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Contender – Director of Photography Janusz Kaminski, War Horse
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 derives from the eye-filling images created by director of photography Janusz Kaminski. And at a time when technology is remaking cinematography, the DP relied almost... »
Contender – Costume Designer Mark Bridges, The Artist
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 Fighter to the turn of the century in There Will Be Blood to the disco era of Boogie Nights and Blow. I asked him if... »
Contender – Production Designer Dante Ferretti, Hugo
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 and spaghetti Westerns. So it’s with visions of a Cinema Paradiso childhood that my first question for the master designer is, “When you were young…” “I’m still... »
Contender – Editor Anne-Sophie Bion, The Artist
"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) who taught her, "if editing works without sound, it can only be better with it." When editing another film, Bion practiced cutting by shutting off... »
Contender – Production Designer Jess Gonchor, Moneyball
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 Baseball, the movie’s foundation is suddenly shaky. Production designer Jess Gonchor knew this the first time he toured the Oakland Atheltics’ team facilities. He also... »
Contender – Editor Joel Cox, J. Edgar
How does one collaborate with one of Hollywood’s true legends for so many years on such a wide variety of projects? Just ask Joel Cox, who has edited nearly 40 films in total and has worked with Clint Eastwood since the late 1970s. »
Contender – Editor Claire Simpson, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Editing is all about focusing attention on what the filmmakers want an audience to see at any given time in a film. The editing on Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close takes its focus from the book and adapted screenplay that were written from point of view of the lead character Oskar (Thomas Horn). Both... »
Contender – Costume Designer Joanna Johnston, War Horse
Steven Spielberg’s World War I era epic War Horse, adapted from the novel by Michael Morpurgo, unfolds amidst the sweeping backdrop of the many varied landscapes of Europe. It begins in rural England with a young man named Albert (Jeremy Irvine) and his beloved horse Joey. When Albert’s father (Peter Mullan), a hard on... »
Contender – Director of Photography Pawel Edelman, Carnage
Lensing comedy-drama Carnage, award-winning director of photography Pawel Edelman was literally cornered, as were the quartet of actors who make up the entire cast. The film is directed by Roman Polanski, with whom the DP has worked on his three previous films. The movie is about an increasingly hostile confrontation between two sets of... »
Contender – Director of Photography Guillaume Schiffman, The Artist
Among the many felicities of comedy-musical The Artist, French director Michel Hazanavicius’ captivating silent-film tribute to American filmmaking as the silent era transitioned to the talkies at the end of the 1920s and early 1930s, is the spot-on black-and-white cinematography of Guillaume Schiffman. It’s therefore surprising to learn that the film was shot in... »
Director Series
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... »