Jane Campion's sabbatical from moviemaking left the respect and admiration of her peers undiminished. Campion, whose last feature film was…
Browsing: The Road To Oscar
After a movie year often light on crowds, the Academy Awards named an unabashed crowd-pleaser, the deaf family drama “CODA,”…
Special effects supervisor Chris Corbould has a James Bond lineage capped by a Best Visual Effects Oscar nomination this year…
For her work on King Richard (Warner Bros. Pictures), Pamela Martin, ACE this past weekend (3/5) won the American Cinema…
Among the seven Oscar nominations earned by Belfast (Focus Features) are three for writer-producer-director Kenneth Branagh–Best Director, Best Picture and…
When his directorial debut, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Samuel Goldwyn Films), earned an Academy Award nomination earlier this…
To combat slumping ratings, the Oscars are undergoing a radical slimming down, with eight awards to be presented off-air during…
Among Belfast’s (Focus Features) seven Oscar nominations are three for writer-producer-director Kenneth Branagh–Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.…
The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual occurrence of at least one difference between the lineups of Best…
The 94th Oscar nominations were full of surprises in both satisfying and disappointing ways, but when there are only five…
After a pandemic year that hobbled movie theaters and saw streaming services make new inroads into Hollywood, the Academy Awards…
Empowerment takes on a whole new meaning and dimension in director Robert Greene’s Procession (Netflix), one of 15 feature documentaries…
About half of Nightmare Alley (Searchlight Pictures) had been shot when director Guillermo del Toro decided to shut down production…
Director Liesl Tommy recently showed a young filmmaker what a lookbook is, sharing the one she put together for MGM…
Writer/director/producer/editor Sean Baker recalled that his latest film was born out of necessity. When the pandemic lockdown first hit, a…
It’s already been an eventful awards season for costume designer Charlotte Walter, winning a British Independent Film Award for her…
When cinematographer Drew Daniels got a call out of the blue from his agent that writer-director Sean Baker wanted to…
The late Hollywood columnist and Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne referred to Lucille Ball in her heyday as likely…
Documentaries about Julia Child, “Black Woodstock,” the pandemic and The Velvet Underground and acclaimed international films like Japan’s “Drive My…
Robert Mackenzie knows a thing or two about the creation of soundscapes to advance storytelling in film. In 2017 he…
The classic tale of Cyrano de Bergerac from the play written by Edmond Rostand in 1897 has proven to be…
For a cinematographer who’s had a hand in significant technological breakthroughs that have facilitated ambitious storytelling–in his Emmy-winning turn on…
For cinematographer Ari Wegner, the opportunity to work with legendary filmmaker Jane Campion initially came in a short burst and…
Cinematographer Ross Riege finds himself in the current awards season conversation for his lensing of two shows: Rutherford Falls (Peacock),…
Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday…
Ninety seconds. That's how quickly Steven Soderbergh believes the Academy Awards will convince viewers that this year's telecast is different.…
