In weekly coaching
sessions, there was plenty of «resistance, frustration,» and «people upset and angry» at having to
rescind the power and workflow that in some cases they had spent long careers developing.
In a special
session Monday, the executive committee of the Academy's Producers Branch ruled to
rescind Mr. Chartier's invitation to the 82nd Annual Academy Awards ®, to be held Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland Center ®.