’s daughter, and her proud dad was right there in the multitudes of people jam packed on to the roof to see the ceremony, along with her mom, Ali Hewson. Also honored waswhich is the first-ever Irish entry to be nominated for the Best International Film Oscar. All the acceptance speeches were great, including those of the presenters who included Oscar nominatedwriter/director Sarah Polley for Buckley, Charlie Hunnam for Hewson, and Rhea Seehorn for Condon.
In The Heat Of The Night, West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming, The Pink Pantherproject in development at MGM , a live action/animation hybrid. I was honored to have gotten to know him, even honor him, in his later years .
Another great new book, in a completely different way, is The New Yorker staff writer Michael Schulman’s “Oscar Wars”, described as a “history of Hollywood in gold, sweat, and tears”. Schulman’s angle, a smart one, is to chronicle the history of the Academy Awards by taking a deep dive into a specific year, chapter by chapter going micro into events, cultural and otherwise, that also perhaps shaped Oscar at that time.
States with the most lead acting winners: California with 25, New York with 22, Pennsylvania has 7, and Illinois New Jersey and Texas each have 6. The UK beats em all with 34.