The Hollywood Reporter – 28.02.2018

EDITOR-AT-LARGE Kim Masters

FILM

FILM EDITOR Gregg Kilday • SENIOR FILM WRITERS Borys Kit, Pamela McClintock, Tatiana Siegel

TECH EDITOR Carolyn Giardina • STAFF WRITER, FILM Mia Galuppo • INTERNATIONAL FILM EDITOR Deborah Young

TELEVISION

TELEVISION EDITOR, EAST COAST Marisa Guthrie • TELEVISION EDITOR, WEST COAST Lesley Goldberg

SENIOR WRITER, TELEVISION Michael O’Connell • TELEVISION WRITER Bryn Elise Sandberg • MEDIA & POLITICS WRITER Jeremy Barr

REVIEWS

REVIEWS EDITOR Jon Frosch • CHIEF FILM CRITIC Todd McCarthy CHIEF TELEVISION CRITIC Tim Goodman

CHIEF THEATER CRITIC David Rooney • TELEVISION CRITIC Daniel J. Fienberg

SENIOR EDITOR Benjamin Svetkey • SENIOR EDITOR, COPY Mike Barnes

FASHION & BEAUTY DIRECTOR Carol McColgin • AWARDS EDITOR Rebecca Ford

REAL ESTATE & CITY EDITOR Peter Kiefer • SENIOR WRITERS Seth Abramovitch, Gary Baum,

Scott Johnson • SENIOR AWARDS ANALYST Scott Feinberg • SENIOR EDITOR, EVENTS Ramona Saviss

SENIOR REPORTER Rebecca Sun • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EDITOR Georg Szalai

WEST COAST BUSINESS EDITOR Paul Bond • SENIOR EDITOR, NEW YORK Eriq Gardner

BOOKS EDITOR Andy Lewis • STAFF WRITER Chris Gardner • STAFF WRITER, DIGITAL MEDIA Natalie Jarvey

STAFF REPORTER Ashley Cullins • ASSOCIATE EDITOR Lindsay Flans • ASSISTANT STYLE EDITOR Jane Carlson

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Kendal McAlpin • ASSISTANT TO THE EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Beno Akram

COPY

ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR Jennifer H. Levin

DEPUTY COPY CHIEF Darah Head • SENIOR COPY EDITOR Lisa de los Reyes

ART

DESIGN DIRECTOR Peter B. Cury

ART DIRECTOR Kelsey Stefanson • ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTORS Nicholas Brawley,

Christopher Hawkins, Fah Sakharet • SENIOR DESIGNER Jen Cienfuegos

SENIOR ART PRODUCTION MANAGER Michelle Mondragon

ART PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE Amanda Tannen • PRODUCTION ARTIST BJ Samuels • JUNIOR PRODUCTION ARTIST Ashley Bradley

PHOTO & VIDEO

DEPUTY PHOTO DIRECTOR Carrie Smith

PHOTO EDITORS Chelsea Archer, Lisa Dragani, Michelle Stark • SENIOR PHOTO PRODUCER Kate Pappa

ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITORS Tristan Cassel, Jared Rosenthal • PHOTO RESEARCHER Megan Downie

PHOTO & VIDEO ASSISTANT Kayla Landrum • PHOTO EDITOR-AT-LARGE Jenny Sargent

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION, VIDEO Stephanie Fischette

SENIOR VIDEO PRODUCERS Marya Gullo, Victoria McKillop, Laela Zadeh • VIDEO PRODUCER Natalie Heltzel

ASSOCIATE VIDEO PRODUCER Brian Porreca • YOUTUBE CHANNEL MANAGER Jason Al-Samarrie

WEB VIDEO CONTENT MANAGER Ciara McVey • RIGHTS & CLEARANCES MANAGER Travis Gollaher

LEAD VIDEO EDITOR Victor Klaus • VIDEO EDITOR/MOTION GRAPHICS ARTIST Darin Eaton

JUNIOR VIDEO EDITOR Nebiyu Dingetu • VIDEO PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Dustin Hattier

THR.COM

DEPUTY EDITOR Kimberly Nordyke

ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Jennifer Konerman • STYLE & FASHION NEWS DIRECTOR Booth Moore

SENIOR EDITOR Hilary Lewis • EAST COAST DIGITAL LEAD EDITOR Jackie Strause

SENIOR REPORTER Ryan Parker • EDITOR, HEAT VISION Aaron Couch

INTERNATIONAL EDITOR Abid Rahman • STAFF EDITOR, NEWSLETTERS Ray Rahman

ASSOCIATE EDITORS Lauren Huff, Katherine Kilkenny, Patrick Shanley

ASSOCIATE STYLE EDITOR Samantha Reed • COPY CHIEF Pete Keeley

SENIOR PHOTO EDITOR, DIGITAL Christina Pompa-Kwok • PHOTO EDITORS Mike Jianu, Ben Park

DIGITAL CONTENT EDITOR, VIDEO Annie Howard • SENIOR MANAGER, SOCIAL MEDIA Jennifer Liles

SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Sarah Gidick • SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR Natalya Jaime

INTERNATIONAL

INTERNATIONAL NEWS EDITOR Kevin Cassidy

EUROPE BUREAU CHIEF Scott Roxborough • ASIA BUREAU CHIEF Patrick Brzeski • CANADA BUREAU CHIEF Etan Vlessing

CORRESPONDENTS Agustin Mango ARGENTINA • Pip Bulbeck AUSTRALIA • Rhonda Richford FRANCE

Karen Chu HONG KONG • Ariston Anderson ITALY • Nyay Bhushan INDIA • Gavin J. Blair JAPAN • Lee Hyo-won KOREA

John Hecht MEXICO • Nick Holdsworth, Vladimir Koslov RUSSIA • Pamela Rolfe SPAIN • Alex Ritman U.K.

