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Legendary playwright, filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter David Mamet did not mince his words The scribe, who is behind The Untouchables, Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, The Postman Always Rings Twice, and the very underrated Wag the Dog, talked about the entertainment industry’s efforts to drive greater diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in its ranks. And he's no fan. “DEI is garbage,” Mamet told the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. He added the industry’s DEI efforts amounted to “fascist totalitarianism.” The playwright and director, who has worked in Hollywood since the 1...
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Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries Roots, has died aged 87. A statement from the family said Gossett died Friday morning. No cause of death was revealed. In 2010, Gossett announced he had prostate cancer, which he said was caught in the early stages. In 2020, he was hospitalized with COVID-19. Louis Cameron Gossett was born on 27 May 1936 in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York, to Louis Sr., a porter, and Hellen, a nurse. He later added Jr. to his name to honor his father. Gossett broke ...
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David Seidler, best known for his Oscar and BAFTA-winning screenplay for the 2010 historical drama The King’s Speech, has died aged 86. According to his manager, Jeff Aghassi, Seidler died on Saturday (16 March) during a fly-fishing trip in New Zealand, Aghassi said: “David was in the place he loved most in the world – New Zealand – doing what gave him the greatest peace, which was fly fishing. If given the chance, it is exactly as he would have scripted it.” The London-born screenwriter, who grew up with a stammer, was inspired to write about the true story of how King George VI overcame his ...
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Controversy continues to rage regarding Jonathan Glazer’s polarizing speech at the Oscars. When the British filmmaker took the stage after the Auschwitz-set Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest was announced as Best International Feature, he delivered a stirring speech, in which he drew a parallel between his film and the current conflict in Gaza. Glazer, who is Jewish, said those killed in both Israel and Gaza were victims of "dehumanisation". "Our film shows where dehumanisation leads at its worst. It's shaped all of our past and present." He continued: “Right now we stand here as men who re...
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The Oscars this year were a relatively tame affair, with very few stars and filmmakers directly speaking out about the current conflict in the Middle East on what is irrefutably Hollywood’s biggest stage. Prior to the ceremony, several celebs expressed their views, but with the fear that speaking out could lead to negative impacts on their careers, most choose silence – something which feels even more glaring considering the awards night started with protesters demanding a ceasefire and blocking traffic outside the Dolby Theatre. The 96th Oscars did see some celebrities, including Mark Ruffalo...
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Aside from giving us a strangely underwhelming finale at the Oscars on Sunday / Monday morning, Al Pacino has made amends by announcing the release of his “astonishingly revelatory” memoir. For those of you who missed it, Pacino took to the stage at the 96th edition of the Academy Awards to announce the top prize of the evening: Best Film – which ended up going to Oppenheimer. The veteran actor, 83, abruptly announced the winner without first listing the nominees, as is customary. He mumbled "my eyes see 'Oppenheimer'," leaving everyone momentarily disorientated as to whether the film had won,...
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Ghibli, the Japanese studio that just won its second Oscar for Best Feature Animation for The Boy and The Heron, hasn't announced what it plans next. However, founder Hayao Miyazaki, who at 83 was the oldest director ever nominated in that category, won’t rule out making another film, even if his next project is a short instead of a full-length feature. According to a longtime confidante, Miyazaki, one of animation's most admired and successful directors, is a bit embarrassed about having pronounced a decade ago that he would no longer make movies, citing his age. “He regrets having announced ...
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Ukraine awoke on Monday to another day of war - Russian drones blasted buildings in the Kharkiv and Odesa regions - but also to news that it had won its first Oscar. The best documentary victory for Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account by The Associated Press journalist of the early days of Russia’s invasion in 2022, was bittersweet. “This is the first Oscar in Ukrainian history, and I’m honoured,” an emotional Chernov said on Sunday at the Academy Awards. “Probably I will be the first director on this stage to say I wish I’d never made this film, I wish t...
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Well, this is awkward... We thought that the biggest hoopla at this year’s Oscars would be the absence of Messi, the dog from Anatomy of a Fall, who is rumoured not to be attending the ceremony in a few hours because some members of the Academy were none to pleased with the dog doing the rounds. Seriously – some companies with nominated films were complaining about the good boy attending Oscars luncheons because the pooch was giving the film an unfair boost during the voting window. Same old Hollywood... But now, a bigger bombshell has dropped. The Oscar nominated film The Holdovers – a major ...
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Hollywood loves to mine literature as source material for its films, and this year’s Best Picture nominees show the habit is front and centre. Five of the 10 Best Pictures are based on books - three novels and two works of historical nonfiction. That’s significantly more than previous years, and serves as a reminder that a film’s success always comes back to words on a page. Without writers and scriptwriters, there wouldn’t be much to watch or celebrate in the seventh art. Films need directors and actors; they’re made in the editing room; but whether original or adapted, they originate from th...
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