Guillermo del Toro may be Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s friend, but he’s also a fellow filmmaker the “Birdman” director admires with great respect. Iñárritu recently participated in Variety’s Directors on Directors series, where he was given the opportunity to write a lengthy love letter to “The Shape of Water.” According to the two-time Oscar winner, Del Toro has made a miracle of a movie that is easily his best so far.
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“Many years ago, Guillermo told me with his open, giant, sparkling eyes, about an idea that was circling around his head for his next film: The love story between a mute woman and a fish man,” Iñárritu writes. “That idea could not only occur to Guillermo del Toro, but also only an artist like himself would be capable of carrying it out.
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“Many years ago, Guillermo told me with his open, giant, sparkling eyes, about an idea that was circling around his head for his next film: The love story between a mute woman and a fish man,” Iñárritu writes. “That idea could not only occur to Guillermo del Toro, but also only an artist like himself would be capable of carrying it out.
- 12/6/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Actress Carly Chaikin may play a hacker on TV, but don’t expect to catch the Mr. Robot star dabbling in the dark web anytime soon.
“It’s like having a conversation in German,” Chaikin told Et when asked if the show had taught her anything about the cyber world. “It’s a foreign language that you have to learn about speaking to a computer. But I can totally pretend like I’m doing a hack!”
Chaikin’s edgy portrayal of Darlene on the USA drama has been a standout since the series debuted in the summer of 2015, and in the series’ third season, Chaikin shines more than ever before.
This season has found Darlene stuck in the middle of the main conflict -- simultaneously working as an informant for FBI agent Dom (Grace Gummer) while protecting her brother, Elliot (Rami Malek), as he takes down F. Society’s impending terror attack on E Corp.
“It’s been challenging...
“It’s like having a conversation in German,” Chaikin told Et when asked if the show had taught her anything about the cyber world. “It’s a foreign language that you have to learn about speaking to a computer. But I can totally pretend like I’m doing a hack!”
Chaikin’s edgy portrayal of Darlene on the USA drama has been a standout since the series debuted in the summer of 2015, and in the series’ third season, Chaikin shines more than ever before.
This season has found Darlene stuck in the middle of the main conflict -- simultaneously working as an informant for FBI agent Dom (Grace Gummer) while protecting her brother, Elliot (Rami Malek), as he takes down F. Society’s impending terror attack on E Corp.
“It’s been challenging...
- 11/28/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
2014 was a big year for David Fincher. Not only was the director returning to theaters with “Gone Girl” in the fall, but he also signed on to co-create and direct an adaption of the UK series “Utopia” for HBO. Fincher had already earned acclaim in the television world for Netflix’s “House of Cards” the year before, and his move to premium cable sounded extremely exciting. “Gone Girl” author Gillian Flynn was set to join Fincher on the series, and the cast included Rooney Mara. But HBO pulled the plug in July 2015, and now we’ll never get to see Fincher’s “Utopia” on the small screen.
The British version of “Utopia” was written and created by Dennis Kelly and ran for two seasons on Channel 4. The story involved a group of people who find a manuscript for the sequel of a cult graphic novel that was rumored to...
The British version of “Utopia” was written and created by Dennis Kelly and ran for two seasons on Channel 4. The story involved a group of people who find a manuscript for the sequel of a cult graphic novel that was rumored to...
- 10/20/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Eduardo Mendoza turned a lot of heads with 2013’s The Gospel of The Flesh. Previously only known for 2005's teen comedy Mañana Te Cuento -- which fell into the typical comedy trap of switching out legitimately funny juvenile antics for serious drama, and never recovered -- and its sequel, Mendoza reinvented himself as a serious director with a dark, gritty multi-character drama which owed a bit to Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Amores Perros but which was still unmistakably Peruvian; a portrait of Lima, its cultures and beliefs in all their chaotic beauty. Mendoza’s growth as a filmmaker continues this year with La Hora Final, which reaches back into Peru’s recent past. Set during the early 1990s, it’s a dramatization of the events which led to the...
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- 6/30/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Isabelle Huppert, Mariachi and a History Lesson: Cannes Celebrates Its 70th Year With a Lively Night
The Cannes Film Festival aims to show great movies, but it also knows how to throw a good party. That much was evident late at night in the waning hours of a glitzy dinner on Tuesday night at Port Pierre Canto to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the festival, when Salma Hayek surprised guests with a mariachi band.
The Mexican film luminaries in the room — including “Three Amigos” Guillermo Del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarriuto and Alfono Cuaron as well as actors Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal — all crowded around a single table to lead a boisterous crowd in numerous songs. They were joined by guests from all over the world, from directors Michel Hazanavicius and Paolo Sorrentino to Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker, 88-year-old French New Wave legend Agnes Varda and Hayek, who eventually led a conga line to the stage while shooting an iPhone video of the whole affair.
The Mexican film luminaries in the room — including “Three Amigos” Guillermo Del Toro, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarriuto and Alfono Cuaron as well as actors Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal — all crowded around a single table to lead a boisterous crowd in numerous songs. They were joined by guests from all over the world, from directors Michel Hazanavicius and Paolo Sorrentino to Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker, 88-year-old French New Wave legend Agnes Varda and Hayek, who eventually led a conga line to the stage while shooting an iPhone video of the whole affair.
- 5/24/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
As the 2017 Cannes Film Festival entered its final days, IndieWire critics Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich took a break from endless screenings and late nights to trade notes on what they’ve gleaned from this year’s edition.
Eric Kohn: I treasure many moviegoing memories from the Cannes Film Festival, but none of them have anything to do with special screenings of “Ocean’s Thirteen” or “Pirates of the Caribbean,” both of which played here over the past decade. Someone must have gotten the memo: There are no traditional big studio movies in the 70th edition of the festival, and what a relief — each day has brought another exciting alternative to bland, unimaginative Hollywood spectacles, although the definition of “Hollywood” may be malleable.
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
After all, what was Bong Joon Ho’s crowdpleasing, allegorical sci-fi...
Eric Kohn: I treasure many moviegoing memories from the Cannes Film Festival, but none of them have anything to do with special screenings of “Ocean’s Thirteen” or “Pirates of the Caribbean,” both of which played here over the past decade. Someone must have gotten the memo: There are no traditional big studio movies in the 70th edition of the festival, and what a relief — each day has brought another exciting alternative to bland, unimaginative Hollywood spectacles, although the definition of “Hollywood” may be malleable.
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
After all, what was Bong Joon Ho’s crowdpleasing, allegorical sci-fi...
- 5/23/2017
- by Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Cannes 2017 is already a notable edition thanks to the festival’s inclusion of auteur helmed television entries, and (to the chagrin of some traditional minds) the appearance of Netflix properties in the main competition. But beyond these unavoidable progressions, the same kinds of regular maneuvering continues. While some auteurs locked out of the comp in 2015 have been invited back to the fold (Desplechin, Kawase) of Fremaux’s loving arms, the usual trend of displacement has crafted an unusually exciting crop of titles in the Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, as well as miscellaneous groupings of designated Special Screenings and Out of Competition slots specifically designed for auteurs who will remain part of the official program but away from the glaring inspection of competition pressures.
