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Lucian Grainge The Universal Music Group CEO sees his division top $7.1 billion in 2018 revenue with such hits as the Star Is Born soundtrack and releases from Drake and Post Malone. Donna Gigliotti The Oscars producer presides over perhaps the most chaotic run-up ever, conceding that a decision to broadcast all categories will push the show over ABC’s three-hour goal. Rachel Brosnahan and Tony Shalhoub The stars negotiate for raises on Amazon’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, earning up to $300,000 and $250,000 per episode respectively for season three. Ryan Adams The musician’s next album is on hold following a New York Times investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct, including from ex-wife Mandy Moore. Showbiz Stocks $31.24 (+4%) TWITTER (TWTR) The social network reports quarterly sales and profit ahead of Wall…

Amy Adams Vice The six-time Academy Award nominee, 44, will next be seen leading the psychological thriller Woman in the Window from Fox. Mahershala Ali Green Book His recent spree of projects — toplining the third season of True Detective and appearing in James Cameron’s Alita: Battle Angel — is coming to an end and the actor, 45, has yet to settle on his next project. Yalitza Aparicio Roma The first-time actress, 25, a former schoolteacher, has yet to pick a follow-up to her breakout debut (or sign with representation). Christian Bale Vice The 2011 Oscar winner, 45, (he’s had four noms) will be seen in late June opposite Jon Bernthal and Matt Damon in Chernin and Fox’s car-racing rivalry drama Ford v. Ferrari. Glenn Close The Wife The veteran,…

FILM Josh Brolin (CAA, Ziffren Brittenham) and Jason Momoa (WME, Edelstein Laird) are in talks to join Timothée Chalamet in Legendary’s Dune. Octavia Spencer (WME, Jackoway Austen) will join Anne Hathaway in Warner Bros.’ adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Witches. Sleight director J.D. Dillard (CAA, Circle of Confusion, Ginsburg Daniels) has set his next movie, Mastering Your Past, at Legendary. Chris Evans (CAA, 3 Arts, Meyer & Downs) will join the Antoine Fuqua thriller Infinite at Paramount. Rob Turbovsky and Matteo Borghese (UTA, Mosaic) will write Universal comedy False Alarm for producers Dylan Clark, Paul Feig and Sam Esmail. $32.5M Big Number Gizmodo Media Group’s losses in fourth-quarter 2018, forcing parent Univision to take a write-down, the company revealed Feb. 14. Chris Pratt (UTA, Rise, Sloane Offer) is in talks to…

On a recent Friday, Alan Horn watched a very early cut of Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent 2 in the executive screening room on the sixth floor of the Team Disney Building that was designed by famed architect Michael Graves. The chairman of Walt Disney Studios is an architect in his own right: Nearly two decades ago, when arriving at Warner Bros., he decided big-budget tentpoles were the movie industry’s future. His motto — “Do I have to see it now, and do I have to see it on the big screen?” — proved prescient. Of the 18 Disney titles that have earned $1 billion or more at the global box office, 13 were released since Horn arrived in summer 2012 to lead the film studio at the behest of Disney chairman…

Disney exceeded $7 billion at the global box office for the second time ever, and its studio leads in profitability for the fifth year straight, courtesy of Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther from Marvel and Incredibles 2 from Pixar. The latter two titles helped Disney’s TV and SVOD distribution efforts, but DVD and Blu-ray sales of Coco and Cars 3 in 2018 didn’t match those of Moana and Finding Dory in 2017, so home entertainment revenue dipped 5 percent year-over-year. Also dragging down results were less-than-stellar box office for A Wrinkle in Time, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms and even Lucasfilm’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. During a conference call Feb. 5, Disney CEO Bob Iger noted that had Disney’s studio already been merged with Fox’s, the combined…

