All posts tagged "academy award"
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Foreign Contenders: Rahmatou Keïta on Financing Niger’s The Wedding Ring Entirely with African Funds
Financially limited, but overflowing with cultural richness, African cinema is less frequently present at international festivals than productions from most other regions... -
Where The Movie Came to Life: How Editor Bob Murawski Brought The Other Side of the Wind Back from the Dead
This Fall, following a tour of the prestigious festival circuit, Orson Welles’ long lost Hollywood satire The Other Side of the Wind,... -
Discover Cinematographer Roger Deakins’ Most Trusted and True Visual Techniques (Video)
One of the most celebrated cinematographers in filmmaking, Roger Deakins has, until last night, been always the bridesmaid and never the bride.... -
Getting to the Heart of Lady Bird: What Makes Greta Gerwig’s Debut Tick
In the pantheon of mother-daughter movies, it might seem like a simplistic statement to say that what makes Greta Gerwig’s Oscar-nominated Lady Bird... -
The Art of Fear: How Christopher Nolan Uses Perspective to Express Fear in Dunkirk
Garnering Christopher Nolan his very first nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, Dunkirk represents the apex of his career in... -
A Living Thing: How Paul Thomas Anderson Makes Emotions Visual
With Phantom Thread giving Paul Thomas Anderson his first Best Director nomination since 2007, the American auteur has scored his biggest success at the... -
Logan Lucky: How Interactions Between Genres Led to an Oscar Nomination for James Mangold’s Superhero Film
In this video essay, Evan Puschak of Nerdwriter seeks to examine the many different ways by which genre conventions can be examined,... -
Festival Beat: Boulder International Film Festival 2015
After weeks of on-and-off again snow, the sun finally emerged, just in time for the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF), which ran... -
Truth and Consequences: Oscar-Winning Director Denys Arcand Has An Eye for Beauty
A life-long history student and keen observer of cultural norms and attitudes, Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand has always had an active interest... -
Things I’ve Learned: Paul Haggis
Today, on Wisdom Wednesday, Academy Award-winning writer/director Paul Haggis stopped by to share a whopping 55 critical moviemaking lessons he’s learned (our...
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Flash Forward: Grace Van Patten Takes a Leap into the Unknown in David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake
Many actors will tell you that when you read a great script, you just know. But for Grace Van Patten, it was actually not knowing that...1Inside the Issue: Directing
Success in Succession: Matteo Garrone Shot Dogman Entirely in Sequence to Put Viewers in His Character’s Shoes
I wrote the script for my new film, Dogman, 12 years ago, and during those years I changed it many times, arriving at six or seven...Inside the Issue: How To
Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling
“Journalism Plus” is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not have a degree or credentials in...8