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Olivia de Havilland, a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, has died in her sleep at home in Paris. She was 104. De Havilland rose to prominence in the 1930s in a series of swashbuckling adventure films with Errol Flynn, including Captain Blood and The Adventures of Robin Hood. She had her own…

In or around 1976, I caught a forlorn moment near New York's Bleecker St. It was early morning. The sun was just up. Two ragged guys were shuffling toward me on the sidewalk, when one offered the other a bottle in a bag. But the drink was declined. "I guess I lost my taste for it," sighed the saddest voice I'd ever…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Kelly Reichardt’s well-reviewed indie First Cow becomes the first physical 2020 DVD screener sent to all members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and now holds that singular distinction that I chronicle every year here on Deadline. Distributor A24 had the Academy put them all in…

Michael Shamberg, the producer whose credits include Erin Brockovich, Contagion, Get Shorty, The Big Chill and Pulp Fiction, has sued the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in an attempt to get the governing body to vote on his plan to boost its social media presence. The civil suit, filed Monday in Los…

Back on June 26, a little-noticed court filing in Roman Polanski's lawsuit over his expulsion from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences offered a rare glimpse at dealings within the Academy's Board of Governors. The view is limited, and colored by the advocacy of Polanski' lawyer, Harland W. Braun, who…

As the Academy Museum continues ramping up for its eventual opening, now slated for next year after numerous delays, its leadership is getting added strength from many different areas, both inside and outside of the motion picture industry. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures today announced the addition of six new…

Ronald Schwary, who won an Oscar as the producer of Ordinary People and whose other major film successes include A Soldier’s Story, Absence of Malice, Scent of a Woman and Tootsie, has died. He was 76. He passed away Thursday in West Hollywood, according to his sons. Schwary had struggled with a rare neurological…

Oscar-winning film composer Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at 91, scored more than 400 movies and TV shows, as well as more than 100 classical pieces. The legendary orchestrator’s score for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966), one of his successful collaborations with director Sergio Leone, is considered one of…

Talk about box-office drama. As the July 4 weekend unwinds, IFC’sThe Truth might be slugging it out with Homewrecker from Dark Star and The Outpost from Screen Media for the honor of ranking somewhere in the 300s, near IFC's own Wiener-Dog, among all-time Independence Day performers. (Who can say for sure, as release…

EXCLUSIVE: The race is on. Well, it still might be a little early to say that since the 93rd annual Academy Awards won’t happen until April 25, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today told its roughly 9,000-plus members — about to get much bigger with Tuesday’s announcement of new members — that the…

After decades of trying, agents are finally getting their day at the Oscars. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors voted on Sunday to reclassify the membership status of Artists’ Representatives and now will allow them to vote like other active members. Previously they were Associates…

Financial wheels are in motion again at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, this time with a new bond issue that replaces about $128 million in earlier bonds that were about to come due in November. In other words, they've re-financed. According to the Electronic Municipal Market Access System, a new debt…