Who will be included for the special “In Memoriam” segment for Sunday night’s Oscars 2022 ceremony? For almost all other Academy Awards productions since the 1990s, producers typically select 40-50 people from the various branches. The 2021 segment had close to 100 people in a particularly fast-paced three minutes that was not very well-received since many of them were only on screen for a second or two.
SEECelebrity Deaths 2022: In Memoriam Gallery
Previous Oscar winners from acting categories passing away since last year’s late April ceremony are Olympia Dukakis, William Hurt and Sidney Poitier. Past acting nominees include Ned Beatty, Sally Kellerman and Dean Stockwell.
Almost all of the dozens on the list below were Academy members, previous nominees/winners or both.
Louie Anderson (actor)
Ed Asner (actor)
Ned Beatty (actor)
Marilyn Bergman (composer)
Val Bisoglio (actor)
Robert Blalack (visual effects)
Peter Bogdanovich (director)
David Brenner (editor)
Leslie Bricusse (composer...
SEECelebrity Deaths 2022: In Memoriam Gallery
Previous Oscar winners from acting categories passing away since last year’s late April ceremony are Olympia Dukakis, William Hurt and Sidney Poitier. Past acting nominees include Ned Beatty, Sally Kellerman and Dean Stockwell.
Almost all of the dozens on the list below were Academy members, previous nominees/winners or both.
Louie Anderson (actor)
Ed Asner (actor)
Ned Beatty (actor)
Marilyn Bergman (composer)
Val Bisoglio (actor)
Robert Blalack (visual effects)
Peter Bogdanovich (director)
David Brenner (editor)
Leslie Bricusse (composer...
- 3/24/2022
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Graeme Ferguson, the Canadian filmmaker who co-founded Imax, died on Saturday at the age of 91.
Ferguson had reportedly been battling cancer, passing away at his home in Norway Point, Ontario.
Imax took to Twitter today to confirm the news. “We mourn the passing of Graeme Ferguson, visionary IMAX Co-Founder and iconic filmmaker,” they said. “Thank you and rest in peace, Graeme.”
Ferguson founded the Imax Corporation in 1967, with filmmaker Roman Kroitor, businessman Robert Kerr, and engineer William Shaw. His latter two collaborators had been friends of his since high school.
The initial impetus for Imax was Polar Life, an experimental film that Ferguson directed for Expo ’67 in Montreal. In collaboration with Kroitor, Kerr and Shaw, he would develop a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, projectors and theaters which would bring a new sense of immersion and scope to the cinematic experience.
A writer, director, producer and cinematographer, Ferguson...
Ferguson had reportedly been battling cancer, passing away at his home in Norway Point, Ontario.
Imax took to Twitter today to confirm the news. “We mourn the passing of Graeme Ferguson, visionary IMAX Co-Founder and iconic filmmaker,” they said. “Thank you and rest in peace, Graeme.”
Ferguson founded the Imax Corporation in 1967, with filmmaker Roman Kroitor, businessman Robert Kerr, and engineer William Shaw. His latter two collaborators had been friends of his since high school.
The initial impetus for Imax was Polar Life, an experimental film that Ferguson directed for Expo ’67 in Montreal. In collaboration with Kroitor, Kerr and Shaw, he would develop a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, projectors and theaters which would bring a new sense of immersion and scope to the cinematic experience.
A writer, director, producer and cinematographer, Ferguson...
- 5/11/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Graeme Ferguson, the Canadian director, producer, writer and cinematographer who partnered with three high school friends and another filmmaker to launch the giant-screen movie company Imax, has died. He was 91.
Ferguson died Saturday of cancer at Norway Point, his home at Lake of Bays, Ontario, an Imax spokesman announced. His wife, Phyllis, whom he married in 1982, died eight weeks ago.
For Expo ’67 in Montreal, Ferguson directed the multiscreen, multiprojector 18-minute film Polar Life, which viewers watched while seated on a central rotating turntable in the middle of 11 screens. The film was so successful that Ferguson, along ...
Ferguson died Saturday of cancer at Norway Point, his home at Lake of Bays, Ontario, an Imax spokesman announced. His wife, Phyllis, whom he married in 1982, died eight weeks ago.
For Expo ’67 in Montreal, Ferguson directed the multiscreen, multiprojector 18-minute film Polar Life, which viewers watched while seated on a central rotating turntable in the middle of 11 screens. The film was so successful that Ferguson, along ...
- 5/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Graeme Ferguson, the Canadian director, producer, writer and cinematographer who partnered with three high school friends and another filmmaker to launch the giant-screen movie company Imax, has died. He was 91.
Ferguson died Saturday of cancer at Norway Point, his home at Lake of Bays, Ontario, an Imax spokesman announced. His wife, Phyllis, whom he married in 1982, died eight weeks ago.
For Expo ’67 in Montreal, Ferguson directed the multiscreen, multiprojector 18-minute film Polar Life, which viewers watched while seated on a central rotating turntable in the middle of 11 screens. The film was so successful that Ferguson, along ...
