Hollywood Week: BAFTA Hint at Oscars Noms, Rape Culture Exposed, Christian Oliver, 2023 Memoriam
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- Category: Entertainment News
- Published on Saturday, 06 January 2024 10:51
- Written by Janet Walker
The British Academy of Film and Television announced its longlist of film and performance nominations hinting at the upcoming Academy Award nominations. The BAFTA shortlist will be announced January 18, with Oscar nominations following on January 23.
"The British Academy on Friday unveiled the longlists for its 2024 BAFTA Film Awards in all 24 categories, and Greta Gerwig's pink juggernaut Barbie, Christopher Nolan's biographical epic Oppenheimer and Martin Scorsese's Western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon are leading the pack with 15 mentions each. They are followed by Yorgos Lanthimos' black-comedy science fantasy Poor Things with 14," reported The Hollywood Reporter.
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As the nominations continue to gel, a dark horse which continues to resonate with voters is Past Lives, the romantic drama from first time Asian female director Celine Song. BAFTA voters nominated the debut drama in six categories, including best director. A long shot against the expected nominees, the story of Korean immigration story is also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has already announced the shortlists in ten categories 2023 highest grossing film Barbie, as well as Oppenheimer and Killers of The Flower Moon are continuing to rise above the pack of potential nominees.
Hollywood's Exposed Rape Culture
The Walt Disney Company was sued this week by an employee who alleges the entertainment company intentionally concealed allegations of rape and sexual assault, as well as a pervasive pattern of sexual harassment against Nolan Gonzales, a former VP of distribution, and was able to rape with impunity.
"The accuser claims she wasn't Gonzales' "first victim nor his last" and that his history of sexual misconduct was well-known by management, which allegedly refused to properly investigate or take punitive action against him for years. "Women were discouraged to come forward about his behaviors because management seemingly accepted Gonzales' conduct as being part of the entertainment industry and his firing would hurt the company financially," states the complaint," reported The Hollywood Reporter.
The plaintiff, who filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that Gonzales raped her sexual times in 2017, by using ecstasy and the date rape drug, which rendered her incapacitated.
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Reality Show Producer Nigel Lythgoe Accused of Sexual Assault, Steps Down
Reality show producer, Nigel Lythgoe, 73, has stepped down, "voluntarily" from his role as Executive producer of the hit shoe, "So You Think You Can Dance," after a lawsuit filed in December 2023, accused him of sexual assault.
"In the lawsuit, which was filed last month, Ms. Abdul accused Mr. Lythgoe of shoving her against the wall of a hotel elevator, grabbing her genitals and breasts and shoving his tongue down her throat in the early 2000s while she was a judge on "American Idol." Mr. Lythgoe, who had been a producer for the show at the time, called the allegations "false" and "deeply offensive to me and to everything I stand for,'" reported The New York Times.
An additional lawsuit filed by two former contestants of the reality show, An American Girl, depicted the British citizen, as a lecherous man who would show up in the girls dressing room and "slap and grope the butts of the contestants."
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Exhuming the Past - Victim/Criminal
The reason for the avalanche of revelations of sexual assaults that continue to unearth decades of sexual assault and rape with apparent impunity has for years been considered a way of life, in every career, not simply the entertainment industry.
Obviously, the most glaring example would be the Catholic priests, who for at least 75 years, were given the freedom to rape with impunity. It is no surprise that every organization, legal, finance, entertainment, religious, military, sports, academia, has been allowed to rape with impunity.
Moreover, as with many instances, there is no support from the judicial system, victims are routinely turned away, revictimized, accused of crimes, and in extreme cases, accused of falsifying the rape allegation and prosecuted.
Not to mention career assassination for the victim, especially if they insist on justice, (as if) and for career advancement for the rapist. Crawling on the floor on a victims' home is not consent; being let into the home by a roommate is not consent, drugging and raping the victim is not consent or "having sex," it is rape, a crime,
Finding support is like a needle in a haystack, with some salivating to hear the abuse suffered and others determining what side is easier and how they can use the information for personal gain.
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Christian Oliver, two daughters, Die in Plane Crash
Christian Olivier, 51, and his two daughters, Madita, 10, and Annik, 12, died when their plane crashed into the Caribbean Ocean shortly after takeoff. The pilot was also killed.
"Mr. Oliver, 51, who appeared in "The Good German," "Speed Racer" and the TV series "Saved by The Bell: The New Class," and his daughters were the only passengers in the single engine plane traveling from Bequia, an island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, when it crashed into the sea at midday, the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force said in a statement on Thursday," reported The New York Times.
2023 In Memoriam
The upcoming Oscar's "In Memoriam," which has honored those who have passed away the previous year from all branches, will be a who's who of talent that shaped the industry for more than a half a century, some longer.
It is expected that those included will be Norman Lear, Harry Belafonte, Tina Turner, Alan Arkin, Glenda Jackosn, Burt Bacharach, Andre Braugher, Lisa Marie Presley, Melinda Dillion, Matthew Perry, Ryan O'Neal, Jimmy Buffet, Bob Barker, Mark Margolis, Robbie Robertson, Randy Meisner, and Tom Wilkinson, who passed away "suddenly" at his home on December 30, 2023. RIP.