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Hollywood’s call to action for size inclusivity on the red carpet is growing louder as stars including Bryce Dallas Howard, Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy and, most recently, SAG Awards host Megan Mullally vocalize frustration with designers who refuse to dress anyone who’s not a sample size. Size-inclusive luxury e-tailer 11 Honoré, fresh off its New York Fashion Week runway debut featuring a diverse cast of models including Laverne Cox, is working to change that. Providing more high-end red carpet options has benefited Octavia Spencer, who wore Prabal Gurung to the 2018 BAFTA nominees party. 11 Honoré also dressed Can You Ever Forgive Me?’s McCarthy in Jonathan Simkhai for the Oscar Nominees Luncheon and in a starry purple Reem Acra gown for the Golden Globes — landing the star on numerous…

Alex Honnold, star of the Oscar-contending doc Free Solo, is perched precariously halfway up an 85-foot wall. The seemingly superhuman climber who scaled a 3,000-foot sheer vertical wall in Yosemite National Park without any safety equipment is wearing a harness and tied into one end of a rope. In the unlikely event that he falls, the man on the other end, Jared Leto, will catch him. The wall arcs up and out at a steep angle — what rock climbers call overhanging — so a climber’s body is nearly horizontal to the ground. When it’s his turn to ascend the wall, Leto, breathing hard, is undeterred. “Nice, Jared, c’mon dude,” Honnold, 33, shouts, doling out lengths of slack in the rope. “Stay with it, I’m with you.” Unlike the many…

57.25M Number of people who watched the highest-rated Oscars, hosted by Billy Crystal and aired on ABC in 1998 19 Number of times Bob Hope hosted the Oscars, the most of any host; runner-up Billy Crystal hosted nine times 40M Number of people who watched the first televised Oscars, hosted by Bob Hope and Conrad Nagel and broadcast on NBC in 1953 26.5M Number of people who watched the lowest-rated Oscars, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and aired on ABC in 2018 15 minutes Length of the first and shortest Oscars ceremony, hosted by Douglas Fairbanks and William C. deMille in 1929 4 hours, 23 minutes Length of the longest Oscars ceremony, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg in 2002 1 Number of times the host also won an Oscar. It happened in…

The funny thing about falling down the stairs at the Oscars is that there’s no time to wonder just how injured you might be, not when you’re asking yourself more pressing questions like, “Oh my God, did Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel just walk by and see me on all fours?” I started watching the 2017 Oscars as I usually do, from the top-floor mezzanine of the Dolby Theatre. At 6:30 p.m., it was time to head to the first-floor lobby, where one could witness such happenings as John Legend darting to the men’s room and Scarlett Johansson sipping ice water near the bar. As instructed, I confirmed my credentials before descending the steep staircase. Because the right side was packed with tuxedoed men, I carefully stepped to the left…

David Permut is weaving his way up to his childhood home in Holmby Hills. Traffic is starting to back up behind his Mercedes S550 because he is moving so slowly, probably a good thing given that he isn’t too focused on the road. Instead, on this chilly winter afternoon, he’s staring at the addresses of the homes he’s rolling past. “This was Walt Disney’s house. He had a train in the backyard and he used to give kids rides. This is the Saperstein house. I wish you could get in there. It’s insane! One of the preeminent houses in the city … Oh wait — this one is Rod Stewart’s house.” Over the past four decades, Permut, 64, has produced dozens of films, including some cult classics: Dragnet, Richard Pryor…

A male member of the Academy’s 519-person directors branch, granted a cloak of anonymity, reveals why he filled out his final Oscar ballot the way that he did. “I’m not going to watch the Oscars this year,” he volunteers, saying the idea of a hostless ceremony has turned him off. “I’m just anticipating a very boring show. One of the best things about the show is the opening monologue, which is usually pretty good — it’s what happens after that that’s not great.” As for the Academy’s plan to hand out four awards during commercial breaks (which it rescinded after outcry): “It’s an abomination,” he says. “If ABC, which I’m sure was pushing for this, thought that dumping cinematography and film editing was going to bring back any of the…

