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Producers David Hill and Reginald Hudlin announced 14 key members of the production team for the 88th Oscars on Friday. This year, Glenn Weiss makes his Oscar telecast debut as director. Weiss has directed numerous televised events, including 15 Tony Awards shows, for which he has garnered three directing Emmys. Weiss’ other directing credits include the 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors, the Billboard Music Awards, and the Primetime Emmy Awards. Also Read: Oscars Nominee Ad Campaigns: It's a Dogfight to Be 'The Important Movie' Supervising producer Michael Seligman has more than 300 major television events to his credit and has earned 13 Emmy nominations,...

Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have announced 13 key members of the production team for the 87th Academy Awards, which will air live on Oscar Sunday, February 22, 2015, on ABC.

Director Hamish Hamilton returns to the show for the third time, after receiving an Emmy nomination for his work on last year’s telecast. He made his Oscar debut with the 82nd Academy Awards telecast in 2010. Hamilton has directed many other celebrated live televised events, including the 2014 Super Bowl halftime show featuring Bruno Mars, the 2013 Super Bowl halftime show featuring Beyoncé, the 2013 “MTV Video Music Awards” and the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics, for which he also received an Emmy nomination. He shared a 2011 Peabody Award for the fifth annual “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute” and a 2003 Grammy Award nomination for the musical special “Robbie Williams – Live at the Albert.”

Production designer Derek McLane has been part of both Oscar...

In 2009, the Internet went crazy over a rumor that Neil Patrick Harris would play The Flash in a big screen "Justice League" movie. That didn’t happen — Ezra Miller got the job and Harris settled with voicing the character in a direct-to-dvd animated film. But now it’s looking like "Gone Girl" costar could finally get a superheroic boost from the team behind CW’s "The Flash." They’ll be feeding Harris his lines when he takes on hosting duties for the 87th Academy Awards. Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced that writer, producer and director Greg Berlanti joins the team as head writer for his first Oscars telecast. The name should be familiar to anyone absorbed in comic book movie/TV sagas; Berlanti’s writing credits include the television series “The Flash,” “Arrow,” “Everwood” and “Dawson’s Creek,” and the feature films “Wrath of the Titans” and “Green Lantern.

ABC's Oscar pre-show, Red Carpet Live, will be hosted by Good Morning America anchors Robin Roberts and Lara Spencer. Photos: Inside THR's Nominees Night Party: Leonardo DiCaprio Hits Bash; Cee Lo Green, Karen O Perform The two morning show personalities will again be joined by Jess Cagle, editor of People and editorial director of Entertainment Weekly, as well as actor, model and television host Tyson Beckford. The network's red carpet coverage will kick off on Sunday, Mar. 2 at 7 p.m. Et, with Brad Lachman as producer, Michael Seligman as supervising producer and Bill Bracken as coordinating producer.

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Former Oscars director Hamish Hamilton is returning to direct the 86th Annual Academy Awards, the show’s producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron announced on Wednesday, along with 12 other key members of the production team. Production designer Derek McLane, who was part of the team behind the 85th Oscars, returns, along with last year’s choreographer Rob Ashford. Music director William Ross, costume designers Julie Weiss and Bruce Pask, supervising producer Michael Seligman, co-producer Lee Lodge and lighting designer Robert Dickinson are also among Zadan and Meron’s team returning from last year’s broadcast, which was hosted by “Family Guy” creator Seth.

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Well, we’ve just returned from AMPAS with our credentials badge for Wamg to be among the many outlets covering the Academy Awards nominations tomorrow morning.

With the announcement less than 24 hours away, and for the Oscar obsessivas (like us), this has been one of the toughest years to call. Even those of us who compulsively watch the race 365 days a year, all the categories are wide open, with expected surprises and snubs. This is always the best type of Oscar race to watch and we’ll bring you the news of who gets in and who isn’t invited to Hollywood’s biggest party of the year.

Actor, and tall-drink-of-cool-water, Chris Hemsworth and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs will announce the 86th Academy Awards nominations on Thursday, January 16.

Boone Isaacs and Hemsworth will unveil the nominations at a 5:38 a.

