Jeffrey Wells, who operates the movie blog Hollywood Elsewhere, has been expelled from the Critics Choice Association, the group of journalists that host the annual Critics Choice Awards.
Wells was indefinitely suspended due to a “pattern of offensive, insensitive and unprofessional behavior,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
He confirmed his ejection in a blog post on Thursday evening. He wrote, “The Critics Choice Awards group, a distinguished and influential journalist org that plays a big annual role during award season, gave me the boot today because of that post that was up yesterday for maybe an hour or so, a post that contained a discussion about the ramifications of the recent Atlanta killings and how this might tangentially stir the pot as far as Oscar considerations were concerned.”
On Wednesday, Wells shared and deleted a blog post insinuating that Tuesday’s shooting at an Atlanta-area Asian spa helped solidify Oscar...
Wells was indefinitely suspended due to a “pattern of offensive, insensitive and unprofessional behavior,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
He confirmed his ejection in a blog post on Thursday evening. He wrote, “The Critics Choice Awards group, a distinguished and influential journalist org that plays a big annual role during award season, gave me the boot today because of that post that was up yesterday for maybe an hour or so, a post that contained a discussion about the ramifications of the recent Atlanta killings and how this might tangentially stir the pot as far as Oscar considerations were concerned.”
On Wednesday, Wells shared and deleted a blog post insinuating that Tuesday’s shooting at an Atlanta-area Asian spa helped solidify Oscar...
- 3/19/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Critics’ Choice Association Expels Jeffrey Wells Following Posts About Atlanta Shootings (Exclusive)
Jeffrey Wells, the veteran film industry commentator who has long operated the widely read blog Hollywood Elsewhere, has been indefinitely suspended by the Critics Choice Association, the group of journalists that presents the annual Critics Choice Awards.
The decision to sanction Wells, which was made by the Cca board Thursday night, came in response to “a pattern of offensive, insensitive and unprofessional behavior,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Wells, who regularly sparks controversy with his riffs on Hollywood and social issues, most recently provoked widespread outrage with an article that he posted and then deleted Wednesday, but which others screen-grabbed and posted ...
The decision to sanction Wells, which was made by the Cca board Thursday night, came in response to “a pattern of offensive, insensitive and unprofessional behavior,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Wells, who regularly sparks controversy with his riffs on Hollywood and social issues, most recently provoked widespread outrage with an article that he posted and then deleted Wednesday, but which others screen-grabbed and posted ...
- 3/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Critics’ Choice Association Expels Jeffrey Wells Following Posts About Atlanta Shootings (Exclusive)
Jeffrey Wells, the veteran film industry commentator who has long operated the widely read blog Hollywood Elsewhere, has been indefinitely suspended by the Critics Choice Association, the group of journalists that presents the annual Critics Choice Awards.
The decision to sanction Wells, which was made by the CCA board Thursday night, came in response to “a pattern of offensive, insensitive and unprofessional behavior,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Wells, who regularly sparks controversy with his riffs on Hollywood and social issues, most recently provoked widespread outrage with an article that he posted and then deleted Wednesday, but which others screen-grabbed and posted ...
The decision to sanction Wells, which was made by the CCA board Thursday night, came in response to “a pattern of offensive, insensitive and unprofessional behavior,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Wells, who regularly sparks controversy with his riffs on Hollywood and social issues, most recently provoked widespread outrage with an article that he posted and then deleted Wednesday, but which others screen-grabbed and posted ...
- 3/19/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Congratulations to our Expert Joyce Eng (Gold Derby) for an outstanding score of 82.26% when predicting the Oscars 2020 nominations on Monday. She is best among 31 Experts, journalists who cover the film and entertainment industry throughout the year. See Experts’ scores.
Over 12,400 people worldwide predicted these champs in 24 movie categories for the Academy Awards. Our top scorer got 102 of the 125 nominee slots correct, including some semi-long shots like Florence Pugh for “Little Women” for Best Supporting Actress, plus all nine Best Picture nominees and all of the contenders for Best Adapted Screenplay.
SEE2020 Oscar nominations: Full list of Academy Awards nominees in all 24 categories
You can see how your score compares to all others in our leaderboard rankings of all contestants, which also includes links to see each participant’s predictions. To see your own scores, go to the User menu in the top right corner of every page of Gold...
