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If you clicked the top news story at Yahoo! today that said "Magazine names Austin top movie-making city in the U.S." you know they were talking about MM's annual countdown of the 10 best places to live, work and make movies in the U.S.
Austin's KVUE ran a story on our most recent rankings, in which Texas' capital city came out on top.
January 28th, 2008 | Category: MM In The News | By Jennifer M. Wood
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award Recipients Announced
In 1996, The Sundance Institute teamed with NHK, Japan’s largest broadcasting company, to develop an award to honor visionary achievements in international film. Each year, the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award goes to one moviemaker from each of four regions—Europe, Latin America, the United States and Japan—in order to honor and support them in their upcoming projects.
January 26th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Melissa Rose Kimbler
James Bond’s Biggest Secret Revealed
James Bond's most heavily guarded secret has been revealed: The title of the 22nd entry in the super spy's franchise is Quantum of Solace.
The title, taken from a story in Ian Fleming's For Your Eyes Only collection, was announced by the film's producers at London's Pinewood Studios yesterday.
January 25th, 2008 | Category: Happenings | By Jennifer M. Wood
Steven Spielberg to Receive Visual Effects Society Lifetime Achievement Award
Director-producer Steven Spielberg, whose Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hits theaters in May, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Visual Effects Society Awards show on February 10. Each year, this award recognizes one moviemaker who has had a tremendous impact on the art and science of visual effects. Throughout his career, Spielberg has consistently been at the forefront of visual innovation.
January 24th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Melissa Rose Kimbler
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>DGA Reveals Host, Presenters for 60th Annual DGA Awards
Beloved comic Carl Reiner will host the Directors Guild of America Awards for the 21st time, returning for the 60th Annual DGA Awards to be held this Saturday, January 26th at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
January 23rd, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Carla Pisarro
Report: Actor Heath Ledger Found Dead in NYC Apartment
The Associated Press has reported that actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in a New York City apartment.
Best known for his Oscar-nominated role in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, Ledger's most recent role was as Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' I'm Not There. This July he'll appear as The Joker in Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated Batman sequel, The Dark Knight. Ledger has a daughter, Matilda, with his Brokeback Mountain co-star Michelle Williams. He was 28.
January 22nd, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Jennifer M. Wood
2008 Oscar Nominations Announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 80th annual Academy Awards, which will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
January 22nd, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Jennifer M. Wood
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Women In Film in Park City
Women In Film Los Angeles, An Institute Associate of the Sundance Film Festival, will present “It Takes a Vision,” a panel discussion featuring a handful of female moviemakers participating in this year’s festival. The event will take place from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 20th at 350 Main Bistro (350 Main Street, Park City, UT). Scheduled panelists include: Actress Patricia Clarkson (Phoebe in Wonderland), screenwriter Pamela Cuming (Downloading Nancy), cinematographer Ellen Kuras- (Nerakhoon) and directors Lauren Greenfield (Kids + Money), Sharon Maguire (Incendiary), Amy Redford (The Guitar), Marina Zenovich (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired). Lucy Webb, WIFLA’s Sundance Film Festival Chair, will moderate.
Visit http://www.wif.org for more information.
January 19th, 2008 | Category: Happenings | By Jennifer M. Wood
Women In Film in Park City
Women In Film Los Angeles, An Institute Associate of the Sundance Film Festival, will present “It Takes a Vision,” a panel discussion featuring a handful of female moviemakers participating in this year’s festival. The event will take place from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 20th at 350 Main Bistro (350 Main Street, Park City, UT). Scheduled panelists include: Actress Patricia Clarkson (Phoebe in Wonderland), screenwriter Pamela Cuming (Downloading Nancy), cinematographer Ellen Kuras- (Nerakhoon) and directors Lauren Greenfield (Kids + Money), Sharon Maguire (Incendiary), Amy Redford (The Guitar), Marina Zenovich (Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired). Lucy Webb, WIFLA’s Sundance Film Festival Chair, will moderate.
Visit http://www.wif.org for more information.
January 19th, 2008 | Category: Happenings | By Jennifer M. Wood
The American Society of Cinematographers Fetes Annette Bening
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has chosen to give their esteemed Board of Governors award to actress Annette Bening. The award, which will be presented to Bening at the 22nd annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Award ceremony on Saturday, January 22, is designed to celebrate “individuals who have made significant contributions to advancing the global art of filmmaking.” ASC President Daryn Okada says that the actress “has earned the respect and admiration of our members. She is an extraordinarily talented actress whose collaborative spirit and demeanor inspires everyone around her to reach for the stars.”
