Friday, May. 15, 2020

Writer-director Derek Cianfrance is best known for his feature films such as Blue Valentine (starring Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams), which made an auspicious debut at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, The Place Beyond the Pines (starring Gosling, Bradley Cooper and Eva...

Friday, Jan. 24, 2020

In this significantly truncated awards season, feature film dominates seemingly even more than in the past as the public’s prime focus goes to the likes of the high-profile totem poles of the Golden Globes and the upcoming Oscars with less time in-between those two events. But within the Globes...

Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020

“Parasite” has officially infected this year’s award season. Bong Joon Ho’s Korean class satire became the first foreign language film to take top honors from the Screen Actors Guild on Sunday, setting itself up as a legitimate best picture contender to the front-runner “1917” at next month’s...

Friday, Dec. 6, 2019

The creator of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" likes to send cryptic texts to her actors while the show is on hiatus. They're often clues about what everyone can expect they'll be doing.

Before Season 2, Amy Sherman-Palladino asked Rachel Brosnahan, "Can you ride a bike and play pingpong?"...

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019

With a hit TV series, awards, plus film and TV opportunities, Sterling K. Brown admits he’s experienced “a lot of pinch me moments” in recent years. But, with all those possibilities and offers, the 43-year-old has also learned a very important lesson— how to say no.

“’No’ has become my...

Monday, Sep. 16, 2019

On Saturday (9/14), the first evening of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater in downtown L.A., Netflix led the pack with 15 Emmys, nearly twice as many as second place finisher National Geographic which scored a total of eight (seven for Free Solo). But on Sunday (9/15),...

Thursday, Jul. 18, 2019

Prior to this week’s announcement of the season’s Emmy nominations, SHOOT connected with various contenders going back to our Spring Directors Issue in April and then this ongoing The Road To Emmy series of feature stories which started a little more than two months ago. As it turns out...

Thursday, Jun. 13, 2019

For Chris Teague, Russian Doll (Netflix) was a cinematographer’s dream come true. He recalled seeing the lookbook for the show, describing the imagery as “unique,” “absurdist,” full of “surrealist art and photography,” serving to “illuminate what the world of the show was going to be....

Friday, May. 24, 2019

Nic Pizzolatto has presided over True Detective (HBO) from its inception. As series creator, lead writer, executive producer and a director of the anthology drama crime series, he’s shaped each season’s distinctively different narrative set in a distinctly different locale. The show won...

Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019

A Star is Born, Vice, Crazy Rich Asians and Mary Queen of Scots were the major feature film winners at the 6th annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS, IATSE Local 706) Awards held Saturday night (2/16) in Los Angeles. Television winners included The Marvelous...

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