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OSCARS: Is George Clooney Now King Of The Academy Awards?

By PETE HAMMOND | Thursday February 21, 2013 @ 1:41pm PSTTags: Argo, George Clooney, Oscars, Walt Disney, Warren Beatty
Pete Hammond

When George Clooney received his eighth Oscar nomination as a producer of Argo – he shared producing credits on the Best Picture nominee with Ben Affleck and Grant Heslov — he marched into the Academy Award record books in a very unique way. It was the sixth different category in which he was nominated, an unprecedented feat for the 24 categories currently handed out each year. It’s also a nearly-unprecedented feat in all 85 years of the Oscars  — but that’s with an asterisk and we’ll get to that.

Clooney knocked off three of those categories in 2005, the first year he was nominated for anything, with Directing and Original Screenplay (with Heslov) nominations for Good Night And Good Luck and winning Best Supporting Actor for Syriana. Then there were those Best Actor nominations he seems to get every other year: Michael Clayton (2007), Up In The Air (2009) and The Descendants (2011). That’s four different categories, to which he added a fifth in 2011, when he also was nominated in the Best Adapted Screenplay race for The Ides Of March (with Heslov and Beau Willimon). This feat with five ties him with Warren Beatty, Stanley Kubrick, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and Kenneth Branagh — however, only Clooney’s and Beatty’s noms all came in Oscar’s marquee top eight races (Picture, Writing, Acting, Directing). For the record, in addition to their writing, producing, directing and/or acting nods, Kubrick won in Special Effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968); Branagh was nominated for a Live Action Short, Swan Song (1992); and the Coens have shared Film Editing nominations twice under their pseudonym Roderick Jaynes.

With Best Picture frontrunner Argo, the versatile Clooney has now passed them all in this particular — and particularly impressive — Oscar statistic. Although some could say acting, directing, writing and picture are just four categories, I would argue they are very specific disciplines which is why the Academy separates out lead and supporting acting as well as Adapted and Original Screenplays. I would also point out Beatty’s feat of earning Picture, Actor, Directing and Screenplay nominations in the same year — not once but twice (Heaven Can Wait, Reds) — is a Herculean feat in itself. He won the Directing Oscar for Reds as well as the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award and has 14 nominations in all, but none of them were in the Supporting Actor category and that’s where Clooney topped him. In fact, Beatty has yet to play a supporting role in any film.

So in terms of sheer numbers of categories nominated, is George Clooney now the King of the Oscars? READ MORE »

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Warren Beatty, Mary J. Blige And MPTF Help The Beverly Hills Hotel Celebrate 100th Anniversary

By PETE HAMMOND | Sunday June 17, 2012 @ 2:07am PDTTags: Brett Ratner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Mary J. Blige, MPTF, Warren Beatty
Pete Hammond

Birthday wishes are in store for the famous Beverly Hills Hotel celebrating its centennial this year and kicking it off with a two-day affair, just ended at the famous Los Angeles landmark. With all proceeds benefitting the Motion Picture & Television Fund (which also holds a major fundraiser ahead of the Oscars called The Night Before) high-rollers were treated on Friday to comedy and jazz by the pool hosted by Bill Cosby and Saturday night to cocktails, dinner and a mini-concert by Mary J. Blige who said it was her favorite hotel, where she married the love of her life. She definitely had the Crystal room rocking.

Earlier in the evening MPTF founding Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg welcomed guests including one of the evening’s hosts Brett Ratner, and the main attraction for many in the room, Warren Beatty who serves on the MPTF board. “Somehow or another this place is the center of the universe. There’s no one in this room who knows this hotel better than Warren Beatty. I mean no one,” he said to laughs as Beatty took the stage to lead a toast. Read More »

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‘Like Crazy’s Felicity Jones Is Warren Beatty’s Choice For Howard Hughes Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 14, 2011 @ 4:18pm PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, Howard Hughes, Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After a long search, Warren Beatty has chosen Like Crazy star Felicity Jones to play the female lead in the untitled film about reclusive industrialist Howard Hughes. The film is still mobilizing its financing, with New Regency in place … Read More »

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Shirley MacLaine To Receive AFI Life Achievement Award On June 7th

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday October 9, 2011 @ 12:33pm PDTTags: AFI Awards, Movies, Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty

Shirley MacLaine has been named the 40th recipient of the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award. The 77-year-old MacLaine will receive the tribute during a gala ceremony next June 7 that … Read More »

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BAFTA LA Film Award To Warren Beatty

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 10:26am PDTTags: BAFTA LA, Warren Beatty

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles will bestow its Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film to Warren Beatty at the organizations annual Britannia Awards gala Nov. 30 at the Beverly Hilton. The announcement today … Read More »

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‘Limitless’ Helmer Neil Burger Aboard New Version Of Bonnie And Clyde Outlaw Tale

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 25, 2011 @ 2:54pm PDTTags: Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, Bryan Furst, Faye Dunaway, Sean Furst, Sheldon Turner, Warren Beatty
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EXCLUSIVE: Limitless helmer Neil Burger is in talks to team up with screenwriter Sheldon Turner and producers Sean and Bryan Furst and Marissa McMahon to bring to the screen a new version of the Depression Era outlaws Bonnie and Clyde. … Read More »

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Warren Beatty Playing Howard Hughes, Great Cast Circling

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 22, 2011 @ 4:19pm PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Andrew Garfield, Annette Bening, David Fincher, Evan Rachel Wood, Howard Hughes, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Paramount Pictures, Rooney Mara, Shia la Beouf, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

Deadline told you Monday that Warren Beatty was getting behind the camera for the first time since Bulworth. Paramount and Beatty are keeping details under wraps, but here’s what I’ve heard: He will play Howard Hughes, but it’s not … Read More »

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Paramount Pictures Pacts For Warren Beatty’s Next Picture

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 20, 2011 @ 4:21pm PDTTags: Brad Grey, film director, Paramount Pictures, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: In what will be his first trip behind the camera since 1998′s Bulworth, Warren Beatty has committed to direct and star in an untitled comedy for Paramount Pictures. Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey has announced the deal for … Read More »

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Warren Beatty Wins Dick Tracy Lawsuit

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday March 25, 2011 @ 3:04pm PDTTags: Lawsuit, Tribune Co, Warren Beatty

Warren Beatty just received an early birthday gift. (He turns 74 next week.) A federal judge in Los Angeles has stopped Tribune Co from reclaiming the television and movie rights to comic-strip detective Dick Tracy from Warren Beatty. U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson granted … Read More »

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Matthew Vaughn Seeks Retired Superheroes

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 11:33am PSTTags: Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Ross, Matthew Vaughn, Matthew Vaughn - The Golden Age, Movie Deals, Movies, superheroes, Warren Beatty

EXCLUSIVE: Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class writer/director/producer Matthew Vaughn tells me that a major Hollywood studio is very keen to fully fund his next big project: The Golden Age about a retirement home where superheroes end up. And the title is also a reference to early comic books of the 1930s when Superman and Batman first … Read More »

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OSCAR: Stars Gather For Governors Awards

By PETE HAMMOND | Sunday November 14, 2010 @ 9:53am PSTTags: 2010 Governors Award, 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, AMPAS Governors Awards, Deadline Hollywood Pete Hammond, Eli wallach, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Brownlow, Oscars, Pete Hammond Oscar Coverage, Warren Beatty
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“These awards really took flight this year,” Warren Beatty effusively said to 2nd annual Governors Awards producer and Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences 1st Vice President Sid Ganis right after the ceremony ended around 11 PM Saturday night. It took place … Read More »

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