Marci Liroff

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@stiflersmomsays For two seconds, try and imagine how hard it is for him.

my roommate has the worst case of OCD i’ve seen. he folds his dirty laundry, not once, but ten times at least, he flashes lights three times before turning them on or off. and bangs his ring on a hard surface three times after everything. watching him gives me a headache.

@jenelleriley As I recall....he did!

@sharonwaxman Wow that was incredible!!! What a great year for Casting Directors to FINALLY be part of this!! Tonight's the night!!

Absolutely brilliant, beautiful edit. WATCH. The best of the year.

@RobMorrow_ @MPTF That is dang cute!!

At the #oscars #nightbeforparty w/the beautiful @debbonayer @mptf

@AnnaVocino Is it available at Gelson's?! (Congrats Anna!)

Eat Happy Kitchen Spices are now officially on shelf at @gelsonsmarkets 🙌 Clean blends. No sugar. No fillers. Just bold, real flavor for your everyday cooking. Next grocery run = handled. 🔥

@jenelleriley Oh sweetheart I'm so very sorry.

Wilbur left us and the sun still came up today, which surprised me. Found on the streets, he was never meant to stay in my life. And now I can’t believe he’s gone. I know everyone thinks their dog is the best dog ever - and we’re all correct.

@jenelleriley @PanasonicDX4500 Good way of putting it Jenelle. I've been wondering where his team is during this. I've found it to be incredibly off putting.

@PanasonicDX4500 I don’t think it was too much. I think it wasn’t strategic. But we’ll see.

I’m going to say it: He campaigned too hard and it turned people off.

@jfkenney Blasphemy!

@marciliroff not on my personal list that's where!

Here, to laminate and frame are my top 100 movies of all time. Article to follow where I give some thoughts on each. (Again, this isn't saying they're the objective "best just films that capture my personal fancy and I return to often, etc, & I'm sure I forgot something.)

@troubledwatersx @OwenGleiberman Wow! What a year for films!

@OwenGleiberman What a pretentious child.. of course Manhunter is #3

And "Sid & Nancy"!! It was the post-'70s answer to 1939.

@yashar It should be a ring tone choice for an alarm.

Second only to waking up at 2:00 AM and realizing your dog is about to throw up and you have approximately two seconds to move them onto the bathroom floor from the bed.

@EllenBarkin Thank YOU Ellen for naming names.

Jena-Lisa Jones Jess Michaels Haley Robson Sharlene Lund Michelle Licata Shawna Rivera Gretchen Rhodes Lisa Ann Phillips Marijke Chartouni and at least a thousand more Thank you

To the fiercely brave Epstein survivors, I thank you I honor you I am in awe of your strength & courage: Virginia Guiffre Sky & Amanda Roberts Annie & Maria Farmer Liz Stein Chauntae Davies Courtney Wild Wendy Avis Danielle Bensky Sara Ransome Lisa Phillips Jennifer Araoz

@sharonwaxman @VickyPJWard @VanityFair Ii am on my way back to NYC to testify against Harvey Weinstein for the 3rd time. The 3rd time!

Listened to @VickyPJWard on Fresh Air, great interview. Her early efforts to expose Jeffrey Epstein at @VanityFair remind me, verbatim, of my early efforts to expose Harvey Weinstein at the New York Times circa 2005. Institutions are hard to move. And timing is everything.

@cassianelwes I was *literally* just going to send this to you. What a wonderful article. I really got the feeling of "the old days" pre-cell phones!

So proud of my ‘work wife ‘ at wma for 10 years. She helped shape both the way films are sold now and she also shaped a very rough edged me into who I am. Love her so much. Look at at the films we did. It’s monumental and she only mentions a few. Boy we had a blast and we turned Sundance into major sales market together. We will always be part of Sundance history. We had this incredible conversation the other night about it all. Wish I’d recorded it.

@sirguygadbois @cassianelwes Really? Because @sagaftra just negotiated with the AMPTP to take us into the union. ICs are now represented by the UNION.

@marciliroff @cassianelwes Totally made up bogus position. Ffs

Some time in late 2015 a lot of things were converging in my mind. I had become involved in Women in Films’ Reframe program which was fighting to get more female directors working in Hollywood. I had had an unbelievable near death experience with this young vet on the plane that made we want to lean into more mentorship programs like the @horizonaward and the black list fellowship I had set up. A friend , Kyle Tekiela , sent me script called ‘mudbound’ and said it was an Oscar script which is a phrase people throw around regularly. I read it and cried not just because it was devastating but to get this kind of material at this stage in my career was so meaningful. It was about a young black vet returning to his home in the south after the 2nd world war only to find Jim Crowe is still in full swing and his service to his country means nothing. My first thought was I should find a black female director. I could only think of four. I remembered this great movie I’d seen in Sundance called Pariah directed by Dee Rees and realised my former asst was her agent at wma. I called him, he got it to her and she was in. We went straight into casting. I was in a deal with two young producer/ financiers Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros and they loved it. I called my friend Charles King who had just started macro and he was in too. We shot during the summer of 2016 with an incredible cast including Carey Mulligan , Rob Morgan , Mary J Blige , Jason Mitchell , Jason Clarke and Garrett Hedlund. We hustled to get it ready for Sundance and they invited us. The first screening in the Eccles on Saturday evening was rapturous with a long standing ovation. We were really excited at the party after when the first A+ reviews started rolling in. I figured it would sell immediately. Over the next few days we got only no advance , straight distribution offers - not good for a 12m movie. I called a distribution company head who is a friend and said what’s going on here. ‘ it’s obvious ‘ he said. ‘ it’s a period movie with a black female director it has no chance ‘. By Thursday all the buyers had gone home. I was sitting have breakfast with Charles. We were in shock. No offers. He said dejectedly I know Netflix passed but should I ask Ted to see it. He texted him. He said he heard it was good and was coming up to Sundance to ski with a friend. If we got the dvd to his condo he would watch it the next night after dinner. The friend was Adam Sandler and they loved it. The next morning Dee met Ted and about 30 minutes after I closed a deal with Ted. The rest is history. The film was nominated for 4 Academy Awards. Dee was nominated alongside Virgil Williams for best screenplay the first time for a black woman in that category. Rachel Morrison was the first female cinematographer to be nominated. Mary J was nominated for best supporting actress and best song.

@jenelleriley true. Tough year. Wealth of riches. His performance was a shoe in for me the moment I saw it.

@marciliroff I have a theory but it also just comes down to that category being hella competitive this year. All five nominees are so deserving, I don't know who I'd take out.

I don’t know how anyone can call Kate Hudson a surprise. She’s literally showed up in every precursor. #Oscars2026

@cassianelwes your tenacity is EVERYTHING my friend!

Primer

@amandaknox @hulu Looking forward to seeing it. Truth prevails!

Jan 26th, my new documentary, Mouth of the Wolf, premieres on @hulu. It's about my journey back to Italy and my face-to-face encounter with the man who sent me to prison. It's more intimate and more revealing than anything I've done before. youtube.com/watch?v=2MkaH9…