Entertainment
2016 Academy Award Predictions
by Jeremy Pierce
Jeremy Pierce gives us his predictions of the 88th Academy Awards also known as the Oscars. See who and what films made his list Sunday, February 28th, 2016 at 8pm on ABC.
Best Picture
-The Big Short
-Bridge of Spies
-Brooklyn
-Mad Max: Fury Road
-The Martian
-The Revenant
-Room
-Spotlight
What should win: Mad Max: Fury Road; Mad Max is different from all of the other nominations. It’s an action movie that was well-acted, well-directed, and critically acclaimed. The last film I can think of this caliber that won the award was Lord of the Rings 3.
What will win: The Big Short; This a tough one and a real toss-up. I think the Big Short could win because of how relevant it is, but don’t be surprised if Spotlight wins.
The Snub: Anomalisa, Ex-Machina, Sicario, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Creed, and The Hateful Eight; Anomalisa being nominated for just Best Animated Feature is another cop out for the Academy not nominating an animated film for Best Picture. I can understand The Hateful Eight, but Ex-Machina was close to perfect in every way. Sicario was one of the rare action/thrillers that just had you on the edge of your seat. You invested in the characters, their stories, and the story itself. Star Wars, hmmm, let’s see; over $1 billion worldwide, 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and iconic characters. Yeah, that seems like a nomination to me. Creed was definitely a long shot but dammit, if Coogler, Jordan, and Stallone didn’t make that film feel special.
Best Director
-Lenny Abrahamson, Room
-Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, The Revenant
-Adam McKay, The Big Short
-Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
-George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road
Who should win: George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road. If you’ve seen Mad Max then you know why George should win. Most of the set pieces are real and authentic. This is an old school director with an old school take on a phenomenal film.
Who will win: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. This may as well be a forgone conclusion that he’ll win.
The Snub: Just two big ones here; Tarantino and Ryan Coogler. Many may not like Tarantino, but you can’t deny that he’s a master of his craft. Coogler took a film in the Rocky franchise and made it an awards contender. That’s hard.
Best Actor
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl
Who should win: Does it matter? It’s Leo but I’ll go with Fassbender as he did actual acting in his film.
Who will win: Leo. Leo. Leo. This has been known for around a year. There’s no way he’s not winning this.
The Snub: Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation was terrifying, menacing, and charming. The may have been above average but there’s no denying what he brought to it. Then there’s Samuel L. Jackson who deserves more than what the Academy has given him. He’s in the Hateful Eight from beginning to end and he comes off a brilliant in it which he usually does in Tarantino films. Michael B. Jordan for Creed and Will Smith for Concussion. Both of these men carried their respective movies and after watching them, you’ll see why.
Best Actress
-Cate Blanchett, Carol
-Brie Larson, Room
-Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
-Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
-Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn
Who should win: Brie Larson in Room was one of the most powerful performances that you’d see all year. She makes you care for her and her son. You want them to survive.
Who will win: This is another category where you wonder why the other nominees show up. The trophy is going to Brie.
The Snub: There’s one of her and that’s to my future wife, Emily Blunt for Sicario. She could have easily been nominated over Jennifer or Charlotte. Emily played that rare character of a tough girl who was vulnerable but not in a sexist way.
Best Supporting Actor
-Christian Bale, The Big Short
-Tom Hardy, The Revenant
-Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
-Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
-Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Who should win: YO, ADRIEN!!!!! I’m going with Stallone for many obvious reasons and he deserves it. He and Bale are the only ones that truly stand out in this field.
Who will win: ROCKY! ROCKY! ROCKY!
The Snubs: The snubs alone change this category tremendously. There’s Oscar Isaac for his turn in Ex-Machina, Demian Bichir in The Hateful Eight, Domhnall Gleeson in a take your pick of films this year (The Revenant, Brooklyn, and Ex-Machina), Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro for Sicario, Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell for The Big Short, and James Marsden for The D-Train. See, a whole different field.
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs
Who should win: Jennifer Jason Leigh. She did a damn fine job as the racist, truly evil leader of her gang. These roles are nothing new for Jennifer as she’s perfected them.
Who will win: See above
The Snub: Rose Byrne, Spy. Rose was hilarious. She was the villain in a spy movie parody that was entertaining at that and that is hard to do. Then there’s a role that has largely gone overlooked and that’s Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road. She’s the most memorable character in the entire film.
