Countdown to the Oscars: No Oscar love for casting directors

Published February 27, 2011 | By Bman

Countdown to the Oscars: No Oscar love for casting directors
The film academy honors actors, sound editors and others, so why not casting directors? Some say they want more recognition; the academy and others say it would be a tough call. Some of Hollywood’s most fabled directors, Elia Kazan and Robert Altman among them, have said that casting accounts for roughly 90% of a movie’s ultimate success or failure.
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Piano man becomes guitar hero
One actor. One day to shoot. One independent five-minute film. A production company from Toronto was in Sarnia Saturday working on a short film tentatively titled The Guitar Hero.[…]
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Film festival banners 74th Dia de Zamboanga
ZAMBOANGA CITY — All is set for the grand celebration of the 74th Dia De La Ciudad De Zamboanga on Saturday, February 26..
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