Scott Feinberg has led The Hollywood Reporter’s awards coverage since 2011 (he covered awards for the Los Angeles Times before that). He is best known for his “Feinberg Forecast,” through which he assesses the standings of various showbiz awards races, and for Awards Chatter, the interview-centric podcast that he started in 2015, for which he has conducted career-retrospective interviews with some 500 of Hollywood’s biggest names. An alumnus of Brandeis University, he is also a trustee professor at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, serves on the board of the Los Angeles Press Club and is a voting member of BAFTA and the Critics Choice Association.Source
Sources say Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, the chair of the Academy Museum's board of trustees, rallied his fellow studio executives to bow out of attending the event. Meanwhile actors could be sitting at tables that were paid for by studios they are striking against.
In 1933, the nascent Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences came between studio executives and film workers during a labor dispute, and the resulting backlash almost led to the organization’s collapse, prompting it, in 1937, to change its bylaws so that it would not play any role in future labor-related standoffs. Ninety...…Sources say Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos, the chair of the Academy Museum's board of trustees, rallied his fellow studio executives to bow out of attending the event. Meanwhile actors could be sitting at tables that were paid for by studios they are striking against.
In 1933, the nascent Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences came between studio executives and film workers during a labor dispute, and the resulting backlash almost led to the organization’s collapse, prompting it, in 1937, to change its bylaws so that it would not play any role in future labor-related standoffs. Ninety...WW…