Topic: Oscars
On the heels of NBC’s lucrative Super Bowl sell-off, ABC has moved the last remaining advertising inventory in its 84th annual Academy Awards broadcast. Speaking to investors during the Walt Disney…
When it comes to awards season, nothing goes hand-in-hand better than high style and the Oscars’ red carpet. Inspired by that sartorial obsession surrounding film, a new collaboration has sprung…
In the midst of Hollywood awards season, IPG's media agency Initiative will be working with an Academy Award-winning client. Initiative has announced that it will be the media agency of…
With producer Brett Ratner and host Eddie Murphy out, and Brian Grazer and Billy Crystal picking up those duties respectively, the Oscars’ marketing department and ad agency partners are now…
Eddie Murphy has dropped out as host of the 2012 Oscars, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced today. His resignation comes just a day after the telecast’s…
There's a lingering perception that actors who do commercials are either desperate or hacks. In fact, neither is necessarily true. Looking back at all the Academy Award winners since 1970—the…
It's never too late to give Corey Haim another beatdown. Hollywood took what may be its last opportunity to snub the late actor—whose entire life after The Lost Boys was…
If you enjoyed our live blog of the Super Bowl commercials, join us this Sunday as we head west to live blog the 83rd Academy Awards telecast. I'll be hosting,…
To celebrate this Sunday's Academy Awards, we've collected 50 ads starring Oscar winners, ranging from the '60s (Dustin Hoffman for Volkswagen) to the present day (Timothy Hutton and Cuba Gooding…
It's a truism in television that nobody watches the Oscars for the host. Granted, that person has the heaviest burden of the evening, except maybe for the celebrities who have…
