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Monday, February 12, 2007

Battle for production credits continues

Exclusive Oscar festivities raise the stakes for getting your producer credits acknowledged...From today's NYT:

In Hollywood, a town full of prerogatives, there remains one significant privilege: collecting an Oscar and attending the elite Governor's Ball for the winners, guests and Tinseltown royalty. And as long as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has its way, it will remain a privilege.

But everyone in Hollywood has the right to sue. And that's just what Robert Yari, an independent film producer who worked on last year's best picture, "Crash," but was disallowed from receiving an Oscar, has done. His suit was viewed as both a challenge to the primacy of the academy to bestow recognition where it sees fit and a breach of show business manners.

Read the whole article HERE

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