Tuesday, November 26, 2024

[Oscars] Conan O'Brien Hosts the 97th Oscars

CONAN O’BRIEN TO HOST 97TH OSCARS®
THE OSCARS SET TO AIR LIVE MARCH 2, 2025
AT 7 P.M. ET/4 P.M. PT ON ABC

LOS ANGELES, CA – Emmy® Award-winning television host, writer, producer and comedian Conan O’Brien will host the 97th Oscars®, Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang announced today. It will be O’Brien’s first time hosting the broadcast. The Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, March 2, 2025, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, with the official live red carpet show airing at
6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT.

[Oscars] Noms For Animated, Docs + International Films

ANIMATED, DOCUMENTARY AND INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS
ELIGIBLE FOR 97TH OSCARS® ANNOUNCED

LOS ANGELES, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced feature films eligible for consideration in the Animated Feature Film, Documentary Feature Film and International Feature Film categories for the 97th Academy Awards®.

Thursday, October 31, 2024

[AMPAS] Academy Museum New Aquisitions

ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES ANNOUNCES
NEW ACQUISITIONS TO THE ACADEMY COLLECTION
NOW COMPRISING MORE THAN 52 MILLION ITEMS

New acquisitions to the largest film-related collection in the world include the Studio Ghibli animation collection, featuring drawings by Hayao Miyazaki; Quentin Tarantino’s original handwritten script draft for Pulp Fiction (1994); objects from Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022); costumes worn by Jamie Lee Curtis, Kurt Russell, Meryl Streep, and Joanne Woodward; personal collections of Curtis Hanson, Barbara Kopple, Ve Neill, Oliver Stone, and Paul Verhoeven; and more.

Saturday, October 26, 2024

News-Star: A Century at Soldier Field

"From the Special Olympics to ski jumping to The Grateful Dead, Chicago’s Soldier Field has been the city’s play-ground on the lake for 100 years."

By Chicago History Museum

In 1919, the South Park Commission hosted a design competition for a new stadium to be built in Grant Park. They selected a plan by architects Holabird and Roche that featured grand colonnades. Construction began in 1922 and ended in 1924.