The Road To Oscar
Writer-director Nikyatu Jusu has seen her class-conscious horror thriller Nanny gain historic recognition--and perhaps more importantly evoke an empathy for its title role protagonist Aisha (portrayed by Anna Diop) which translates into a heightened social consciousness of motherhood,...
The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures) marks the third feature that Ben Davis, BSC has shot for writer-director Martin McDonagh--the first being Seven Psychopaths followed by Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
Digging into SHOOT’s...
In 2020, Hildur Gudnadóttir earned the Best Original Score Oscar for Joker, completing an awards season which also included her taking the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Critics Choice honors. This made her the first woman composer to ever sweep these competitions during a single season. She...
The wait was worth it for editor Monika Willi. Eleven years after being approached to work on a prospective project that ultimately didn’t come to fruition with writer-director Todd Field, Willi got another call from the master auteur--this time yielding Tár (Focus Features). Among the...
Production designer Rick Carter has developed a shorthand with master filmmaker Steven Spielberg. And while Carter continues to learn from Spielberg, the production designer didn’t think he had that much more to learn about the director in that they’ve enjoyed a deep mutual understanding of each...
When presented with the opportunity to tell the real-life story of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old lad lynched in Mississippi in 1955, Chinonye Chukwu as director and co-writer (with Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp) resisted the understandable impulse to focus on Till himself. Instead for the...
Earlier this year Mark Tildesley won his first Art Directors Guild (ADG) Excellence in Production Design Award for No Time to Die and now he’s again in the conversation for Guild honors--and more this awards season--for two films: The Banshees of Inisherin (Searchlight Pictures...
Chinonye Chukwu has found that at times the most profound way into a story can be the path less--or even never before--traveled as reflected in her taking a detour from the conventional protagonist perspective in the last two features she directed, Clemency (2019) and now Till...
Jane Campion's sabbatical from moviemaking left the respect and admiration of her peers undiminished.
Campion, whose last feature film was 2009's "Bright Star," was honored as best director at Sunday's Academy Awards for the unconventional Western "The Power of the Dog."
The 67-...
After a movie year often light on crowds, the Academy Awards named an unabashed crowd-pleaser, the deaf family drama “CODA,” best picture Sunday, handing Hollywood’s top award to a streaming service for the first time.
Sian Heder’s “CODA,” which first premiered at a virtual Sundance Film...