AND THESE GUESTS ON SCOTT FEINBERG’S AWARDS CHATTER PODCASTS Amy Adams (Vice), Best Supporting Actress Mahershala Ali (Green Book), Best Supporting Actor Glenn Close (The Wife), Best Actress Olivia Colman (The Favourite), Best Actress Alfonso Cuarón (Roma), Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Cinematography Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate), Best Actor Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman), Best Supporting Actor Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born), Best Supporting Actor Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born), Best Actress and Original Song (“Shallow”) Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Best Supporting Actor Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk), Best Adapted Screenplay Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman), Best Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody), Best Actor Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Best Actress Adam McKay (Vice), Best Picture and Original…

It didn’t take long for Hollywood to go from Oscars to Oscar campaigns. The first Academy Awards were presented in 1929, and by 1936 MGM had taken out the first awards solicitation ad in The Hollywood Reporter. Actually, it was more an eight-page section that modestly proclaimed “1936 Belongs to Metro Goldwyn Mayer.” It promoted just one film: Ah, Wilderness!, an adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s only comedic play. (It’s set in turn-of-the-20th-century New England and deals with the coming of age of a family’s middle son.) THR had said the Clarence Brown-directed production “stands head and shoulders above the run of the mill for gentle humor, the drama of youth, the lovely memory and entertainment that one and all should see.” The film starred Wallace Beery and Lionel Barrymore (great-uncle…

Lesley Balla writes about Musso & Frank, the iconic Hollywood restaurant that turns 100 this year (page 120). “Everyone who’s anyone has dined here,” she says of devotees like Quentin Tarantino and Charlie Chaplin. “The martinis, steaks and flannel cakes are all just the tip of the glittery iceberg,” adds Balla, who has covered L.A. dining for nearly 20 years. New Zealand-based cover illustrator Nigel Buchanan envisions Oscar as a political activist. “I wanted to evoke some revolutionary posters of the early 1900s,” Buchanan says. “With the Oscar statuette being from a similar time and aesthetic, and the number of important causes currently being supported and promoted, the revolutionary pose and flag seemed appropriate.” Free Solo codirector Jimmy Chin photographs the subject of his nominated doc, Alex Honnold, who offered…

Deal of the Week Berlin’s European Film Market this year may not have matched the Amazon-led feeding frenzy at Sundance, but in terms of overall volume, and especially compared with the tepid American Film Market in November, it more than held its own. Unlike markets in recent years, which have seen increasingly stiff competition between traditional distributors and streamers, business in Berlin showed a bifurcation between films with strong theatrical potential — which sold well — and more generic or specialist fare that found its natural home with SVOD players. “I asked every [traditional] buyer if there was a single film — except Roma — that Netflix bought that they would have wanted, and they said no,” says one veteran sales executive. “If you have a big-budget film with a…

“We can’t put all these men on an island.”ALYSSA MILANO The actress and activist, at the Television Critics Association tour, in response to the news that former CBS chief Leslie Moonves is starting his own company. “It will be interesting to see if the theater chains change their minds after the Oscars.”TED SARANDOS The Netflix chief, at a forum hosted by Narcos: Mexico star Diego Luna, speculating that a Roma win might cause major exhibitors to end their ban on the streamer’s movies. “An hour? It’s eight movies!”DON CHEADLE The Black Monday actor, revealing to Seth Meyers that he was given only 60 minutes to accept the offer to join the Marvel Universe. He’s played War Machine in four Avengers films, including the upcoming Endgame. “I didn’t sign up to…

Kevin Hart was at Avra Beverly Hills. … Cameron Diaz sat with Nicole Richie at Eataly Los Angeles. … Rita Ora checked out Chateau Hanare. … Funny or Die’s Mike Farah and Joe Farrell sat with screenwriter Lauryn Kahn at Jones. … Jennifer Lopez reigned at Viale dei Romani. … Eugene Levy shared the room at Locanda Portofino with 20th Century Fox TV’s Jonnie Davis. … Elizabeth Banks celebrated her birthday at No. 10 Restaurant. … Bill Gerber sat with Clint Eastwood at Craig’s. … Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo lunched at Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air. HOT NEW RESTAURANT Bacari W. 3rd The Quick Pitch Enter this hidden oasis through a dimly lit cave for chef Lior Hillel’s (a Jean-Georges Vongerichten-trained Israeli expat) small plates. Among a burger and…