January 19th, 2008 | Category: Happenings | By Andrew Gnerre
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>MovieMaker heads back to Park City in 2008!
Heading to Park City for the January events? Looking for your favorite movie magazine to keep you informed about this year's Sundance Film Festival? The magazine is being distributed at the locations listed here, so stop on by and pick up a copy. In it you'll find interviews with moviemakers from some of the most anticipated movies screening at this year's festival, including: Charlize Theron (Sleepwalking), Jack Black (Be Kind Rewind), Paul Giamatti (Pretty Bird), George Romero (Diary of the Dead), Ellen Page (Smart People) and directors Michael Haneke (Funny Games) and Rawson Marshall Thurber (The Mysteries of Pittsburgh).
January 16th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Mallory Potosky
2008 Award Nominees from the Producers Guild
The Producers Guild of America announced the 2008 contenders for its Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award, leaving out the top Golden Globe winners Atonement and Sweeney Todd. While the PGA revealed the nominated films, it did not yet reveal the names of the nominated producers. Those names will be announced shortly before the February 2, 2008 awards reception.
January 16th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch, News/Commentary | By Carla Pisarro
American Cinema Editors (ACE) Announces 58th Annual Eddie Award Nominations
American Cinema Editors (ACE) has released the nominees for its 2008 Eddie Awards, honoring superior editing in feature films and television. Nominees for Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) are Christopher Rouse, A.C.E., for The Bourne Ultimatum, Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., for Into the Wild, John Gilroy, A.C.E., for Michael Clayton, Roderick Jaynes for No Country for Old Men and Dylan Tichenor, A.C.E., for There Will Be Blood.
January 15th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Carla Pisarro
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>The Great Debaters Video Debate Contest
Itching to show that you can argue passionately about something other than movies? Well thanks to Oprah Winfrey and Denzel Washington’s Oscar bait The Great Debaters, now you can. The film’s producers, The Weinstein Company, in partnership with the Princeton Review, are holding The Great Debaters Video Debate Contest, an online competition that invites all who are interested to vehemently argue a position in hopes of winning prizes.
January 14th, 2008 | Category: News/Commentary | By Andrew Gnerre
Writers Guild of America Announces 2008 Award Nominees
The Golden Globes ceremony might be cancelled, but it’s still full steam ahead for the 2008 Awards Season. Today, despite the six-month turmoil, the Writers Guild of America announced their picks for the best screenplays of 2007.
January 10th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch, News/Commentary | By Mallory Potosky
DGA Announces Outstanding Directorial Achievement Nominees
The Directors Guild of America announced the 2007 nominees for its annual award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Directing. This year’s nominees are Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood), Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men), Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton), Sean Penn (Into the Wild) and Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). Anderson, Ethan Coen, Gilroy, Penn and Schnabel are first-time nominees; Joel Coen previously garnered a nomination for Fargo in 1996. This year’s winner will be announced at the 60th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on January 26th.
DGA President Michael Apted said that the DGA Award is especially significant for those recognized since fellow directors determine the nominees. “What makes this award truly meaningful to directors is the knowledge that only this one is decided by their peers—the men and women who know firsthand the passion, sweat and fear that go into each production,” said Apted.
The DGA Award has long been an accurate bellwether for the Best Director Academy Award. Since the DGA Award’s inception in 1948, all but six winners of the DGA Award also received that year’s Oscar.
Visit www.dga.org for more information.
January 9th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Carla Pisarro
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>ASC Names Feature Film Nominees
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and No Country for Old Men), Robert Elswit, ASC (There Will Be Blood), Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Seamus McGarvey, BSC (AtonementAt) are the nominees for top honors in the Feature Film category in the 22nd Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards competition. The winner will be announced in Los Angeles during the awards celebration on January 26, at the
Hollywood and Highland Grand Ballroom. Deakins is the first cinematographer to claim two nominations in one year in the ASC Feature Film category. He has been nominated five times previously and won twice, for both The Shawshank Redemption and The Man Who Wasn’t There. This is the fourth ASC nomination for Kaminski, the second for Elswit, and the first for McGarvey.
“In the opinion of their peers, these four talented individuals have set the contemporary standard for artful cinematography in a very competitive field,” says Russ Alsobrook, ASC who chairs the organization’s Awards Committee. “They were nominated for distinctly different genre films. The common denominator is that they all succeeded in helping to create a sense of time and place while evoking emotional responses that were in tune with the intentions of the actors and directors.”
For more information about the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement awards, visit www.theasc.com or call 323-969-4333.
January 7th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Jennifer M. Wood
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