Kevin Haney, Oscar®- and Emmy®- winning make-up artist best known for his work on Driving Miss Daisy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Hocus Pocus 2; and Ora T. Green, Emmy-nominated hair stylist known for her work on Star Trek: Nemesis, Blade and Good Times, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 11th Annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards, (MUAHS, IATSE Local 706). The honors will be bestowed at the gala on Sunday, February 18, 2024.
The MUAHS Lifetime Achievement Awards honor artists with an extraordinary spectrum of acclaimed work, exceptional contributions to the entertainment industry, and outstanding service to their union or their craft.
“We are honored to recognize Kevin Haney and Ora T. Green for their unprecedented contributions to the artistry of make-up and hair styling. Over their legendary careers, their work has been captured on the most memorable, More
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- Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023
- Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023
Jimmy Kimmel is returning as host of the Academy Awards for the second straight year and fourth time overall, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday.
ABC is turning again to its late-night host a year after bringing Kimmel back for a 2023 ceremony that drew 18.7 million viewers, the most since 2020's pre-pandemic broadcast. In the wake of Will Smith's slap of Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, Kimmel led a cautious ceremony that helped stabilize the Academy Awards after years of turmoil.
Kimmel also hosted the Oscars in 2017 and 2018.
"I always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times," Kimmel said in a statement.
Though the comic is inching up in the record books, he's still a long ways from the most frequent Oscar emcee. That title belongs to Bob Hope, who hosted a record 19 times either solo or as a co-host. Billy Crystal hosted nine times all between 1990 and 2012.
The film academy More
- Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023
The Clio Awards has set the lineup of industry leaders who will serve as the chairs of its multidisciplinary juries in 2024. For the first time, 12 of the jury chairs will come together to form a unified jury themselves and will determine the Grand Clio Winner in Innovation by selecting from the Gold Clio winners in the Innovation medium as determined by each of the main juries.
The 2024 jury will convene in Majorca, Spain for spirited deliberations that will ultimately determine which entries will earn the coveted Grand, Gold, Silver and Bronze Clio statues. Each jury is tasked with evaluating the execution of submissions within their medium based solely on the creativity of the work.
The elite-level industry leaders--hand selected for their blend of culture, identity, perspective and experience--who will lead jury deliberations are:
- Audio & Audio Craft: Icaro Doria, President & CCO, DM9 (Sao Paulo)
- Brand: More
- Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023
Disney on Tuesday released a study showing its economic impact in Florida at $40.3 billion as it battles Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his appointees over their takeover of the district that governs the entertainment company's massive theme park resort in central Florida.
Disney accounted for 263,000 jobs in Florida, more than three times the actual workforce at Walt Disney World, according to the study conducted by Oxford Economics and commissioned by Disney, covering fiscal year 2022. Besides direct employment and spending, the study attributed the company's multibillion-dollar impact to indirect influences, such as supply chain and employees' spending.
The jobs include Disney employees as well as jobs supported by visitor spending off Disney World property. Disney employs 82,000 workers in Florida, not only at Disney World outside Orlando, but also Disney Cruise Line in Port Canaveral, Fort Lauderdale and Miami, as well as a resort in More
- Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023
Effie Worldwide has set the lineup for its 2023 Iridium Effie Jury, responsible for selecting the single most effective case of the year in its Global Best of the Best Effie program.
Gold and Grand Effie winners from all 50+ Effie Awards programs in 2022 were eligible to enter, competing for the Global Grand Effie in their respective categories. Fifty three cases from across 29 markets have moved on from the first round of judging to contend for Global Grand Effies.
All Global Grand winners will be reviewed by the Iridium Jury to select the most effective effort of the year.
The Iridium Jury will be led by Susan Akkad, SVP, Local and Cultural Platforms, Corporate Innovation at The Estée Lauder Companies and Tze Kiat Tan, CEO of Omnicom’s BBDO Asia.
