Seven fellows have been selected for the 9th annual Native American TV Writers Lab, administered by the Native American Media Alliance.
The eight-week program consists of daily workshops, seminars and one-on-one mentoring with the aim of coaching the fellows on how to develop a pilot and cultivate the skills needed to land TV staff writer positions.
Founded in 2016, the latest iteration of the Writers Lab is sponsored by Comcast, NBCUniversal, the Golden Globes Foundation, Netflix, National Endowment for the Arts and Snowpants Productions.
The seven fellows are:
Rory Crittendon (Cherokee): screenwriter, filmmaker and documentarian Marcie Price Jackson (Cherokee): writer and actress Noah Rose Keeling (Choctaw): writer, actress and filmmaker Tony Magaña (Western Shoshone): writer and standup comedian Faith Phillips (Cherokee); novelist, writer, producer and actor Tamara Stratton (Osage): writer, producer and educator Steven Tallas (Navajo): filmmaker
“The Native American TV Writers Lab has an...
The eight-week program consists of daily workshops, seminars and one-on-one mentoring with the aim of coaching the fellows on how to develop a pilot and cultivate the skills needed to land TV staff writer positions.
Founded in 2016, the latest iteration of the Writers Lab is sponsored by Comcast, NBCUniversal, the Golden Globes Foundation, Netflix, National Endowment for the Arts and Snowpants Productions.
The seven fellows are:
Rory Crittendon (Cherokee): screenwriter, filmmaker and documentarian Marcie Price Jackson (Cherokee): writer and actress Noah Rose Keeling (Choctaw): writer, actress and filmmaker Tony Magaña (Western Shoshone): writer and standup comedian Faith Phillips (Cherokee); novelist, writer, producer and actor Tamara Stratton (Osage): writer, producer and educator Steven Tallas (Navajo): filmmaker
“The Native American TV Writers Lab has an...
- 3/28/2024
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
Lily Gladstone has always been a huge fan of Cate Blanchett and now, fresh off joining her acting idol in the elite realm of best actress Academy Award nominees, the two women are teaming up.
Not on screen (yet), but for a greater cause.
Gladstone is among the boldfaced names joining the selection committee for Proof of Concept, an accelerator program focused on supporting the perspectives of women, trans and non-binary people by financially backing their short “proof of concept” films.
The program was announced last December, with Blanchett and her Dirty Films partner Coco Francini teaming up with Dr. Stacy Smith, founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and supported by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity to tackle the ongoing disparities facing these communities in the entertainment business.
Per the latest annual reports from Dr. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, only 6% of the directors of the 1,700 top-grossing...
Not on screen (yet), but for a greater cause.
Gladstone is among the boldfaced names joining the selection committee for Proof of Concept, an accelerator program focused on supporting the perspectives of women, trans and non-binary people by financially backing their short “proof of concept” films.
The program was announced last December, with Blanchett and her Dirty Films partner Coco Francini teaming up with Dr. Stacy Smith, founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and supported by the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity to tackle the ongoing disparities facing these communities in the entertainment business.
Per the latest annual reports from Dr. Smith and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, only 6% of the directors of the 1,700 top-grossing...
- 3/25/2024
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
“Sic semper tyrannis!” With these words John Wilkes Booth fled Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. after shooting Abraham Lincoln in the head with a 44 caliber derringer on April 14, 1865, altering the course of history and prompting a 12-day manhunt that ended when Sgt. Boston Corbett shot Booth in a Virginia farmhouse (he died hours later). The assassination and the pursuit are now the subjects of Manhunt, a brisk new limited series on Apple TV+.
Based on James L. Swanson’s 2007 nonfiction book of the same name, the series, created...
Based on James L. Swanson’s 2007 nonfiction book of the same name, the series, created...
- 3/19/2024
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
Purveyors of their own distinctive, genre-blurring sound “Thrash Grass”, The Native Howl has released their gritty new single and official music video for “Mercy” featuring Lzzy Hale of Halestorm (via Sumerian Records). With foreboding, foot-stomping rhythm, and the band’s raw intensity paired with Lzzy’s inimitable vocals, “Mercy” is bound to rattle listeners down to the bone. When asked about today’s release, the band shared:
“‘Mercy’ was written as our original Thrash Grass anthem, and to have our vocal hero Lzzy Hale singing on it is nothing short of a dream come true!