Edouard Waintrop scored a formidable coup with his opening film this year, Claire Denis‘ Let the Sunshine In (previously known as “Dark Sunglasses”). Denis, one of France’s finest auteurs, has been consistently overlooked by Fremaux and usually appears in competition at Venice. Alongside Denis, Waintrop snagged some Sundance titles (Bushwick, Patti Cake$) and a number of new projects from noted auteurs, like Abel Ferrara, Philippe Garrel, Sharunas Bartas, and Amos Gitai. The lineup also features a number of anticipated titles from new directors, including the sophomore film from Jonas Carpignano (A Ciambra), and some eclectic art-house genre titles (like the delicious sounding Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts from Indonesia’s Mouly Surya). Here’s our top three most anticipated from the Quinzaine:
Top 3 Quinzaine:
3. Jeannette – Dir. Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont, who was in the main comp last year with cannibal slapstick comedy Slack Bay, returns with an electro-pop musical on Joan of Arc set during the young girl’s developmental years, as based in part on a work by Charles Peguy.
2. The Florida Project – Sean Baker
Sean Baker returns to 35mm after 2015’s phenomenal Tangerine (famously shot on an iPhone). The American auteur’s latest stars Willem Dafoe alongside a group of newcomers in a film focusing on a six-year-old girl and her group of friends one Floridian summer as they embark on adventures while the adults contend with hard times.
1. Let the Sunshine In – Claire Denis
Inexplicably, Denis unites Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu in this adaptation of Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse. And this is a comedy. Sacré bleu!
Bonus:
For this year’s select out-of-competition titles, Fremaux amassed some glittery new titles from renowned auteurs.
Top 3 Ooc:
3. Ismael’s Ghosts – Dir. Arnaud Desplechin
Desplechin is back, this time opening up the festival with Ismael’s Ghosts, starring his regular muse Mathieu Amalric as a man caught between his current wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and the ghost of his former lover (Marion Cotillard, who previously had a small role in 1996’s My Sex Life…).
2. Based on a True Story – Dir. Roman Polanski
Polanski returns with this intriguing sounding film written by Olivier Assayas and starring Eva Green and Emmanuelle Seigner, which details a writer who gets all wrapped up with an obsessive fan.
1. How to Talk to Girls at Parties – Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
The long awaited sci-fi film from John Cameron Mitchell stars Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman (in one of four new projects at the festival) as aliens infiltrating London, based on a story by Neil Gaiman.
Special Events and Special Screenings:
Some of the auteurs standing out in the Special Events and Special Screenings are Abbas Kiarostami, Jane Campion, and a Virtual Reality project from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Flesh and Sand), making these mini-sidebars some of the most formidable programming of the fest in years.
3. Golden Years – Andre Techine
Techine was last in Cannes with an out-of-competition screening with 2014’s In the Name of My Daughter. This year he gets a Special Screening with Golden Years, scripted alongside Cedric Anger and starring Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake) as a Wwi deserter who goes into hiding by posing as a woman…but after the war ends, he can’t bring himself to revert to his former identity.
2. Claire’s Camera – Dir. Hong Sangsoo
Cannes 2017 will deliver a double dose of Hong Sangsoo, who returns to the competition with The Day After, who then gets to debut Claire’s Camera as a Special Screening, which reunites him with Isabelle Huppert (who headlined his 2012 In Another Country). Sangsoo filmed this project at Cannes while the festival transpired in 2016.
1. Twin Peaks – David Lynch
And then, there’s the return of the master. David Lynch will be premiering the first two episodes of Twin Peaks, the hotly anticipated reunion of the iconic television show twenty-five years after the end of Season 2. Along with Campion’s unveiling of her second season of Top of the Lake, this will be a rare opportunity to see (at least partially) these new works in the cinema.
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Edouard Waintrop scored a formidable coup with his opening film this year, Claire Denis‘ Let the Sunshine In (previously known as “Dark Sunglasses”). Denis, one of France’s finest auteurs, has been consistently overlooked by Fremaux and usually appears in competition at Venice. Alongside Denis, Waintrop snagged some Sundance titles (Bushwick, Patti Cake$) and a number of new projects from noted auteurs, like Abel Ferrara, Philippe Garrel, Sharunas Bartas, and Amos Gitai. The lineup also features a number of anticipated titles from new directors, including the sophomore film from Jonas Carpignano (A Ciambra), and some eclectic art-house genre titles (like the delicious sounding Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts from Indonesia’s Mouly Surya). Here’s our top three most anticipated from the Quinzaine:
Top 3 Quinzaine:
3. Jeannette – Dir. Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont, who was in the main comp last year with cannibal slapstick comedy Slack Bay, returns with an electro-pop musical on Joan of Arc set during the young girl’s developmental years, as based in part on a work by Charles Peguy.
2. The Florida Project – Sean Baker
Sean Baker returns to 35mm after 2015’s phenomenal Tangerine (famously shot on an iPhone). The American auteur’s latest stars Willem Dafoe alongside a group of newcomers in a film focusing on a six-year-old girl and her group of friends one Floridian summer as they embark on adventures while the adults contend with hard times.
1. Let the Sunshine In – Claire Denis
Inexplicably, Denis unites Juliette Binoche and Gerard Depardieu in this adaptation of Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse. And this is a comedy. Sacré bleu!
Bonus:
For this year’s select out-of-competition titles, Fremaux amassed some glittery new titles from renowned auteurs.
Top 3 Ooc:
3. Ismael’s Ghosts – Dir. Arnaud Desplechin
Desplechin is back, this time opening up the festival with Ismael’s Ghosts, starring his regular muse Mathieu Amalric as a man caught between his current wife (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and the ghost of his former lover (Marion Cotillard, who previously had a small role in 1996’s My Sex Life…).
2. Based on a True Story – Dir. Roman Polanski
Polanski returns with this intriguing sounding film written by Olivier Assayas and starring Eva Green and Emmanuelle Seigner, which details a writer who gets all wrapped up with an obsessive fan.
1. How to Talk to Girls at Parties – Dir. John Cameron Mitchell
The long awaited sci-fi film from John Cameron Mitchell stars Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman (in one of four new projects at the festival) as aliens infiltrating London, based on a story by Neil Gaiman.
Special Events and Special Screenings:
Some of the auteurs standing out in the Special Events and Special Screenings are Abbas Kiarostami, Jane Campion, and a Virtual Reality project from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Flesh and Sand), making these mini-sidebars some of the most formidable programming of the fest in years.
3. Golden Years – Andre Techine
Techine was last in Cannes with an out-of-competition screening with 2014’s In the Name of My Daughter. This year he gets a Special Screening with Golden Years, scripted alongside Cedric Anger and starring Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake) as a Wwi deserter who goes into hiding by posing as a woman…but after the war ends, he can’t bring himself to revert to his former identity.
2. Claire’s Camera – Dir. Hong Sangsoo
Cannes 2017 will deliver a double dose of Hong Sangsoo, who returns to the competition with The Day After, who then gets to debut Claire’s Camera as a Special Screening, which reunites him with Isabelle Huppert (who headlined his 2012 In Another Country). Sangsoo filmed this project at Cannes while the festival transpired in 2016.
1. Twin Peaks – David Lynch
And then, there’s the return of the master. David Lynch will be premiering the first two episodes of Twin Peaks, the hotly anticipated reunion of the iconic television show twenty-five years after the end of Season 2. Along with Campion’s unveiling of her second season of Top of the Lake, this will be a rare opportunity to see (at least partially) these new works in the cinema.
