Legends Disney pose for a "class picture".For lovers of Hollywood history as me - or former members of the Academy who have lived it - it really is not much more exciting than festivities the past two nights on the parcel of Disney, in which the House of mouse pulled the string of awards voters and tastemakers in favour of the promotion of its primary live-action and animation awards contenders, save Mr. Banks and frozen.
Monday night, the studio hosted the first Los Angeles-banks - he already played at London and AFI film festivals - followed by an after party to return to the studio commissary.
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On hand for the festivities were not only main creative talent from the movie - director John Lee Hancockand writer Kelly Marcel stars Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell, Bradley Whitford, B.J. Novak, Jason Schwartzman, Paul Giamatti and Annie Rose Buckley - but also the talent principal film that inspired the film, features Mary Poppins Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. A man fell into two categories: 85 years Richard Sherman, who with his brother Robert, composed songs and the score for Poppins - winning Oscars for both - and which was also consultant musical on the banks, in which he is played by Schwartzman. (The whole group of them gathered to sing "Let's Go Fly a Kite" before the festivities began).
Andrews and Van Dyke left early in order to yield the spotlight to banks stars, who were joined at the after-party of young stars such as Jason Segel and Alison Williams. But Sherman undoubtedly was the toast of the party – just as it was in a November 9 Poppins sing-along songs that was also designed to evoke nostalgia and to channel towards the nomination of Oscar for banks.
Come Tuesday night, Sherman was back on the lot again, with dozens other legends of Disney, to celebrate the 90th year of Disney's Animation operations. At the event, which is held in a heated tent erected 'Legends Plaza', wisely studio President and Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger has hosted guests, touted the rich history of Disney explained how proud he was of the 53rd animated feature of the studio and the best animation feature frozen hope Oscar, which is submitted before the festivities began for the people who did it have not already seen it.
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(Frozen was number one at the box office last weekend, its second weekend in theaters.) Oddly, no pure and simple-Disney film won best animated film Oscar, which was founded only in 2001. Since then, Pixar-produced films have dominated the competition, claiming the prize in seven to 12 years.)
With studio President Alan Horn, President Ed Catmull and CEO Andrew Millstein , searching the public, introduced Iger - with a hug - her creative director John Lasseter, the closest thing that there is today Walt Disney himself. Lasseter explained how his admiration for the rich and unrivalled Disney history brought back to Disney in 2006, 23 years after being fired by him to push the idea of animation tirelessly by computer, but this time with its operation of Pixar in tow.
Lasseter has presented many of the "Disney legends" who played an important role in the studio, inviting each to take a bow. Among those on hand: Tony Anselmo, the voice of Donald Duck. Kathryn Beaumont, the voice of Alice in Alice in the Wonderland (1951) and Wendy in Peter Pan (1953); Bill Farmer, the voice of goofy; Floyd Norman, host first African American woman to Disney, which has worked on the beautiful sleeping beauty (1959) and the book of the Jungle (1967); Stan Freberg, voice of the Beaver in the Lady and the tramp (1955); 100 years Milton Quon, who worked on Fantasia (1940) and Dumbo (1941); Russi Taylor, the voice of Minnie Mouse; and 103 years old Ruthie Thompson, who has worked at the studio for 40 years as an Inker.
The whole group - more Josh Gad, the voice for the character of instantly iconic snowman of frozen Olaf - then Lasseter joined for a class picture, which, unfortunately, is not recreatable when the studio celebrates its 100th anniversary of 10 years. To its credit, the studio decided to seize the moment and hope that Oscar voters will elect to do the same for the account of his films.
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