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. »
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,... »
“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... »
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... »
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... »
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,”... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
"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)... »
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... »
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... »
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... »