Here is the stat: 4.5 percent of Americans prefer same-sex partners (I’m included). That’s if we are to believe the consensus of various studies — google it, and this is the percentage that usually pops up. It’s harder to prove or disprove compared with the United States 2017 Census, which tells us definitively, for example, that 13 percent of the population is African-American and 18 percent is Latino. This percentage means that we are overrepresented at the Oscars this year in terms of the number of gay or bisexual characters played by nominated actors — a record seven out of 20. It also suggests we’ve come a long way from the agonies of Tom Hanks dying from AIDS in 1993’s Philadelphia; or from the tortures of forbidden same-sex romance in…

A Star Is Born, with its symmetrical plotline of rising and falling stars, is Hollywood’s canonical mythsaga, capturing both the glory and cruelty of the modern entertainment industry. The fourth version of A Star Is Born, directed by Bradley Cooper and starring himself and Lady Gaga, has been nominated for eight Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards. How does this movie treat our red-hot theme of women’s aspirations and achievement? Surprisingly, despite its progressive gestures toward masculine sensitivity and transgender inclusiveness, this A Star Is Born is the most sexist film of the entire series. In Cooper’s film, the epic Hollywood story has been hijacked by camera-hogging male vanity, curtailing the magnificent classic role of the ascending woman star who painfully eclipses her self-destructive, alcoholic husband. What the script has…

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In the last hours before the Golden Globes, Bradley Cooper (with Irina Shayk) thought he had Settled on a suit — then he tried on an alternate option and fell in love. Could the new contender be tailored in time? It could — though the Star Is Born director-star ended up sticking to his original pick. But as any red carpet regular knows, whether adapting runway looks for stars or crafting a gown from start to finish, a tailor’s strategic nips and tucks can secure a client’s place on a best-dressed list and ensure against wardrobe malfunctions — especially in an HDTV age where no hemline goes unnoticed. These are the top four pros that Hollywood is calling for the tightest close-ups.…

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MOST HELPFUL GHOST Rami Malek suggesting “perhaps it was Freddie [Mercury] himself” who shielded him from Bryan Singer behavior while on the set of Bohemian Rhapsody. LET’S-ALL-SAY-IT- TOGETHER-NOW AWARD “There can be 100 people in a room, and 99 of them don’t believe in you, but all it takes is one, and that was him.”LADY GAGA’S REFRAIN ABOUT A STAR IS BORN DIRECTOR BRADLEY COOPER, SPOKEN NEARLY A DOZEN TIMES ON THE CIRCUIT Hottest New Accessory BODYGUARDS to keep selfie-hungry critics away from stars like Nicole Kidman and Ryan Gosling at the Critics’ Choice Awards. WASTED FAVOR AWARD Rob Marshall, who added a spoonful of Sophia Loren to a Mary Poppins event. (No nomination.) POP QUIZ! Which of the following celebs did not volunteer to host the Oscars? Answer: Dr.…

Devon Elora arrives to every set with a grab bag of items: a few wigs, a handful of shoes, with heels of varying heights. As an actor’s stand-in, Elora’s never entirely sure what the part will require. Her function is to set up camera shots before her actor arrives. If she’s done it well, she’s watched her actor closely, hit every mark and ensured that production moved swiftly. Of course, sets are prone to last-minute shifts, and a model stand-in is prepared for whatever is thrown at her. When, in a pinch, Westworld’s assistant director found he needed a stand-in for a 6-foot-5 Native American actor, that bag of props came in handy. Though much of her work on the HBO series had been for star Evan Rachel Wood, Elora…

Curious to know where Beyoncé and Jay-Z live? According to one modern star map, their address is 10231 Charing Cross Road H.H. But wait. Another map has them residing 27 miles away, at 27422 Pacific Coast Highway. How about Johnny Depp? His house is at 7760 Woodrow Wilson Drive. Scratch that. Another map has him residing over on 1495 Sweetzer. And none of that matches reports that Depp sold his main L.A. residences in the Eastern Columbia building in downtown L.A. Much of the charm of star maps, which can be purchased from a kiosk, a vending machine or a person on the side of the road for $5 to $25, is their kitschy, old-school feel. They are relics of an analog era. But that charm comes at a cost…

