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/contender-hair-and-makeup-designer-jenny-shircore-my-week-with-marilyn-and-w-e/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-hair-and-makeup-designer-jenny-shircore-my-week-with-marilyn-and-w-e/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:35:56 +0000 Darby Azalea Wilde http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23914 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 Monroe is due in no small part to Shircore’s vast talents. Shircore also was hair and makeup designer for W.E., the story of Wallis Simpson’s romance with King Edward VIII, which is racking up a lot of kudos this Oscar season both for Shircore and costume designer Arianne Phillips.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-hair-and-makeup-designer-jenny-shircore-my-week-with-marilyn-and-w-e/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/for-your-consideration/a-banner-year-for-special-makeup-effects/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/for-your-consideration/a-banner-year-for-special-makeup-effects/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:58:47 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23678 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/for-your-consideration/a-banner-year-for-special-makeup-effects/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/the-artist-black-and-white-dreams/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/the-artist-black-and-white-dreams/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:59:07 +0000 Michelle Paradis http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23528 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 filled with silks, furs, Marcel waves, and bold lipstick: costume designer Mark Bridges, makeup artist Julie Hewett, and hair stylist Cydney Cornell.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-portfolios/the-artist-black-and-white-dreams/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-sian-grigg-j-edgar/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-sian-grigg-j-edgar/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:57:46 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23468 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 DiCaprio’s personal makeup artist, Sian Grigg, who has been with the star since Titanic.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-sian-grigg-j-edgar/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/community/cinema-makeup-school-hosts-academy-award-winner-ve-neill/ http://www.btlnews.com/community/cinema-makeup-school-hosts-academy-award-winner-ve-neill/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:58:23 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=23314 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 silicone gel-filled appliance of their creation. The design was created by Ian Lome along with Jory and Nakamura, after being carefully selected by CMS directors from a wide range of entries for its creativity, technical difficulty and originality. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/community/cinema-makeup-school-hosts-academy-award-winner-ve-neill/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-julie-hewett-the-artist/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-julie-hewett-the-artist/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:47:55 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=22372 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 as intensely to create believable appearances for all on-camera performers, notably lead actors Jean Dujardin playing silent film star George Valentin and Bérénice Bejo playing his muse, the young dancer, Peppy Miller.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-julie-hewett-the-artist/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-matthew-mungle-albert-nobbs/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-matthew-mungle-albert-nobbs/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:51:13 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=22163 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 triumph of costume and production design, cinematography, and direction, with its characters fully inhabiting 19^th century Ireland.  Not to be discounted among these crafts is the film’s makeup.  In addition to the many period makeups on both men and women in the story, the production was tasked with believably altering the appearances of its two female leads to make them pass as men in a traditionally male working environment.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-makeup-artist-matthew-mungle-albert-nobbs/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/btl-screening-series-hosts-albert-nobbs-screening-and-qa/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/btl-screening-series-hosts-albert-nobbs-screening-and-qa/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:54:45 +0000 Jason Cox http://www.btlnews.com/?p=21209 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.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/btl-screening-series-hosts-albert-nobbs-screening-and-qa/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/production-design/halloween-comes-early-as-horror-runs-amok-in-big-bear/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/production-design/halloween-comes-early-as-horror-runs-amok-in-big-bear/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:04:47 +0000 Scott Essman http://www.btlnews.com/?p=19723 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 town? Thus, the Big Bear Horro-Fi Film Festival was set up to provide a forum for both established and novice genre filmmakers. ]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/production-design/halloween-comes-early-as-horror-runs-amok-in-big-bear/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/production-design/master-monster-makers-launch-aliens-to-zombies-convention/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/production-design/master-monster-makers-launch-aliens-to-zombies-convention/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:23:46 +0000 Staff http://www.btlnews.com/?p=19508 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 be the revival of Masters’ infamous Monster-Makers Bash costume party, which annually attracts the industry’s top special effects artists.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/production-design/master-monster-makers-launch-aliens-to-zombies-convention/feed/ 0