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John Horn
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Former Host, Retake, The Frame and Hollywood: The Sequel
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It's hard to think of many upsides to the pandemic. But Oscar voters took advantage of the shutdown to recognize on Monday an historically diverse slate of Academy Award nominees. Some categories showcased a majority of underrepresented filmmakers and performers, and for the first time two women are competing for best director.
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The Academy has been pushing for more inclusivity. Recent history shows there's still work to be done.
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A new report assigns a very specific economic cost to Hollywood's failure to be inclusive: $10 billion a year.
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After almost a decade of planning and more than five years after construction started, the nearly $500 million museum from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will finally open on Sept. 30.
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A new study from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative is filled with discouraging statistics for women in the music industry.
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Among the PGA nominations for best picture are “Minari,” “Promising Young Woman,” “Mank,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Nomadland," and those films' directors received DGA nods.
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COVID-19 has forced Hollywood overhaul its trophy calendar. Oscar voting finally started this Friday.
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Everyone in Hollywood who's even remotely truthful knows that the Golden Globes --and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association -- are a joke. But they're a lucrative one.
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In some ways, Netflix is doing better than most studios and broadcast networks. In other ways, it's well behind its rivals.
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According to a study commissioned by the Otis College of Art and Design, more than 175,000 California creative workers lost their jobs in 2020 because of the pandemic, with nearly 110,000 of the newly unemployed coming from Los Angeles County.
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James Franco reportedly settled a lawsuit filed by two women who said acting classes he taught included "explicit sex scenes."
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In an indictment unsealed Wednesday, the U.S. Justice Department alleged that three North Korean cybercriminals not only orchestrated a 2014 cyberattack against Sony Pictures, but also extorted more than $1.3 billion from banks and other businesses.