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Friday, Nov. 25, 2022
Lensing and Production Designing "Till"

When presented with the opportunity to tell the real-life story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old lad lynched in Mississippi in 1955, Chinonye Chukwu as director and co-writer (with Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp) resisted the understandable impulse to focus on Till himself. Instead for the...

Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022
Production Designing "The Banshees of Inisherin" and "Empire of Light"

Earlier this year Mark Tildesley won his first Art Directors Guild (ADG) Excellence in Production Design Award for No Time to Die and now he’s again in the conversation for Guild honors--and more this awards season--for two films: The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures...

Thursday, Mar. 17, 2022
"No Time to Die" Breaks The James Bond VFX Oscar Nomination Drought

Special effects supervisor Chris Corbould has a James Bond lineage capped by a Best Visual Effects Oscar nomination this year for No Time to Die (MGM), marking the first such nod for a Bond film since 1980 when Moonraker turned the trick. Though he was far down the effects food...

Thursday, Mar. 10, 2022
Pamela Martin Reflects On "King Richard," Collaborating With Director Reinaldo Marcus Green

For her work on King Richard (Warner Bros. Pictures), Pamela Martin, ACE this past weekend (3/5) won the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Award for Best Edited Dramatic Feature Film. It marked her first Eddie win; she had previously been nominated twice--for Little Miss Sunshine...

Thursday, Mar. 3, 2022
Writer-Director Perspectives On "Belfast," "CODA," "Drive My Car"

Among the seven Oscar nominations earned by Belfast (Focus Features) are three for writer-producer-director Kenneth Branagh--Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The latter two make Branagh the first to receive Academy Award nods across seven categories in his...

Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022
Directorial Debut Proves Historic With An Oscar Nomination For "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom"

When his directorial debut, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Samuel Goldwyn Films), earned an Academy Award nomination earlier this month for Best International Feature, Pawo Choyning Dorji didn’t dwell on himself. Rather his immediate reaction sprung from his voice as “a Bhutanese.” To...

Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022
The "Belfast" Perspective: Sound Through The Ears of a Child

Among Belfast’s (Focus Features) seven Oscar nominations are three for writer-producer-director Kenneth Branagh--Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The latter two make Branagh the first to receive Academy Award nods across seven categories in his career. He had...

Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022
Nomination Déjà vu: DGA Award, Best Director Oscar Discrepancy Continues

The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual occurrence of at least one difference between the lineups of Best Director Oscar and the DGA Award nominees. In only five of the 74 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts.

This...

Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022
Director Robert Greene Shifts The Balance Of Filmmaking Power In "Procession"

Empowerment takes on a whole new meaning and dimension in director Robert Greene’s Procession (Netflix), one of 15 feature documentaries to make the Oscars shortlist. Looking to give greater authorship to the people who are the subjects of his film, Greene initiated a bold experiment...

Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022
Guillermo del Toro Reflects On "Nightmare Alley"

About half of Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures) had been shot when director Guillermo del Toro decided to shut down production as the global COVID-19 pandemic took hold. Though he wasn’t yet mandated to halt filming, del Toro didn’t want to risk the health and well-being of his...

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