Oscar-Nominee Martin McDonagh on his Dark, Brilliant Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

As part of our Oscars week coverage, we’re re-posting our conversations with some of this year’s Oscar-nominees, as well as publishing new interviews with those vying for Oscar gold this Sunday. Writer/director Martin McDonagh is nominated in the Best Picture and Writing (Original Sreenplay) category. The full list of the nominees can be found here.

Blade Runner 2049, Three Billboards & The Shape of Water Lead BAFTA Noms

The British Academy of Television Arts has announced the nominations for their film awards for 2018, known as the BAFTAs, with Guillermo del Toro’s glorious creature feature, The Shape of Water, netting a best 12 nominations. Del Toro’s surprisingly tender film, which won him a Golden Globe for Best Director and Best Score for composer Alexandre Desplat is nominated for Best Film, Director, Actress, Score, and Original Screenplay, among others. This is a haul Doug Jones’ aquatic fish-man could appreciate.

Your 2018 Golden Globes Winners

The 2018 Golden Globes will be remembered primarily for Oprah Winfrey’s speech, upon accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement, one of the greatest ever delivered at the show. Oprah was called on stage by host Seth Meyers, who offered this perfect observation: “Oprah Winfrey is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award tonight. What a tremendous honor for Cecil B. DeMille.”

We’ll be looking at Oprah’s momentous speech in a separate post,

Writer/Director Martin McDonagh on his Dark, Brilliant Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

*We’re sharing some of our favorite interviews of the year this week in our ‘Best of 2017’ roundup.

With his thrillingly raw new film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri just released, writer/director Martin McDonagh is happy to chat about the movie,

Writer/Director Martin McDonagh on his Dark, Brilliant Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

With his thrillingly raw new film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri just released, writer/director Martin McDonagh is happy to chat about the movie, which has received critical acclaim and film-fest accolades, including Best Screenplay at Venice and People’s Choice at Toronto.

Venice 2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri Wows Festival

Things are looking good for Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, which had its’ world premiere at the Sala Grande in Venice and, as Deadline reports, was met with a roughly 10-minute standing ovation. This robust response is now the second film that Fox Searchlight has shown in Venice that has delighted and awed; they also enjoyed the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape Of Water last week, which was similarly feted.