‘Mercy’ subtly tells the story of infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, and the dichotomy of dark and light between him and his disgraced politician brother William. While pulling from additional themes of organized religion and corruption, the music bed’s growth in intensity throughout attempts to paint the process of all evil and wrong-doing slowly being brought to light.
“‘Mercy’ was written as our original Thrash Grass anthem, and to have our vocal hero Lzzy Hale singing on it is nothing short of a dream come true!
‘Mercy’ subtly tells the story of infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger, and the dichotomy of dark and light between him and his disgraced politician brother William. While pulling from additional themes of organized religion and corruption, the music bed’s growth in intensity throughout attempts to paint the process of all evil and wrong-doing slowly being brought to light.
- 3/7/2024
- by Kristyn Clarke
- Age of the Nerd
Exclusive: Since Jack Dawson made him a top global star in Titanic, Leonardo DiCaprio has largely avoided the straight hero route in favor of shaded, conflicted characters in films from The Revenant to The Departed, The Aviator, Gangs of New York, The Wolf Of Wall Street, Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood, and others. But he’d never gone to the degree he did on Killers of the Flower Moon. The first version of the film had almost everything going for it: the David Grann bestseller bought for a shocking $5 million by Imperative Entertainment, a script Eric Roth wrote, and the first teaming of Martin Scorsese, DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, the latter going mano a mano for the first time since This Boy’s Life established a teenaged DiCaprio as the young actor to watch.
A green lit script that had DiCaprio playing the incorruptible Texas Ranger-turned FBI agent Tom White...
A green lit script that had DiCaprio playing the incorruptible Texas Ranger-turned FBI agent Tom White...
- 1/13/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
After years of silence, fans are wondering if a Prey 2 could ever be released by 20th Century Studios.
Dan Trachtenberg's Prey debuted on Hulu back in 2022, telling a prequel story to the beloved Predator franchise. The film takes place in 1719, with the iconic Predator monster first coming to Earth and tormenting a tribe of Native Americans.
While - from the outside - Prey may have looked like a straight-to-streaming franchise cash-grab, the film turned out to be anything but, becoming critically acclaimed and showing up on plenty of 'Best of 2022' lists.
Read full article on The Direct.
Dan Trachtenberg's Prey debuted on Hulu back in 2022, telling a prequel story to the beloved Predator franchise. The film takes place in 1719, with the iconic Predator monster first coming to Earth and tormenting a tribe of Native Americans.
While - from the outside - Prey may have looked like a straight-to-streaming franchise cash-grab, the film turned out to be anything but, becoming critically acclaimed and showing up on plenty of 'Best of 2022' lists.
Read full article on The Direct.
- 1/5/2024
- by Klein Felt
- The Direct
Director Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller “Killers of the Flower Moon", starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone and Jesse Plemons, streams January 12, 2024 on AppleTV+:
"...at the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the 'Osage Nation', who became some of the richest people in the world overnight.
"The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder.
"Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of 'Ernest Burkhart' (DiCaprio) and 'Mollie Kyle' (Gladstone)...
"...'Killers of the Flower Moon' is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal..."
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"...at the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the 'Osage Nation', who became some of the richest people in the world overnight.
"The wealth of these Native Americans immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted and stole as much Osage money as they could before resorting to murder.
"Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of 'Ernest Burkhart' (DiCaprio) and 'Mollie Kyle' (Gladstone)...
"...'Killers of the Flower Moon' is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal..."
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- 1/4/2024
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
A face from the past takes centre stage in the latest from Marvel Studios. Echo leaps onto Disney+ from 10 January, and sees the return of Maya Lopez/Echo (Alaqua Cox) who first appeared in Hawkeye, but takes us back to her origins story.
The first show under the Marvel Spotlight banner, which focusses on character driven stories, it shows Maya discovering that her ruthless behaviour in New York has followed to her home town. She faces numerous challenges, including both her native heritage and her deafness, as well as the consequences of her clash with one of Marvel’s biggest bads – Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio). Cox, herself, is deaf and a member of the Menominee tribe.
Director Sydney Freeland, together with actors Chaske Spencer (The English) and Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs), who respectively play Maya’s uncle Henry and her cousin Bonnie, all spoke to us about how the...
The first show under the Marvel Spotlight banner, which focusses on character driven stories, it shows Maya discovering that her ruthless behaviour in New York has followed to her home town. She faces numerous challenges, including both her native heritage and her deafness, as well as the consequences of her clash with one of Marvel’s biggest bads – Wilson Fisk/Kingpin (Vincent D’Onofrio). Cox, herself, is deaf and a member of the Menominee tribe.
Director Sydney Freeland, together with actors Chaske Spencer (The English) and Devery Jacobs (Reservation Dogs), who respectively play Maya’s uncle Henry and her cousin Bonnie, all spoke to us about how the...
- 1/3/2024
- by Freda Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A River Runs Through It (screenshot), Fight Club (20th Century Fox), The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (Paramount Pictures)Graphic: The A.V. Club
The remarkable thing about Brad Pitt, who turns 60 on December 18, isn’t the 85 and counting IMDb acting credits under his belt, although that’s a pretty impressive number.
The remarkable thing about Brad Pitt, who turns 60 on December 18, isn’t the 85 and counting IMDb acting credits under his belt, although that’s a pretty impressive number.
- 12/18/2023
- by Jack Smart, Don Lewis, Ian Spelling, Courtney Howard, Brent Simon, Brandon Kirby, Brett Buckalew, Mark Keizer, Murtada Elfadl, and Luke Y. Thompson
- avclub.com
Welcome to It’s a Hit! In this series, IndieWire speaks to creators and showrunners behind a few of our favorite television programs about the moment they realized their show was breaking big.
All it took was an email to get 20th Century Studios interested in greenlighting Dan Trachtenberg’s “Prey,” the film that (per Hulu) became the streamer’s biggest premiere ever and is currently nominated for six Emmys, including Outstanding Television Movie.
“I was thinking a lot about a few things at once,” Trachtenberg said to IndieWire over Zoom, as he prepared to give a step-by-step breakdown of how the “Prey” pitch came together. “On the one hand, I was thinking about period and sci-fi — wanting to make a movie that combined those two ingredients that we don’t often see combined — and survival stories, and making a movie that could primarily be told through action with little to no dialogue.
All it took was an email to get 20th Century Studios interested in greenlighting Dan Trachtenberg’s “Prey,” the film that (per Hulu) became the streamer’s biggest premiere ever and is currently nominated for six Emmys, including Outstanding Television Movie.
“I was thinking a lot about a few things at once,” Trachtenberg said to IndieWire over Zoom, as he prepared to give a step-by-step breakdown of how the “Prey” pitch came together. “On the one hand, I was thinking about period and sci-fi — wanting to make a movie that combined those two ingredients that we don’t often see combined — and survival stories, and making a movie that could primarily be told through action with little to no dialogue.
- 8/10/2023
- by Marcus Jones
- Indiewire
Even though "Yellowjackets" fans are always hungry for more, the Showtime series' sophomore season has come to an end. Season 3 has already been confirmed, but it'll be a while before it airs; for what it's worth, the gap between seasons 1 and 2 was 16 months, the former beginning on November 14, 2021, and the latter on March 24, 2023.
Fear not, antler queens, because there's a movie out there perfect to tide you over. "Ravenous," directed by the late Antonia Bird. Released in 1999, the film's genre is just as hard to pin down as that of "Yellowjackets" — "Ravenous" oscillates from horror to bemused comedy, sometimes in the same scene. What the two works do have in common is that they're both stories about people on the edge of civilization, goaded by supernatural forces to devour their fellow man.
Guy Pearce plays John Boyd, a cowardly soldier fighting in the Mexican-American war. Boyd became an accidental hero...
Fear not, antler queens, because there's a movie out there perfect to tide you over. "Ravenous," directed by the late Antonia Bird. Released in 1999, the film's genre is just as hard to pin down as that of "Yellowjackets" — "Ravenous" oscillates from horror to bemused comedy, sometimes in the same scene. What the two works do have in common is that they're both stories about people on the edge of civilization, goaded by supernatural forces to devour their fellow man.
Guy Pearce plays John Boyd, a cowardly soldier fighting in the Mexican-American war. Boyd became an accidental hero...
- 5/26/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
David L. Cunningham's historical drama The Wind & The Reckoning begins its New York theatrical run at the Village East Cinema this Friday, May 26. We have an exclusive clip to share with you today. Check it out down below. 1893. The Hawaiian Kingdom has been overthrown by a Western power just as an outbreak of leprosy engulfs the tropical paradise. The new government orders all Native Hawaiians suspected of having the foreign disease banished permanently to a remote colony on the island of Moloka'i that is known as 'the island of the living grave'. When a local cowboy named Ko’olau (Jason Scott Lee) and his young son Kalei (Kahiau Perreira) contract the dreaded disease, they refuse to allow their family to be separated, sparking...
