All posts filed under: Beyond Awards

How Rihanna’s night turned into Beyonce’s

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Last week was the MTV’s Video Music Awards (VMAs) where Rihanna was honored by getting the VMA’s Vanguard Award. She got to perform 4 sets of medleys, each one with a specific tone. She was, however,  “dethroned” by Beyonce whose performance was on everybody’s lips the day after. Queen Bey made a huge impression on the red carpet, where she showed up not only accompanied by her daughter Blue Ivy but also by Mike Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden-Head;  Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton; Oscar Grant’s mother, Wanda Johnson; and Eric Garner’s mother, Gwen Carr. (billboard.com) She also got to interpret most of the songs from her mini-album Lemonade in a near 17 minutes performance !!  She celebrated her womanhood, her motherhood and especially her blackness. Congratulations to Beyonce for getting 8 awards that night and being the talk of the town the day after. All this while maintaining that aura of mystery around her. This is what you call true star power! Sorry Rihanna! It was supposed to be your night. And let’s not talk about …

Cannes Diary : Bye Bye Cannes

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It’s a wrap ! The 68th annual Cannes Film Festival is officially over. And what a festival Cannes was ! Full of amazing dresses and tuxedos and new movies to discover. Cannes is one of my favorite film festival even if I usually don’t watch either the opening neither the closing ceremony. But Cannes is usually the official start for the new awards campaigning season and this year is starting well ! I like Cannes for 3 reasons: 1. Because it’s a great mix of french and international stars. 2. Because it lasts two weeks. Two weeks of celebrity parties, the red carpet ceremony & #dressporn, movie premieres, festival opening and closing ceremony. 3. And because you can see Xavier Dolan playing pétanque with Sienna Miller while Michael Fassbender drinks a Martini with Marion Cotillard, while Isabelle Hupert is having a blast with Charlize Theron and Lea Seydoux. Oh celebrities…!

It’s Cannes #DressPorn again !

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IT’S DRESS PORN SEASON AGAIN ! The Cannes Film Festival is like the best BEST period for Dress pornish. My favorite festival after…the Oscars and the MET Ball Gala (Read here & here). And this year, the Oscars girls are all at Cannes. I think it’s been a while since they haven’t had so much american stars à Cannes. Lupita Nyong’o Natalie Portman Julianne Moore                                                                                                                                 Charlize Theron                                                                                           …

Today in Old Hollywood – A Brief History Of The Oscars [Video]

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The Glowing Hollywood age I have always loved a bit of vintage, all the 80’s was the glowing age for hollywood with  true actors stars, huge dry hair, the dresses, the costumes, the red carpet. Celebrities are the fuel of the Hollywood industry and the Oscar show always has been at the center of this fantasy spectacle. Stars are moving like .

It’s Cannes ! Dress Porn.

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It’s Cannes time! And Cannes means Dress porn for two weeks straight. Nobody cares anymore about the movies. Which can be a shame I agree. But still, this year the carpet all begin with great dresses and pony tail ( Well done Blake Lively) and Nicole Kidman as Grace of Monaco 2.0. Grace Of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman, opened the Cannes Film Festival with terrible reviews. TERRIBLE REVIEWS AHAHAHA! Yes because this mess looks like a really boring perfume commercial.

Oscars 2014 Wrap-up | Best Awards Acceptance Speeches – The Directors

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How f*cking cute is Steve McQueen? The jumping up and down? It was indeed a director/film split between Gravity and 12 Years A Slave with Alfonso Cuaron taking Best Director and the right film being immortalized. Steve Mc Queen Steve McQueen wins best motion picture for 12 Years A Slave “I dedicate this to all the people who have endured slavery and for the 21 million people still suffering slavery today. Everybody deserves not just to survive, but to live.” – Powerful words to end on. McQueen is my director revelation. I discovered his work with Shame. Which I shamely enjoyed and adored. I love his way to transcribe emotions and I love the sensibility and the deepness he uses to address subjects such as slavery (12 Years A Slave), sex addiction (Shame) or excruciating hunger strike (Hunger). 12 Years a Slave may not be the best film about slavery but it was indubitably the best film to see this year. Anne Helen Petersen wrote a great piece on how important it is that you watch 12 years a slave. …

Beyond The Oscars | 3 Ways for Brands to Win The Oscars

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3 rules we can learn from the best brand placement at the Oscars The TV industry is experiencing a sea change and advertising, as we have known it, is threatened as in no other historical period (Brand Channel) The Oscars hit a 10-year high in viewership, watched by an average of 43 million people, up from 40.4 million in 2013 (Adage.com). During those recent years, it appears that the Academy Awards is becoming increasingly desirable as a marketing platform. Since commercials are becoming more and more expansive to produce but are less and less viewed, brands have to innovate in order to engage with the multi-connected audience and go beyond the traditional broadcasted commercials. Having products appear in a program—product placement—has been a part of the TV business since the early days of the medium. Commercials breaks are boring to hell and social media ease the viewer to skip them. Today, product integrations, also known as content marketing or branded entertainment is at the epitome of glory and let the marketers to break free during the show. …

Oscars 2014 Wrap-up | Best Awards Acceptance Speeches – The Actresses

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Women equality is a very strong subject in Hollywood. Lately, actresses and women directors around the world have come to fight for more equality and better conditions.The fact that 40 years plus actresses have difficulties to get roles, or that women directors can’t get enough money to shoot  women issues related movies is a big problem in the movie industry right now. But I can feel like this year change has come. First, three famous women hosted the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards.Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Ellen Degeneres  each  did a very good job, in my opinion. And with FIVE actresses nominated, i.e., Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, already in their 40’s,  we can say that women condition has began to change. But there’s still a lot to do.