Over 12,400 people worldwide predicted these champs in 24 movie categories for the Academy Awards. Our top scorer got 102 of the 125 nominee slots correct, including some semi-long shots like Florence Pugh for “Little Women” for Best Supporting Actress, plus all nine Best Picture nominees and all of the contenders for Best Adapted Screenplay.
SEE2020 Oscar nominations: Full list of Academy Awards nominees in all 24 categories
You can see how your score compares to all others in our leaderboard rankings of all contestants, which also includes links to see each participant’s predictions. To see your own scores, go to the User menu in the top right corner of every page of Gold...
- 1/13/2020
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Time to dance a jig! Gold Derby’s Oscar Experts have pushed Martin Scorsese‘s “The Irishman” into first place among Best Picture contenders, thanks to 15 choosing it to win compared to 11 who are sticking with Quentin Tarantino‘s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” as the top choice.
The pro-Scorsese squad: Jen Chaney (Vulture), Edward Douglas (Weekend Warrior), Tim Gray (Variety), Jeffrey Wells (Hollywood Elsewhere), Perri Nemiroff (Collider), Erik Davis (Fandango), Kevin Polowy (Yahoo), Wilson Morales (Black Film), Tariq Khan (Fox TV), Anne Thompson (Indiewire), Michael Musto (NewNowNext) and Gold Derby’s Susan King, Thelma Adams, Tom O’Neil and myself.
The Qt supporters: Christopher Rosen (TVGuide.com), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone), Jazz Tangcay and Sasha Stone (Awards Daily), Claudia Puig (Kpcc), Matthew Jacobs (HuffPo), Keith Simanton (IMDb), Nikki Novak (Fandango) and Eric Deggans (NPR) and Joyce Eng and Jack Mathews (Gold Derby).
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The pro-Scorsese squad: Jen Chaney (Vulture), Edward Douglas (Weekend Warrior), Tim Gray (Variety), Jeffrey Wells (Hollywood Elsewhere), Perri Nemiroff (Collider), Erik Davis (Fandango), Kevin Polowy (Yahoo), Wilson Morales (Black Film), Tariq Khan (Fox TV), Anne Thompson (Indiewire), Michael Musto (NewNowNext) and Gold Derby’s Susan King, Thelma Adams, Tom O’Neil and myself.
The Qt supporters: Christopher Rosen (TVGuide.com), Peter Travers (Rolling Stone), Jazz Tangcay and Sasha Stone (Awards Daily), Claudia Puig (Kpcc), Matthew Jacobs (HuffPo), Keith Simanton (IMDb), Nikki Novak (Fandango) and Eric Deggans (NPR) and Joyce Eng and Jack Mathews (Gold Derby).
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- 10/9/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Congratulations to our Expert Sasha Stone (Awards Daily) for a tremendous score of 91.67% when predicting the 2019 Oscars winners on Sunday. She leads 37 Experts, journalists who cover the entertainment industry throughout the year. See Experts’ scores.
Over 8,000 people worldwide predicted these Academy Awards champs at the Hollywood ceremony. Our champ got 22 of the 24 categories correct, only missing for Best Actress (choosing Glenn Close over Olivia Colman) and Best Documentary Feature (choosing “Rbg” over “Free Solo”). That means she got Best Picture (“Green Book”) and the other three acting winners.
SEE2019 Oscars: Full list of winners (and losers) at the 91st Academy Awards
You can see how your score compares to all others in our leaderboard rankings of all contestants, which also includes links to see each participant’s predictions. To see your own scores, go to the User menu in the top right corner of every page of Gold Derby when...
Over 8,000 people worldwide predicted these Academy Awards champs at the Hollywood ceremony. Our champ got 22 of the 24 categories correct, only missing for Best Actress (choosing Glenn Close over Olivia Colman) and Best Documentary Feature (choosing “Rbg” over “Free Solo”). That means she got Best Picture (“Green Book”) and the other three acting winners.
SEE2019 Oscars: Full list of winners (and losers) at the 91st Academy Awards
You can see how your score compares to all others in our leaderboard rankings of all contestants, which also includes links to see each participant’s predictions. To see your own scores, go to the User menu in the top right corner of every page of Gold Derby when...
- 2/25/2019
- by Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Veteran film critic Leonard Klady has died after a brief illness. Klady was a staff writer/critic/columnist for such publications as Variety, the Los Angeles Times, American Film and Entertainment Weekly. He was the box office reporter for moviecitynews.com for the last 18 years, a senior contributing editor of Screen International and a critic and columnist for Below the Line.