It was the request for a 2 a.m. meeting that tipped Jennifer Salke to the fact that she was operating in a new realm. When Salke was named head of Amazon Studios in February 2018, the former NBC Entertainment president brought relationships and knowledge from the broadcast TV world, but she was new to the film industry and its cultural quirks, including the phenomenon of allnight festival bidding wars. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Salke got a quick education and made a bold statement, spending $47 million on five movies, the most any company has spent in Park City in a single year. “I thought it was crazy,” Salke says of walking into her first Sundance negotiation, for the Mindy Kaling-Emma Thompson comedy Late Night, which she ultimately acquired…

John Lasseter has begun to put his stamp on Skydance Animation amid signs he may face resistance as he attempts to turn David Ellison’s animation unit into a major player. On Feb. 14, Holly Edwards, who had been serving as head of production, was promoted to president, effectively becoming Lasseter’s right hand as former president Bill Damaschke exits. Not everyone’s ready to work at Skydance, though. Emma Thompson, who had begun recording one of the voice roles in its upcoming animated feature Luck, has quietly left the project because of concerns about working with Lasseter, several sources tell THR. Her departure is the first evidence that Skydance may have difficulty attracting talent given its new notoriety. Skydance and Thompson’s reps had no comment. Lasseter, 62, tended to surround himself with…

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Big Deal Ubisoft is going where no video game adaptation has gone before. The publishing giant has teamed with Atlas Entertainment (Dirty John) to adapt its pirate adventure game Skull & Bones — before the game is even released. While the 2016 Michael Fassbender feature Assassin’s Creed was based on one of Ubisoft’s most popular franchises, this time the company’s film and television division is doubling down on unproven IP. “Ubisoft is known for creating innovative video games that combine immense worlds with rich narratives,” says the company’s director of development for television Danielle Kreinik, who will exec produce the TV show alongside film and television senior vp Jason Altman. It’s a bold vote of confidence for the open-world adventure game, which is planned for release this year. But is…

Weddings Restaurateur Michael Chow married Vanessa Rano on Feb. 9 at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, followed by a reception at Chow’s artist studio in Vernon, California. Births Joslyn Sifuentes Martinez, a publicist at Shelter PR, and husband Justin Martinez, a director and visual effects supervisor, welcomed daughter Genoveva Sifuentes Martinez on Feb. 5 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Industry Entertainment’s Daniel Pancotto and his wife, designer Gretchen Maciver, welcomed daughter Hanley Josephine on Jan. 18 at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica. WME’s Tom Wellington and wife Ariana Wellington welcomed daughter Isabella Kays Wellington on Jan. 16 at Cedars-Sinai. Congrats Marc Weinstock joined Paramount as head of worldwide marketing Feb. 13. Justin Dearborn joined ICM Partners as COO on Feb. 11. Andrew Enz was promoted…

At 61, with some 127 acting credits to his name, Richard E. Grant finds himself a first-time Oscar nominee for his scene-stealing performance as Jack Hock, a streetwise gay roué who becomes partners in crime with author Lee Israel (fellow nominee Melissa McCarthy) in Can You Ever Forgive Me? “Ninety-nine point nine percent of the actors I know are like me — you never get nominated for stuff, you don’t have any expectation,” says Grant. “But right now it feels like the world is smiling at you. You are greeted [at] the Apple store by total strangers who say, ‘Congratulations on your Oscar nomination.’ ” This year he’s front and center with multiple nominations (including one for the Feb. 23 Spirit Awards) and is relishing every minute of the run-up.…

Three years ago, Yalitza Aparicio had just completed her studies to be a preschool teacher in Tlaxiaco, Mexico. After a moving performance in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, she is a best actress Oscar nominee, capping an awards season filled with accolades. She also has brought a fresh spirit and unconventional beauty to the red carpet as the first indigenous woman to be nominated for a leading actress Academy Award and only the second Mexican after Salma Hayek (for 2002’s Frida). Collaborating with her L.A.-based stylist, Sophie Lopez, the actress, 25, has made an indelible impression with looks from such major houses as Christian Dior, Miu Miu, Prada and Alberta Ferreti as well as the more offbeat Lela Rose, Delpozo and Prabal Gurung. The latter created the disco-fabulous sequined number that Aparicio…

