Well, the mystery of who gets the enviable — or unenviable — job of producing the 91st annual Academy Awards, airing February 24 on ABC, has been answered. And in choosing Oscar winner and multiple nominee Donna Gigliotti as producer and live TV and awards show veteran Glenn Weiss as “co-producer,” as well as director for the fourth consecutive year, Academy President John Bailey and CEO Dawn Hudson have assembled a strong team that should be well-equipped to deliver what is markedly going to be a bit of a re-invention. That includes an ironclad pledge to bring the show in at three hours and no more, as well as presenting some categories in a radically different way than in the past.
Bailey has indicated to me in the past that if he were re-elected for his second and final term (he was), he’d want to do a rather radical makeover of the show,...
Bailey has indicated to me in the past that if he were re-elected for his second and final term (he was), he’d want to do a rather radical makeover of the show,...
- 10/22/2018
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
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