Born in Canada, Klady was a founding member and first president of the film co-operative the Winnipeg Film Group. He wrote prolifically about the Canadian film industry and was host of a national arts television series prior to relocating to the United States in 1985. He also produced and wrote several award winning shorts and radio and television programs. He was working with the BBC at his passing.
Peter Bart, who was Klady’s editor-in-chief at Variety, praised Klady’s passion, knowledge and commitment.
“No Variety staffer ever cared more...
Born in Canada, Klady was a founding member and first president of the film co-operative the Winnipeg Film Group. He wrote prolifically about the Canadian film industry and was host of a national arts television series prior to relocating to the United States in 1985. He also produced and wrote several award winning shorts and radio and television programs. He was working with the BBC at his passing.
Peter Bart, who was Klady’s editor-in-chief at Variety, praised Klady’s passion, knowledge and commitment.
“No Variety staffer ever cared more...
- 1/19/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
What a difference a couple of weeks makes. Ethan Hawke (“First Reformed”) looked like a dark horse Oscar contender for his role as a tormented pastor, but the indie film was released way back in May, so it was at risk of getting lost in the shuffle. However, strong showings at the Independent Spirit Awards and Gotham Awards in recent weeks have given him a dramatic boost. Now he’s officially in our top-five for Best Actor based on the combined predictions of thousands of Gold Derby users.
Hawke now ranks fifth with odds of 23/2. He still trails front-runner Bradley Cooper (“A Star is Born”), as well as Christian Bale (“Vice”), Viggo Mortensen (“Green Book”) and Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”), but he has just managed to climb over Ryan Gosling (“First Man”). Gosling was an early front-runner since he’s a past nominee playing a real-life hero (astronaut Neil Armstrong...
Hawke now ranks fifth with odds of 23/2. He still trails front-runner Bradley Cooper (“A Star is Born”), as well as Christian Bale (“Vice”), Viggo Mortensen (“Green Book”) and Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”), but he has just managed to climb over Ryan Gosling (“First Man”). Gosling was an early front-runner since he’s a past nominee playing a real-life hero (astronaut Neil Armstrong...
- 11/27/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
In the seven years since the academy went to a variable number of Best Picture nominees, the winner of the top prize has not also claimed Best Director four times. And according to the predictions of our Oscar experts, this scenario is likely to play out again this year with Bradley Cooper‘s remake of “A Star is Born” winning Best Picture but Alfonso Cuaron picking up his second Best Director Oscar for “Roma.”
Of our 29 Oscarologists, a whopping 25 of them are forecasting that Cuaron will win a bookend (but only three say his film will also prevail). That support gives him leading odds of 82/25. Four experts are backing Cooper (compare that to the 19 predicting that “A Star is Born” will win Best Picture), which translates to odds of 9/2. [See the most up-to-date Best Director rankings by our 29 Experts.]
Cuaron won an Oscar in 2014 for helming “Gravity,” which lost the Best Picture race to “12 Years a Slave.” The other...
Of our 29 Oscarologists, a whopping 25 of them are forecasting that Cuaron will win a bookend (but only three say his film will also prevail). That support gives him leading odds of 82/25. Four experts are backing Cooper (compare that to the 19 predicting that “A Star is Born” will win Best Picture), which translates to odds of 9/2. [See the most up-to-date Best Director rankings by our 29 Experts.]
Cuaron won an Oscar in 2014 for helming “Gravity,” which lost the Best Picture race to “12 Years a Slave.” The other...
- 11/26/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Following the Thanksgiving break, “A Star is Born” has widened its lead over “Roma” in the Best Picture race at the Oscars according to the predictions of the 30 Experts at Gold Derby by a vote of 19 to 3 (it was 18 to 5 last week). One “Roma” backer [Andrea Mandell (USA Today)] switched to “A Star is Born,” while another [Anne Thompson (Indiewire)] is now the lone vote for “Black Panther.”
“Green Book,” which did good business in its first weekend of wide release, now has the backing of five pundits (that’s up from just one at the beginning of the month). “The Favourite” and “Vice” have one Oscarologist apiece in their corner. [See the most up-to-date Best Picture rankings by our 30 Experts.]
