ABC is charging marketers between $1.6 million and $1.7 million per spot this year, the average price of a 30-second ad during the 84th Academy Awards is up only modestly vs. the past two years.
Oscar 2012: Next Year's Dates
February 17, 2012 by
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has set its 65th Annual DGA Awards for January 26 , on a Saturday, like this year.
Oscar 2011: Tom Hanks Tips to the Nominees
February 7, 2012 by
Tip 1: Beat the Clock:
“Instead of hugging everyone within a 10-row radius … settle for a few fast high-fives as you sprint down the aisle … you’ll have 45 seconds to complete your acceptance speech. It’s for your own good — history shows the longer winners talk, the less interesting they become. When you have to be played off after your 45 seconds are up, it’s embarrassing for you and everyone else.”
Oscar: Best Picture Winners–Budgets
February 4, 2012 by
Titanic,” the 1997 Oscar winner, was at the time the most expensive Best Picture, with a budget north of $200 million. But not to worry: The James Cameron disaster epic more than recoup its expense, going on to become one of the two most commercially profitable works in film history (making $600 million in the U.S. alone); the other being James Cameron’s 2009 “Avatar.”
Oscar Movies: Electric Horseman, The (1979)
February 3, 2012 by
Decades after first appearing together on screen, in the 1967 comedy “Barefoot in the Park,” Robert Redford and Jane Fonda reunited in this serio romantic comedy, made by Sydney Pollack, Redford’s most frequent filmmaker.