Ferguson died Saturday of cancer at Norway Point, his home at Lake of Bays, Ontario, an Imax spokesman announced. His wife, Phyllis, whom he married in 1982, died eight weeks ago.
For Expo ’67 in Montreal, Ferguson directed the multiscreen, multiprojector 18-minute film Polar Life, which viewers watched while seated on a central rotating turntable in the middle of 11 screens. The film was so successful that Ferguson, along ...
- 5/10/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Festival brass unveil Rising Stars, Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, and more.
Mary Harron, Kim Nguyen (both pictured above), Ingrid Veninger, and Denis Côté are among the familiar names in the 26-strong Canadian Features slate that Toronto International Film Festival programmers unveiled on Wednesday.
The selection comprises the highest number of feature directorial debutants and films from Western Canada in recent years. More than 30% of the titles are by first-time feature directors.
Festival brass also announced Short Cuts, Tiff Cinematheque, Rising Stars, Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, and the recipient of the 2017 Len Blum Residency.
The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7-17.
Canadian Features
“It is exciting to see a new wave of Canadian first-time feature directors play with genres and take risks,” Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock said. “This year’s line-up has a truly international feel to it, too, with a number of features shot all over the globe — something that also...
Mary Harron, Kim Nguyen (both pictured above), Ingrid Veninger, and Denis Côté are among the familiar names in the 26-strong Canadian Features slate that Toronto International Film Festival programmers unveiled on Wednesday.
The selection comprises the highest number of feature directorial debutants and films from Western Canada in recent years. More than 30% of the titles are by first-time feature directors.
Festival brass also announced Short Cuts, Tiff Cinematheque, Rising Stars, Telefilm Canada Pitch This! finallists, and the recipient of the 2017 Len Blum Residency.
The 42nd Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7-17.
Canadian Features
“It is exciting to see a new wave of Canadian first-time feature directors play with genres and take risks,” Tiff senior programmer Steve Gravestock said. “This year’s line-up has a truly international feel to it, too, with a number of features shot all over the globe — something that also...
- 8/9/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Chicago – It’s easy to see why filmmakers like James Cameron are constantly inspired by the life forms that exist underwater. They are as fascinating and mysterious as any otherworldly being dreamed up a science-fiction author. BBC’s brilliant series, “The Blue Planet,” unearthed deep-sea specimens that continue to haunt my nightmares. It proved that monsters do sometimes hide in the dark, and exist only to feed (one fish had teeth so large that it couldn’t even close its mouth).
Of course, such images are guaranteed to terrify a G-rated audience, and “IMAX Under the Sea” offers a more cuddly, yet no less spectacular, look at creatures of the deep. It is filmmaker Howard Hall’s follow-up to his previous family-friendly documentary, “Deep Sea 3D,” and was released theatrically as “Under the Sea 3D.” Though no home entertainment system can come close to equaling the experience provided by IMAX 3D,...
Of course, such images are guaranteed to terrify a G-rated audience, and “IMAX Under the Sea” offers a more cuddly, yet no less spectacular, look at creatures of the deep. It is filmmaker Howard Hall’s follow-up to his previous family-friendly documentary, “Deep Sea 3D,” and was released theatrically as “Under the Sea 3D.” Though no home entertainment system can come close to equaling the experience provided by IMAX 3D,...
- 4/12/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
- I remember when Nasa shuttle launches (talking 80’s here) were a big deal – teachers would roll in a portal television on wheels to let us view humans going towards orbit. Can’t say we have the same fascination now, network television cut the cord on Live coverage since they were getting to be a dime a dozen…..so its interesting to see how space, (not sci-fi stuff) is getting a makeover of sorts. A couple of years back, Imax's had the Cruise-narrated Space Station 3D in 01’ and that brought in a good chunk of change ($100 million in worldwide box office) and now Warner Bros. will team with Nasa on a new project in the 3-D film.Producers Toni Myers and Graeme Ferguson are prepping a new doc that will look at Nasa's Hubble space telescope. The new footage shows how the Hubble captured images in orbit of our junkyard
- 9/25/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
TORONTO -- Giant-screen exhibitor Imax is partnering with Warner Bros. to make a film about NASA's Hubble space telescope.
Toronto-based Imax said it will join with Warners and NASA to present new footage captured by the Hubble as it orbits the Earth and takes images of the cosmos.
The 3-D film, scheduled for a 2010 release on Imax screens, represents the first space film for Warners. The studio has partnered with Imax on about 20 films, most of which were digitally remastered versions of traditional 35mm Warners movies.
Imax's last space film was the Tom Cruise-narrated "Space Station 3D", which has brought in about $100 million in worldwide boxoffice since its 2001 release.
The team behind "Space Station 3D" is regrouping for the Hubble 3-D film, including producers Toni Myers and Graeme Ferguson.
