How the Hair Design of Mudbound Became the Basis of an Oscar Nominated Performance
The heat and mud of the Mississippi farmland is palpable from the makeup to the clothing to the score in Dee Rees’ Mudbound. As the Jackson and McAllan families struggle through the muck and mire of poverty and racial tensions, they wear the Earth like badges of war. The oppressive climate was no trick of ...
How the I, Tonya Composer Helped Recast an Infamous Villain as a Tragic Character
When the news hit in 1994 that Olympic ice skater Nancy Kerrigan had been struck in the knee just before a performance, viewers were gripped. As the sensational story unfolded and the assailant became tied to rival Tonya Harding, America thought it would never forget the event. Nearly 25 years later, it turns out that ...
These Fantastic Oscar Videos Visualize Each Craft Category
We love this. This morning’s Oscar nominations proved to be a jubilant affair (Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele getting Best Director noms!), and what made today even sweeter is this fantastic series of short videos that visualize the job of what these brilliant, freshly nominated filmmakers do. It was a lovely tribute to the talented ...
Oscars 2018: The Imaginative, Thoughtful, and Timely Nominated Films
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and it’s an electrifying list. The breadth and depth of stories this year was stunning, and the talent on and off screen gets better every year. As it did at the Golden Globes, The Shape of Water leads the nominations with a total of 13. Black Panther cinematographer, ...
Oscar Watch: Long Strange Trip Groks Grateful Dead Mystique
It was supposed to be a 90-minute documentary due for completion in 2015 in honor of the Grateful Dead’s 50th anniversary. But when filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev in 2003 started digging into the story of guitarist Jerry Garcia and his band mates, one thing lead to another and he blew past the 2015 deadline to produce ...
Meet the 7,258 Members of the Academy Who Choose the Oscar Winners (Okay, Not All Of Them)
No matter the year, awards season is always a rewarding frenzy of prognosticating and movie-cramming, as a handful of the year’s best titles make their way from year-end lists and critics circles to the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs before finally qualifying to grace the stage of the biggest ceremony of the year: the Academy ...
A Peek at Your Oscar Contenders—A Day Before The Nominations
If there’s one film in this year’s Oscar race that could benefit from the current moment in the cultural consciousness, it’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic tale of revenge about a middle-aged badass (best actress frontrunner Frances McDormand) angry at authorities for failing to solve the murder of her daughter seems ...