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- 5/24/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.REMEMBERINGInauguration of the Pleasure Dome.Kenneth Anger has died at the age of 96, as reported this morning by his gallery. "Anger forged a body of work as dazzlingly poetic in its unique visual intensity as it is narratively innovative," wrote Maximilian Le Cain of the pioneering avant-gardist (and devoted occultist) for Senses of Cinema. "Anger’s films are cinematic manifestations of his occult practices. As such, they are highly symbolical, either featuring characters directly portraying gods, forces and demons or else finding an appropriate embodiment for them in the iconography of contemporary pop culture."The Austrian actor Helmut Berger died last week aged 78. He was best known as Luchino Visconti’s muse, unforgettable in The Damned (1969), Ludwig (1973), and Conversation Piece (1974). Among his additional...
- 5/24/2023
- MUBI
"Starship Troopers" failed to land when it opened in November 1997. Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards were not bankable leads, and audiences expecting a conventional sci-fi epic were thrown off by the film's curious style, which is a mix of televisual soap operas and satirical militarism. Consequently, "Troopers" received a mediocre "C+" from CinemaScore and grossed just $121 million against a $100 million budget (via The Numbers).
Critics were not best pleased, either, especially Stephen Hunter, who attacked "Troopers" as a film that "presupposes" Nazism. Such literal-mindedness misses that Paul Verhoven's film is satirical meta-propaganda, not a cosmic fascist fantasy. The numerous propaganda bulletins make this clear, but the propaganda does not stop there. These bulletins are propaganda within propaganda because "Starship Troopers" can be viewed as one big propaganda piece vetted by the United Citizen Federation, the film's dystopian one-world government.
Johnny Rico (Casper van Dien) and Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards) are model recruits,...
Critics were not best pleased, either, especially Stephen Hunter, who attacked "Troopers" as a film that "presupposes" Nazism. Such literal-mindedness misses that Paul Verhoven's film is satirical meta-propaganda, not a cosmic fascist fantasy. The numerous propaganda bulletins make this clear, but the propaganda does not stop there. These bulletins are propaganda within propaganda because "Starship Troopers" can be viewed as one big propaganda piece vetted by the United Citizen Federation, the film's dystopian one-world government.
Johnny Rico (Casper van Dien) and Carmen Ibanez (Denise Richards) are model recruits,...
- 4/30/2023
- by Jack Hawkins
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Six-time Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) has inked a deal to co-write, direct and produce the historical drama I Am a Man: The True Story of Chief Standing Bear with Andrew Troy.
The film with formal Resolutions of Support from the Ponca Tribe will depict the Ponca’s “Trail of Tears” march that led to the 1879 landmark trial of Standing Bear vs. the United States of America. This mostly unknown legal case helped all Native Americans to be considered “human beings” under the law, also setting legal precedent for many future civil rights matters within the U.S. courts.
Troy has spent the last decade developing the project, while working to gain the support of U.S. and state officials and Native Americans alike. The filmmaker, who is part Chiricahua Apache, was in attendance in 2019 as leaders of the U.S. Congress hosted...
The film with formal Resolutions of Support from the Ponca Tribe will depict the Ponca’s “Trail of Tears” march that led to the 1879 landmark trial of Standing Bear vs. the United States of America. This mostly unknown legal case helped all Native Americans to be considered “human beings” under the law, also setting legal precedent for many future civil rights matters within the U.S. courts.
Troy has spent the last decade developing the project, while working to gain the support of U.S. and state officials and Native Americans alike. The filmmaker, who is part Chiricahua Apache, was in attendance in 2019 as leaders of the U.S. Congress hosted...
- 4/10/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you haven’t watched “Wide Net,” Episode 5 of FX’s “Reservation Dogs” Season 2, now streaming on Hulu.
FX’s “Reservation Dogs” continues to be one of the funniest shows on TV, breaking storytelling ground with its largely Indigenous cast and crew.
It is representation that both Native Americans and non-Natives alike have been craving to see on TV — multi-dimensional roles within the Indigenous community.
This week’s episode, “Wide Net,” is written and directed by Indigenous director Tazbah Rose Chavez. It follows Sarah Podemski’s Rita, who takes a girls’ trip with Bev (Jana Schmieding), Teenie (Tamara Podemski) and Natalie (Nathalie Standingcloud) to the Indian Health Services Conference, and their attempts to snag men and bust moves at the conference dance floor.