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- 5/2/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A cross-cultural multi-plot drama linked by the loose theme of coffee, Cristiano Bortone’s sixth feature is noteworthy for being the first fruit of an Italy-China co-production treaty signed in 2014. The Italian-born director, a USC and Nyu graduate, collaborated with Chinese screenwriters and censors on Coffee, which is screening at Beijing International Film Festival this week. Bortone is also the founder of Bridging the Dragon, an initiative designed to foster closer links between the European and Chinese film industries.
Citing Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s 2006 Oscar-winner Babel as inspiration, Bortone conceived Coffee as a panoramic snapshot of a globalized world in...
Citing Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s 2006 Oscar-winner Babel as inspiration, Bortone conceived Coffee as a panoramic snapshot of a globalized world in...
- 4/20/2017
- by Stephen Dalton
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Author: Scott Davis
As one award season closes another creeps up behind us and we start all over again as the 2017 Cannes Film Festival has announced its eagerly anticipated line-up for the festival which begins in May and as ever it is a diverse and exciting list of talents and films.
There are many incredible treats in store but here are some of our initial picks of what to look out for: Michel Hazanavicius, the director of Oscar Winner The Artist, returns with Redoubtable, his film about legendary filmmaker Jean Luc Godard; Michael Haneke’s latest, Happy End, makes an apperance, as does The Beguiled, the anticipated new film from Sofia Coppola which stars Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst and Colin Farrell. Farrell and Kidman also feature in The Killing of A Sacred Deer, the new film from Yorgos Lanthimas (The Lobster) which also stars Alicia Silverstone.
Acclaimed filmmakers Lynne Ramsey,...
As one award season closes another creeps up behind us and we start all over again as the 2017 Cannes Film Festival has announced its eagerly anticipated line-up for the festival which begins in May and as ever it is a diverse and exciting list of talents and films.
There are many incredible treats in store but here are some of our initial picks of what to look out for: Michel Hazanavicius, the director of Oscar Winner The Artist, returns with Redoubtable, his film about legendary filmmaker Jean Luc Godard; Michael Haneke’s latest, Happy End, makes an apperance, as does The Beguiled, the anticipated new film from Sofia Coppola which stars Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst and Colin Farrell. Farrell and Kidman also feature in The Killing of A Sacred Deer, the new film from Yorgos Lanthimas (The Lobster) which also stars Alicia Silverstone.
Acclaimed filmmakers Lynne Ramsey,...
- 4/13/2017
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Blink and you miss them.
One of the greatest tricks Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has yet to play on audiences is the illusion that Birdman (Or: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a single-take film. A cursory watch of the film will convince you that it is an uninterrupted narrative stream in which every actor always hits their mark and every millisecond of timing works out perfectly. In reality, though, while the shoot was built on extended sequences, like Hitchcock’s Rope, another purported single-take film, there are cuts hidden throughout Birdman, places where Inarritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki trick your eyes into thinking the scenes are seamless when truly they are snippets so masterfully sewn together you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins.
Unless you know what you’re looking for, that is, like editor Harrison Edgecombe does; he’s put together the following montage revealing, in...
One of the greatest tricks Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has yet to play on audiences is the illusion that Birdman (Or: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a single-take film. A cursory watch of the film will convince you that it is an uninterrupted narrative stream in which every actor always hits their mark and every millisecond of timing works out perfectly. In reality, though, while the shoot was built on extended sequences, like Hitchcock’s Rope, another purported single-take film, there are cuts hidden throughout Birdman, places where Inarritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki trick your eyes into thinking the scenes are seamless when truly they are snippets so masterfully sewn together you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins.
Unless you know what you’re looking for, that is, like editor Harrison Edgecombe does; he’s put together the following montage revealing, in...
- 4/4/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Tribeca Film Festival unveiled its conversation lineup, and it includes chats with Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow, Kobe Bryant, Common, Lena Dunham, Jon Favreau, Bruce Springsteen, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Barbra Streisand.
The Tribeca Talks: Directors Series sees Favreau in conversation with Scarlett Johansson, Baumbach with Dustin Hoffman, as well as a chat with Inarritu.
The Tribeca Talks: Storytellers Series puts Common in conversation with Nelson George, Bryant and legendary animator Glen Keane with Michael Strahan, Springsteen with Tom Hanks, and Streisand with Robert Rodriguez, as well as a chat with Dunham and Jenni Konner.
Additionally, Bigelow will speak with Imraan Ismail as part of the fest’s first Vr chat. Ellen Kuras, Imogen Heap and Kristi Zea also will lead master classes. The fest...
The Tribeca Talks: Directors Series sees Favreau in conversation with Scarlett Johansson, Baumbach with Dustin Hoffman, as well as a chat with Inarritu.
The Tribeca Talks: Storytellers Series puts Common in conversation with Nelson George, Bryant and legendary animator Glen Keane with Michael Strahan, Springsteen with Tom Hanks, and Streisand with Robert Rodriguez, as well as a chat with Dunham and Jenni Konner.
Additionally, Bigelow will speak with Imraan Ismail as part of the fest’s first Vr chat. Ellen Kuras, Imogen Heap and Kristi Zea also will lead master classes. The fest...
- 3/20/2017
- by Ashley Lee
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's always a nice surprise to come upon a completely unfamiliar film that is, in fact, a seminal entry in its national cinema history. It's all the more surprising, upon first viewing, to find oneself a bit stunned by that designation. Such is the case with my recent exposure to filmmaker Felipe Cazal's 1976 Canoa: A Shameful Memory. Being admittedly unfamiliar with most Mexican cinema outside of crossover faves Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (the former two participate on this disc's bonus features), a large amount of ignorance must be pleaded. But that said, the film's predominant static, faux vérité quality did prove testing. Based upon actual accounts of a 1968 lynch mob assault on a small group of visiting University...
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- 3/17/2017
- Screen Anarchy
How do you follow up back to back Oscar wins for Best Director? If you’re “Birdman” and “The Revenant” visionary Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, you become the latest big name director to make your mark on television. The director has been gearing up his first television drama, “The One Percent,” ever since wrapping production on “The Revenant,” but it appears the series is hitting its first major roadblock as Starz, which had previously given the drama a straight-to-series order for 10 episodes, has dropped it.
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According to Deadline, Starz has abandoned the series due to scheduling conflicts that have persisted because of Iñárritu’s shooting style. The director prefers shooting in chronological order, but that method isn’t cheap to pull off. It’s part of the reason filming “The Revenant” became so notorious, as waiting for weather...
Read More: Alejandro González Iñárritu On the Artistic Insecurities That Led to ‘Birdman’
According to Deadline, Starz has abandoned the series due to scheduling conflicts that have persisted because of Iñárritu’s shooting style. The director prefers shooting in chronological order, but that method isn’t cheap to pull off. It’s part of the reason filming “The Revenant” became so notorious, as waiting for weather...
- 3/3/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Simon Brew Feb 24, 2017
It’s Oscar weekend! But how well do the Academy Award choices of ten years ago hold up? We’ve taken a look...
The Academy Awards are the highest profile snapshot of what films are highly rated within 12 months of their release. What they can’t predict, however, is how well regarded their choices will age, and only time can tell you that. Which is why I thought it’d be interesting to go back a decade, and see how the winners of the 79th Academy Awards, handed out on February 25th 2007, stack up ten years on…
Best Picture: The Departed
Also nominated:
Babel Letters From Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen
At the time, there was a little bit of acceptance that The Departed was the Scent Of A Woman moment. That just as Al Pacino got rewarded for good work in a film that’s not his finest,...
It’s Oscar weekend! But how well do the Academy Award choices of ten years ago hold up? We’ve taken a look...
