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The Descendants Featurette
In this new featurette from Fox Searchlight, The Descendants’ production designer Jane Stewart and costume designer Wendy Chuck discuss their work on the film. Stewart has been nominated for a contemporary film award from the Art Directors Guild. »
Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation
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 on the verge of a divorce. The wife wants to... »
Contender – Visual Effects Supervisor Matthew Butler, Transformers: Dark of the Moon
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 Benza rounds out the quartet. »
Michel Hazanavicius Wins DGA Feature Film Award for The Artist
The winners of the Directors Guild of America outstanding directorial achievement awards for 2011 were announced on Saturday during the 64th Annual DGA Awards dinner at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles. Michel Hazanavicius won the DGA's award for outstanding directorial achievement in feature film for The Artist. »
Contender – Visual Effects Supervisor Erik Nash, Real Steel
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. »
SOC to Honor Eastwood and Radin with Lifetime Achievement Awards
The Society of Camera Operators announced the recipients of the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Awards to be held Feb. 19 at the Leonard Goldenson Theater at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood, California. »
Montreal Facilities Collaborate on VES-Nominated Film
When visual effects supervisor Louis Morin and VFX producer Annie Godin were nominated for a VES Award for their work on Duncan Jones’ Source Code, the Montreal-based facilities involved in the film had reason to celebrate as well. Under the guidance of Morin, the VFX facilities each took on different parts of the project,... »
Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis of Soundelux Receive Oscar Nominations for Drive
Supervising sound editors Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis of Soundelux are among the nominees for best sound editing in the 84th Annual Academy Awards. This is the third Oscar nomination for Bender. He previously won the award, with Per Hallberg, in 1996 for Braveheart. This is the first Oscar nomination for Ennis. Winners... »
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, as early caucuses and primaries – in this case, other... »
Contender – Director of Photography Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life
“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 a whole day and not know if there’s anything that’s... »
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Iran’s Best Foreign Film Nominee: Asghar Farhadi’s A SeparationJanuary 2012 | By Jack Egan
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
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... »