Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...script wasn't supposed to end this way. On Oscar night the DreamWorks team of David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg was hoping--probably expecting--to hear Spielberg's film, Saving Private Ryan, named Best Picture. Certainly, the glittering assemblage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion was shocked. When Shakespeare in Love was announced, there was an audible gasp...
This change was planned before the Oscar disappointment, but certainly DreamWorks would have preferred to make the announcement while flush with triumph. Parkes, however, insists DreamWorks is triumphant enough after a strong year at the box office, with hits including Deep Impact and Saving Private Ryan. The company also scored nicely with Antz, its first animated film. And though Katzenberg did not have the giant smash he yearned for with Prince of Egypt, the picture will gross $100 million...
...film is also exciting as emotional autobiography--a declaration of independence from an artist who felt trapped straddling East and West. "Working with her," says Bernardo Bertolucci, who cast Chen as the spoiled royal wife in the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, "I had the feeling she was somehow in exile, not always comfortable. So I love the idea that my own Empress in exile went back to China as a film director...
...LAWN Last Sunday, New York City police commissioner Howard Safir (1) was spotted at the Oscars. Four days later, Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon (2) was arrested outside New York City police HQ while protesting the death of shooting victim Amadou Diallo. Have the twain...
There was more than just a p.r. battle between DreamWorks and Miramax over whether Miramax "bought" the Best-Picture Oscar for Shakespeare in Love by spending record sums on advertising. There was a big wager too. DreamWorks partner JEFFREY KATZENBERG bet WARREN BEATTY that Miramax would print more ads by a certain date than DreamWorks would run to hype rival Saving Private Ryan. The stakes: a $10,000 contribution to the charity of the winner's choice. When the deadline rolled around, Beatty claimed victory. (Miramax's final tally was 118 pages, vs. 165 for DreamWorks.) Katzenberg alleged a miscount...