Michael B. Seligman has been named as the supervising producer of the 85th Academy Awards telecast, marking his 36th year of association with the show. The news was confirmed yesterday by telecast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who said Seligman “is the go-to guy of live television who has shepherded more live events than anyone we know. We feel exceptionally lucky to have him on our team.” Seligman, who specializes in producing live broadcasts throughout the world, has has more than 300 credits to his name. In December, he will serve as an executive producer for NBC’s two-hour live show ‘The American Giving Awards.’ Seligman has been nominated for [ Read More ]

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Oscar 2013: Michael B. Seligman will be the supervising producer of the 85th Academy Awards ceremony Michael B. Seligman will act as supervising producer of the 2013 Oscar telecast, show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have announced. This will mark Seligman’s 36th association with the Oscarcast. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ press release, Seligman has more than 300 "major television events to his credit." He has earned ten Emmy nominations, including eight nods for his work on the Oscar [...]...

For producer Brian Grazer and producer/director Don Mischer, the 84th Academy Awards are more than a celebration of the year.s best movies. They are a celebration of the shared moviegoing experience. “We wanted to recapture the feeling of seeing movies in a theater with hundreds of other people. Because that crowd often serves as a magnifier of how you feel. It.s the original social media,” Grazer says.

Mischer, a 13-time Primetime Emmy Award-winner, concurs. “There.s something about that focused experience when you go to the movies that.s just part of our cultural tapestry. I will always remember how I felt in a theater when I saw Tom Hanks land successfully in the ocean in .Apollo 13.. There is something about sharing those moments with other people that makes it a better experience.”

“We.re accelerating into the world of video-on-demand, of watching everything on an iPad or an iPhone,...

Updated: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made a lot of noise in August when it announced that Brett Ratner, the director of the Rush Hour series and Tower Heist, would produce the 84th Academy Awards for ABC this February. Lost in all the hubbub, however, was how Don Mischer, an industry veteran when it comes to producing live events for TV, would be doing the show with him. It didn’t fly off the radar for Ratner, however, who acknowledged feeling comfortable about taking the gig because Mischer “is just a pro.”

Perhaps this is one time...

Beverly Hills, CA - Michael B. Seligman has been named supervising producer of the 84th Academy Awards® telecast, marking his 35th year of association with the show, telecast producers Brett Ratner and Don Mischer announced today.

“Michael.s experience on the Oscars® is unmatched,” said Ratner and Mischer. “With his knowledge of all things Oscar and his diverse relationships throughout the industry, we had to have him on our team.”

With more than 300 major television events to his credit, Seligman specializes in producing live broadcasts throughout the world. He currently is serving as executive producer for NBC.s two-hour live show “The American Giving Awards.” Seligman has earned a total of nine Emmy® nominations, including nods received this year for his work on the 83rd Academy Awards and “Stand Up to Cancer,. a multiyear fundraising program that has aired on four networks and several cable channels simultaneously. He has received...

To the surprise of no one who's had anything to do with the Academy Awards for the past three decades, the Oscars have named Michael B. Seligman the supervising producer of the 84th Academy Awards. This will mark Seligman's 35th year on the Oscar show, much of that time as the Oscar show's money man, negotiating contracts and dealing with the logistics of an enormous and complicated operation. (He's also the person who originally came up with the idea for gift baskets to attract Oscar presenters.) Longtime Oscar-watchers now assume that the...

The second essential addition to producers Bruce Cohen's and Don Mischer's Oscar team is now in place – or rather, she's been in place for some time, but the Academy made it official on Thursday with the announcement that Danette Herman will serve as the show's Coordinating Producer. Like Supervising Producer Michael Seligman, whose appointment was confirmed earlier in the month, Herman is a veteran of more than 30 Oscar shows, and a key member of the Oscar team every year for decades. Her first job on an Oscar show came...

From the moment producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer were hired to oversee the 83rd Academy Awards, one thing was virtually certain: they would hire Michael Seligman to serve as the show's supervising producer. The Academy made the inevitable official on Wednesday, with the announcement that Seligman would return to his usual duties on the show he has now been associated with for 34 years.  Seligman has had a variety of titles during that time, but for decades he has served as the Oscar show's money man, negotiating contracts and dealing with...

hollywoodnews.com: Michael B. Seligman has been named supervising producer of the 83rd Academy Awards® telecast, marking his 34th year of association with the show, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today.

“With Michael’s extensive and invaluable experience on the Oscars®, we could not imagine doing this show without him,” said Cohen and Mischer. “We are thrilled to have him on board.”

With more than 300 major television events to his credit, Seligman specializes in producing live broadcasts throughout the world. Most recently he served as supervising producer for “Stand Up to Cancer,” an unprecedented fundraising program that aired on four networks simultaneously and raised more than $80 million for cancer research.

Seligman has received six Emmy® nominations for his work on the Oscar telecasts. His other producing credits include “America Celebrates July 4th at Ford’s Theatre”; “America’s Millennium,” a three-hour live New Year’s Eve celebration...

