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Contenders – Sound Editors Mark Mangini and Scott Hecker, Mad Max: Fury Road
When Warner Bros. announced it was going to pick up the tab for the reincarnated Mad Max franchise many of us smiled with excited anticipation. First of all, it’s George Miller, and secondly, its George f’ing Miller – one of the greatest filmmakers of our time. Visually, Mad Max: Fury Road could dilate the... »
Contender – Production Designer Adam Stockhausen, Bridge of Spies
In the Cold War-era Bridge of Spies, an American lawyer, James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) is recruited by the CIA to help rescue a pilot arrested and detained by the Soviet Union. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film is filled with stunning and scenic production design by Adam Stockhausen, known for his work on... »
Contender – Costume Designer Sandy Powell, Carol
Had Todd Haynes’s film Carol been made when it was first developed 15 years ago, it would have been a very different looking film. Based on The Price of Salt, a 1952 semi-autobiographical novel by Patricia Highsmith, Carol owes much of its aesthetic, richly interpreted by Haynes in 16 mm, to the New... »
Framestore Completes VFX Work on The Martian
Framestore recently delivered 338 shots for The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon. The sequences follow Mark Watney (Damon) and his fellow astronauts in outer space environments that are synonymous with the Framestore name, thanks to 2013’s Oscar-winning Gravity. »
The Lifesaving Mission of Pink & Blue
In 2013, actress Angelina Jolie brought the issue of hereditary cancer into the public consciousness when she elected to have prophylactic (preventative) surgeries to cut down on her genetic pre-disposition to breast and other cancers. She had tested positive for a gene mutation known as BRCA that puts both women and men at a... »
Video of the Day: Bridge of Spies Featurette
Tom Hanks talks about his role in the new film Bridge Of Spies, directed by Steven Spielberg, in this new featurette released by Disney. »
Director Alex Garland Probes the Limits of Artificial Intelligence in Ex-Machina
One of this year’s most successful independent movies, Ex-Machina is a stylish and edgy science fiction film that has captured the attention of audiences with its timely theme of Artificial Intelligence or AI. Basically a three-character film, it features three of Hollywood’s fastest-rising young actors – Oscar Isaacs, Dohmnall Gleeson and Sweden’s Alicia Vikander.... »
Dolby Vision to Launch with Disney’s Tomorrowland and Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out
Dolby Laboratories and The Walt Disney Studios announced that Disney’s Tomorrowland, in theatres May 22, and Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out, in theatres June 19, will be the first Dolby Vision titles to be shown at Dolby Cinema locations around the world. In addition, Disney’s The Jungle Book, due out April 15, 2016, will also be... »
The Fairytale Effect in Disney’s Cinderella
When transforming a beloved animated classic into a contemporary live-action film, do you handle it with kid gloves? Director Kenneth Branagh's remake of the 1950 Disney original keeps the gloves on, in a formal sense, by finding Cinderella's essential fairy tale heart and filling it with the mythical magic of Thor, the lightness of Shakespeare's... »