January 27, 2012
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Contender – Visual Effects Supervisor Erik Nash, Real Steel

January 2012 | By Mark London Williams
Contender – Visual Effects Supervisor Erik Nash, <em>Real Steel</em>

In Oscar’s “final five” in the visual effects category, Erik Nash finds himself nominated as the VFX supervisor for the robotic fisticuffs opus, Real Steel, along with very busy animatronic supevisor John Rosengrant, animation supervisor Dan Taylor, and digital effects supervisor Swen Gillbert. »

Academy Award Nominations

January 2012 | By Mark London Williams
Academy Award Nominations

And so here we are, on State of the Union day, as – on America’s other coast – Oscar nominations are announced and a different media frenzy begins. Which might be more fatuous or less serious, we leave to you. But both processes are similar,... »

Contender – Director of Photography Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life

January 2012 | By Jack Egan
Contender – Director of Photography Emmanuel Lubezki, <em>The Tree of Life</em>

“On most films I’ve worked on, the most important thing is to 'make the day,'" (keep to the shooting schedule) says Emmanuel Lubezki, director of photography on The Tree of Life, helmed by imagistic director Terence Malick. “Working with Terry, sometimes I can shoot... »

Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes Drive into High Gear

January 2012 | By Jack Egan
Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes <em>Drive</em> into High Gear

Nicolas Windng Refn, director of Drive, doesn’t himself drive. He has failed his driver’s license test eight times. Yet the heralded Danish director came to Los Angeles, the city... »

Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

January 2012 | By Mary Ann Skweres
Stephen Daldry’s <em>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</em>

Once he read the book and script for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, it was "very simple" for Academy-Award nominated director Stephen Daldry to immediately say yes to directing... »

Contender – Production Designer Stuart Craig, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

January 2012 | By Leslie Lindeman
Contender – Production Designer Stuart Craig, <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II</em>

It’s been more than a decade since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone debuted and now production designer Stuart Craig closes the eight-volume book on the series, an “octalogy,”... »

Contender – Director of Photography Janusz Kaminski, War Horse

January 2012 | By Jack Egan
Contender – Director of Photography Janusz Kaminski, <em>War Horse</em>

In its visual sweep and narrative scope, War Horse, directed by Steven Spielberg, harkens back to the kinds of movies Hollywood used to make. Much of the film’s impact... »

Contender – Costume Designer Mark Bridges, The Artist

January 2012 | By Darby Azalea Wilde
Contender – Costume Designer Mark Bridges, <em>The Artist</em>

Mark Bridges’ amazing career as a costume designer has taken him, most recently, from the late 1920s to the early 1930s in The Artist to 1980s Boston in The... »

Contender – Production Designer Dante Ferretti, Hugo

January 2012 | By Leslie Lindeman
Contender – Production Designer Dante Ferretti, <em>Hugo</em>

I’ve read that growing up in the small town of Macerata, Italy, in the 1950s, Dante Ferretti spent a lot of time in movie theaters watching Ben Hur, Cleopatra... »

A Year of Dazzling Costume Design

January 2012 | By Michelle Paradis
A Year of Dazzling Costume Design

It has been a dazzling, ambitious year for costume design. This year’s crop of films have brought to realization the scope of worlds through costume as unique and enthralling... »

Contender – Editor Anne-Sophie Bion, The Artist

January 2012 | By Mary Ann Skweres
Contender – Editor Anne-Sophie Bion, <em>The Artist</em>

"To tell the truth, this was the first time editing a whole movie by myself," admits Anne-Sophie Bion, formerly an assistant to the renowned French editor, Hervé Schneid, (Amélie)... »

Contender – Production Designer Jess Gonchor, Moneyball

January 2012 | By Leslie Lindeman
Contender – Production Designer Jess Gonchor, <em>Moneyball</em>

For all the talk about how Moneyball is not really a baseball movie, rather, a character study, if we don’t buy the realism of the world of Major League... »

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Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes Drive into High Gear

January 2012 | By Jack Egan

Danish Director Nicolas Windng Refn Pushes <em>Drive</em> into High Gear

Nicolas Windng Refn, director of Drive, doesn’t himself drive. He has failed his driver’s license test eight times. Yet the heralded Danish director came... »



Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

January 2012 | By Mary Ann Skweres

Stephen Daldry’s <em>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</em>

Once he read the book and script for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, it was "very simple" for Academy-Award nominated director Stephen Daldry to... »


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