For you Oscarphiles out there, here’s the latest from AMPAS. With Hannukah just ending and Christmas fast approaching, they’ve been a busy group this past week.

274 Films Up For Best Picture:

Beverly Hills, CA — Two hundred seventy-four feature films are eligible for the Academy Award® for Best Picture of 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today. To be eligible for 82nd Academy Awards® consideration, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by midnight, December 31, and begin a minimum run of seven consecutive days.

Under Academy rules, a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes and must have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format. Feature films that receive their first public exhibition or distribution in any manner other than as a theatrical motion picture release are...

"Chuck's" third season is just around the New Year's corner, but if you want to whet your espionage appetite before then, check out cable.

Syfy will air a special "Chuck" marathon on Thursday, Jan. 7, the NBC Universal cable network announced.

Eight hand-picked episodes, including the premiere and finale, will air.

The lineup also includes "Chuck vs. The First Date," "Chuck vs. The Seduction," "Chuck vs. The Break-Up," "Chuck vs. The Santa Claus," "Chuck vs. The Predator," "Chuck vs. The Dream Job," "Chuck vs. The Colonel" and "Chuck vs. The Ring."

The third season kicks off on Sunday, Jan. 10 on NBC.

In other TV news:

 - Michael B. Seligman has been named the supervising producer of the upcoming Oscars telecast. He'll be working with this year's producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman, the latter who said, "I look forward to lovingly torturing Michael, as we all move toward putting together one...

Michael B. Seligman has been named supervising producer of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards telecast, set for March 7. The gig marks the 33rd year he's been associated with the show.

"I look forward to lovingly torturing Michael, as we all move toward putting together one of the most complicated and dynamic television events of the year," Adam Shankman, who is producing the show with Bill Mechanic, said.

Seligman specializes in producing live broadcasts. Most recently, he worked on the inaugural Noble Awards, which benefits nine charitable organizations, and he is slated for producing duties for "Stand Up to Cancer" in 2010.

Seligman has received five Emmy nominations for his work on Oscar telecasts.

The Oscar show will be held March 7 at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center and televised live by ABC.

By Steve Pond

Michael Seligman, who to nobody’s surprise was named supervising producer of the 82nd Academy Awards on Thursday, has a lengthy and colorful history with the Oscar show, which he’ll be working on for the 33rd time.

He’s the Oscar moneyman, but he also helped create and assemble the legendary Oscar gift baskets until they got too big and elaborate to squeeze in with all his other duties.

He negotiates contracts and budgets the show -- but the year that Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was the big movie, he was also the one who talked producer...

By Steve Pond

The new producers of the Oscar show have been praised by the Academy, scrutinized by the press, and analyzed for what they might bring to the show.

But what do the people who are going to be working for Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman think?

Producers come and go, after all. The Oscar crew, for the most part, sticks around year after year. From top staff like associate producer Michael Seligman and executive in charge of talent Danette Herman – both of whom have more than 30 years of experience – to associate directors, stage managers and stagehands, it’s n...

Make this blog item your home page for the rest of Oscar day. Tom O'Neil and Paul Sheehan are blogging live continuously all day. Keep hitting "refresh" for constant updates about what's happening at the Kodak Theatre.

9:06 p.m. — As with all of the past seven Oscars held at the Kodak Theater, the Governors Ball takes place in the adjoining Grand Ballroom which is 25,090 square feet. The menu for the Governors Ball was created by Wolfgang Puck for the fifteenth consecutive year. He promises the return of old favorites like tuna tartare in sesame miso cones and Maine lobster as well as, of course, caviar. And pastry chef Sherry Yard will once more be creating her gold-dusted chocolate Oscars as consolation prizes for those who didn’t get one of the real ones. Music will be spun by Kcrw radio host Jason Bentley who will alternate with The Impulse...

Michael Seligman has been tapped as producer of the 56th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, to air live Sept. 19 on ABC from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Seligman, a three-time Emmy nominee, is a veteran of more than 300 live events and televised awards shows. He's served as supervising producer of the annual Emmy telecast for the past 15 years. This year, Seligman will work hand-in-hand with telecast executive producer Don Mischer. "Michael and I have an extensive working relationship with the Emmy Awards show, and I am pleased to have him leading our production team," Mischer said. "His experience and creativity is invaluable and will be a tremendous asset to the look and feel of the show." Seligman's long list of credits include serving as supervising producer since 1976 on the annual Academy Awards telecast, and in the same role on The Kennedy Center Honors telecast from 1976-2002. He also produced the presidential inaugural galas for President Reagan in 1980 and 1984.