Toronto-based Imax said it will join with Warners and NASA to present new footage captured by the Hubble as it orbits the Earth and takes images of the cosmos.
The 3-D film, scheduled for a 2010 release on Imax screens, represents the first space film for Warners. The studio has partnered with Imax on about 20 films, most of which were digitally remastered versions of traditional 35mm Warners movies.
Imax's last space film was the Tom Cruise-narrated "Space Station 3D", which has brought in about $100 million in worldwide boxoffice since its 2001 release.
The team behind "Space Station 3D" is regrouping for the Hubble 3-D film, including producers Toni Myers and Graeme Ferguson.
- 9/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Giant-screen exhibitor Imax Corp. on Wednesday said that underwater film "Deep Sea 3D", which bowed in March 2006, has moved past the $50 million mark at the boxoffice.
Toronto-based Imax and co-producer Warner Bros. Pictures are working on a sequel that will be directed by Howard Hall. Toni Myers, Graeme Ferguson and Michele Hall are producing the film which is targeted for a 2009 release.
Hall, Ferguson and Myers were behind Imax's first underwater 3D adventure, "Into The Deep", which has grossed about $70 million since its 1991 release.
Toronto-based Imax and co-producer Warner Bros. Pictures are working on a sequel that will be directed by Howard Hall. Toni Myers, Graeme Ferguson and Michele Hall are producing the film which is targeted for a 2009 release.
Hall, Ferguson and Myers were behind Imax's first underwater 3D adventure, "Into The Deep", which has grossed about $70 million since its 1991 release.
TORONTO -- Giant-screen exhibitor Imax Corp. and longtime collaborator Warner Bros. Pictures are set to explore global warming in the ocean wilds with their third 3-D co-production, "Deep Sea-quel".
The Imax film, set for a 2009 release, will be directed by Howard Hall, produced by Toni Myers and executive produced by Imax co-founder Graeme Ferguson.
The same trio was behind the 2006 Imax/Warner Bros. 3-D release "Deep Sea 3D", which was narrated by Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. Before that, Imax and Warner Bros. teamed up to produce "NASCAR 3D", which was released on Imax screens in 2004.
Hall, Myers and Ferguson originally collaborated on Imax's first underwater 3-D film, "Into the Deep", which was released in 1991.
As with more recent ocean-borne Imax movies including "Coral Reef Adventure" and "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea", "Sea-quel" promises a look at underwater ecology in diverse locales including Southern Australia, New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific region as well as a look at the impact of global climate change on the oceans.
The Imax film, set for a 2009 release, will be directed by Howard Hall, produced by Toni Myers and executive produced by Imax co-founder Graeme Ferguson.
The same trio was behind the 2006 Imax/Warner Bros. 3-D release "Deep Sea 3D", which was narrated by Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet. Before that, Imax and Warner Bros. teamed up to produce "NASCAR 3D", which was released on Imax screens in 2004.
Hall, Myers and Ferguson originally collaborated on Imax's first underwater 3-D film, "Into the Deep", which was released in 1991.
As with more recent ocean-borne Imax movies including "Coral Reef Adventure" and "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea", "Sea-quel" promises a look at underwater ecology in diverse locales including Southern Australia, New Guinea and the Indo-Pacific region as well as a look at the impact of global climate change on the oceans.
- 4/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
SEOUL, South Korea -- Many industry fears about the limitations of mobile phone technology as a TV program outlet were put to rest by an expert at the Seoul Digital Forum. The digital gathering, which ended Friday, was presented with data that showed that almost 90% of mobile phone users are "interested" in receiving TV content over their handheld phones. The findings were described as "phenomenal" and "unprecedented" by Graeme Ferguson, director of global content development for the U.K.'s Vodafone Group, which has 179 million customers worldwide. The research conducted by Vodaphone in Italy, Japan, South Korea and the U.K found that only 5% of users had played mobile games, and only 21% wanted to download music into their phones.
- 5/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Large Format Cinema Assn. has tapped Graeme Ferguson, an original founder of the Imax Corp., to receive the 7th annual Kodak Vision Award. "Graeme Ferguson is that rare combination of artist and scientist, who recognized the possibilities for telling compelling stories on large-format film," Kodak's Tim Knapp said. "He deserves this recognition for both his dedication to developing and perfecting the Imax format and also for the remarkable films he has produced and directed. We are all indebted to him." The LFCA and Kodak will present the honor to Ferguson at the 2005 LFCA Conference and Film Festival in Universal City on April 27-29.
- 2/16/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TORONTO -- Giant-screen exhibitor Imax Corp. said Tuesday that one of its founders, William Shaw, died over the weekend. He was 73. Shaw died Saturday in a Toronto hospital after suffering complications from a heart attack. An engineer by training, Shaw developed the Imax projection system in 1968 with partners Graeme Ferguson, Roman Kroitor and Robert Kerr. A statement from Imax co-CEOs Rich Gelfond and Brad Wechsler paid tribute to Shaw for his intellect, good humor and friendship.
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