The episode is a game-changer for audiences in terms of how it spotlights its female cast, with Schmieding calling it a celebration...
FX’s “Reservation Dogs” continues to be one of the funniest shows on TV, breaking storytelling ground with its largely Indigenous cast and crew.
It is representation that both Native Americans and non-Natives alike have been craving to see on TV — multi-dimensional roles within the Indigenous community.
This week’s episode, “Wide Net,” is written and directed by Indigenous director Tazbah Rose Chavez. It follows Sarah Podemski’s Rita, who takes a girls’ trip with Bev (Jana Schmieding), Teenie (Tamara Podemski) and Natalie (Nathalie Standingcloud) to the Indian Health Services Conference, and their attempts to snag men and bust moves at the conference dance floor.
The episode is a game-changer for audiences in terms of how it spotlights its female cast, with Schmieding calling it a celebration...
- 8/25/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
Sacheen Littlefeather has received an apology from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for the abuse she endured over her 1973 Oscars speech.
The actor and activist graced the stage on Marlon Brando’s behalf after he was awarded Best Actor for his portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
In a powerful speech, she rejected the award as part of Brando’s protest of Hollywood’s depictions of Native American people. The gesture also intended to highlight the events at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, where a massacre of Native Americans took place in 1890, and where protests were ongoing.
At the time, her remarks were met with some sounds of support, as well as boos from those who disagreed with her taking a political stand at the ceremony.
According to the actor, someone who took particular offence to her stance was Western film star John Wayne. In many of his pictures,...
The actor and activist graced the stage on Marlon Brando’s behalf after he was awarded Best Actor for his portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
In a powerful speech, she rejected the award as part of Brando’s protest of Hollywood’s depictions of Native American people. The gesture also intended to highlight the events at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, where a massacre of Native Americans took place in 1890, and where protests were ongoing.
At the time, her remarks were met with some sounds of support, as well as boos from those who disagreed with her taking a political stand at the ceremony.
According to the actor, someone who took particular offence to her stance was Western film star John Wayne. In many of his pictures,...
- 8/19/2022
- by Nicole Vassell
- The Independent - Film
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has issued a formal apology to Sacheen Littlefeather, who went down in Oscar notoriety five decades ago for refusing Marlon Brando’s The Godfather Best Actor award on his behalf.
The abuse you endured because of this statement was unwarranted and unjustified…The emotional burden you have lived through and the cost to your own career in our industry are irreparable. For too long the courage you showed has been unacknowledged. For this, we offer both our deepest apologies and our sincere admiration.”
Littlefeather, whose real name is Marie Louise Cruz, responded in tongue-in-cheek fashion: “We Indians are very patient people — it’s only been 50 years!” She added, sincerely, “It is profoundly heartening to see how much has changed.” Littlefeather, clearly putting the grudge behind her, is scheduled to appear at the newly opened Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
The incident, sparked...
The abuse you endured because of this statement was unwarranted and unjustified…The emotional burden you have lived through and the cost to your own career in our industry are irreparable. For too long the courage you showed has been unacknowledged. For this, we offer both our deepest apologies and our sincere admiration.”
Littlefeather, whose real name is Marie Louise Cruz, responded in tongue-in-cheek fashion: “We Indians are very patient people — it’s only been 50 years!” She added, sincerely, “It is profoundly heartening to see how much has changed.” Littlefeather, clearly putting the grudge behind her, is scheduled to appear at the newly opened Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
The incident, sparked...
- 8/16/2022
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Sacheen Littlefeather has received an apology from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for the abuse she endured over her 1973 Oscars speech.
The actor and activist graced the stage on Marlon Brando’s behalf after he was awarded Best Actor for his portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
In a powerful speech, she rejected the award as part of Brando’s protest of Hollywood’s depictions of Native American people. The gesture also intended to highlight the events at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, where a massacre of Native Americans took place in 1890, and where protests were ongoing.
At the time, her remarks were met with some sounds of support, as well as boos from those who disagreed with her taking a political stand at the ceremony.
According to the actor, someone who took particular offence to her stance was Western film star John Wayne. In many of his pictures,...
The actor and activist graced the stage on Marlon Brando’s behalf after he was awarded Best Actor for his portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather.
In a powerful speech, she rejected the award as part of Brando’s protest of Hollywood’s depictions of Native American people. The gesture also intended to highlight the events at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, where a massacre of Native Americans took place in 1890, and where protests were ongoing.
