Oscars ban producer of Hurt Locker
Los Angeles: Nicolas Chartier, one of the four nominated producers of film Hurt Locker, has been barred by the Academy from attending the Oscar awards gala on March 7.
The executive committee of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) ruled that Chartier violated campaign rules by sending email to voters favouring his movie while disparaging a rival film. The Academy’s producers branch ruled that the “ethical lapse” merited the revocation of his invitation.
“Nicolas Chartier has been denied attendance at the 82nd Academy Awards as a penalty for violating Academy’s campaigning standards. Chartier had recently disseminated an email to certain Academy voters and other film industry figures in which he solicited votes for his own picture. —PTI
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Hawking to leave Cambridge?
London, March 3: After 50 years, eminent physicist Stephen Hawking is planning to leave Cambridge University over the British government’s cuts in science, a media report said.
The author of bestselling A Brief History of Time, who began work in Cambridge in 1962, is frustrated with the falling university budgets that he believes are scuppering scientific discoveries, the Daily Mail reported. Prof. Hawking is to spend two months at the Perimeter Institute, in Ontario, this summer and, if all goes to plan, hopes to make the move permanent, the report said. Britain recently announced cuts to higher education amounting to one billion pounds over three years. He thinks that Britain is now increasingly focused on its industrial application. —PTI
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