On Wednesday evening, I had the great pleasure of spending some time with Mitzi Gaynor, the irrepressible actress-singer-dancer whose career began during Hollywood's Golden Age and continues to this day. I met the 81-year-old, who is as sprightly as ever, near the pool at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where an outdoor screening of South Pacific (1958), the film with which she is most closely associated, followed by a Q&A with its leading lady, subsequently helped to open the fourth annual TCM Classic Film Festival on Thursday night. The fest will continue through Sunday.

Director Kate Miles Melville's debut film, Picture Day, won the audience award for best narrative feature in its U.S. premiere at the RiverRun International Film Festival, which concluded Sunday in Winston-Salem, N.C. Melville drew much-buzzed performances from Tatiana Maslany as a promiscuous high schooler and Spencer Van Wyck as the nerdy protege she once babysat.

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said late Thursday that is it splitting up the TV movie and miniseries category for acting.

The move marks a reversal of a decision last year to consolidate the lead and supporting categories for both longform (miniseries and movies) actors and actresses into one category.

While the change expands the acting categories, the main category still has miniseries and TV movies.

It happens every year, but the jarring effect of it never wears off: Shortly after the Oscars, in movie theaters all over the country, a few awards season holdovers -- primarily platform releases like Silver Linings Playbook and foreign-language films like Amour -- begin to share marquees with, and then get overrun by, pure and utter junk of every variety.

Mitch Dubin was honored as feature camera operator of the year for his work on Lincoln, during the Society of Camera Operators Lifetime Achievement Awards. The event was held Saturday at the Television Academy’s Leonard Goldenson Theatre.

The Directors Guild of America announced Wednesday that its 2014 awards ceremony is set to take place on Saturday, Jan. 25.  The 66th annual ceremony will be held in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles.

At this year's awards, Ben Affleck won the trophy for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Argo. The award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series went to Girls creator Lena Dunham.

For prognosticators like me, the 85th Annual Academy Awards was a scary affair. The outcomes of so many of the major categories were up in the air. I was literally on the edge of my seat -- on the far right side of the first mezzanine at the Dolby Theatre -- as each category was announced.