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/crafts/camera/act-of-valor-immersive-filmmaking-with-the-canon-5d/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/camera/act-of-valor-immersive-filmmaking-with-the-canon-5d/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:58:04 +0000 Mary Ann Skweres http://www.btlnews.com/?p=25003 BTL Screening Series hosted a special screening of Act of Valor late last week followed by a lively panel discussion with key members of the camera department. Inspired by true events, Act of Valor is set in the secretive world of the most elite, highly trained group of warriors in the modern world – the Navy SEALs. Combining stunning combat sequences with up-to-the minute battlefield and filmmaking technology, the film uses active duty SEALs and their families to create a narrative story grounded in real-life experience.]]> http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/camera/act-of-valor-immersive-filmmaking-with-the-canon-5d/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/direction/super-bowl-spots/ http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/direction/super-bowl-spots/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:59:23 +0000 Scott Lehane http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24937 http://www.btlnews.com/crafts/direction/super-bowl-spots/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/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/academy-award-nominations/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/academy-award-nominations/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:09:28 +0000 Mark London Williams http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24407 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/academy-award-nominations/feed/ 0 http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-director-of-photography-emmanuel-lubezki-the-tree-of-life/ http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-director-of-photography-emmanuel-lubezki-the-tree-of-life/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:05:18 +0000 Jack Egan http://www.btlnews.com/?p=24421 Emmanuel Lubezki, director of photography on The Tree of Life, helmed by imagistic director Terence Malick. “Working with Terry, sometimes I can shoot a whole day and not know if there’s anything that’s going to be usable.”]]> http://www.btlnews.com/awards/contender-director-of-photography-emmanuel-lubezki-the-tree-of-life/feed/ 0