Getting through awards season can be a stressful marathon. Doing it with a baby on board makes questions of what to wear and how to get through Oscar night even more challenging. “The whole thing was quite surreal,” The Favourite nominee Rachel Weisz recalls of being seven months pregnant in 2006 when she won her supporting actress Oscar for The Constant Gardener. Among the current season’s expectant contenders: Cold War actress Joanna Kulig and Oscar-nominated A Star Is Born producer Lynette Howell Taylor. Howell Taylor had her baby just after running the early awards gantlet in Venice and Toronto. At seven months along, “everything in Venice felt treacherous,” she says. “The boat ride to the airport was bumpy, so I spent the entire time suspended on my hands, to get…

Developer Ario Fakheri made a splash when a Beverly Hills home he built came to market in June, driven largely by its headline-generating feature: A 300-gallon shark tank (with sharks). Eight months and a $6 million reduction later, the home is still unsold. “We have specialists who come to maintain the shark pond two times a week,” says Sam Real of Engel & Volkers. And just above the pond is an elaborate verdant wall installed by Habitat for Horticulture (whose work also graces the walls of Salesforce and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). “It’s an art piece and extremely expensive,” says Real, “so Habitat for Horticulture sends their own staff.” To ensure no luster is lost at Bruce Makowsky’s Bel Air mega-mansion ($150 million, down from $250 million…

Last October, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reached out to a man it believed could save the Oscars from a ratings nosedive and a growing sense of cultural obsolescence. A proven box office performer with a giant social media following, appeal across the political spectrum and enough of a sense of showmanship to pull off a blue velvet tuxedo jacket with a 50-inch chest, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson seemed like just the man for the daunting job of hosting the Oscars in 2019. “We didn't campaign for it, but the call came, and I was over the moon,” Johnson says. “Immediately my brain started going, ‘We’ll do this kind of number and that.’ We were going to turn the Oscars on their head and make it something…

On Feb. 8, one of the hottest film projects to hit the town in months began circulating. From directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, The Last Human, which centers on a 12-year-old girl who survives the robot apocalypse, promised to be that elusive marriage of smart and commercial (like the duo’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse). Predictably, nearly every studio was chasing the film, including TriStar, Netflix, Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, New Regency and MRC. So, too, was Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, teaming up with MGM on a competitive offer. Ultimately, TriStar won the bidding war three days later. But Annapurna’s involvement signaled something perhaps more important. Despite pervasive rumors that Ellison is winding down the company’s operations and would not greenlight a film for at least a year, Annapurna was…

The two decades since World War Oscar — Shakespeare in Love vs. Saving Private Ryan — have seen an ever-escalating awards-season arms race. And for Oscar consultants, it’s a lucrative one: Fees can go far beyond monthly retainers to include generous bonuses for wins and nominations, according to a contract obtained by THR and verified by several sources. Here’s what top strategists can make: FLAT MONTHLY FEE $25,000 In-demand consultants often work on two or three films in any given year, even if from dueling studios. BONUS FEES: BEST PICTURE $25,000 for a nomination $50,000 for a win BONUS FEES: BEST ACTOR, ACTRESS, DIRECTOR $10,000 for each nomination $20,000 for a win in each category OTHER CATEGORIES For song, original score, film editing, cinematography, art direction, visual effects, costume design,…

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JAMIE LEE CURTIS The Lifetime Achievement Award celebrates her four-decade-long acting career, including the reprisal of her iconic role for 2018’s Halloween. GREG BERLANTI The prolific producer, who has a hand in 15 current live-action scripted series, will receive the Television Showman of the Year Award. HENRI BOLLINGER The guild will debut a new award, named for entertainment publicist Bollinger, who died in August and will be honored posthumously with the inaugural honor.…