The Road To Oscar
Upon reading Cord Jefferson’s script for American Fiction (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios), editor Hilda Rasula said it was “clear from the get-go” that this was a film she deeply wanted to work on. “I believed in the story and his tone of writing, mixing comedy and drama. It was...
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC once again finds himself in the awards season conversation--this time for two movies that are as different from one another as anyone could imagine: Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures) and Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Studios). They are also on opposite...
Back when he was a freshman at Kent State, Blitz Bazawule read Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Color Purple” for an English literature class. “It stuck with me,” he shared, citing not only the book’s “brilliant poetry” but also that it marked the first time he had read “African...
Kris Bowers is no stranger to the awards season conversation. He’s a four-time Emmy-nominated composer--for his work on When They See Us in 2019, Mrs. America in 2020, and twice for Bridgerton (Original Dramatic Score and Main Title theme Music) in 2021. Bowers is also...
The two latest feature films lensed by Erik Messerschmidt, ASC have him once again in the awards season conversation--director Michael Mann’s Ferrari (Neon) which will debut in U.S. theaters on Dec. 25, and David Fincher’s The Killer (Netflix), which has been already released...
Michelle Tesoro, ACE had just finished recutting the independent film Flag Day with director-actor Sean Penn. Bradley Cooper saw the movie and asked Penn about Tesoro, which led to her eventually being handed the figurative editor’s baton to take on Maestro (Netflix).
As...
Editor Jennifer Lame, ACE described the script for writer-director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) as being inspiring and stressful at the same time.
“I loved the script when I read it,” related Lame, noting that it felt “magical” and “so special.” Lame added...
Editor Affonso Goncalves earned his first ACE Eddie Award nomination in 2012 for Mildred Pierce, the acclaimed HBO miniseries directed by Todd Haynes. Goncalves’ third and most recent Eddie nod came last year for Haynes’ first documentary, The Velvet Underground. In-between...
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures) is the eighth consecutive film on which visual effects house DNEG has collaborated with director Christopher Nolan. Andrew Jackson--the overall production visual effects supervisor on Oppenheimer, and a DNEG mainstay--has worked on the last four...
New bonds form and an old one endures--that’s the continuum of collaboration on Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Studios) as reflected, for example, in creative ties for production designer Jack Fisk and costume designer Jacqueline West. Killers of the Flower Moon...