Oscar News

• The Academy this week announced the winners of this year’s Honorary Oscar Awards: Oscar nominated actor James Earl Jones and Oscar winning makeup artist Dick Smith will win Oscars for lifetime achievement, and Oscar nominee Oprah Winfrey will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The awards will be presented in November.
• The Oscars announced the producers of this years telecast: Brett Ratner and Don Mischer. Mischer produced the 83rd Oscars ceremony this year.
• Tom Sherak was reelected the President of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Sunday night. He was elected to a one-year term for the third time.

Review Round-Up

• Although a lukewarm 68 of Metacritic wouldn’t suggest it, The Rise of the Planet of the Apes is getting some surprisingly rave reviews from various corners of the film criticism landscape. In Time, Richard Corliss compares the film to the original King Kong, and others are calling it the best action movie in years.

Oscar Box Office

• July 2010 became the highest grossing month ever for the movie industry, with $1.4 billion in tickets being sold.
• The eighth Harry Potter film and the third Transformers film both crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide.

Oscar Farewell

• Takuo Miyagishima, who won several technical Oscars, died this week at the age of 83.
• Silvio Narizzano, the British filmmaker whose Georgy Girl was nominated for four Oscars, died at the age of 84.