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar • Jonathan Handel • Austin Hargrave • Bill Higgins • Wesley Ma n n

Miller Mobley • Gavin Polone • Joe Pugliese • Ramona Rosales • Michael Wolff

Matthew Belloni

EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Shanti Marlar

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Tom Seeley

DEPUTY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR,

DIGITAL MEDIA

Alison Brower

DEPUTY EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

Sudie Redmond

EXECUTIVE MANAGING EDITOR

Jeanie Pyun

DEPUTY EDITOR

Erik Hayden

NEWS DIRECTOR

Jennifer Laski

PHOTO & VIDEO DIRECTOR

Stephen Galloway

EXECUTIVE EDITOR, FEATURES

David Katz

EXECUTIVE EDITOR, ARTICLES

Lacey Rose

EXECUTIVE EDITOR, TELEVISION

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 24 FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The small illustrations throughout this issue were drawn by Rami Niemi

Crash winning best

picture in 2006 confirmed

my belief that the Oscars

is fundamentally an

exercise in the absurd.

I loved when Joe Pesci gave

a five-word speech after

winning for Goodfellas

in 1991. He was genuinely

humbled and succinct.

When Sally Field exclaimed with

unbridled exuberance, “You like me, right

now, you like me!” in 1984, it was a rare

moment of honest joy, vulnerability and

sincerity that was quite touching.

I loved all the winning performances in 1996:
Susan Sarandon for Dead Man Walking,
Nicolas Cage for Leaving Las Vegas and two
stars now on opposite ends of the #MeToo
conversation: The Usual Suspects’ Kevin Spacey
and Mighty Aphrodite’s Mira Sorvino.

Melissa Leo’s farcical

(and successful)

self-financed FYC campaign

in 2011 for her supporting

role in The Fighter.

In 2014, when John Travolta

mangled Idina Menzel’s name as

he introduced her performance

of Frozen’s “Let It Go.”

Envelopegate last year.

There’s never been anything

more dramatic.

The 1940 Oscars, when

the L.A. Times broke an

embargo and published

the names of the winners

in its evening edition,

ruining all the suspense!

In 1974, when a streaker

ran across the Oscar stage,

prompting co-host David Niven

to quip: “Isn’t it fascinating to

think that probably the only laugh

that man will ever get in life is

by stripping off and showing his

shortcomings?”

Chris Rock’s opening

monologue in 2016.

I really loved Billy

Crystal hosting in the ’90s.

His “What are the stars

thinking?” bit was silly fun. on her way to receive best actress J.Law tripping up the stairs

in 2013. Just then, I felt a

little bit more connected to her.

Adrien Brody

kissing Halle

Berry in 2003.

When Roberto Benigni won

best foreign film in 1999 for

Life Is Beautiful and he jumped

up on the chairs. His joy was

completely honest and infectious.

Gwyneth Paltrow

winning best actress in

1999 for Shakespeare

in Love, particularly when

she thanked her father.

“A homosexual poet; a drunken

artist; a man who has a relationship

with a volleyball; a sexual deviant;

a guy who likes to wear gladiator

outfits. But enough about me.” —

Steve Martin introducing the best

actor award at the 2001 Oscars.

Being born and raised

in Boston, I was “wicked

psyched” when Matt

Damon and Ben Affleck

won an Oscar for Good

Will Hunting in 1998.

Shakespeare in Love

winning best picture

in 1999 when it had no

business doing so.

Dustin Lance

Black’s heartfelt

2009 speech

after winning

best original

screenplay for

the Harvey Milk

biopic Milk.

When Trey Parker and

Matt Stone attended

the 2000 Oscars on acid

wearing dresses and

refused to acknowledge

that fact.

Maureen Stapleton winning

in 1982 for Reds: “I want

to thank everybody I ever

met in my entire life.”

I loved watching Patricia Arquette use

the opportunity when she won in

2015 for Boyhood to make a powerful

statement on wage equality for

women — in all industries, not just

Hollywood — which kicked off a

conversation and led to real change.

Gary and Vicki

from the group of

unsuspecting tourists

that host Jimmy

Kimmel brought into

the Oscars last year.

The 2003 reunion of past

acting winners at the

75th Oscars, introduced by

Olivia de Havilland. Watch it

and try not to get choked up!

WHAT WAS

YOUR FAVORITE

OSCAR MOMENT

OF ALL TIME?