The Academy Awards are the highest profile snapshot of what films are highly rated within 12 months of their release. What they can’t predict, however, is how well regarded their choices will age, and only time can tell you that. Which is why I thought it’d be interesting to go back a decade, and see how the winners of the 79th Academy Awards, handed out on February 25th 2007, stack up ten years on…
Best Picture: The Departed
Also nominated:
Babel Letters From Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine The Queen
At the time, there was a little bit of acceptance that The Departed was the Scent Of A Woman moment. That just as Al Pacino got rewarded for good work in a film that’s not his finest,...
- 2/22/2017
- Den of Geek
Ages before I was spouting bullshit about cultural relevance and the like, an inextricable sentiment was established: art reflects culture just as much as culture influences art. It's an interesting process to witness, for better or worse. Whether it is intended to or not, the tone of the masses manifests itself in millions of specific little ways that dig their way into the social psyche and nest--sometimes even fester. In December of 2015, two of the most visceral and vicious films to be considered Oscar contenders in recent years were released. While the arrival of both films was met with various levels of critical praise as well as dissent, now 1 year removed, both Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu’s The Revenant and Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful...
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- 2/3/2017
- Screen Anarchy
The founder, chairman and CEO of the Wanda-owned creator of such tentpoles as the Dark Knight trilogy and March release Kong: Skull Island has resigned.
Effective immediately, Tull will assume the title of founding chairman. Jack Gao, group senior vice-president and CEO of international investm ents and operations at Wanda Cultural Industry Group, has been named interim CEO while the owners search for a permanent replacement.
Vice-chairman of worldwide production Mary Parent remains with the stated full support of the Wanda hierarchy, while Tull will focus on his Tull Investment Group and its life science, media and technology concerns like Vr pioneers Magic Leap and Oculus Rift, as well as Pinterest, Heal and Zoox.
While reasons for the abrupt departure were not disclosed, The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the story, cited tensions between Tull and his Chinese paymasters over the former’s management approach.
Upcoming Us release The Great Wall and Pacific Rim 2, which is shooting, were also...
Effective immediately, Tull will assume the title of founding chairman. Jack Gao, group senior vice-president and CEO of international investm ents and operations at Wanda Cultural Industry Group, has been named interim CEO while the owners search for a permanent replacement.
Vice-chairman of worldwide production Mary Parent remains with the stated full support of the Wanda hierarchy, while Tull will focus on his Tull Investment Group and its life science, media and technology concerns like Vr pioneers Magic Leap and Oculus Rift, as well as Pinterest, Heal and Zoox.
While reasons for the abrupt departure were not disclosed, The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the story, cited tensions between Tull and his Chinese paymasters over the former’s management approach.
Upcoming Us release The Great Wall and Pacific Rim 2, which is shooting, were also...
- 1/17/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Imagine it is February 28, 2016. The 88th Annual Academy Awards. Brie Larson has taken home an Oscar for her searing performance in Room. The hauntingly depressing Amy has won Best Documentary. Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu nabbed the highest honor for directors. And then, suddenly, the mood changes. It's time to announce the winner for Best Actor; that prize that Leonardo DiCaprio has been coveting from afar for years, close enough to be able to taste victory, yet each time finding it maddeningly, ever-so-slightly, out of his grasp. This part is history, of course, and our man finally did it. The Dolby Theater erupted in thunderous applause and the audience jumped to their feet so...
- 1/9/2017
- E! Online
Find out what made our top 10 films of 2016 - and which films feature on Team Screen’s overall top 10.Scroll down for Screen’s overall top 10
Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.
Matt Mueller (editor)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)
Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...
Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.
Matt Mueller (editor)
Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)
Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...
- 12/20/2016
- ScreenDaily
Jury led by Jeremy Thomas awards Terence Davies title with top award.
The 43rd annual Film Festival Ghent (Oct 11-21) awarded Terence Davies’ A Quiet Passion with the Grand Prix for Best Film.
Shot largely at Aed Studios in Antwerp, the Emily Dickinson biopic is a UK-Belgium co-production.
The international jury was led by Jeremy Thomas. The veteran UK producer was also recognised by the festival for his contribution to cinema, receiving the lifetime achievement award.
Ahead of the closing-night screening of Belgian film-maker Bavo Defurne’s romantic drama Souvenir, Thomas and his jury – including Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung, author Jonathan Coe and actresses Maaike Neuville, Lina El Arabi and India Hair – handed out the prizes.
Davies’ A Quiet Passion win came with $47.500 (€43,500) in prize money; special mention went to Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Glory.
The Georges Delerue Award for best score went to Us producer/composer Johnny Jewel for Fien Troch’s Home...
The 43rd annual Film Festival Ghent (Oct 11-21) awarded Terence Davies’ A Quiet Passion with the Grand Prix for Best Film.
Shot largely at Aed Studios in Antwerp, the Emily Dickinson biopic is a UK-Belgium co-production.
The international jury was led by Jeremy Thomas. The veteran UK producer was also recognised by the festival for his contribution to cinema, receiving the lifetime achievement award.
Ahead of the closing-night screening of Belgian film-maker Bavo Defurne’s romantic drama Souvenir, Thomas and his jury – including Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung, author Jonathan Coe and actresses Maaike Neuville, Lina El Arabi and India Hair – handed out the prizes.
Davies’ A Quiet Passion win came with $47.500 (€43,500) in prize money; special mention went to Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s Glory.
The Georges Delerue Award for best score went to Us producer/composer Johnny Jewel for Fien Troch’s Home...
- 10/24/2016
- ScreenDaily
While two-time Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu hasn’t fixed on a movie project after his harrowing Best Picture nominee The Revenant, he is working on an intriguing sideline: a virtual reality short. It’s one that he’s been developing for four years, and the short is being produced and financed by Legendary Entertainment and Fondazione Prada, which announced it. ILMxLAB, Lucasfilm's recently established Immersive Entertainment division, will build the…...
- 9/28/2016
- Deadline
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu expressed his shock and disappointment in Mexico's president for allowing presidential candidate Donald Trump to visit the country last week. In a scathing op-ed written for the Spanish newspaper El País, the Oscar-winning director shared his thoughts about the controversial visit. In the op-ed, Iñárritu said the invitation from President Enrique Peña Nieto "is to endorse and validate someone who for more than a year insulted, spat upon and threatened us before the whole world," adding that it only promoted "the political campaign of hatred towards [the Mexican people] towards half of humanity, and to the most vulnerable minorities on the planet.
- 9/3/2016
- by Blake Bakkila, @bcbakkila
- PEOPLE.com
James + Semaj is a column where James Franco talks to his reverse self, Semaj, about new films. Rather than a conventional review, it is place where James and Semaj can muse about ideas that the films provoke. James loves going to the movies and talking about them. But a one-sided take on a movie, in print, might be misconstrued as a review. As someone in the industry it could be detrimental to James’s career if he were to review his peers, because unlike the book industry—where writers review other writer’s books—the film industry is highly collaborative, and a bad review of a peer could create problems. So, assume that James (and Semaj) love all these films. What they’re interested in talking about is all the ways the films inspire them, and make them think. James is me, and Semaj is the other side of me.
- 8/5/2016
- by James Franco
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Shoval [pictured] was mentored by Iñárritu on the set of The Revenant.
Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu has boarded Israeli film-maker Tom Shoval’s second film Shake Your Cares Away as one of the film’s producers. The film revolves around Alma, a wealthy heiress with a crazy philanthropic streak who takes her charitable work to unconventional extremes when she moves to Israel from Paris.
French actress Bérénice Bejo has signed to play Alma and is studying Hebrew in preparation for the film, which is due to shoot between Paris and Israel in the second half of 2017. “I told her I am searching to cast the soul of my character, Alma, and to my good luck I found it in her,” said Shoval. “I can’t wait for our collaboration.”
Mexican film-maker Iñárritu mentored Shoval as part of the Rolex Mentors and Protégés Arts Initiative. He ended up supporting Shoval and his brother Dan as they co-wrote...
Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu has boarded Israeli film-maker Tom Shoval’s second film Shake Your Cares Away as one of the film’s producers. The film revolves around Alma, a wealthy heiress with a crazy philanthropic streak who takes her charitable work to unconventional extremes when she moves to Israel from Paris.
French actress Bérénice Bejo has signed to play Alma and is studying Hebrew in preparation for the film, which is due to shoot between Paris and Israel in the second half of 2017. “I told her I am searching to cast the soul of my character, Alma, and to my good luck I found it in her,” said Shoval. “I can’t wait for our collaboration.”
Mexican film-maker Iñárritu mentored Shoval as part of the Rolex Mentors and Protégés Arts Initiative. He ended up supporting Shoval and his brother Dan as they co-wrote...
- 7/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Shoval [pictured] was mentored by Inarritu on the set of The Revenant.
Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has boarded Israeli film-maker Tom Shoval’s second film Shake Your Cares Away as one of the film’s producers. The film revolves around Alma, a wealthy heiress with a crazy philanthropic streak who takes her charitable work to unconventional extremes when she moves to Israel from Paris.
French actress Bérénice Bejo has signed to play Alma and is studying Hebrew in preparation for the film, which is due to shoot between Paris and Israel in the second half of 2017. “I told her I am searching to cast the soul of my character, Alma, and to my good luck I found it in her,” said Shoval. “I can’t wait for our collaboration.”
Mexican film-maker Inarritu mentored Shoval as part of the Rolex Mentors and Protégés Arts Initiative. He ended up supporting Shoval and his brother Dan as they co-wrote...
Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has boarded Israeli film-maker Tom Shoval’s second film Shake Your Cares Away as one of the film’s producers. The film revolves around Alma, a wealthy heiress with a crazy philanthropic streak who takes her charitable work to unconventional extremes when she moves to Israel from Paris.
French actress Bérénice Bejo has signed to play Alma and is studying Hebrew in preparation for the film, which is due to shoot between Paris and Israel in the second half of 2017. “I told her I am searching to cast the soul of my character, Alma, and to my good luck I found it in her,” said Shoval. “I can’t wait for our collaboration.”
Mexican film-maker Inarritu mentored Shoval as part of the Rolex Mentors and Protégés Arts Initiative. He ended up supporting Shoval and his brother Dan as they co-wrote...
- 7/11/2016
- ScreenDaily
Citing no shortage of innovation in the film festival space in the New York City area — with the Brooklyn Film Festival and Art of Brooklyn Film Festival also occurring during the same week — Williamsburg’s annual Northside Festival, the music and innovation conference phased out its film section in favor of “content.” Content, though, seems to be a rather loaded proposition and Northside’s Content Festival offered a glimpse inside how indie filmmakers can make a living.
The content side of the festival, making its debut in advance of the festival’s music and innovation portions, seemed more like a direct offshoot of innovation rather than the evolution of what had been the film section. Innovation in the content space seems to be defined by virtual reality and branded content. One thing the talks were short on were independent content makers, apart from Lex Dreitser, an independent Vr maker who...
The content side of the festival, making its debut in advance of the festival’s music and innovation portions, seemed more like a direct offshoot of innovation rather than the evolution of what had been the film section. Innovation in the content space seems to be defined by virtual reality and branded content. One thing the talks were short on were independent content makers, apart from Lex Dreitser, an independent Vr maker who...
- 6/17/2016
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Hilary Swank and Katherine Waterston have joined the increasingly impressive cast of Steven Soderbergh's heist film "Logan Lucky".
Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Katherine Heigl, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane and Riley Keough also star in the story which follows brothers who plan a crime during a Nascar race in North Carolina. Swank will play an FBI agent on the hunt for them.
Mark Johnson, Gregory Jacobs and Reid Carolin will produce. Swank will soon be a part of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "The One Percent" and Billie August's "55 Steps".
Source: Deadline...
Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Katherine Heigl, Adam Driver, Seth MacFarlane and Riley Keough also star in the story which follows brothers who plan a crime during a Nascar race in North Carolina. Swank will play an FBI agent on the hunt for them.
Mark Johnson, Gregory Jacobs and Reid Carolin will produce. Swank will soon be a part of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "The One Percent" and Billie August's "55 Steps".
Source: Deadline...
- 6/9/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Other winners included Mehmet Can Mertoglu’s Albüm and Wregas Bhanuteja’s Penjak.
Oliver Laxe’s Mimosas has won the Nespresso Grand Prize at the 55th Critics’ Week – the Cannes Film Festival sidebar devoted to first and second features.
Review: Mimosas
The story follows a caravan escorting a dying sheikh across the Atlas Mountains to fulfil his dying wish.
France-born, Spain-based Laxe won the €15,000 ($17,000) prize, which has previously been awarded to Guillermo del Toro, Gaspar Noe and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu among others.
The film, which was shot in Morocco and took part in Qumra 2016, is Laxe’s second film after You Are All Captains, which screened in Directors’ Fortnight in 2010, winning the Fipresci prize
Mimosas is a Spain-Morocco-France-Qatar co-production and is sold by Luxbox.
Albüm, from Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Can Mertoğlu, won the France 4 Visionary Award, which rewards “outstanding creativity and innovation”.
The black comedy centres on an Antalya-based couple who fake a pregnancy to keep their...
Oliver Laxe’s Mimosas has won the Nespresso Grand Prize at the 55th Critics’ Week – the Cannes Film Festival sidebar devoted to first and second features.
Review: Mimosas
The story follows a caravan escorting a dying sheikh across the Atlas Mountains to fulfil his dying wish.
France-born, Spain-based Laxe won the €15,000 ($17,000) prize, which has previously been awarded to Guillermo del Toro, Gaspar Noe and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu among others.
The film, which was shot in Morocco and took part in Qumra 2016, is Laxe’s second film after You Are All Captains, which screened in Directors’ Fortnight in 2010, winning the Fipresci prize
Mimosas is a Spain-Morocco-France-Qatar co-production and is sold by Luxbox.
Albüm, from Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Can Mertoğlu, won the France 4 Visionary Award, which rewards “outstanding creativity and innovation”.
The black comedy centres on an Antalya-based couple who fake a pregnancy to keep their...
- 5/20/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Other winners included Mehmet Can Mertoglu’s Albüm and Wregas Bhanuteja’s Penjak.
Oliver Laxe’s Mimosas has won the Nespresso Grand Prize at the 55th Critics’ Week – the Cannes Film Festival sidebar devoted to first and second features.
Review: Mimosas
The story follows a caravan escorting a dying sheikh across the Atlas Mountains to fulfil his dying wish.
France-born, Spain-based Laxe won the €15,000 ($17,000) prize, which has previously been awarded to Guillermo del Toro, Gaspar Noe and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu among others.