Best Animated Feature
-Anomalisa
-Boy & the World
-Inside Out
-Shaun the Sheep Movie
-When Marnie Was There
What should win: This is toss-up. I honestly don’t know. What I do know is that it’s between Anomalisa and Inside Out.
What will win: I don’t know. I’ll toss a coin. *tosses coin*. Anomalisa.
The Snub: None
The Academy Awards air this Sunday, February 28th, 2016 at 8pm on ABC.
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Today Live Nation announced Jenifer Smith has been promoted to Head of Urban Tour Marketing & Strategy. She will lead Live Nation’s Urban Tour Marketing team supporting all marketing efforts for their roster of R&B and Hip-Hop tours within the Concerts division.
Live Nation is dedicated to helping artists connect with their growing global fanbase, and Jenifer will be working across some of the biggest names as well as rising stars across R&B, Hip-Hop and Rap that Live Nation promotes, including Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Drake, The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, H.E.R., A$AP Rocky, Lil Baby, Alicia Keys, Young Thug, Jack Harlow, and many more. Smith most recently launched and supported all global marketing efforts for the Fugees Reunion tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their iconic album The Score.
Jenifer will be developing and building out the Urban Tour Marketing team as one of the fastest growing and most popular sectors in the industry only continues to dominate the global market. Moving forward, she will be leading marketing strategies for Live Nation’s wide range of hip-hop and R&B artists across touring and key festivals.
“Whether it’s artists or our own internal team, Live Nation is always investing in people we believe in,” said Omar Al-joulani, Head of Talent & Touring for Live Nation Concerts. “Jenifer has been an incredible leader at Live Nation, and we are confident her strategic focus and experience will do big things for every artist working with our Urban marketing team. ”
Prior to joining Live Nation 2 years ago, Jenifer was a Tour Marketer at AEG Presents & Goldenvoice for almost a decade where she worked across all genres of live from Urban, Pop, Rock, and Comedy shepherding marketing efforts for the Rolling Stones, Charlie Wilson, Melanie Martinez, Ali Wong, Anthony Hamilton, Bianca Del Rio, Jim Jefferies, Pod Save America, and the XSCAPE reunion tour. Prior to her time at AEG Presents, she was at ICM Partners in the concerts division for 3 years working with Caroline Yim, Zach Iser, Roberts Gibbs and Dennis Ashley with clients including Beyoncé, Drake and Mary J. Blige.
This post appeared first on www.livenationentertainment.com
Entertainment
Remembering the TV & Radio Broadcast Legend Larry King
Larry King was perhaps the most prolific interviewer of all time. He has passed at 87.
Larry King became the name associated with interviews, broadcast journalism, and suspenders over the course of his career which spans from the last 1950s until now. His life may have ended on January 23rd, but his legacy will last far beyond that.
King’s long-running program Larry King Live, for which he is most known, began in 1985 on CNN. In those days, CNN was a fledgling network that media magnate Ted Turner was attempting to push forward. King’s presence and popularity helped build the network into the news powerhouse that it has become today. Of the 60,000 interviews that King has done, 30,000 of them have appeared on CNN. The Guinness Book of World Records acknowledges King as having “the longest-running television show hosted by the same person, on the same network and in the same time slot” with 6,000 episodes of the show.
King interviewing the late Hank Aaron, who also passed this week.
Even after his separation from CNN, King was an active interviewer and host, branching into streaming services with Hulu and podcasts as well. A two-time Peabody Award winner, King is also a member of the Radio Hall of Fame and Broadcasters Hall of Fame. This is in part to his easy-going style. King could talk to anyone, and guests on the show ranged from political figures and celebrities to UFO theorists and psychics.
King was also involved in charity, founding the Larry King Cardiac Foundation. The foundation is a nonprofit that helps fund life-saving cardiac care for those that can’t afford it. King was also a survivor of heart disease, having survived a heart attack and quintuple bypass surgery. King’s matters of the heart didn’t stop there. He was married 8 times to 7 different women.
Larry King has done nearly everything you can in media. He’s been a radio and TV host, newspaper columnist, disc jockey, and even a color commentator for the Miami Dolphins. His collection of content is arguably the widest library of any interviewer in history and if you’re looking to hear someone speak, chances are they’ve talked to Larry King.
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