Producer Credits Announced

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dreaMaker wrote:
Greg wrote:dreaMaker, just out of curiosity, could you give any information about the pre-production, production, and post-production schedule for The Reader? Thanks.

What exactly would you like to know? Dates?
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Greg wrote:dreaMaker, just out of curiosity, could you give any information about the pre-production, production, and post-production schedule for The Reader? Thanks.
What exactly would you like to know? Dates?
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Sabin wrote:Did she handle the majority of post?
No. She was never involved in the project until OCTOBER (Not August, sorry).
Scott Rudin was fighting badly with Harvey Weinstein all the time and it was a matter of time when one of them was going to exit the project. Weinstein asked Donna to be a producer for the film.
Donna did her job great, i m not questioning it, but she worked on The Reader for only a month.

So, again, the credits should have looked like this:

Best Picture
-Sydney Pollack
-Anthony Minghella
-Stephen Daldry
-Harvey Weinstein
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dreaMaker, just out of curiosity, could you give any information about the pre-production, production, and post-production schedule for The Reader? Thanks.
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Did she handle the majority of post?
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The sad thing is that Donna actually did very little about The Reader... She entered in the project in August when filming was done.
Even Redmond Morris was an executive producer at first...
The true producers who did the most were Minghella, Pollack, Harvey Weinstein and Stephen Daldry (who was credited only as director).
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Producer Credits Determined for
Best Picture Nominee

Beverly Hills, CA — Producer credits for Academy Award® Best Picture nominee “The Reader” have been determined by the Producers Branch Executive Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The official nominees for the film are Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris.

Because four producers were listed on the credits form submitted for Oscar® consideration and Academy rules allow for only three producers – except in “a rare and extraordinary circumstance” – to be nominated and potentially receive Oscar statuettes, a meeting of the executive committee was necessary. In the end, the committee determined that the circumstances of “The Reader” – in which the two original producers (Minghella and Pollack) both died partway through the process – met its definition of “rare and extraordinary” and that all four submitted individuals should be named as nominees.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2008 will be presented on Sunday, February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar® presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

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