The film, which was shot in Morocco and took part in Qumra 2016, is Laxe’s second film after You Are All Captains, which screened in Directors’ Fortnight in 2010, winning the Fipresci prize
Mimosas is a Spain-Morocco-France-Qatar co-production and is sold by Luxbox.
Albüm, from Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Can Mertoğlu, won the France 4 Visionary Award, which rewards “outstanding creativity and innovation”.
The black comedy centres on an Antalya-based couple who fake a pregnancy to keep their...
Oliver Laxe’s Mimosas has won the Nespresso Grand Prize at the 55th Critics’ Week – the Cannes Film Festival sidebar devoted to first and second features.
Review: Mimosas
The story follows a caravan escorting a dying sheikh across the Atlas Mountains to fulfil his dying wish.
France-born, Spain-based Laxe won the €15,000 ($17,000) prize, which has previously been awarded to Guillermo del Toro, Gaspar Noe and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu among others.
The film, which was shot in Morocco and took part in Qumra 2016, is Laxe’s second film after You Are All Captains, which screened in Directors’ Fortnight in 2010, winning the Fipresci prize
Mimosas is a Spain-Morocco-France-Qatar co-production and is sold by Luxbox.
Albüm, from Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Can Mertoğlu, won the France 4 Visionary Award, which rewards “outstanding creativity and innovation”.
The black comedy centres on an Antalya-based couple who fake a pregnancy to keep their...
- 5/20/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
In the lead up to Cannes, we revisit the 2010 Screen Jury Grid and reflect on what critics around the world had to say about the films in Competition.
Each year, Screen calls upon its international jury of critics to cast their judgement on the films in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and rounds up the results in the ever-popular Screen Jury Grid.
In 2010, top marks from the critics went to Mike Leigh’s romantic drama Another Year, which scored a strong 3.4 out of 4. The ensemble drama was Leigh’s fourth film in Competition at Cannes, including Secrets and Lies, which won the top prize in 1996.
Leigh has since been up for the Palme d’Or with biopic Mr Turner, which starred Timothy Spall as eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner, for which he won best actor at the festival in 2014.
But in 2010, the Palme d’Or went to fantasy drama Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall...
Each year, Screen calls upon its international jury of critics to cast their judgement on the films in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and rounds up the results in the ever-popular Screen Jury Grid.
In 2010, top marks from the critics went to Mike Leigh’s romantic drama Another Year, which scored a strong 3.4 out of 4. The ensemble drama was Leigh’s fourth film in Competition at Cannes, including Secrets and Lies, which won the top prize in 1996.
Leigh has since been up for the Palme d’Or with biopic Mr Turner, which starred Timothy Spall as eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner, for which he won best actor at the festival in 2014.
But in 2010, the Palme d’Or went to fantasy drama Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall...
- 5/3/2016
- ScreenDaily
Eric here to discuss cinema’s currently-most-celebrated director, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. As Nathaniel has noted previously, all six of Inarritu’s feature films have gotten Oscar attention in one way or another, and of course much has been written about his being the first filmmaker since 1950 to win the Best Director Oscar two years in a row. He's also just been named to the Time 100 "Icons" List. So there’s no better time than to look back to Inarritu’s first feature, 2000’s Amores Perros, to see where he started and where he’s landed.
Watching Amores Perros (2000) for the first time since its initial release, I was struck by how even at the start of his career, Inarritu picked extraordinarily difficult environments to shoot in. The logistics for Amores Perros can’t have practically been much easier than the ones we are all sick of hearing about with The Revenant.
Watching Amores Perros (2000) for the first time since its initial release, I was struck by how even at the start of his career, Inarritu picked extraordinarily difficult environments to shoot in. The logistics for Amores Perros can’t have practically been much easier than the ones we are all sick of hearing about with The Revenant.
- 4/22/2016
- by Eric Blume
- FilmExperience
Dailies is a round-up of essential film writing, news bits, videos, and other highlights from across the Internet. If you’d like to submit a piece for consideration, get in touch with us in the comments below or on Twitter at @TheFilmStage.
The software used by Studio Ghibli will be free and open source starting on March 26th, Wired reports.
Explore the symmetry and camera movement in Amélie:
RogerEbert.com‘s Steve Erickson on the current state of foreign-language film distribution:
There’s no end to the essays by baby-boomers recalling the golden age of art cinema from the ‘50s to the ‘70s, many of them proclaiming the death of the movies in the present day. I was born in 1972, so I missed out on personally experiencing this arthouse heyday; my earliest exposure to world cinema came in the late ‘80s, when its Us distribution was at an unprecedented nadir.
The software used by Studio Ghibli will be free and open source starting on March 26th, Wired reports.
Explore the symmetry and camera movement in Amélie:
RogerEbert.com‘s Steve Erickson on the current state of foreign-language film distribution:
There’s no end to the essays by baby-boomers recalling the golden age of art cinema from the ‘50s to the ‘70s, many of them proclaiming the death of the movies in the present day. I was born in 1972, so I missed out on personally experiencing this arthouse heyday; my earliest exposure to world cinema came in the late ‘80s, when its Us distribution was at an unprecedented nadir.
- 3/21/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
While not a proselytizer, I generally consider myself a devotee of Terrence Malick. Considering that nearly every cinephile is or has been some kind of advocate for the filmmaker, this isn’t a bold statement. But it is a reminder that the dedicated have congregated around the cult of Malick, his personal elusiveness and his artistic singularity for several decades. The legendary director behind “Badlands” and “Days Of Heaven” —who took a 20-year absence from cinema, only to triumphantly return in 1998 with the meditative war film “The Thin Red Line”— has had such a distinct impact on cinema that he’s practically created his own genre. Any contemplative, dreamy and poetic film with impressionist cues that revere and revel in natural beauty is often described as such, sometimes even reductively (see “The Revenant,” which is its own beast, but shares visual grandiloquence due to Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and Malick now use the same Dp,...
- 3/15/2016
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
The 2016 Oscars are over, and you know what that means: time to predict the 2017 Oscars ... well, not for most of us, but our forum posters can't resist looking ahead at this year's field of upcoming released, which already includes films that look pretty strong on paper, with strong early buzz, pedigreed casts and filmmakers, important subject matter or all of the above. Sundance Film Festival hit "The Birth of a Nation" may be a potential early contender, as could Tom Hanks as the titular hero pilot in Clint Eastwood's "Sully." Then there's Martin Scorsese's "Silence." -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Oscar Predictions "Silence" stars Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver in the story of Jesuit missionaries in 17th century Japan. Scorsese won his first and only Oscar to date for directing "The Departed" in 2006, but Alejandro Gonzalez Inarri...'...
- 3/3/2016
- Gold Derby
Though the Oscars telecast fell to an eight-year low in Nielsen's overnight ratings — not surprising given that three of 2015's most popular films ("Creed," "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," and "Straight Outta Compton") were largely absent from the major categories — host Chris Rock and a number of unpredictable categories made the ceremony one of the most memorable since "Crash" beat "BrokeBack Mountain." We round up our favorite moments of the night, in no particular order. Read More: Top 10 Oscar Surprises "Spotlight" Wins Best Picture The showdown between "Mad Max: Fury Road" (six wins) "The Revenant" (three, including Best Director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu and Best Actor Leonardo DiCaprio) might have signaled a path to victory for Tom McCarthy's kitchen-sink journalism drama — but, as evidenced by Michael Keaton's fist-pumping "Fuck yeah!"...
