Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

A Wayne's World Reunion and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Friday, April 19 Get an inside look at the process of making a film at the Los Angeles Theatre Foundation's Movies About Making Movies Film Festival at the TCL Chinese Theatre this weekend, starting with a double fea ... More >>

Forget About It, Eddie — It's Toontown

How a $45,000 Oscar Gift Bag Is Born

Each golden Oscar statuette costs about $500 to make, although of course its monetary value ends up being more than that. But for those nominees who don't get that particular golden ticket, Los Angeles-based marketing firm Distinctive Assets will give them something pleasant to wake up to -- a swag ... More >>

Amour and More: How to See the Golden Globes' Five Foreign Film Nominees in Five Days

The Beats Go On: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to see in L.A. Friday, Nov. 30 The Beat generation -- or, as Cinefamily puts it, the "O.G. hipsters" of the 1950s -- is a pretty tough group to beat. They smoked, drank and wandered aimlessly, all while producing literature that through the decades has avoide ... More >>

Shakespeare, Kubrick and Oprah: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

This week the cinephile community is focused on AFI Fest, but here are some other special event films we recommend: Friday, Nov. 2 Women have made giant leaps in history, but every so often someone tries to put them in a binder. Oprah-approved doc Miss Representation explores the correlation betwe ... More >>

Horror Movies to See in October That You Probably Haven't Heard Of

Ghosts, Laughs and Ducks: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our list of the best special event films to see in L.A. this week ranges from an Ibsen adaptation to a classic hockey comedy. Friday, Oct. 5 Wide-eyed little ones and nostalgic adults are invited to the eighth annual Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival, presented Oct. 5-7 by LACMA. ... More >>

Where the Stars Are

Why The Artist Will Win Best Picture at the Oscars

To say that only Harvey Weinstein could land a Best Picture Oscar for a silent film, as he is expected to do Sunday for The Artist, is more than just a reflection of the mogul's resurgent power of persuasion over Academy members -- it's actually true. A silent film has not taken top honors since the ... More >>

Academy Awards Voters Are Extremely Old and White

Ah, Hollywood, home of the Prius-driving liberal, Kumbaya views of diversity, and the Obama fundraiser. You can't really get any further left and, as such, politically correct, than the industry of lights, camera, and action. But if you look at the true ethnic makeup of the film industry, you might ... More >>

Man's Inhumanity to Plants

The First Best Picture: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

And the Photoplay Goes to ...

Ethics Fines For L.A. Council Members Garcetti, Huizar, Wesson, Cardenas

Ethics fines for city leaders.​Looks like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wasn't the only leader in City Hall invited to this here party. But, unlike other events officials have attended, this one will cost you. Yeah, four City Council members got caught up in ticketgate and will also have to pay ... More >>

HOORAY FOR PACOIMA

GRIFFITH'S ARC

The Real King of Cartoons

Oscar's Rules of Order

DocuWeeks offers help — for a price

Could You Raise $3 Million In Three Weeks? That's The Price Of Saving Hollywood Sign's Environs

Shannon Cottrell​Conservationists who want to save the land surrounding the iconic Hollywood sign from development have three weeks to raise $3 million dollars, they announced Wednesday. The Chicago-based investors who own the property, once for sale for $22 million, agreed to give it to the ... More >>

Food in Film: Oscar Nominations Announced

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced the nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards this morning. Avatar leads the Best Picture category (big surprise), which has doubled in size to ten. As far as food movies go, Meryl Streep was nominated for Best Actress for Julie & Julia, a ... More >>

Middle of The Road

Long-delayed Cormac McCarthy adaptation takes the path of least resistance

How Do You Say Oscar Scandal in Dutch and Chinese?

We're not sure, but we know when something stinks

Movie Poster Children

​If movies can be said to subliminally express the hubris or anxieties of their makers' times, then movie posters are the films' more obvious mirrors of those feelings. For three months the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will feature an exhibit devoted to this overlooked art form. "Ar ... More >>

Quentin and Harv, Marty and Leo, Tom and Jerry

Filmdom's Controversial Duos

Worst Oscar Ideas Ever

That’s what happens when the studios pressure the “Acadummy”

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

Academy Gets Nominations Wrong — Again

It's far more riveting to watch upheavals at SAG and Variety

Deadline Hollywood: Shameful Oscar Overspending

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

The Reader's Long and (Oscar-) Worthy Road to Redemption

Reading Is fundamental

Restoration Software

Best Film School as Incendiary Device: Inner-City Filmmakers

"And the Award [for Worst Oscars Ever] Goes To ..."

Academy needs a face-lift, not just Botox

Mixed Signals

Faint signs of life amid this year’s crop of New Argentine Cinema

Middle East and Adjacent at AFI Fest

New Films from Israel and Its Neighbors Shine

They Shoot, They Score

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, the International Documentary Association polled its members (themselves filmmakers, industry executives, and academics) to determine the 25 best documentary films of all time. The results, announced publicly last week, span more than 50 years of movie histor ... More >>

Bearing the Scars of Oscars

For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger

Calarts in Moving Pictures: A Mini Tribute

Oscar Hangover

Finke’s five-step program will end the misery

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

The Big Blizzard of 2005

Michael Snow blows into town

Stop Buggering Oscar

A five-point plan for intervention — no one gets arrested

Where Credit Is Due

The Writers Guild’s unsung detectives

Boycott the Oscars

Give peace — and a bad show — a pass

That's Entertainment?

Our Kodak moment

The Artful Codger

Director Robert Altman

Hollywood 001100110

Digitizing the silver screen

The Arroyo Special

The Blue Line is a damned good idea — that costs too damned much

And the Winner Is -- HUAC

Elia Kazan will have the statue, but the victory belongs to the blacklist