Tom Sherak faced the Brett Ratner-Eddie Murphy controversy, negotiated deals regarding the Oscar telecast, got up in the middle of the night for the nominations announcements and even donned a Darth Vader costume. What a ride, he says.
Tom Sherak never would have been elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences if it weren't for the late Frank Pierson and a verbal spat that almost turned physical. It was early 2009, and Pierson and Sherak were at loggerheads at a Board of Governors meeting over a financing issue. The talk was getting contentious, so much so that Sherak said he thought the octogenarian screenwriter "could have beaten the crap out of me."
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