedly so and was particularly poignant in the female categories because of their more unguarded emotional response - most seemed to get teary eyed.
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Nothing will ever beat the first time they did it but I wish they're gonna go back to the traditional current winners. It might be difficult for them to get a new set of winners every year.
If ever they stick with it, I can see that during the third or fourth try, they're gonna be repeating the same winners already,
I hope The Office wins as Best Comedy Series for this year's Emmy Awards.
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It would get boring if they used the same people all the time. But that shouldn't happen. There are enough of them and you'll be adding new ones every year.
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EXCLUSIVE: Adam Shankman & Bill Mechanic Will Produce 82nd Oscars By Nikki Finke | Category: Uncategorized | Tuesday October 20, 2009 @ 12:31pm UPDATE: This is an unexpected combination, one that surely will have Hollywood scratching its collective head. But I consider it a good choice that bodes well for AMPAS new president Tom Sherak. Both Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic are experienced movie people, and Shankman has the added benefit of current TV experience. They were chosen by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences board of directors after the institution first asked last year's Oscar producers, Larry Mark and Bill Condon, to repeat after a dramatic ratings rise for the often maligned telecast which prior to 2009 had been attracting smaller viewership. The new producing duo will have final say over the Oscar host.
Adam Shankman is the multitalented film director, producer, dancer, actor and choreographer. He has been a judge on the Fox TV program So You Think You Can Dance since Season 3. He began his professional career in musical theatre, and was a dancer in music videos for Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson. Shankman also choreographed one of the Spice Girls' tours. He has directed several feature-length films, including A Walk to Remember, Bringing Down The House, and Hairspray.
Bill Mechanic was chairman and chief executive officer of Twentieth Century Fox Filmed Entertainment for seven years. He oversaw all operations of the studio including worldwide feature film production, marketing and distribution activities; as well as all worldwide operations for Fox Video, Fox Interactive, Licensing and Merchandising, and Fox Music. Currently, he is producing movies through his independent production company, Pandemonium.
During Mechanic's tenure at Fox, the company produced such hit films as James Cameron’s Titanic (which became the highest-grossing film, and the top-selling video, in movie history) and True Lies, Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, Robert Zemeckis’ Cast Away and What Lies Beneath, Bryan Singer’s X-Men, Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day, Jon Amiel’s Entrapment, Raja Gosnell’s Big Momma’s House and Never Been Kissed, George Tillman Jr.’s Soul Food and Men Of Honor, Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s There’s Something About Mary and Me Myself & Irene, Kimberly Peirce’s Boys Don’t Cry, Philip Kaufman’s Quills, Chris Columbus’ Mrs. Doubtfire, Jan De Bont’s Speed, John McTiernan’s Die Hard with a Vengeance, Peter Cattaneo’s The Full Monty, Betty Thomas’ Dr. Dolittle, Rob Bowman’s The X-Files, John Woo’s Broken Arrow, Andy Tennant’s Ever After, Edward Zwick’s Courage Under Fire, Forest Whitaker’s Waiting To Exhale and Hope Floats, Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line, Baz Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo+ Juliet, and Don Bluth and Gary Goldman’s Anastasia. Under Mr. Mechanic’s tenure, Twentieth Century Fox was the number one studio in worldwide box-office gross in 1998. That same year, Fox Music produced five of the top ten best-selling soundtracks: Titanic, Hope Floats, Doctor Dolittle, Bulworth, and Ally McBeal. Also during his tenure, Fox produced the No. 1 grossing movie worldwide for three consecutive years; Die Hard with a Vengeance, Independence Day, and Titanic; shared the Best Picture Academy Award twice, for Braveheart and Titanic; won the Best Actress Oscar for Boys Don’t Cry (Hilary Swank); and earned 42 Oscar nominations in total.
I hope this doesn't mean they'll bring back those awful dance numbers that seemed to populate the oscars back in the 70s and 80s. Gawd, those were heinous!
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