OscarWrap: Down to the Wire Why Disney Fired John Lasseter – And How He Came Back to Heal the Studio The Pixar co-founder, given the boot by Disney almost 30 years ago, returned to put the studio on the verge of its first animated-feature Oscar. Steve Pond Explains It All: How the Oscars Voting Process Actually Works (Video) The Academy’s preferential system can be hard to explain in print, so TheWrap’s Awards Editor will demonstrate — with poker chips. Oscar Stage Manager Reveals Backstage Secrets From 25 Years in the Wings Newly retired stage manager Dency Nelson saw everything that happened on and offstage during.
- 2/28/2014
- by Wrap Staff
- The Wrap
OscarWrap: Down to the Wire Why Disney Fired John Lasseter – And How He Came Back to Heal the Studio The Pixar co-founder, given the boot by Disney almost 30 years ago, returned to put the studio on the verge of its first animated-feature Oscar. Steve Pond Explains It All: How the Oscars Voting Process Actually Works (Video) The Academy’s preferential system can be hard to explain in print, so TheWrap’s Awards Editor will demonstrate — with poker chips. Oscar Stage Manager Reveals Backstage Secrets From 25 Years in the Wings Newly retired stage manager Dency Nelson saw everything that happened on and offstage during.
- 2/27/2014
- by Wrap Staff
- The Wrap
This story first appeared in OscarWrap: Down to the Wire For 25 years, Dency Nelson was the first person every movie star saw when they came into the wings to serve as an Oscar presenter, and the first one every winner saw when they came offstage with their statuette. A veteran stage manager who once handled cue cards for Merv Griffin, Nelson was a steady, unflappable presence in the stage-right wings of the stage beginning with one show in 1985 and then from 1989 until 2013, his long run interrupted only once, when his father died just before the Oscars...
- 2/27/2014
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The Directors Guild Awards has been an extremely reliable predictor of the Oscar winner for best director over the years. It won't be this year, though.
Ben Affleck, who isn't nominated for a directing Oscar for "Argo," won the DGA Award for feature films Saturday night (Feb. 2). He beat out fellow nominees Kathryn Bigelow ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Tom Hooper ("Les Miserables"), Ang Lee ("Life of Pi") and Steven Spielberg ("Lincoln").
Affleck's Oscar snub is looking ever more curious as he's now won the DGA Award, a Golden Globe and a Critics' Choice Award for his direction of "Argo."
Related: Oscar snubs and surprises
All the DGA Award winners:
Feature film: Ben Affleck, "Argo"
Documentary: Malik Bendjelloul, "Searching for Sugar Man"
TV movie/miniseries: Jay Roach, "Game Change"
Drama series: Rian Johnson, "Breaking Bad" - "Fifty-One"
Comedy series: Lena Dunham, "Girls" - "Pilot"
Musical variety: Glenn Weiss, "66th Annual Tony Awards"
Reality programs: Brian Smith,...
Ben Affleck, who isn't nominated for a directing Oscar for "Argo," won the DGA Award for feature films Saturday night (Feb. 2). He beat out fellow nominees Kathryn Bigelow ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Tom Hooper ("Les Miserables"), Ang Lee ("Life of Pi") and Steven Spielberg ("Lincoln").
Affleck's Oscar snub is looking ever more curious as he's now won the DGA Award, a Golden Globe and a Critics' Choice Award for his direction of "Argo."
Related: Oscar snubs and surprises
All the DGA Award winners:
Feature film: Ben Affleck, "Argo"
Documentary: Malik Bendjelloul, "Searching for Sugar Man"
TV movie/miniseries: Jay Roach, "Game Change"
Drama series: Rian Johnson, "Breaking Bad" - "Fifty-One"
Comedy series: Lena Dunham, "Girls" - "Pilot"
Musical variety: Glenn Weiss, "66th Annual Tony Awards"
Reality programs: Brian Smith,...
- 2/3/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The Directors Guild announces the recipients of four achivement awards, set to be handed out at their 65th annual awards dinner on February 2. These honorees are in addition to the previously announced recipient of the Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award for Motion Picture Direction, Milos Forman. Director Michael Apted will receive the DGA’s Robert B. Aldrich Award, recognizing his service to the DGA and its membership; Eric Shapiro will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in News Direction; Susan Zwerman will receive the Frank Capra Achievement Award, recognizing her career as a Unit Production Manager and Assistant Direcotor and service to the Guild; and Dency Nelson will receive the Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award, recognizing his career as a Stage Manager and service to the Guild. Of Apted, Guild president Taylor Hackford states, “The service and dedication of our members is our Guild’s greatest strength, and no one embodies these.
- 12/5/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Michael Apted, Eric Shapiro, Susan Zwerman and Dency Nelson have been selected to receive four special DGA Awards at the Directors Guild of American’s awards dinner on Feb. 2. Apted will be honored with the DGA’s 2013 Robert B. Aldrich Award, for extraordinary service to the DGA and to its membership. Shapiro will receive the DGA’s 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award in News Direction. Zwerman will be given the 2013 Frank Capra Achievement Award, which is given to an assistant director or unit production manager in recognition of career achievement in the industry and service to the DGA. The 2013 Franklin
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- 12/5/2012
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michael Apted, Eric Shapiro, Susan Zwerman and Dency Nelson will be honored with awards for career achievement and service to the DGA at the 65th Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. "The service and dedication of our members is our Guild's greatest strength, and no one embodies these qualities more than Michael Apted," DGA president Taylor Hackford said while announcing the awards Wednesday. "Michael has packed more Guild service into the 15 years since he was first elected to the Western Directors Council than most can do in...