At the time, her remarks were met with some sounds of support, as well as boos from those who disagreed with her taking a political stand at the ceremony.
According to the actor, someone who took particular offence to her stance was Western film star John Wayne. In many of his pictures,...
- 8/16/2022
- by Nicole Vassell
- The Independent - Film
Nearly 50 years after her speech on behalf of Marlon Brando about depiction of Native Americans, academy apologises for ‘unwarranted and unjustified’ response
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas), the body that oversees the Oscars, has issued a formal apology to Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American activist who appeared at the 1973 Academy Awards ceremony as part of Marlon Brando’s refusal to accept his award.
Brando was awarded the best actor Oscar for his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather, but did not attend as a protest in support of Native American rights, in part inspired by the ongoing two-month occupation of the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre by the American Indian Movement (Aim). Instead, Littlefeather declined to accept the statuette from presenters Roger Moore and Liv Ullmann, and made a short speech, in which she said that Brando’s stance was due to “the treatment...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas), the body that oversees the Oscars, has issued a formal apology to Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native American activist who appeared at the 1973 Academy Awards ceremony as part of Marlon Brando’s refusal to accept his award.
Brando was awarded the best actor Oscar for his role as Vito Corleone in The Godfather, but did not attend as a protest in support of Native American rights, in part inspired by the ongoing two-month occupation of the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre by the American Indian Movement (Aim). Instead, Littlefeather declined to accept the statuette from presenters Roger Moore and Liv Ullmann, and made a short speech, in which she said that Brando’s stance was due to “the treatment...
- 8/16/2022
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has sent a letter of apology to Sacheen Littlefeather, the indigenous activist who spoke on Marlon Brando’s behalf at the 1973 Oscars, calling the treatment she received for her speech “unwarranted and unjustified.”
Nearly 50 years ago, Littlefeather attended the Oscars in Brando’s place after the actor decided to boycott the ceremony out of protest for the portrayal of Native Americans in the entertainment industry. When Brando was named the winner of the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in “The Godfather,” Littlefeather gave a speech on Brando’s behalf declining the honor with a mix of applause and jeers, with presenters Raquel Welch and Clint Eastwood making dismissive jokes about Brando and Littlefeather’s actions later that evening.
“You made a powerful statement that continues to remind us of the necessity of respect and the importance of human dignity,” former Academy President David Rubin wrote.
Nearly 50 years ago, Littlefeather attended the Oscars in Brando’s place after the actor decided to boycott the ceremony out of protest for the portrayal of Native Americans in the entertainment industry. When Brando was named the winner of the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in “The Godfather,” Littlefeather gave a speech on Brando’s behalf declining the honor with a mix of applause and jeers, with presenters Raquel Welch and Clint Eastwood making dismissive jokes about Brando and Littlefeather’s actions later that evening.
“You made a powerful statement that continues to remind us of the necessity of respect and the importance of human dignity,” former Academy President David Rubin wrote.
- 8/15/2022
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Exclusive: They have the best seats in the house.
A-listers Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Costner, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon dedicated seats Tuesday in the plush Princess Anne Theatre in BAFTA’s Piccadilly headquarters in central London, as part of BAFTA’s Take a Seat fundraising campaign.
”That’s how they lured me,” Costner joked when he saw the seat in the theater that eventually will boast a plaque with his name on it. The others also will have their names attached to seats.
Laughing, Costner added, “Not sure what it means, but I’m happy to have a seat.”
Costner and his fellow stars were in town for the UK and Ireland rollout of global streamer Paramount+, which launches Wednesday. The actors attending the ceremony represented a slate of shows from 101 Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios that will stream on the service.
Stallone leads Taylor Sheridan’s series Tulsa King,...
A-listers Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Costner, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon dedicated seats Tuesday in the plush Princess Anne Theatre in BAFTA’s Piccadilly headquarters in central London, as part of BAFTA’s Take a Seat fundraising campaign.
”That’s how they lured me,” Costner joked when he saw the seat in the theater that eventually will boast a plaque with his name on it. The others also will have their names attached to seats.
Laughing, Costner added, “Not sure what it means, but I’m happy to have a seat.”
Costner and his fellow stars were in town for the UK and Ireland rollout of global streamer Paramount+, which launches Wednesday. The actors attending the ceremony represented a slate of shows from 101 Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios that will stream on the service.
Stallone leads Taylor Sheridan’s series Tulsa King,...
- 6/21/2022
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
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