Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020

The Hollywood Professional Association unveiled this year’s winners of the HPA Awards honoring achievements in color grading, editing, VFX and sound. The virtual awards ceremony held this evening (11/19) in Burbank saw Company 3 take two of the three color grading categories. Company 3’s...

Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020

Joker (Warner Bros.) and The Mandalorian (Disney+) won best feature film and TV publicity campaign honors, respectively, at the International Cinematographers Guild’s 57th annual ICG Publicists Awards on Friday (2/7) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Joker topped a...

Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020

Gut-wrenching World War I epic "1917" was the big winner at Sunday's British Academy Film Awards, winning seven awards including best picture and best director.

Sam Mendes' drama about one of the most devastating conflicts in British history bested hotly tipped American contenders "Joker...

Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020

The road to making movie history may include a brief detour and navigation through insecurity as producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff can attest. Koskoff is a two-time nominee this year for the Best Picture Oscar--on the strength of her work on director Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman (...

Friday, Jan. 24, 2020

Todd Phillips, speaking after a screening of Joker (Warner Bros.) last week in Hollywood, noted that he didn’t view its 11 Oscar nominations as somehow vindicating in light of the earlier criticism the film received in some circles for its violent content. Garnering the most nominations...

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...

Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020

The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual emergence of at least one difference between the Best Director Oscar and DGA Award nominees lineups. In only five of the 72 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts.

This time...

Monday, Jan. 13, 2020

Once again, it was #DirectorsSoMale at the Oscars.

"Congratulations to those men," said presenter Issa Rae pointedly, after the announcement of an all-male directors slate. Denied were contenders like Greta Gerwig, director of "Little Women," and Lulu Wang of "The Farewell." 

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Monday, Jan. 13, 2020

Reactions from some of the nominees for the Academy Awards:

The Irishman, Joker
“I’m honored and grateful to the Academy for acknowledging 'The Irishman' and 'Joker.'  I share these nominations with the most talented cast and crew in the world.  I also want...

Monday, Jan. 13, 2020

Female filmmakers were shut out, "Parasite" made history and "Joker" edged out "The Irishman," "1917" and "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" in Monday's Oscar nominations.

Todd Phillips' R-rated superhero smash "Joker" topped all films with 11 nominations to the 92nd Academy Awards,...

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