Hollywood Flashback: Hitler Comedy 'The Producers' Won an Oscar in 1967

By Geoff Boucher

By Anita Bennett

If Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood's precocious 10-year-old star Julia Butters gets hungry during the hours-long Oscars telecast, she has a very important — and delicious — accessory in her bag.

Sixteen months before THR was launched — and 91 years before 1917 entered the Oscar race — the World War I film Wings won the first Academy Award for "outstanding picture." And in May 1929, besides not being called best picture, the award presented in the Hollywood Roosevelt ballroom wasn't even called Oscar; that didn't happen until the mid-1930s, after the Academy's Margaret Herrick reportedly said that the statuette resembled her Uncle Oscar.But Wings was not an unexpected choice.Though it

An intimate group of executives, talent and journalists gathered in Hollywood on Friday evening to celebrate the life of Joyce Sevilla, a veteran publicist and brand marketing whiz who died unexpectedly last week.

By Pete Hammond

Oscar producers Lynette Howell Taylor and Stephanie Allain are promising that the 92nd Oscars will have plenty of diversity on display on Sunday.

The film that gave Al Pacino — an Oscar nominee in this year's best supporting actor race for The Irishman — his first starring role was 1971's The Panic in Needle Park.He wasn't the only participant in the film who went on to big things.Park was produced by Dominick Dunne, who decades later would become famous for his writing in Vanity Fair.

Exactly 100 years ago, animation took a huge leap forward: Walt Disney scored his first job as a cartoonist.On Jan. 29, 1920, Disney, then 18, saw an ad for a $40-a-week ($500 in today's dollars) position at the Kansas City Film Ad Co.

While awards season has The Two Popes and HBO has The New Pope (it premiered Jan. 13), Hollywood had one old pope visiting Sept.

When American Beauty bowed in September 1999 at the Toronto Film Festival, The Hollywood Reporter wasn't quite sure what the public would make of the pitch-black dramedy.While THR's review acknowledged the "charismatic power" of the performances by its actors — singling out not just stars Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening but also Thora Birch, Wes Bentley and Mena Suvari — it wondered whether audiences might not "tire of [director Sam] Mendes' arch and often condescending style.

Fifty-two years ago, The Hollywood Reporter described Patrick Stewart — who stars in Star Trek: Picard, launching on CBS All Access on Jan. 23 — as "dashing" in the role of Duke Senior in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of As You Like It at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre.

By Mike Fleming Jr

In all the Dr. Dolittle movies, based on Hugh Lofting's books, the doctor can talk to animals.

It will be helmed by 'This Is Us' creator Dan Fogelman

By Amanda N'Duka

In 1951, William R. Wilkerson himself, The Hollywood Reporter's editor and founder, took a break from his rabid campaign of exposing entertainment industry communists to attend the Venice Film Festival.

One anniversary that surely won't be celebrated in Burbank in 2020 is the one that marks 20 years since Warner Bros. merged with America Online.On Jan.