February 4, 2012
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Super Bowl Spots

February 2012 | By Scott Lehane
Super Bowl Spots

For the commercial production industry, Super Bowl Sunday is the main event of the year. With an estimated audience of 111 million people, and a 30-second spot going for $3.5 million, Super Bowl advertising demands the highest production values, and top-notch talent. »

Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation

January 2012 | By Jack Egan
Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s <em>A Separation</em>

One of the surprises of this awards season is A Separation, a highly lauded film from Iran that has captivated reviewers and moviegoers and garnered two Oscar nominations. The beautifully photographed movie tells a multi-layered story of a modern-day couple in Tehran who are... »

Contender – Visual Effects Supervisor Matthew Butler, Transformers: Dark of the Moon

January 2012 | By Mark London Williams
Contender – Visual Effects Supervisor Matthew Butler, <em>Transformers: Dark of the Moon</em>

Digital Domain’s Matthew Butler finds himself with his first Academy Award nomination, one of the co-VFX supervisors on Transformers: Dark of the Moon, along with Scott Farrar, who suped for ILM’s share of the work, and special effects supervisor John Frazier. Animation director Scott... »

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... »

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... »

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... »

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... »

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Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation

January 2012 | By Jack Egan

Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s <em>A Separation</em>

One of the surprises of this awards season is A Separation, a highly lauded film from Iran that has captivated reviewers and moviegoers and... »



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... »


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