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/embracing-the-digital-divide-in-a-dazzling-year-for-cinematography/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/embracing-the-digital-divide-in-a-dazzling-year-for-cinematography/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:58:21 +0000 Jack Egan http://www.btlnews.com/?p=25023 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/embracing-the-digital-divide-in-a-dazzling-year-for-cinematography/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/art-directors-guild-honors-production-designers-for-hugo-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-and-harry-potter/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/art-directors-guild-honors-production-designers-for-hugo-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-and-harry-potter/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:58:42 +0000 Jack Egan http://www.btlnews.com/?p=25006 Hugo, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 won top prizes in the three feature film categories at the 16^th annual Art Directors Guild “Excellence in Production Design” dinner held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Saturday night.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/art-directors-guild-honors-production-designers-for-hugo-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-and-harry-potter/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/a-level-playing-field-at-the-2012-annies/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/a-level-playing-field-at-the-2012-annies/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:58:20 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=25001 International Animated Film Society presented a more egalitarian approach at the 2012 awards. ASIFA – Hollywood offered entries from many companies in many categories at the Feb. 4 awards show, which had been criticized for being relegated to only a few firms garnering top wins previously. While DreamWorks Animation, Pixar and Disney still reign as top box-office earners with their productions, and The Simpsons is still a lauded and steadily awarded TV show, other lesser-known companies managed to gain due attention, both in individual nominated and awarded form with the 28 awards given out in 2012.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/a-level-playing-field-at-the-2012-annies/feed/ 0 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/michel-hazanavicius-wins-dga-feature-film-award-for-the-artist/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/michel-hazanavicius-wins-dga-feature-film-award-for-the-artist/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:59:02 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24689 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. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/michel-hazanavicius-wins-dga-feature-film-award-for-the-artist/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/soc-to-honor-eastwood-and-radin-with-lifetime-achievement-awards/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/soc-to-honor-eastwood-and-radin-with-lifetime-achievement-awards/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:55:24 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24631 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.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/soc-to-honor-eastwood-and-radin-with-lifetime-achievement-awards/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/montreal-facilities-collaborate-on-ves-nominated-film/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/montreal-facilities-collaborate-on-ves-nominated-film/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:55:10 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24614 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, sharing assets and coordinating deliveries on the film. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/montreal-facilities-collaborate-on-ves-nominated-film/feed/ 0