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For Your Consideration – A Dazzling Year for Cinematography
Many critics have opined that 2012 was an exceptional one for movies, both in overall excellence and in their wide range of subject matter. The art and craft of cinematography also scaled new heights. “We’re in a kind of golden age of cinematography,” said director of photography Steven Poster, president of the International Cinematographers... »
For Your Consideration – What Makes for Award-Winning Sound Editing
It’s a given that all the top choices for best sound editing are first-rate candidates. After all, if a picture is an awards contender, every element of the film, including sound, has to be at the top-tier of its craft to even be under consideration. Ultimately though, the best sound editing is linked to... »
For Your Consideration – The Year in Visual Effects
As nearly every film now contains some kind of visual effect, since almost every movie – certainly the studio-made ones – has some kind of digital component or enhancement in its production, the field for possible visual effects contenders would seem to grow each year. »
For Your Consideration – Production Design: Creating Other Worlds
Production design can often be taken for granted. After all, it is easy to accept the world presented on screen at face value. When considered, however, production design is a meticulous, consummate art, where all the art departments merge to recreate other worlds. The achievement in production design nominees for the 85th Academy Awards... »
For Your Consideration – Movie Makeup in the Spotlight
Cinema makeup and hairstyling artistry is so evidently crucial to a film’s success, it remains a wonder that it received almost no attention whatsoever from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from its establishment in 1927 until films that were released in 1981, over half of a century onward. Indeed, in... »
For Your Consideration – The Lavish World of Costume Design
Costume design is so much more than simply stitching together clothing. It is a visual endeavor to breathe life and identity into a character and to contribute to the overall texture and tone of a film. It is a demanding task to develop fully faceted characters that are expressed through external appearances. For the... »
For Your Consideration – Judging the Invisible Art of Editing
Of all the collaborative filmmaking crafts, editing is perhaps the hardest creative art to judge, yet among the most critical in terms of shaping the story. Although during the course of the production the editor usually puts the initial edit together, sometimes with little input from the director, once production is complete the polishing... »
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2013 in Theaters February
The Short Movie Channel, working with Magnolia Pictures, will release The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013 in over 260 theaters across the United States, Canada and Europe on Feb. 1. This is the eighth year of the Oscar Nominated Short Film Theatrical Release. The announcement comes on the heels of last year’s record-breaking release,... »
10 Contenders Remain in VFX Oscar Race
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 10 films remain in the running in the visual effects category for the 85th Academy Awards. »
Embracing the Digital Divide in a Dazzling year for Cinematography
It’s been a banner year for fans of cinematography in terms of both quality and variety. But motion picture cinematography is also at a crossroads. The film medium, dominant ever since the beginning of moviemaking over a century ago, is on the wane, in large part due to economic pressures. Meanwhile digital motion picture... »