- 2/29/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Last night at the 88th Academy Awards, we witnessed Leonardo DiCaprio take home his first ever Oscar for his role in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s The Revenant, and the Internet exploded.
It’s been a long running joke that Leo has been begging for an Oscar, however, all he was ever doing was giving incredible performances with visionary filmmakers. Anyone in his position would want to hone their craft the way Leo has, and finally he has been rewarded by his peers. Let the joking end now, please.
While we may argue that his performance in The Revenant was not the one that should have been awarded this high honour (see where it ranks on this list, and you’ll get the picture), it was still an extremely physical and silent portrayal that shows Leo’s range. And boy, does he have range.
In honour of Leonardo DiCaprio finally winning an Oscar,...
It’s been a long running joke that Leo has been begging for an Oscar, however, all he was ever doing was giving incredible performances with visionary filmmakers. Anyone in his position would want to hone their craft the way Leo has, and finally he has been rewarded by his peers. Let the joking end now, please.
While we may argue that his performance in The Revenant was not the one that should have been awarded this high honour (see where it ranks on this list, and you’ll get the picture), it was still an extremely physical and silent portrayal that shows Leo’s range. And boy, does he have range.
In honour of Leonardo DiCaprio finally winning an Oscar,...
- 2/29/2016
- by Adriana Floridia, Andrea Miller, and Emma Badame
- Cineplex
Well, that was exciting. Going into yesterday’s Oscars, most prognosticators were predicting and expecting “The Revenant” to win Best Picture — it was a huge hit, took the BAFTA and the DGA (the guild that most often lines up with Best Picture), and was widely expected to win Best Actor and Best Director, which it did. Those that weren’t backing Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s film tended, like ourselves, to predict that “The Big Short” was best placed for the big prize, having taken the PGA Award. But instead, in one of the more pleasing curveballs in recent Oscar memory, the Best Picture trophy went home to the makers of “Spotlight,” Tom McCarthy’s sober, understated drama about the Boston Globe reporters who helped reveal systematic cover-ups of child abuse in the Catholic Church in the city (and elsewhere). A few astute prognosticators had backed it (aided by its wins...
- 2/29/2016
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
From the making of Spotlight and The Revenant to the VFX behind Ex Machina and Mad Max: Fury Road, here are the stories behind the winners of this year’s Oscars.
Throughout awards season 2015/16, Screen has profiled the filmmakers and artists behind the biggest features of the year. Here we present a selection of reports, based around the winners of the 88th Academy Awards.
Spotlight
The story of the Boston Globe’s investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church proved a surprise winner for best film over bookies favourite The Revenant and also won best original screenplay.
Screen interviewed director and co-writer Tom McCarthy and spoke to the team behind the film to reveal how they avoided lawsuits and cast a prestige acting ensemble
Interview: Director Tom McCarthyThe Making of SpotlightREVIEW: SpotlightThe Revenant
The gritty, survival drama won a hat-trick of Oscars for leading actor Leonardo DiCaprio, director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.
The...
Throughout awards season 2015/16, Screen has profiled the filmmakers and artists behind the biggest features of the year. Here we present a selection of reports, based around the winners of the 88th Academy Awards.
Spotlight
The story of the Boston Globe’s investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church proved a surprise winner for best film over bookies favourite The Revenant and also won best original screenplay.
Screen interviewed director and co-writer Tom McCarthy and spoke to the team behind the film to reveal how they avoided lawsuits and cast a prestige acting ensemble
Interview: Director Tom McCarthyThe Making of SpotlightREVIEW: SpotlightThe Revenant
The gritty, survival drama won a hat-trick of Oscars for leading actor Leonardo DiCaprio, director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.
The...
- 2/29/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Oscars 2016: 'Spotlight' pulls off Best Picture upset, 'Mad Max' wins six, 'The Revenant' wins three
"Spotlight" pulled off an upset at the Oscars, winning Best Picture against frontrunner "The Revenant" and another strong competitor, "The Big Short." The film told the true story of the team of journalists who uncovered the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in Boston and throughout the world. It also won Best Original Screenplay, which makes it the first film since "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1952) to win Best Picture with only one other victory. (Click here for the complete list of Oscar winners.) -Break- Oscar winners 2016: Complete list of winners (and nominees) for 88th Academy Awards But "The Revenant" did pick up three awards: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu claimed Best Director for the second year in a row (he won last year for "Birdman"), and Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his overdue first Best Actor honors. Below the line, the film won Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki fo...
- 2/29/2016
- Gold Derby
Over the last few years the internet has done a sensational job of scrutinizing every frame of awards ceremony coverage to find moments of those in attendance acting in a peculiar manner. The 88th Academy Awards were no different, with one particular Vine of a hoard of nominees not clapping for Mad Max: Fury Road’s Jenny Beavan, as she walked towards stage to collect her award for costume design, soon trending. Want to check it out? Obviously you do. Then click below. That collective sound that you can hear is the world chuckling at this bizarre spectacle. Especially since there are quite a few Oscar winners and nominees in this video, including Spotlight's Tom McCarthy and The Revenant's Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, who seem to refuse to acknowledge Jenny Beavan as she walks to the stage. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu even seems to go one step ...
- 2/29/2016
- cinemablend.com
As predicted, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("The Revenant") won Best Director at the Oscars on Sunday. He was Gold Derby's frontrunner with odds of 2/9 to prevail, just one year after winning for "Birdman." The last time someone won back-to-back Oscars for Best Director was Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who prevailed for "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950). Prior to that, John Ford had won two of his record four Oscars consecutively for helming "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "How Green Was My Valley" (1941). -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Oscar Predictions Our official odds are derived from the predictions of 28 Expert film journalists along with our seven in-house Editors who cover awards year-round, the Top 24 Users who got the top scores predicting last year's Oscars, the All-Star Users who did the be...
- 2/29/2016
- Gold Derby
After a very protracted awards season, the full winners of this year's Academy Awards have been announced with "Spotlight" taking the honor of best film. "Max Max: Fury Road" dominated the tech awards with six wins, followed by "The Revenant" with three. Results were pretty much as expected, though some welcome minor surprises included 'Max' winning for editing and "Ex Machina' for visual effects. Here's the list in full:
Best Picture
"Spotlight"
Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - "The Revenant"
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio - "The Revenant"
Best Actress
Brie Larson - "Room"
Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander - "The Danish Girl"
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance - "Bridge Of Spies"
Best Animated Feature
"Inside Out"
Best Foreign Language Feature
"Son Of Saul"
Best Documentary Feature
"Amy"
Best Adapted Screenplay
Adam McKay & Charles Randolph - "The Big Short"
Best Original Screenplay
Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer - "Spotlight"
Best Cinematography...
Best Picture
"Spotlight"
Best Director
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - "The Revenant"
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio - "The Revenant"
Best Actress
Brie Larson - "Room"
Best Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander - "The Danish Girl"
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Rylance - "Bridge Of Spies"
Best Animated Feature
"Inside Out"
Best Foreign Language Feature
"Son Of Saul"
Best Documentary Feature
"Amy"
Best Adapted Screenplay
Adam McKay & Charles Randolph - "The Big Short"
Best Original Screenplay
Tom McCarthy & Josh Singer - "Spotlight"
Best Cinematography...
