Ghanaian-British Filmmaker Amma Asante has been honoured with an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Asante was awarded for her services to the film industry. An MBE is Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and is an award given by the Queen to an individual for outstanding service to the community … Read more
There will be a screening of an Academy Award nominated film, panel discussions as well as Q&A The Foreign Language Oscars Committee – Ghana presents a one-day submission workshop in Accra. he workshop is slated for Saturday June 10 at the National Film & Television Institute (NAFTI) Preview Theater from 1pm to 5pm and is, … Read more
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has approved a 14-member committee to select a film to represent Ghana at the 90th Oscars which will run in 2018. Following the guidelines of the Academy, the committee is tasked to select from open submissions one film to be the official film from Ghana at the … Read more
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has approved a 14-member committee to select a film to represent Ghana at the 90th Oscars which will run in 2018. Following the guidelines of the Academy, the committee is tasked to select from open submissions one film to be the official film from Ghana at the … Read more
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has approved a 14-member committee to select a film to represent Ghana at the 90th Oscars which will run in 2018. Following the guidelines of the Academy, the committee is tasked to select from open submissions one film to be the official film from Ghana at the … Read more
The board of governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted to retain the services of accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, despite the best picture mix up at the Oscars in February. The 54-person board voted Tuesday to keep PwC, which has handled the ballots for the Academy Awards for 83 years. The … Read more
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has spared accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers the axe despite the biggest mix-up in Oscars history. The company took responsibility after the wrong movie was announced as best picture at the February 26 ceremony, blaming two of its staff for the embarrassing error. “After a thorough review, including an … Read more
The global accounting firm has apologized for the embarrassing envelope mix-up that resulted in “La La Land” being wrongly announced as best picture at the Oscars. For more than 80 years, PwC has administered the Oscars balloting process on behalf of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The firm says it oversees “all … Read more
It’s no secret that “La La Land” is the big favorite to earn major Oscars glory on Sunday. But there are other stories sure to unfold on Hollywood’s biggest night. Here are five things to watch for: “La La Land,” Hollywood’s love letter to itself, heads into the Oscars with a record-tying 14 nominations. The … Read more
Hollywood producers named the musical “La La Land” the best film of 2016 on Saturday at a ceremony marked by criticism of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. The big win by “La La Land” at the 28th annual awards set up the film, which stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, as an odds-on Oscar favorite, … Read more
La La Land will be the one to beat at this year’s Oscars, having scored a record-equalling 14 nominations. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are up for best actor and actress for their roles in the modern musical romance. It is also one of nine films up for the best picture award. Sci-fi film Arrival … Read more