http://www.btlnews.com Voice of the Crew Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:12:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.btlnews.com/awards/the-descendants-featurette/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/the-descendants-featurette/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:49:24 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24876 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.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/the-descendants-featurette/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/irans-best-foreign-film-nominee-asghar-farhadis-a-separation/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/irans-best-foreign-film-nominee-asghar-farhadis-a-separation/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:58:36 +0000 Jack Egan http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24750 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 move abroad for a better life for their daughter but the husband wants to stay, in part because he won’t leave his father who has advanced Alzheimer’s.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/irans-best-foreign-film-nominee-asghar-farhadis-a-separation/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-matthew-butler-transformers-dark-of-the-moon/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-matthew-butler-transformers-dark-of-the-moon/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:58:13 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24752 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.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-visual-effects-supervisor-matthew-butler-transformers-dark-of-the-moon/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-%e2%80%93-visual-effects-supervisor-erik-nash-real-steel/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-%e2%80%93-visual-effects-supervisor-erik-nash-real-steel/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:55:43 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24619 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.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-%e2%80%93-visual-effects-supervisor-erik-nash-real-steel/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/lon-bender-and-victor-ray-ennis-of-soundelux-receive-oscar-nominations-for-drive/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/lon-bender-and-victor-ray-ennis-of-soundelux-receive-oscar-nominations-for-drive/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:52:34 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24540 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 will be announced Feb. 26 in Los Angeles.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/lon-bender-and-victor-ray-ennis-of-soundelux-receive-oscar-nominations-for-drive/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-director-of-photography-emmanuel-lubezki-the-tree-of-life/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-director-of-photography-emmanuel-lubezki-the-tree-of-life/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:05:18 +0000 Jack Egan http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24421 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 going to be usable.”]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-director-of-photography-emmanuel-lubezki-the-tree-of-life/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/danish-director-nicolas-windng-refn-pushes-drive-into-high-gear/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/danish-director-nicolas-windng-refn-pushes-drive-into-high-gear/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:51:14 +0000 Jack Egan http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24336 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 of cars, to make a film filled with some of the most authentic and exciting car chase sequences seen on the screen in years.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/danish-director-nicolas-windng-refn-pushes-drive-into-high-gear/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/framestore-delivers-equine-digital-doubles-for-war-horse/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/framestore-delivers-equine-digital-doubles-for-war-horse/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:52:57 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24120 Framestore recently served as the visual effects for Stephen Spielberg’s War Horse, delivering just over 200 shots for the movie. War Horse tells the story of Joey, a horse born in Devon shortly before the start of the First World War. Belonging to – and beloved by - a young man, Albert Narracott, Joey is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France at the outbreak of war. Joey serves in the British and German armies, which takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in No Man's Land. But Albert has not been able to forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist in the British Army, he has embarked on his own dangerous mission to find the horse and bring him home to Devon.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/framestore-delivers-equine-digital-doubles-for-war-horse/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/stephen-daldrys-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/stephen-daldrys-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:57:59 +0000 Mary Ann Skweres http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24017 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, it was "very simple" for Academy-Award nominated director Stephen Daldry to immediately say yes to directing the film for producer Scott Rudin, who he had worked with on The Hours. The first decision scriptwise was to see the story primarily through the boy Oskar's point of view, a character with a form of high functioning autism that makes those with the condition experience the world in unusual ways. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/stephen-daldrys-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-production-designer-stuart-craig-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-ii/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-production-designer-stuart-craig-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-ii/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:57:37 +0000 Leslie Lindeman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24026 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 fact, having designed every movie in the series including 2011’s finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-production-designer-stuart-craig-harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-part-ii/feed/ 0