Resignations, terminations and even a hiring took place at high speed during the weekend, for several lawyers caught up in the controversy emanating from Oscar -
winning film producer Harvey Weinstein's alleged actions in Hollywood and elsewhere.
Not exact matches
On Monday, New Form Digital, the studio formed by Discovery, Academy Award -
winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) and Academy Award
winning producer Brian Grazer, announced that it was partnering up with a collection of YouTube stars to fund and develop 14 short
films, The Los Angeles Times reported.
If a movie
producer tries too hard to re-create an award -
winning film, putting together a big budget, an epic storyline, some top names, it can still be a flop.
I've coached + created marketing strategies for Fortune 500 CEOs, Internet millionaires, world - renowned speakers, award -
winning documentary
film producers, civil rights activists, best - selling authors, Food Network personalities, Yoga Gurus, and the occasional Jesuit priest.
When Spotlight, the critically acclaimed
film about the Boston Globe's investigation into clergy sexual abuse,
won best picture at this year's Oscars,
producer Michael Sugar accepted the award with a message: This
film gave a voice to survivors and this Oscar amplifies that voice which we hope....
«I'm Alive: The Floresta da Tijuca Sessions» was conceived of and led by GRAMMY ® Award -
winning producer Andres Levin of Content - OS, who directed and produced the
film alongside Paula Lavigne and Fernando Young.
The award -
winning film actor, director and
producer had a long association with Chelsea dating back to the 1940s and served as a club director before accepting roles as life vice-president and then life - president.
Chocolate Milk: The Documentary counters this habitually negative narrative as award -
winning director and
producer Elizabeth Bayne, MPH, MFA explores the racial inequities of breastfeeding in her first feature - length
film.
David Ewing Duncan, an award -
winning, best - selling author of seven books and numerous essays, articles and short stories; and a television, radio and
film producer and correspondent, visits the Genomic Medicine Institute.
A nurse, then an award -
winning music, theater and
film producer, Ms. Rizzo produced the documentary Climb Against the Odds: Mt. McKinley, which chronicles BCPP's 1998 expedition.
Hemingway teamed up with Academy Award -
winning producer and director Barbara Kopple and the Oprah Winfrey Network to produce the
film Running from Crazy, in which Mariel confronts her family's history of mental illness as she explores the path she has taken toward well being.
Kendall Nelson, is a
producer, director and activist who co-produced The Greater Good, an award -
winning film that explores the controversy of vaccinations.
Leslie Manookian, is an award -
winning documentary
film producer and writer and former successful Wall Street business executive.
With a diverse array of clients ranging from award -
winning film and television
producers to young families to single professionals, she collaborates with each individual on their unique residential and commercial needs to always create a feng shui consultation that delivers.
From executive
producers Wes Craven, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and Chris Moore comes a new terrifying tale, Feast, the
winning film from the hit series «Project Greenlight.»
Yann Gonzalez's second feature stars Vanessa Paradis as Anne, a gay porn
producer who tries to
win back her lover (and editor) by shooting her most amazing
film yet.
While Emmy -
winning Survivor
producer and host Jeff Probst (born November 4th, 1962) has occasionally taken a seat besides Kelly Ripa on Live with Regis and Kelly and even directed his own award -
winning feature
film, chances are that when all is said and done, the role he'll be best remembered for is that of the firm but fair host who snuffed out more than his share of torches on the popular competitive reality show that made him a household name.
In the 2000s, Stevens found new success on the other side of the camera, as a prolific
producer of both independent and mainstream Hollywood
films, even
winning the Oscar for Best Documentary for his 2009
film about the slaughtering of dolphins, The Cove.
Greta Gerwig who wrote and directed «Lady Bird,» which
won Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, noted that «it's been such an incredible year for women in
film both as actors and also writers and directors and
producers and people who are really coming to the forefront to tell their stories about the world as they know it from where they are standing, and I think that the response to these projects and the support that these projects have gotten and the way that audiences are going to see them or watching them in their homes, I think all of this just makes it so much easier for the next crop of filmmakers who want to tell stories about women.»
Having an Academy Award nominated director, Hampton Fancher (screenwriter from the original
film) and Ridley Scott (director of Blade Runner) as executive
producer would ordinarily be a
winning combination.
Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen known informally as the Coen brothers, are Academy Award
winning American
film directors, screenwriters,
producers, and editors.
Gavin Hood is a South African filmmaker, screenwriter,
producer, and actor, best known for writing and directing the Academy Award —
winning foreign language
film Tsotsi.
The drama about the last chapter of a long marriage, which stars two veteran French actors (Jean - Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) and premiered at May's Cannes
Film Festival (where it
won the Palme d'Or), was claimed by Austria because the Academy's rules dictate that a
film's nationality is dependent not on the language that is primarily spoken in the
film or the origins of the stars, but rather on the origins of the majority of the
film's principal behind - the - scenes talent — the writer, director, and
producer.
The
film, a fairy tale love story between a mute woman and an otherworldly beast,
won best picture, and its
producer defended the studio in the wake of the merger.
Katheryn Bigelow, Oscar -
winning director of The Hurt Locker, became an executive
producer of Matthew Heineman's directorial debut Cartel Land after seeing it, which should be a pretty good indicator of the
film's impact.
