Five Suitors For Time Inc.

“Unlikely as it is, I find myself rising to defend Warren Beatty.”
Kim Masters Considers Beatty’s Perplex From Journalistic Experience

Read Eric Vespe‘s Unpublished 2013 Two-Hour Interview With Bill Paxton, Cinephile

For independent cinema there’s no limits except the law. So if you explore certain taboos then it’s a question of legality and morality, depending on where your moral compass leads you. I am trying to make films about provocative subjects but get larger budgets for them, but that’s when you start to realize how deeply conservative cinema is.”
Canadian Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce On His Latest Provocation

“As I said last night, once you go away from the Earth and look back at the Earth, you see no borders, no lines separating countries. It is one, whole, beautiful unit.”
Why Asghar Farhadi Sent Two Iranian Scientists To Accept Oscar
And – Jafar Panahi On Farhadi’s Win

Indian Film Censors Hard At Work

“Sunday’s madness offers a sweet measure of vindication for Marisa Tomei: It demonstrated that, in the case of a miscalled name, show officials are ready and willing to rush out and correct it — no matter how much embarrassment or humiliation might ensue.”

“The problem is that unfamiliarity is the punchline. Not Kimmel’s unfamiliarity due to ignorance, mind you, but rather the perceived abnormality or exoticism of the names in question, a perspective that is comes from a limited, geo-centric worldview wherein any name that doesn’t fit America’s Amy/Patrick/Jimmy canon is worthy of derision.”
On Jimmy Kimmel’s Casual Racism At Oscar

Zoë Kravitz Says H’wd Still Has A Race Problem

Warren Beatty On His Life Before Sunday Night

“Adherents of the Ahmadiyya faith—Ahmadis—cannot practice it without facing legal prosecution or the wrath of a vigilante mob.”
Pakistanis Astir; Mahershala Ali’s Faith Not Considered Muslim

Jimmy Kimmel’s “Gary From Chicago” Found Religion And Fiancée After 20 Years Serving Sentence

“We have spent last night and today investigating the circumstances, and will determine what actions are appropriate going forward. We are unwaveringly committed to upholding the integrity of the Oscars and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.”
The Academy Statement About PwC Best Picture Failure

Ouch.

“Straight talk is a strong way for both managers and employees to handle a crisis. Radical transparency strengthens teams and confers authority on the managers who use it.”
“Four Great Success Lessons From The Spectacular Oscars Disaster”

Mark Evanier On The Year Laurence Olivier Nearly Had A Warren Beatty Moment

“He in sleek tux, she resplendent in white gown, they took the stage. The night was nearly done, a touch of class for the final prize. No one saw or anticipated the iceberg.”
Jeffrey Fleishman‘s Bristling Backstage Oscar Tick-Tock

“As long as our relationship is good and strong and we do a good job, which we always do, the academy has been pleased I think with how we’ve been involved,” PwC’s Brian Cullinan said at the time. “It’s such a long-term relationship that we know intricately how everything works, the timing of it, the process that we use, and they have absolute trust in us and what we do.”

“Then I realize something has gone wrong. When you’re right there onstage, you don’t actually hear what’s happening. All you have is the visual clues. I look at the audience, and there’s this look of shock. I shoot them because it’s a much better picture. Then I’m looking for the Moonlight people.”

“There is simply no comparison between Iranian state television and Farhadi. They leave out all sorts of aspects of our lives, while he makes me feel close to his films. His movies are realistic and believable.”

“Truly, if surrealist Luis Buñuel had had a writing credit on the program he could not have done it any better.”
Kenneth Turan On Oscar Night

“He feels very, very terrible and horrible. He is very upset about this mistake. And it is also my mistake, our mistake, and we all feel very bad.”

“A congratulatory tweet was posted. We later removed the post to avoid any misperception that the USG endorsed the comments made in the acceptance speech.”
State Department Tweets, Then Goes Back On Congratulations To Asghar Farhadi

“Do the Oscars matter? Never more, or less, than when a president prevents your attendance. The great disappointment of the night was that after months of speculation over whether the ceremony would “get political.” Someone somewhere will inevitably speculate that Moonlight won for this reason, that it’s a corrective to the political revelations of the last year. The Oscars don’t matter, the theory goes, but they could — if Oscar voters back the right movies. Blacker and browner movies, more movies by women, more movies by and about the oppressed. I love that theory. And tonight, if only for a night, I’m willing to buy it.”

“Watching videos of the biggest gaffe in Oscar history this morning, it seems to me that Warren Beatty not only realized he was handed the wrong envelope, but that he was delighted at being handed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. And decided to have a little fun with the people who snubbed him, as well as promoting his ironically named Rules Don’t Apply on a global scale.”
Lou Lumenick Thinks Beatty Was Masterfully “Playing Puzzlement”

Guy Hamilton, Pierre Etaix, Don Ireland, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Gloria DeHaven, Robert Vaughn, Michele Morgan, Anne Jackson, Steven Hill, Marvin Kaplan, William Schallert, Burt Kwouk, Doris Roberts, Alec McCowen, Fyvush Finkel, Jon Polito, Garry Shandling, Miguel Ferrer, Alexis Arquette, Florence Henderson, Teresa Saldana… and many more
A Rollcall Of Those Passed Over By Oscar “In Memoriam”

“On his Twitter bio, Mr. Cullinan describes himself as ‘Counting Oscar ballots and keeping secrets.'”
PricewaterhouseCooper Managing Partner Was Backstage Tweeting Photos Of Emma Stone Before He Handed The Wrong Envelope To Warren Beatty

“I’m holding the envelope and the award, and I had just given my speech, and there are people on the stage with headsets, and I thought, ‘That doesn’t seem right.'”

Bill Cosby Trial Moves Forward

The Complete List Of Oscar Winners

“We sincerely apologize to Moonlight, La La Land, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Oscar viewers for the error that was made during the award announcement for Best Picture. The presenters had mistakenly been given the wrong category envelope and when discovered, was immediately corrected. We are currently investigating how this could have happened, and deeply regret that this occurred. We appreciate the grace with which the nominees, the Academy, ABC and Jimmy Kimmel handled the situation,” Says PwC

Rules Don’t Apply (Complete Oscar Winners List)

James Cameron On His Friend, “Creative Dynamo” Bill Paxton

Purple Heart-Bronze Star Judge Wapner Was 97

Criterion Salutes Seijun Suzuki With A Raft Of Resources

Bill Paxton Was 61

“Isabelle Who…ppert? A Beginner’s Guide to the Oscar-Nominated Elle Actress”

“From the wry irony of the deceptively exuberant opening sequence (in which dozens of starry-eyed wannabes dazzle us with their dreams and then, as winter arrives in a city without seasons, promptly disappear into the ether), the entire film is engaged in a self-aware soft-shoe around the amorphous border between fantasy and reality.”

Marisa Silver On The A Generation’s Turn From Plot To Personal Digression, Referencing 1928’s Weirdly Fascinating “Plotto: The Master Book Of All Plots”

Michael Cieply Douses Writer Hopes In Imminent Bargaining With AMPTP Water From A Single Unnamed Executive