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CAS Awards: ‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘The Last of Us,’ ‘The Bear’ Among Winners
The Cinema Audio Society Awards took place on Saturday, honoring Oppenheimer, The Last of Us and The Bear with winning trophies this year. The sound mixing team behind Oppenheimer took home the award in the live-action competition, beating the teams behind Barbie, Ferrari, Killers of the Flower Moon and Maestro. Cinema Audio Society, which honors outstanding sound mixing in […]
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Emily Blunt in Talks to Join Dwayne Johnson in A24’s ‘The Smashing Machine’
Emily Blunt is in talks to star opposite Dwayne Johnson in A24’s The Smashing Machine, which is written and directed by Benny Safdie. Johnson is set to star in The Smashing Machine as real-life mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr, a two-time UFC Heavyweight Tournament Champion. Blunt would star as Dawn Staples, the new wife to Kerr. […]
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Dwayne Johnson, Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lawrence Among Additional 2024 Oscar Presenters
Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence, Kate McKinnon, Rita Moreno, John Mulaney, Catherine O’Hara, Octavia Spencer and Ramy Youssef have been added as presenters for the 2024 Oscars, showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producers Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan announced Thursday. The newly added presenters will join previously announced ones that include Mahershala […]
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‘Oppenheimer’ Producer Emma Thomas on Making the Historical Epic a Summer Blockbuster: “That’s the Genius of Chris Nolan”
Emma Thomas has been producing Christopher Nolan’s films since Nolan’s 1997 short feature Doodlebug. 30 years and 12 feature films later, she most recently served as the producer on Oppenheimer, a historical epic about nuclear physicist and father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer, now nominated for 13 Academy Awards including best picture. “What’s […]
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PGA Awards: Martin Scorsese Remembers Kissing Elke Sommer at 1965 Ceremony As He Celebrates “Full-Circle” Moment
In 1965, Martin Scorsese was 22 and surrounded by legends when he won the Jesse L. Laskey Intercollegiate Award at the Milestone Awards dinner hosted by the then-called Screen Producers Guild on March 8, 1965. Now, almost 60 years later, the filmmaker received the David O. Selznick Achievement Award at the 2024 PGA Awards in […]
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‘American Fiction’ Composer Laura Karpman on Why Jazz Music Was Always Going to Anchor Cord Jefferson’s Directorial Debut
It’s hard to believe that Laura Karpman, a five-time Emmy-winning composer and Juilliard graduate who has scored narrative features (The Marvels) as well as documentaries (Pray Away) in a career spanning more than 30 years, has only now received her first Oscar nomination. Karpman is nominated for her score for Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction, a […]
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‘Oppenheimer’ Sound Editor Richard King on Going “Down the Rabbit Hole With Quantum Physics” In His Research
For sound editor Richard King, it wasn’t the explosion scene in Universal’s Oppenheimer — nominated for 13 Oscars, including best sound — that was most challenging to work on. Instead, it was the smaller quantum particle and wave sequence scenes inside J. Robert Oppenheimer’s head that were most demanding. “They couldn’t sound small, even though […]
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SAG Awards: Robert Downey Jr. Jokes He’ll “Never Grow Tired” of His Own Voice After Supporting Actor Win
Robert Downey Jr. won the best supporting actor in a movie award at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night. Following an awards season full of comedic acceptance speeches by the actor, he took a moment to list off actors (and his wife) that inspired him throughout the years. “This is actually incredibly […]
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SAG Awards: ‘The Holdovers’ Star Da’Vine Joy Randolph Calls Supporting Actress Win “Greatest Honor of My Career”
The Holdovers star Da’Vine Joy Randolph won the best supporting actress in a film award at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night and called the win the “greatest honor of my career.” “Alexander Payne, thank you for your trust and your collaboration,” Randolph said on stage. “You are truly every actors’ dream. […]
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‘Poor Things’ Hair & Makeup Designer Talks Creating Monstrous Faces With Human Hearts
When Poor Things hair, makeup and prosthetics designer Nadia Stacey began crafting the prosthetic looks for Willem Dafoe’s Godwin Baxter, her goal was not to make him look like a monster. Rather, she wanted him to look like there was a man underneath all the injuries that his father inflicted upon him with medical experiments […]
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‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Producer David Thion Details Obstacles to Getting the Film From Script to Screen: “It Was a Really Long Process”
Plagued with casting and production challenges, Anatomy of a Fall, the French film now Oscar-nominated for best picture, best director, best actress, best editing and best original screenplay, was no easy film to make. David Thion, one of the producers on the film directed by Justine Triet and starring Sandra Hüller as a woman who […]
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How David Bowie Inspired ‘Oppenheimer’ Cinematic Silhouette
Oppenheimer costume designer Ellen Mirojnick took audiences back to the 1940s with her two- and three-piece suits worn by Cillian Murphy’s J. Robert Oppenheimer and the other scientists on the Manhattan Project. But the fashion in Christopher Nolan’s historical epic also stayed impressively timeless, which Mirojnick reveals was one of the director’s early requests. “One of Chris’ […]
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