| EVENT REPORT 01.26.09 12:24 PM |
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People's SAG Awards After-Party Gets Fabric-Heavy Look From New Design Team
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 | People's SAG Awards after-party with the Entertainment Industry Foundation
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography |
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Last night, following the Screen Actors Guild's eco-friendly awards program, People magazine and the Entertainment Industry Foundation hosted the official after-party on the back lot of the Shrine Exposition Center for the 13th year. The event, overseen by Cyd Wilson for Time Inc., honored the philanthropic causes and deeds of the members of the guild, and benefited the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
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| EVENT REPORT 01.26.09 12:20 PM |
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SAG Partners With Environmental Media Association for Recycled—and Recyclable—Awards Program
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 | The SAG Awards at the Shrine
Photo: James Sequenzia |
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The stars of the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards show Sunday were, well, the stars, so the design of the awards dinner at the Shrine Auditorium was all about showing off hundreds of them to best effect on camera. That task fell to the team of awards art director Keith Greco of Greco Decor and awards event supervisor Andrea Wyn Schall of A Wynning Event—SAG show regulars who worked with Benn Fleishman, the returning SAG executive in charge of production.
“Our theme is simple, glamorous, elegant, high style,” Schall said. “One thing that's really different about this show is that it's about the actor, so the table is to reflect the actor and make it so that whatever they're wearing will stand out more. The table is secondary. You just see black and silver, neutral, understated."
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| NEWS 01.19.09 2:31 PM |
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Event Eleven to Design Sunday's SAG Awards After-Party
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 | The 2008 SAG Awards
Photo: James Sequenzia |
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This Sunday's Screen Actors Guild awards party will have a new designer at the helm. Gala coordinators selected Tony Schubert's Event Eleven last fall to take over all design elements for the party—previously designed by Stanlee Gatti—including the overall decor concept, lighting, flowers, tables, and fabric design. Here's a sneak preview of Schubert's plans: custom pieces constructed out of raw alabaster and buffet tables made out of raw slabs of wood imported from South Africa.
The party, cohosted by People and the Entertainment Industry Foundation, will take to the back lot of the Shrine Exposition Center immediately following the 15th annual awards. Through the party, SAG, People, and the E.I.F. acknowledge the charitable efforts of actors and make an annual donation to the SAG Foundation. This year’s $100,000 gift will support the foundation’s scholarships and emergency assistance to SAG members and reading programs around the country. —Alesandra Dubin
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| NEWS 12.11.08 12:29 PM |
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SAG Strike-Vote Timing Will Spare Globes Ceremony (but Oscars Beware)
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Earlier this week, Golden Globes party organizers told BizBash they are going forward with preparations undaunted by the possibility of a Screen Actors' Guild strike—and as of yesterday their work can officially proceed as planned. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's January 11 Golden Globes ceremony will now be spared by the timing of SAG's strike-authorization vote, The Hollywood Reporter reported. SAG leadership will send ballots to members on January 2, and Washington state-based Integrity Voting Systems will tabulate them on January 23—which leaves the February 22 Oscars vulnerable.
At least 75 percent of the votes must be yes for the measure to pass. With the SAG Awards set to air January 25, a quick vote count would allow the leadership to use the event as a public forum. —Alesandra Dubin
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| NEWS 12.09.08 5:30 PM |
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As SAG Strike Looms, It's "Full-Steam Ahead" for Golden Globes Party Organizers
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 | The NBC Universal and Focus Features 2007 party, sponsored by Cartier
Photo: Line 8 Photography |
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Another year, another strike threat. Last year, the Golden Globes ceremony and its typical big-scale parties were canceled in favor of a press conference during the writers' strike—and this year the possibility of a SAG strike looms. Although there is some private concern as to the fate of the January 11 ceremony, organizers are saying the show will go on, as they prepare to ensure the unofficially affiliated bashes happen seamlessly.
Billy Butchkavitz, who produces and designs HBO's production-heavy fete said, "We're going forward as if nothing is going on. I kept asking [my clients] about it—and you never know with the Golden Globes people—but they're saying that nothing should affect [the party]." Butchkavitz considers his group lucky because HBO's is the last party at the Beverly Hilton to load in because part of its space, restaurant Circa 55, is open until 10:30 p.m. the night before the ceremony. "This is the one time that it pays not to have a lot of setup time," Butchkavitz said, indicating that none of the build out will happen if the party is called off at the last possible moment.
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| EVENT REPORT 01.29.08 5:29 PM |
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Gray Dominates People's SAG After-Party—Inside and Out
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 | People's striking SAG after-party
Photo: Nadine Froger Photography |
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For People magazine's elaborate after-party following the SAG awards on Sunday, event designer Stanlee Gatti had some unfortunate weather to hassle with—although he did have Time Warner’s big corporate pockets to assuage his headache. Even before the event, cohosted by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, the week’s heavy rains had doused the carpet in the corridor leading to the main pavilion, requiring a replacement before the party even got started.
For this year’s collaboration with Cyd Wilson, director of creative development for In Style and People, and the event's executive producer, Eric Nicoll of Azure Pacific Event Management, Gatti also took his cue from the award show's celebratory palette of rich metallics and dressed the 80- by 140-foot tent in platinum gray. People Group editor Martha Nelson selected the shade.
“People talk about shades of gray, and there are so many shades of gray, it’s funny,” Gatti said. “For a couple of months, Martha Nelson and I went back and forth. We finally came up with the right shade. Now we’re calling it Martha’s gray.”
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| EVENT REPORT 01.28.08 6:56 PM |
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SAG Awards' Picket-Free 75th Anniversary Gets Luxe Metallic Look
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 | Taittinger's red-carpet moment at the SAG Awards
Photo: James Sequenzia |
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Any nostalgic movie lover can appreciate the glamour of old Hollywood—but no one loves it more than the Screen Actors Guild, which has traditionally asked event planners to evoke the spirit of the movie industry’s golden age come awards time. And with Sunday’s ceremony—the first big bash of this award season—marking the 75th anniversary of the thespians’ union, the watchwords for the evening were old-fashioned elegance and precious metals.
Technically, 75th anniversaries should be celebrated with gifts of diamonds. But gold, silver, and platinum are eye-catching, too, so for the 14th annual Screen Actors Guild awards at the Shrine Auditorium, SAG awards production designers John Shaffner and Joe Stewart designed a stage with a gold backdrop flanked by columns bedecked with gold and silver. Unlike the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which seats stars in an auditorium for the Oscars, SAG mercifully feeds its members during the proceedings. So SAG awards art director Keith Greco of Greco Decor was charged with coordinating his tabletop design, which he accomplished with classic golden place settings.
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