From Oscar -
winning producer Kathryn Bigelow comes «Cartel Land,» director Matthew Heineman's documentary
film about the Mexican drug war and vigilantes on both sides of the US - Mexican border.
THE SHERMAN BROTHERS: A HOLLYWOOD SONGBOOK — June 20 — 7:30 p.m. Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Beverly Hills With Oscar -
winning composers Richard M. Sherman and Michael Giacchino,
film critic Leonard Maltin, Oscar -
winning director Pete Docter, Oscar -
winning producer Jonas Rivera, actors Dick Van Dyke, Anthony Gonzalez, B.J. Novak, Lesley Ann Warren, Grammy ® -
winning performers LeAnn Rimes and Kenny Loggins and more.
From Academy Award ® winner Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential) and Oscar ® -
winning producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind), 8 Mile is the triumphant
film Time Magazine hails as «Powerful!»
Emmy -
winning actor and
producer Lena Waithe on Tuesday will join a GLAAD and WME panel to discuss the state of LGBTQ inclusion in
film and television, the media - advocacy organization said Monday.
In this Sundance award -
winning film, Director Matthew Heineman and Executive
Producer Kathryn Bigelow («The Hurt Locker», «Zero Dark Thirty») gain unprecedented, on - the - ground access to the riveting stories of two modern - day vigilante groups and their shared enemy — the murderous Mexican drug cartels.
Animal Kingdom was developed for television by Jonathan Lisco and inspired by the award -
winning feature
film written & directed by David Michod and produced by Liz Watts, who also serve as executive
producers on the series.
Guillermo del Toro's fantasy drama «The Shape of Water» has
won the
Producers Guild of America's Darryl F. Zanuck Award as top feature
film for del Toro and J. Miles Dale.
The «La La Land»
wins continued that
film's seemingly unstoppable roll through awards season, giving Chazelle the director awards from BAFTA, the DGA, the Golden Globes and the Critics» Choice Awards, along with his
film's victory at the
Producers Guild Awards and Stone's
wins at the Globes, Critics» Choice and SAG Awards.
Sarah Gertrude Shapiro is co-creator, writer, and
producer of Lifetime series UnREAL, which is based off her award -
winning short
film Sequin Raze.
She is an Emmy Award -
winning producer and executive
producer of documentary feature
films.
Director Martin McDonagh, left,
producer Peter Czernin, actors Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand and
producer Graham Broadbent delight in «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri»
winning best
film at the BAFTA 2018 Awards.
Cecilia Aldarondo is an award -
winning documentary director and
producer whose
films explore intimate, universal themes such as death, memory, family conflict, and cultural difference.
«The Shape of Water,» Guillermo del Toro's striking, sensual fantasy
film,
won the
Producers Guild of America's top honor Saturday night at the PGA Awards, cementing its place as one of the front - runners of this year's wide - open Oscar best picture race.
Other awards included writer Stephen Beresford and
producer David Livingstone
winning in the outstanding British debut category for Pride; Interstellar
won best special visual effects; Ida
won best
film not in the English language; and Jack O'Connell
won the EE rising star award.
Layton
won the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or
Producer for the
film.
Producers Jon Avnet («Black Swan») and Garcia («Albert Nobbs») have
won Oscar, Emmy and Tony Awards for their work, while Cohen has produced such acclaimed
films as «Silver Linings Playbook,» «Milk» and «American Beauty.»
by Walter Chaw A seminal year for
film, 1968: Once Upon a Time in the West, Rosemary's Baby, Planet of the Apes, Night of the Living Dead, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barbarella, If..., Targets, Faces, Danger: Diabolik... and, some would say, Mel Brooks's The
Producers, a
film back in the limelight thanks to the record - breaking, award -
winning Broadway play on which it's based now coming out as an extraordinarily ill - advised feature
film of its own.
In Knife + Hearet, Vanessa plays a gay - porn
producer in 1979 Paris who is trying to
win back her ex-girlfriend even as a masked serial killer stalks and slays the actors who star in her blue
films.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the third
film producer Graham Broadbent's company, Blueprint Pictures, has done with Oscar -
winning director Martin McDonagh.
It took two years to complete and was a financial failure when the
producers (wary of the way Hu shifted from action spectacle to arthouse grace) released the
film in two parts in 1971, and then
won an award at Cannes when Hu's complete cut was screened in 1975.
The
film was produced by multiple award -
winning producer David Heyman (the «Harry Potter»
films, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,» Oscar nominee for «Gravity»).
Friedkin was in the audience when Bug premiered off - Broadway and quickly approached Letts with the idea of a
film version; the playwright set to work on a screenplay while Friedkin raised $ 4 million from independent
producers and eventually
won distribution from Lionsgate Films.
Deadline is reporting that 20th Century Fox has
won the remake rights to John Carpenter's beloved sci - fi action
film and Carpenter himself is set to serve as executive
producer.
He also has
won as
producer, since the
film also took home the top
Producers Guild of America Award.
Directed by three - time Academy Award
winning American
film director, screenwriter and
producer Leo McCarey, the movie is fully deserving of its place in
film history.