Akkad and Tan will be joined on the jury by:
- Neal Arthur, Chief Executive Officer, Wieden+Kennedy
- Keith Cartwright, Founder & Chief Creative Officer More
- Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
Robert Downey Jr. will receive the Maltin Modern Master Award, the highest accolade at the 39th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Downey Jr. will be presented the award on Friday, February 9, 2024.
The ceremony will include an in-person conversation between Downey and legendary film historian and critic Leonard Maltin, for whom the award is named. The duo will discuss Downey’s expansive five-decade acting career, his rise to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful actors to date, culminating in his recent searing, indelible performance as Lewis Strauss in Christopher Nolan’s staggering, global cinematic phenomenon, Oppenheimer.
Downey Jr. is a two-time Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner who has amassed more than 110 acting credits over the course of his career, including the title character in the blockbuster Iron Man franchise, which launched the Marvel More
- Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
Hornet, a creative studio with a two-decade legacy in design and animation, has appointed Ben Sharpe to the newly created role of live-action executive producer. This move signifies a strategic expansion of the studio’s production offerings, with Sharpe working primarily out of Hornet’s NYC office.
“As a company with a core focus on cultivating talent, expanding further into mixed media and live action was a logical progression for us, aligning seamlessly with our brand and unlocking avenues for growth. I knew I wanted to identify a leader in this realm to spearhead this development--someone with not only experience and vision but also who resonates with our values,” said Michael Feder, co-founder of Hornet.
Sharpe brings a wealth of experience, having previously served as head of production at London-based adam&eveDDB, where he oversaw all production output from the agency and managed relationships with production partners around the More
- Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
The Television Academy today announced GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, as the 2023 Governors Award recipient. The award recognizes GLAAD’s work over nearly four decades to secure fair, accurate and diverse representation of the LGBTQ community in the media and entertainment industries and to advocate for LGBTQ equality. GLAAD’s president and CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, will accept the honor during the Jan. 15 Emmy® Awards telecast on FOX.
The Governors Award is bestowed by the Television Academy’s Board of Governors and honors an individual, company or organization that has made a profound, transformational and long-lasting contribution to the arts and/or science of television.
Founded in 1985 by Vito Russo, author of The Celluloid Closet, and other LGBTQ advocates, GLAAD works with leaders in television, film, gaming, news, business, politics and more to lead the More
- Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023
The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has unveiled the first group of nominees for the 61st Annual ICG Publicists Awards.
The awards honor the publicists, unit still photographers and entertainment journalists who uplift the talented filmmakers and exceptional projects in the motion picture and television industry. Winners will be celebrated at a luncheon ceremony on Friday, March 8, 2024 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
ICG Publicists Award chairs Tim Menke and Sheryl Main announced the nominees in the following categories:
Les Mason Award for Career Achievement in Publicity
- Natalie Bjelajac, Netflix
- Linda Brown, Unit Publicist
- Kira Feola, KC Feola PR
- Gabriela Gutentag, Unit Publicist
- Carol McConnaughey, Unit Publicist
Publicist of the Year Award
- Katie Lovick, Sony Pictures Entertainment
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- Monday, Nov. 13, 2023
A former Fox News reporter says in a lawsuit he was targeted and fired for pushing back against false claims about the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
In the suit filed in federal court Monday, producer Jason Donner said he was part of a "purge" of employees who refused to only report information that would "appease" former President Donald Trump and his supporters.
Donner was inside the Capitol when the mob of Trump supporters breached the building. When he heard Fox News reporting that rioters were "peaceful" and "severely disappointed," he called the control room, using expletives as he said, "you're gonna get us all killed," the suit states.
A spokeswoman for Fox News did not immediately return an email message seeking comment on the lawsuit.
Donner also debunked Tucker Carlson's "Patriot Purge," a program on the Fox Nation streaming service that argued Jan. 6 was used as a pretext for persecution of More