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Contenders – Editors Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, The Hurt Locker
Editor Bob Murawski was finishing Spiderman 3 when he got a call from friend, Paul Ottosson, who had been hired as sound designer on The Hurt Locker. Director Kathryn Bigelow was looking for an editor and wanted to meet him. Desperate to find an... »
Rick Baker’s New Wolf
Throughout his nearly 40-year career, Rick Baker has created some of cinema’s most memorable monsters. The six-time Oscar winner for Best Makeup notably realized one of the greatest horror monsters in movie history with An American Werewolf in London. Now, thirty years... »
Contender – Sound Designer/Mixer, Paul Ottosson, The Hurt Locker
In Oscar contender The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, the action starts with a bomb squad in Iraq trying to diffuse an IED. The tension never lets... »
Contenders – Composers Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, The Hurt Locker
The intensity of drama in Director Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker, is framed by the sparse, yet effective score by Oscar contenders Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders. “It has... »
And the Nominees Are…
Nominees for the 82nd Annual Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Awards were announced early this morning, and it came as little surprise that James Cameron’s wildly successful... »
Joe Letteri on the Visual Effects of Avatar
After supervising visual effects on massive projects such as Peter Jackson’s final two films in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, Stephen Sommers’ Van Helsing, and Jackson’s King Kong,... »
Contender – Cinematography, Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker
Director, Kathryn Bigelow called cinematographer, Barry Ackroyd, in the spring of 2007. She had seen United 93, which he had shot, and wanted The Hurt Locker to have the... »
Contenders – Sound Re-recording Mixers, Greg Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
The mission for the sound team on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was to top the work done on the first Transformers film, nominated for an Oscar in... »
The Making of Avatar
James Cameron’s long-awaited epic fantasy Avatar is definitely “titanic” in size and scope. “It’s got a big story—that’s where it starts,” said producer Jon Landau, who also produced Cameron’s... »
Documentary Filmmaker Exposes Brutal Dolphin Hunt in The Cove
After a screening of The Cove, I was moved and impressed as well as depressed by the experience. »
Developing an Eye for Great Cinematography
The look and emotional feel of a film, more than simply a series of unfolding images, is the responsibility of the director of photography. The cinematographer, from choice of... »

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