The Road To Oscar Annual Series

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Friday, Oct. 23, 2015

The Road To Oscar Prequel: An Auspicious Directorial Debut; A Cinematographer On The Ascent

An accomplished writer lands his first directing gig while a noted cinematographer reaches new heights, literally.

These two artisans are front and center in this installment of Talent Show, a prequel to SHOOT’s annual The Road To Oscar series, which will get underway in...

Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015

Oscar Winners Reflect On "The Imitation Game," "Birdman," "Big Hero 6"

Wrapping this awards season’s The Road To Oscar series are reflections from several winners backstage at this past Sunday’s ceremony: Graham Moore who earned Best Adapted Screenplay honors for The Imitation Game (The Weinstein Company); DP Emmanuel “Chivo...

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015

Oscar Nominees Reflect On "Into the Woods," "Interstellar," "The Theory of Everything"

This week’s installment of our The Road To Oscar series spotlights a first-time Oscar nominated composer, a three-time production designer nominee, and a costume designer who has now amassed 11 nominations and three Academy Award wins thus far in her career....

Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015

An "Unbroken" Commitment To The Power of Sound

On the strength of director Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken (Universal Pictures), two sound editors earned their first Oscar nominations, a sound mixer garnered one of his two nominations this year, another mixer tallied his seventh career nom, and a third...

Friday, Feb. 6, 2015

Editors Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach Reflect On "American Sniper"

Art and commerce aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. In fact they can flourish in tandem as evidenced by the performance of American Sniper (Warner Bros. Pictures), which has broken through as a box...

Friday, Jan. 30, 2015

The Art Of Collaboration: "Birdman," "Boyhood," "Grand Budapest Hotel," "Interstellar," "Virunga"

“This was not a normal film,” assessed Alejandro González Iñárritu, director, producer and co-writer of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). “All the processes--all the departments, from editing to production design--had to approach things in an adventurous way. It was so...

Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015

Emmanuel Lubezki Reflects On "Birdman," His 7th Best Cinematography Oscar Nomination

On the basis of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Emmanuel Lubezki ASC, AMC earned his seventh career Best Cinematography Oscar nomination and fifth nom for the ASC Award recognizing...

Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015

In Sync With And Bucking History: "Foxcatcher" Director Bennett Miller

On one hand, director Bennett Miller was in line with history when he earned a Best Director Oscar nomination today for Foxcatcher despite not being one of the DGA Award nominees named earlier in the week. Only five times in the 67 years of the DGA Awards...

Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015

Cinematographers Reflect On Shooting "The Theory of Everything," "Wild"

Cinematographer Benoit Delhomme’s first collaboration with director James Marsh (a Best Feature Documentary Oscar winner in 2009 for Man On Wire) has yielded The Theory of Everything...

Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014

Artists Share Insights Into Costume Design For "Inherent Vice," Music For "The Imitation Game"

An Oscar and BAFTA Film Award winner in 2012 for his costume design in Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist, Mark Bridges now finds himself again in the awards conversation, this time for the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed...