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Contender – Hair and Makeup Designer Jenny Shircore, My Week With Marilyn and W.E.
It’s quite possible that hair and makeup designer Jenny Shircore, Academy Award winner for her work on 1999’s Elizabeth, could be adding another gold statue to her collection this year for her outstanding work on My Week With Marilyn. Michelle Williams’ remarkable transformation from her own gamine looks to the sexy blonde bombshell Marilyn... »
A Banner Year for Special Makeup Effects
Every autumn in the entertainment industry, the many below-the-line crafts in a year’s films are often under appreciated by a celebrity-oriented press corps, both foreign and domestic, who often seek nothing but a parade of stars come the lengthy awards season. Yet, the various crafts in a film, with the artists behind those... »
The Artist: Black-and-White Dreams
BTL Screening Series hosted a screening of The Artist, Jan. 4 in Los Angeles, followed by a Q&A with some of the film’s key below-the-line talent. The film is an endlessly charming film dizzy with expressive, lovely imagery. Michel Hazanavicius (writer/ director/ editor) commanded an impressive team to create the dazzling spectacle of a world... »
Contender – Makeup Artist Sian Grigg, J. Edgar
Among the films receiving attention for its makeup and effects is J. Edgar. The story of founding FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the Clint Eastwood film posits the title character at four separate age stages: his early 20s, his mid-30s, his early-40s and his early-70s. Responsible for mastering these stages was Leo... »
Cinema Makeup School Hosts Academy Award Winner Ve Neill
The Cinema Makeup School recently held an open house to introduce the makeup industry to its new facility in L.A.’s historic Wiltern Theatre. Three-time Academy Award winning makeup artist Ve Neill led a unique special effects makeup demonstration. Neill worked side-by-side with Cinema Makeup School graduates Miranda Jory and Miyo Nakamura to apply a... »
Contender – Makeup Artist Julie Hewett, The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius’ new film, The Artist, brings audiences back to the freewheeling world of silent films in the roaring twenties. Without question, this black-and-white period film about movies themselves required close attention to detail in all departments including cinematography, costume design and art direction. But the makeup department had to work just... »
Contender – Makeup Artist Matthew Mungle, Albert Nobbs
Oftentimes, high-quality work in smaller-budgeted films is less recognized come awards season than those films’ older brothers, the big-budget studio tentpoles. Case in point this year might be Albert Nobbs, both a period and foreign-produced film which manages to create a visceral world onto itself inside of an $8-million budget. This film is a... »
BTL Screening Series hosts Albert Nobbs Panel Discussion
BTL Screening Series hosted a screening of Glenn Close’s independently produced film, Albert Nobbs, on Saturday at the Harmony Gold Theater in Hollywood. 250 professionals of various affiliations attended the screening eager to experience the film and to enjoy the discourse of the Q&A session that was to follow the film. »
Halloween Comes Early as Horror Runs Amok in Big Bear
In Southern California, one location offers a rocky lakeside backdrop that might be the setting in a classic '80s slasher film such as Friday The 13th. The region famously boasts scenery as diverse as mountains, beaches and desert, and what better place to set a horror film festival than a gothic mountainous resort... »
Master Monster Makers Launch Aliens To Zombies Convention
Emmy-winning special effects artist Todd Masters, founder of MASTERSFX, and Bruce Haring, founder of JM Northern Media, have teamed up to launch the new Aliens to Zombies Convention – a two-day look at monsters and the post-apocalyptic world, scheduled for Oct. 21-22, at Hollywood’s legendary “haunted” Roosevelt Hotel. A highlight of the event will... »
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... »