THR's awards staff debuts a brand new weekly e-newsletter that includes a recap of their protection from the previous week, in addition to a rundown of issues they're seeing, listening to, recommending and questioning.
Thanks for trying out the primary installment of The Hollywood Reporter’s Weekend Awards Temporary! This Friday week-in-review e-newsletter might be ready by THR’s awards staff and can characteristic a rundown of (a) key items we’ve written; (b) memorable issues we’ve attended; (c) attention-grabbing rumblings we’ve heard; (d) issues we encourage you to take a look at; and (e) issues we’d prefer to know.
The authors of every merchandise are recognized by the next initials: awards editor Tyler Coates [TC], government editor of awards Scott Feinberg [SF], movie author Mia Galuppo [MG], senior employees author Chris Gardner [CGa], tech editor Carolyn Giardina [CGi], senior editor of movie Rebecca Keegan [RK] and deputy awards editor Beatrice Verhoeven [BV].
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What we’re producing…A rundown of key items we’ve written
- TV Academy encouraging nominees to pre-submit thank-you names to look on-screen —SF
- Hollywood Critics Affiliation in turmoil as quite a few members resign, together with president, amid questions on funds and voting —SF
- Chris Rock says he declined an invitation to host the 2023 Oscars —TC
- Venice Movie Pageant’s 79th version jam-packed with Oscar hopefuls —SF
- Telluride unveils lineup of movies to “battle about” —RK
- Taylor Swift units MTV VMAs data for Oscar-eligible All Too Properly: The Quick Movie —TC
- SAG Awards units key dates for twenty ninth ceremony —SF
- Jennifer Fox might be producing the Governors Awards for the second 12 months in a row and fourth time total —SF
- THR Twitter Areas in regards to the excellent comedy collection Emmy race —TC
What we’re seeing…A recap of memorable issues we’ve attended
- The Telluride Movie Pageant received underway Friday morning with its annual Patrons Brunch. Amongst these mingling within the picturesque setting excessive up within the Rockies: Ladies Speaking helmer Sarah Polley (who will obtain a fest tribute tonight forward of the movie’s premiere) and her stars Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley (“It’s like we have now a delegation,” Polley informed RK); Anne Hathaway accompanying her Armageddon Time director James Grey (the indie darling who caught SF off-guard when he mentioned he’d by no means been to the fest earlier than); Shut helmer Lukas Dhont and his main (younger) man Eden Dambrine; Alejandro G. Inarritu and his Bardo forged, straight off the aircraft from Venice; Empire of Gentle director Sam Mendes and producer Pippa Harris; Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey, who're right here with their doc about Robert Downey Sr., Sr.; and a cardboard cutout of former German chancellor Angela Merkel, the topic of a doc right here on the fest, introduced by its director, Eva Weber. —SF and RK
- Telluride’s fest-launching Patron Preview screening on Friday afternoon, which fest organizers at all times preserve secret (or attempt to) proper up till showtime on the Werner Herzog Theatre, ended up being a documentary characteristic for less than the second time (after He Named Me Malala in 2015): Bryan Fogel‘s follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2017 doc Icarus, this one referred to as Icarus: The Aftermath. I received’t say a lot about how Fogel managed to proceed the story of the Russian scientist who facilitated and blew the whistle on his nation’s doping for the Olympics; simply that it's equally daring and riveting. The movie continues to be with out a U.S. distributor, however I can not think about, given its high quality and uber-timeliness, that it received’t discover one very quickly, in all probability in time to hitch this 12 months’s Oscar race. No sequel to an Oscar-winning documentary has ever been nominated — 2017’s An Inconvenient Sequel, the follow-up to 2006’s An Inconvenient Fact, was shortlisted — however there’s a primary for every thing! —SF
- Jason Momoa, clutch and all, hit the crimson carpet outdoors the DGA Theater just lately for the season three premiere of his epic (and bloody!) Apple TV+ collection, See. Whereas the present is probably not a contender, the Aquaman star most actually needs to be — for environmental activism. The occasion was flooded with aluminum-made Mananalu water bottles. “It’s lovely as a result of I don’t need individuals to make use of single use plastic,” he tells THR. “It’s like the one factor we are able to recycle infinitely. I even do utensils in order that we don’t have to make use of the plastic ones on set.” In a season marked by extreme plastic use, we actually tip our hat to Mr. Momoa. —CGa
What we’re listening to…A set of attention-grabbing rumblings we’ve heard
- Blissful sixtieth birthday to Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant government Roger Durling, whose birthday — Aug. 31 — at all times falls across the time of the Telluride Movie Pageant, which he has been attending for 30 years, and who celebrated on Thursday evening with an intimate pre-fest dinner at La Marmotte.
