Kristen has signed the Open Letter to the Academy on the edited presentation broadcast for 2019

On Monday, February 11, 2019,  John Bailey, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, announced that this year’s Oscar presentations for Best Cinematography — along with Film Editing, Live Action Short and Makeup and Hairstyling — will not be broadcast live, but rather presented during a commercial break. This decision was made to reduce the length of the show from four hours to three. The vocal response from our peers and the immediate backlash from industry leaders over the Academy’s decision makes it clear that it’s not too late to have this decision reversed.

The Academy was founded in 1927 to recognize and uphold excellence in the cinematic arts, inspire imagination and help connect the world through the universal medium of motion pictures.

Unfortunately, we have drifted from this mission in our pursuit of presenting entertainment rather than in presenting a celebration of our art form and the people behind it.

Relegating these essential cinematic crafts to lesser status in this 91st Academy Awards ceremony is nothing less than an insult to those of us who have devoted our lives and passions to our chosen profession.   

The show’s director, Glenn Weiss, has stated that he will determine what “emotionally resonant” moments from the four winners’ speeches will be selected to air later in the broadcast. The show will cut any additional comment from presenters, as well as any recitation of the nominees as they see fit.

We consider this abbreviation and potential censorship to run contrary to the spirit of the Academy’s mission.

Since its inception, the Academy Awards telecast has been altered over time to keep the format fresh, but never by sacrificing the integrity of the Academy’s original mission.

When the recognition of those responsible for the creation of outstanding cinema is being diminished by the very institution whose purpose it is to protect it, then we are no longer upholding the spirit of the Academy’s promise to celebrate film as a collaborative art form.

To quote our colleague Seth Rogen, “What better way to celebrate achievements in film than to NOT publicly honor the people whose job it is to literally film things.”

Signed,

Actor, KRISTEN STEWART

(In addition to several other actors and filmmakers who have signed the open letter to AMPAS. The full list of names can be found at the source).

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Kristen is honored with an invitation to be an Academy Member in 2017

Kristen has been invited to join the Class of 2017 Academy Members. As a member Kristen will be able to vote for the Oscars every year moving forward.

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Sony Pictures Classics will campaign for Kristen to get a best supporting actress nomination at the Oscars for "Still Alice"

SPC will push the 24-year-old for a best supporting actress nom, one of several it hopes to land alongside an all but assured best actress mention for Julianne Moore.

Sony Pictures Classics, which picked up the film's U.S. distribution rights at the Toronto Film Festival, intends to mount an all-out campaign for several others associated with the film, especially Kristen Stewart in the best supporting actress category, who plays the daughter of Moore's character.

"The picture is just a major achievement," Michael Barker, co-chief of Sony Pictures Classics, told The Hollywood Reporter on Friday. (Sony Pictures Classics also distributed Glatzer and Westmoreland's Quinceanera, the winner of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival's grand jury and audience awards.) "It's a drama that embraces life and that captures the complexities of life. We see that very rarely in movies, although we at Sony Classics saw that not so long ago with Amour."

"In addition to the depth of its screenplay and direction, it features several major performances," Barker continued. "There's no question that Julianne Moore gives the greatest performance of her career to date — it's a performance of such amazing depth and subtlety — but one of the reasons it comes off so spectacularly well is that the actors around her are so strong. Kristen Stewart has never been better than she is in this film. Alec Baldwin gives one of the strongest performances of his career. In addition to that, you've got Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish also giving really strong performances."

Many observers have zeroed in on Stewart's performance — depicting the daughter who both spars with and cares for her declining mother — as being particularly impressive, and Barker, who has never worked with the 24-year-old before but has long admired her from afar, agrees with that assessment. "Kristen Stewart is someone we have seen in many movies over the last several years — four in 2014, with three coming up in 2015 so far — and she has shown great range in such a wide variety of genres," he said. "But there is something about this performance that has new depths that she hasn't shown before. She's really terrific in the film."

So what will an Oscar campaign for Stewart, as well as the others, look like? "Not only do you send the DVDs, but you have ads and screenings and try to point out these categories for attention." And will Stewart, one of the busier A-listers in the business, be available to do the interviews, glad-handing and baby-kissing that have become essential to most successful Oscar campaigns in the present day? "As far as I know, she's fully supportive of this film in a major way," Barker said. "We certainly are."

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More videos of Kristen at the Oscars + 1 from the Governor's Awards

Kristen in the audience at the Governor's Awards in December 2012.



















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HD version of Kristen's interview with Kelly Ripa backstage.



Kristen chatting with Anne Hathaway is at 3:42mins & Kristen is standing behind during Daniel's interview.


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More HQ photos from the Oscars

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Our first post at the Oscars, which includes more photos and videos - please go here.

Part 2 of more HQ photos, please go here.

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