Although “A Star is Born” enjoys a clear majority of first-place votes from the experts, it is not that far ahead of “Roma” and “Green Book” on our Best Picture odds chart. It leads with odds of 13/2 to take home the...
“Green Book,” which did good business in its first weekend of wide release, now has the backing of five pundits (that’s up from just one at the beginning of the month). “The Favourite” and “Vice” have one Oscarologist apiece in their corner. [See the most up-to-date Best Picture rankings by our 30 Experts.]
Although “A Star is Born” enjoys a clear majority of first-place votes from the experts, it is not that far ahead of “Roma” and “Green Book” on our Best Picture odds chart. It leads with odds of 13/2 to take home the...
- 11/26/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Heading into Thanksgiving, “A Star is Born” maintains its lead over “Roma” in the Best Picture race according to the predictions of the 30 Oscar Experts at Gold Derby by a vote of 18 to 5. But watch out for “Green Book,” which now has the backing of five pundits (that’s up from just one at the beginning of the month). “The Favourite” and “Vice” have one Oscarologist apiece in their corner. [See the most up-to-date Best Picture rankings by our 30 Experts.]
While “A Star is Born” still has a clear edge for first-place votes from the experts, it is only just ahead of “Roma” and “Green Book” on our Best Picture odds chart. It leads with odds of 13/2 to take home the top Academy Award while the other two are just behind at 15/2. This discrepancy is down to the relative rankings of these three films by all of the experts, including those that don’t have them in first place. [See the latest racetrack odds.]
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While “A Star is Born” still has a clear edge for first-place votes from the experts, it is only just ahead of “Roma” and “Green Book” on our Best Picture odds chart. It leads with odds of 13/2 to take home the top Academy Award while the other two are just behind at 15/2. This discrepancy is down to the relative rankings of these three films by all of the experts, including those that don’t have them in first place. [See the latest racetrack odds.]
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- 11/19/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Only 10 times in history has a foreign-language film been nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. The first: “Grand Illusion” in 1939. The last: “Amour” in 2012. That may be more than you figured, but here’s a stat that might be lower than you thought, given the prominent rise of Mexican filmmakers in recent years: Never, ever has a movie set primarily in Mexico or even spoken primarily in Spanish been nominated for the academy’s top prize. (Note: “Traffic” and “Babel” don’t count because “primarily” doesn’t apply.)
Now could Alfonso Cuaron‘s “Roma” be the one to break that south-of-the-border shutout with a Best Picture nomination?
You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone at the Telluride Film Festival this Labor Day weekend who wouldn’t sign off, not just on “could be,” but “will be.” Whether it actually wins is another matter, but virtually any case you could...
Now could Alfonso Cuaron‘s “Roma” be the one to break that south-of-the-border shutout with a Best Picture nomination?
You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone at the Telluride Film Festival this Labor Day weekend who wouldn’t sign off, not just on “could be,” but “will be.” Whether it actually wins is another matter, but virtually any case you could...
- 9/3/2018
- by Chris Willman
- Gold Derby
Back in 2002, at a Melrose tea shop, David Poland, Jeffrey Wells, Nikki Finke (via speakerphone), and I met to discuss launching a joint online venture. We were all early online adopters who saw the future that freedom from print could bring.
We threw plenty of ideas around that afternoon, many of which wound up on our respective websites, and opted to go our separate ways. Jeff Wells is still publishing Hollywood Elsewhere; Finke wound up selling her Deadline Hollywood site to Jay Penske’s Pmc (which now owns IndieWire); I created the first blog at The Hollywood Reporter, Risky Business, followed by Thompson on Hollywood at Variety, which I took to IndieWire in 2009; and Poland founded Movie City News, which he is finally letting go.
In his Wednesday farewell The Hot Blog post, Poland tries to assess the changing media landscape that led to his desire “to work for the other team,...
We threw plenty of ideas around that afternoon, many of which wound up on our respective websites, and opted to go our separate ways. Jeff Wells is still publishing Hollywood Elsewhere; Finke wound up selling her Deadline Hollywood site to Jay Penske’s Pmc (which now owns IndieWire); I created the first blog at The Hollywood Reporter, Risky Business, followed by Thompson on Hollywood at Variety, which I took to IndieWire in 2009; and Poland founded Movie City News, which he is finally letting go.
In his Wednesday farewell The Hot Blog post, Poland tries to assess the changing media landscape that led to his desire “to work for the other team,...
- 6/21/2018
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
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