- 12/5/2012
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
Los Angeles — Even the hundreds of photographers, TV cameras and webcams around the Hollywood & Highland Center can't capture every starry moment of Sunday's 84th annual Academy Awards.
Celebrities reunite on the red carpet, mingle during commercial breaks and experience impromptu star-crossings in the wings – and we've got our eyes and ears trained on those moments.
From arrivals to after-parties, here's a running account of what you didn't see on TV:
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3:22 – "Is the house open?", a casually dressed Billy Crystal asks a backstage security crew a little more than two hours before the Oscar show is to begin. Wearing jeans, a sweater, sneakers and his Oscar credential, Crystal gazes out at an empty theater as he hits his marks and silently rehearses his monologue. A few minutes later, he's gone.
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3:26 p.m. – Outside the theater, things are beginning to heat up, thanks in no small part to the arrival...
Celebrities reunite on the red carpet, mingle during commercial breaks and experience impromptu star-crossings in the wings – and we've got our eyes and ears trained on those moments.
From arrivals to after-parties, here's a running account of what you didn't see on TV:
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3:22 – "Is the house open?", a casually dressed Billy Crystal asks a backstage security crew a little more than two hours before the Oscar show is to begin. Wearing jeans, a sweater, sneakers and his Oscar credential, Crystal gazes out at an empty theater as he hits his marks and silently rehearses his monologue. A few minutes later, he's gone.
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3:26 p.m. – Outside the theater, things are beginning to heat up, thanks in no small part to the arrival...
- 2/27/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Among the many stars readying for the biggest night in Tinseltown, Angelina Jolie was busy rehearsing for the 84th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Friday (February 24).
The 36-year-old took to the Hollywood & Highland Center venue where she was joined by the ceremony's producer Brian Grazer and stage manager Dency Nelson while practicing her presenter role.
And while the session was fast paced, even Grazer and Nelson couldn't help but fold to Miss Jolie's undeniable star power.
"You have to take a picture with me first!" Brian said as soon as Angelina took to the stage before politely adding, "Well, you don't Have to."...
The 36-year-old took to the Hollywood & Highland Center venue where she was joined by the ceremony's producer Brian Grazer and stage manager Dency Nelson while practicing her presenter role.
And while the session was fast paced, even Grazer and Nelson couldn't help but fold to Miss Jolie's undeniable star power.
"You have to take a picture with me first!" Brian said as soon as Angelina took to the stage before politely adding, "Well, you don't Have to."...
- 2/25/2012
- icelebz.com
HollywoodNews.com:Directors Guild of America President Taylor Hackford today announced the DGA’s nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television and Commercials for the year 2011.
?The caliber of work being done on television these days is incredible, and our director nominees in each category are an indispensable element to the success of every project — establishing and enhancing the vision and tone, eliciting outstanding performances and furthering the narrative arc through their creative choices,? said Hackford. ?That they are able to create excellence regardless of obstacles like tighter schedules and in an environment in which audiences have more entertainment options to choose from — is a true testament to the importance of directorial skill in television.?
The winners will be announced at the 64th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.
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The nominees for the Directors Guild...
?The caliber of work being done on television these days is incredible, and our director nominees in each category are an indispensable element to the success of every project — establishing and enhancing the vision and tone, eliciting outstanding performances and furthering the narrative arc through their creative choices,? said Hackford. ?That they are able to create excellence regardless of obstacles like tighter schedules and in an environment in which audiences have more entertainment options to choose from — is a true testament to the importance of directorial skill in television.?
The winners will be announced at the 64th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.
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Movies For Television And Mini-series
The nominees for the Directors Guild...
- 1/10/2012
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Although Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" did not make the shortlist of 15 films under consideration for the best documentary Oscar, it is among the nominees for the DGA's doc award, announced Friday.
"Waltz" will compete with Gonzalo Arijon's "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains," in which survivors of a 1972 Andes plane crash tell their story; Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco's "The Judge and the General," a look back at the investigation into the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; Peter Gilbert & Stevie James' "At the Death House Door," an examination of the wrongful conviction of a Texas man executed for murder; and James Marsh's "Man on Wire," a study of tight-rope walker Philippe Petit.
All the nominees are first-time DGA nominees, with the exception of Gilbert (who won the DGA's doc award in 1998 for "Vietnam: Long Time Coming" and was...
"Waltz" will compete with Gonzalo Arijon's "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains," in which survivors of a 1972 Andes plane crash tell their story; Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco's "The Judge and the General," a look back at the investigation into the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; Peter Gilbert & Stevie James' "At the Death House Door," an examination of the wrongful conviction of a Texas man executed for murder; and James Marsh's "Man on Wire," a study of tight-rope walker Philippe Petit.
All the nominees are first-time DGA nominees, with the exception of Gilbert (who won the DGA's doc award in 1998 for "Vietnam: Long Time Coming" and was...
- 1/9/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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