Focus Features' Oscar Party: The Buzz Breakdown

What’s interesting about Oscar parties is that whatever reason they’re thrown, they’re always about something else.

Consider Focus Features party on Saturday night, at EAT on Sunset. Sure, it had its stars: Heath Ledger?; check; Michelle Williams; check! And agents petting the stars. (CAA‘s Beth Swofford? Check!)

But while the ostensible purpose of the event was to celebrate the breakout success of “Brokeback,” the event’s de facto purpose was to offer a public forum for discussion on who’s to replace Stacey Snider now that she’s abandoned the chairmanship of Univeral Pictures for DreamWorks.

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