Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020

If history is any indicator, Sam Mendes has to be considered the clear frontrunner to win the Best Director Oscar after last night (1/25) taking the coveted DGA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film on the strength of 1917. He topped a DGA field of nominees that also...

Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020

Natasha Braier, ASC, ADF is the only Latina woman nominated this year for an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award in the features competition. She’s a first time nominee in the Spotlight category for her lensing of Honey Boy (Amazon), which marked the narrative feature...

Friday, Jan. 24, 2020

In this issue’s preview coverage of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards and the Sundance Film Festival, a couple of female filmmakers loom large, helping us keep our New Year’s resolution of accentuating the positive. So while there are no women nominees for the Best Director Oscar this...

Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019

"Honey Boy" will break your heart.

It hardly matters if you've never given a second thought to the circumstances of Shia LaBeouf's life, his childhood or his rocky early adult years. But this is the kind of universally moving work that can only emerge from something immensely specific and...

Monday, Oct. 28, 2019

One DP had a gratifying experience working on Alma Har’el’s first narrative feature film, feeling simpatico with the director’s visceral and poetic approach.

Another cinematographer was drawn to the prospect of lensing an old-school cop film, adding to a recent flurry of work which marked...

Monday, Mar. 19, 2018

Alma Har’el--founder of the Free The Bid initiative designed to open up opportunities for female filmmakers, and a nominee this year for the DGA Award as best commercial director of the year on the strength of P&G’s Winter Olympics piece, “Love Over Bias”--is set to direct the feature film...

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