The Road To Oscar Annual Series

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Friday, Oct. 18, 2013

The Road To Oscar, Part 1: Backstories On 12 Years A Slave And Nebraska

Taking the highest profile honor at last month's Toronto International Film Festival--the Audience Award--was director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave. It's a distinction that historically carries weighty implications further down the road during awards season.

Over the years,...

Friday, Dec. 13, 2013

The Road to Oscar, Part 3: Directors, DPs, Designers

Three-time Oscar nominee David O. Russell (Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Silver Linings Playbook; Best Director for The Fighter) came up a three-time winner this month as The New York Film Critics Circle named his American Hustle Best Picture of 2013 in...

Friday, Nov. 15, 2013

The Road To Oscar, Part 2: Reflections On The Long And Short Of It

John Lee Hancock doesn't like to direct movies back to back. His last helming turn came on The Blind Side, a 2009 release which was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award and featured a Best Lead Actress Oscar-winning performance by Sandra Bullock. While the iron was hot for him...

Friday, Oct. 18, 2013

The Road To Oscar, Part 1: Backstories On 12 Years A Slave And Nebraska

Taking the highest profile honor at last month's Toronto International Film Festival--the Audience Award--was director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave. It's a distinction that historically carries weighty implications further down the road during awards season.

Over the years,...

Friday, Feb. 22, 2013

The Road To Oscar, Part V

This is the fifth installment of SHOOT's continuing series on the Academy Awards. This week we connect with a variety of nominees spanning the Best Motion Picture, Directing, Editing and Short Subject Documentary categories.

For Steven...

Friday, Jan. 25, 2013

The Road To Oscar, Part IV

This is the fourth installment of SHOOT's continuing series on the Academy Awards. This week we connect with a variety of nominees spanning the Best Motion Picture, Directing, Editing, Animated Feature, Production Design and Live-Action Short Film categories.

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Friday, Dec. 14, 2012

The Road To Oscar, Part III: Long & Short

This is the third installment of SHOOT's continuing series on Academy Award contenders. This week we look at the long and short of the competition with feature film director Sacha Gervasi and his cinematographer on Hitchcock, Jeff Cronenweth, ASC, as well as Oscar-winning DP Janusz...

Friday, Nov. 16, 2012

The Road To Oscar, Part II: From Flight to Argo, Not Fade Away, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel & Life Of Pi

Editor's note: This is the second installment of SHOOT's continuing The Road To Oscar series. This week we hear from directors Robert Zemeckis, John Madden and David Chase, cinematographers Don Burgess, ASC, Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, and Claudio Miranda, ASC, as well as visual...

Friday, Oct. 26, 2012

The Road to Oscar, Part 1: Contenders Emerge On Festival, Awards Circuit

Predicting the future is a precarious proposition, but there are still some relatively reliable Hollywood harbingers come awards season--the perennial forecaster being the DGA Award in features which is uncannily accurate when it comes to who the...

Friday, Dec. 16, 2011

Academy Awards Preview, Part III: Signposts Along The Road To Oscar

Editor's note: This is the third installment of SHOOT's continuing "The Road To Oscar" series. This week we talk to acclaimed cinematographer Stephen Goldblatt, ASC, BSC, who shot The Help, and take a look at other emerging Academy Award contenders.

Twice Oscar nominated...