“Low subscriber rates, minimal commercial opportunities and barriers to entry for arts organisations have forced Arts Council England (ACE)’s £1.8m Youtube network for the arts to readjust as it enters its final year of funding.”
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That Whole Bringing Tourists Into The Oscars Telecast Thing? Here’s What Went Wrong…
“Our relationship with the icons of culture has changed, refracted through our politics. At the Oscars, the people who made those movies look out of touch in their Harry Winston jewelry and blue velvet dinner jackets. When they declaim a wall on the Mexican border, or quote the Koran, it sounds naïve, even insulting, to a good-sized number of people. Somehow not even movies about the emotional pain of working class Massachusetts townies or tough modern Texan cowboys shooting it out against the backdrop of economic disaster could get over that hump.”
Just In Case You Missed A Few Of The Award Winners In The Theatre, Here’s Your Catch-Up List
The New York Times debuts a new movie recommendation service (will this be an app someday soon?) with legal, aboveboard ways to catch up on the Oscar winners from the comfort of the couch.
A New Horror Film Helps Redefine The Genre, Gets 100 Percent On Rotten Tomatoes, And Wins The Box Office
Time to reevaluate horror? None of the Best Picture nominees got anything like 100 percent from the critics. But “Get Out,” starring comedian Jordan Peele, “is the latest in a string of bloody horror films that attempt to contribute to America’s cultural conversation in a meaningful way.”
So Here’s The Moment-By-Moment Of How The Oscars Flub Went Down
USA Today had stationed reporters in various parts of the theatre, and here’s their take: “As the La La Land filmmakers take the stage to accept best picture, the accountant from PriceWaterhouseCoopers jumped up and said, ‘He (Beatty) took the wrong envelope!’ and goes running onstage. Craziness breaks out. No one knows how Beatty got the best actress envelope instead of the best picture envelope. ‘Oh, my God. Moonlight won, Moonlight won,’ a stagehand says, her hands on her head.”
So The Oscars Happened, With Mostly Predicted Results – Until The Wild Ending
Here’s the complete list.
The Oscars End With An Envelope Mix-Up At The Worst Possible Time
WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED. (What just happened was that La La Land was announced as Best Picture, but … that was fake news, an envelope mix-up. The real Best Picture winner: Moonlight. See the video of it all here.)
The Emerging Oscar Powerhouse That Does Nothing Specific, But Also Everything
FilmNation is behind “Arrival” and a Judd Apatow movie that sold for $12 million at Sundance. “The two movies thrust FilmNation into the limelight and pose a tantalizing question: can a company unaffiliated with any conglomerate become a powerhouse in the challenging climate of the 21st-century entertainment industry?”
The Sprawling Costume Shop Outside Of London That Makes Its Customers Oscar Winners
Aside from outfitting TV – think “The Crown” and “Victoria” – the shop, which has been around since 1840, has worked for 36 movies that have won Oscars for costume design. “If you lined up all of the costumes in Angels’ storage in a row, it would stretch about eight miles.”
At The Independent Spirit Awards, ‘Moonlight’ Utterly Dominated
No, Manchester by the Sea didn’t even come close: “Moonlight won every single award it was nominated for, including Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Picture, and the coveted Robert Altman Award, recognizing greatness by an ensemble in independent film. It might have won even more – Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris are both carrying a lot of buzz in the Oscars‘ supporting performer races – but the Altman Award disqualifies wins for individual performances.”