- 2/29/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
A moment of silence please for the worst night in Academy Awards history in the past decade.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s sift through the ashes of what turned out to be a rather disastrous evening, starting with the fact that the instantly-forgettable Spotlight has claimed the top prize. The film only managed to nab one additional Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, making it the weakest Best Picture win in over 60 years (the last Best Picture winner to take only one additional Oscar was The Greatest Show on Earth, which, fittingly, is commonly named as one of the worst picks in Academy history). To reiterate, the Academy is saying that it’s not the best edited film, it’s not the best directed film, nor does it even deserve a single acting award, and yet, it’s somehow the best film of the year because of its lackluster screenplay.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s sift through the ashes of what turned out to be a rather disastrous evening, starting with the fact that the instantly-forgettable Spotlight has claimed the top prize. The film only managed to nab one additional Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, making it the weakest Best Picture win in over 60 years (the last Best Picture winner to take only one additional Oscar was The Greatest Show on Earth, which, fittingly, is commonly named as one of the worst picks in Academy history). To reiterate, the Academy is saying that it’s not the best edited film, it’s not the best directed film, nor does it even deserve a single acting award, and yet, it’s somehow the best film of the year because of its lackluster screenplay.
- 2/29/2016
- by Jeff Beck
- We Got This Covered
With the Oscars approaching this weekend, we are breaking down each major category and giving you a closer look at the nominees. Next up is Best Picture, the most coveted prize of them all.
It has been a very unpredictable year when it comes to this category, and all eight films nominated legitimately have a chance at the big prize. 2016 was a stellar year for film, and the films nominated here are all very different, yet very strong examples of what makes going the movies so spectacular. We're curious to see if The Revenant will make history by being the first film ever to win a consecutive Best Picture prize for the same filmmaker (in this case, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu whose film Birdman won last year).
It will have to fight against the likes of Mad Max: Fury Road, Spotlight, The Big Short, or any of the other awesome contenders.
It has been a very unpredictable year when it comes to this category, and all eight films nominated legitimately have a chance at the big prize. 2016 was a stellar year for film, and the films nominated here are all very different, yet very strong examples of what makes going the movies so spectacular. We're curious to see if The Revenant will make history by being the first film ever to win a consecutive Best Picture prize for the same filmmaker (in this case, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu whose film Birdman won last year).
It will have to fight against the likes of Mad Max: Fury Road, Spotlight, The Big Short, or any of the other awesome contenders.
- 2/27/2016
- by Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
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Try to nail 300 points on the 2016 Academy Awards.
This is a confidence list.
There are 24 categories.
How to play
Pick your winners in all 24 categories. Then, give each winner a confidence score. Your most confident pick gets 24 points, second most confident gets 23 points, third most confident gets 22 points, and eventually your least confident pick gets 1 point.
This is perfect for Oscar parties, because the lead keeps changing. The winner is the one with the most points at the end. A perfect score is 300. If there is a tie (there never is a tie), then the winner is the one with the most points in these three categories combined (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress).
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- 2/26/2016
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("The Revenant") is the frontrunner with odds of 1/4 to win Best Director at the Oscars on Sunday, just one year after winning for "Birdman." The last time someone won back-to-back Oscars for Best Director was Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who prevailed for "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) and "All About Eve" (1950). Prior to that, John Ford had won two of his record four Oscars consecutively for helming "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "How Green Was My Valley" (1941). -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Oscar Predictions Our official odds are derived from the predictions of 27 Expert film journalists along with our seven in-house Editors who cover awards year-round, the Top 24 Users who got the top scores predicting last year's Oscars, the All-Star Users who did the best for the past two years combined and t...'...
- 2/26/2016
- Gold Derby
"The Revenant" is the frontrunner with odds of 4/7 to win Best Picture at the Oscars on Sunday. Directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (who won last year for "Birdman"), this is the story of legendary frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) who gets left for dead by his own hunting team after a horrific bear attack in the 1820s. -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Oscar Predictions Our official odds are derived from the predictions of 27 Expert film journalists along with our seven in-house Editors who cover awards year-round, the Top 24 Users who got the top scores predicting last year's Oscars, the All-Star Users who did the best for the past two years combined and the thousands of entrants in our prediction contest who make up the largest (and often savviest) bloc of predictors. Twenty of our 27 experts think "The Revenant"..."'...
- 2/26/2016
- Gold Derby
In an award season with more twists and turns than a soap opera, “The Revenant” has emerged as the frontrunner for Best Picture. This has confounded most pundits and experts with many commenting that they cannot think of a Best Picture winner like Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s masterpiece. But, they might want to revisit 1990’s Best Picture winner “Dances with Wolves”. -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Oscar Predictions “Dances with Wolves” was Kevin Costner’s passion project. He produced, directed, and starred as Lt. John Dunbar, a Civil War officer posted in the frontier. He befriends and immerses himself in Native American Culture while falling in love with a white woman (Mary McDonnell) who lives with the tribe. In one scene Costner, even eats a raw bison heart. Sound familiar? “Dance with Wolves” won seven of its 12 Oscars bids: Be...
- 2/25/2016
- Gold Derby
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s epic western “The Revenant” starring Leonardo DiCaprio won Best Drama Picture, Director and Drama Actor at the Golden Globes. And it claimed Best Picture, Director and Actor at the BAFTAs. We are predicting that it will be the first film to have claimed those three prizes at these precursors to go on to win Best Picture, Director and Actor at the Oscars. Only two other films have even come close to pulling off this three-peat since the BAFTAs began handing out a Best Director award in 1968. -Break- Subscribe to Gold Derby Breaking News Alerts & Experts’ Latest Oscar Predictions Milos Forman’s dramedy “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” starring Jack Nicholson made a clean sweep at the 1975 Golden Globes and, due to a delayed release in the United Kingdom, at the 1976 BAFTAs. And Richard Attenborough’s 1982 biopic “Gandhi” starring Ben Kingsley&n...
- 2/25/2016
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: Last year, the top award in the social media universe went to multiple Oscar nominee American Sniper, which led the Best Picture nominees but didn’t take home the win. That went to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman. This year the social media winner is the director’s latest, The Revenant, which leads the Oscar noms with 12 including Best Picture, Director and Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio. In terms of the social media universe, The Revenant far and way has…...
- 2/23/2016
- Deadline
The Oscars are coming up this weekend, meaning there is no better time to brush up on your Oscar nominee trivia!
The awards race this year has been largely unpredictable, but there are a few categories that we feel we could bet on. Brie Larson looks like she'll be taking home Best Actress for her performance in Room, and Inside Out looks like a sure thing for Best Animated Feature.
It looks like Leonardo DiCaprio is set to take home his first Oscar, for his grueling performance in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's The Revenant. While we'd be super happy for Leo, what's even more astonishing is the chance his director has to make history.
If The Revenant takes home Best Picture, it'll be the first time in Oscar history that one director will have a film that has won Best Picture two years in a row. Last year, Inarritu's film Birdman won Best Picture,...
The awards race this year has been largely unpredictable, but there are a few categories that we feel we could bet on. Brie Larson looks like she'll be taking home Best Actress for her performance in Room, and Inside Out looks like a sure thing for Best Animated Feature.
It looks like Leonardo DiCaprio is set to take home his first Oscar, for his grueling performance in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's The Revenant. While we'd be super happy for Leo, what's even more astonishing is the chance his director has to make history.
If The Revenant takes home Best Picture, it'll be the first time in Oscar history that one director will have a film that has won Best Picture two years in a row. Last year, Inarritu's film Birdman won Best Picture,...
- 2/22/2016
- by Adriana Floridia
- Cineplex
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