Life After Oscar

KCRW’s been catching up with last year’s Academy Award winners who aren’t household names and don’t appear on the covers of magazines. What has winning an Oscar meant for them? Does getting that little golden man bring you a bounty of opportunities you never thought possible? Or do you still have to hustle for that next project, even with “Academy Award Winner” right before your name?

Editor Kirk Baxter

Children’s book author and animator William Joyce

Documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Documentary filmmaker T.J. Martin

If an Oscar doesn’t help your career, maybe it can fund your next movie!
Check out Forbes’ fascinating 2005 article “Psst! Wanna’ Buy An Oscar?“

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Matt Holzman sees an awful lot of movies - some of them pretty obscure - but only a few are selected for the Matt's Movies Screening Series. So here on the blog, Matt thought he'd share about the best movies he's seen - as well as thoughts about the Business and more. Matt is a KCRW Veteran, the creator of The Business, public radio's program about the business of show business. Early on, Matt’s dad exposed him to great films like “2001,” “Rashoman” and “Bananas.” Ben Holzman, an elementary school principal, was a lover of film in all shapes and sizes, and helped run an art theater in Long Beach, California for a time.

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