- Two of the extra proficient younger individuals within the enterprise, director Gabe Polsky and producer Justine Ciarrocchi, had been married till earlier this 12 months. They continue to be shut pals and, because it seems, each have movies world premiering on the Toronto Worldwide FIlm Pageant inside 24 hours of one another: Polsky’s Butcher’s Crossing, which stars Nicolas Cage, is about for 9:30 p.m. EST on the evening of Friday, Sept. 9, and Causeway, which Ciarrocchi produced with producing companion Jennifer Lawrence, who additionally stars within the movie, might be unveiled at 5:30 p.m. EST on Saturday, Sept. 10. Each intend to attend one another’s screenings. —SF
What we’re recommending…A couple of issues we encourage you to take a look at
- Considered one of my Telluride traditions yearly is intentionally forgetting my hat at residence, so I “have” to purchase a brand new one on the Overland Sheepskin retailer on Colorado Ave. Whereas paying for this 12 months’s version, I met the mom of Alexa Tassone, a Telluride Excessive grad (class of 2011) who’s now working as a manufacturing supervisor in L.A. and has a aspect hustle promoting T-shirts for movie crews with pithy sayings. My private favorites from Tassone’s small enterprise, referred to as We’re Wrapped, are the “One Extra For Security” and “The place’s Artful?” shirts. —RK
- In my last days of form of having a life earlier than getting overrun by the autumn movie fest circuit, I dove into two advance copies of books that I can extremely suggest: The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences (on bookshelves Sept. 29), a tremendously in-depth historical past by former Academy government director Bruce Davis during which Davis, amongst different notable issues, seems to have lastly solved the thriller of who nicknamed that bare gold man “Oscar” (spoiler alert: Bette Davis was filled with it when she claimed she named it after the center title of the primary of her 4 ex-husbands); and Hollywood: The Oral Historical past (out Nov. 8), by the nice showbiz authorities Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson, which, drawing from the archives of the American Movie Institute, makes use of the phrases of Hollywood’s largest names to inform the story of the films. Along with being nice reads, each tomes additionally present the added worth of serving as very efficient doorstops. —SF
What we’d prefer to know…A couple of questions we’d like answered
- As CGa has written, the overlapping of this 12 months’s Primetime Emmy Awards and Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant on Sept. 12 is forcing some expertise (e.g. Jean Sensible), publicists, stylists and, sure, press, to decide on between the 2. (“My schedule within the subsequent two weeks is terrifying,” explains A-list stylist Kate Younger whereas one other insider says the chaos imposed by the hectic calendar is nothing in need of a “catastrophe.”) For these of us who might be staying in Toronto, the place could be a enjoyable place for an Emmys watch celebration? Asking for a pal. —SF
What we’re trying ahead to…A abstract of upcoming stuff that we’re enthusiastic about
- The Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant‘s fourth annual TIFF Awards Gala, a fundraiser for the fest’s variety and inclusion efforts, continues to roll out a formidable record of expertise that might be honored at its Sept. 11 gathering. This week, the fest introduced that actress Michelle Yeoh (All the pieces In every single place All at As soon as) might be feted with its inaugural Groundbreaker Award;
- Whereas the Emmy week celebration circuit has actually not rebounded to what it was pre-pandemic, the approaching days characteristic a swirl that comes shut. We’ve began our red-carpet events and occasions roundup with extra occasions certain to be added in coming days. Hey, HBO, we’re taking a look at you! —CGa
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All through the lengthy Labor Day weekend, you may proceed to observe THR’s protection from the Venice Movie Pageant (chief movie critic David Rooney is reviewing titles from the Lido) and the Telluride Movie Pageant (SF, RK and movie critic Sheri Linden are all overlaying the festivities within the Rockies). And particular shout-out to THR’s personal Katie Kilkenny, who, as in quite a few years previous, is a volunteer usher at Telluride’s Werner Herzog Theatre!
Have a terrific weekend!