Past Lives
Celine Song References ‘Past Lives’ Themes While Accepting Best Feature at the Spirit Awards
Past Lives won the award for best feature at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday. After being presented the honor by Jude Law at the end of the ceremony in Santa Monica, director Celine Song took to the stage with the film’s team to share some heartfelt words. “I’ve been tasked with the […]
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‘Past Lives’ Producer Christine Vachon on Working With Debut Director Celine Song: “There’s a Passion That Comes With Making Your First Film”
After decades of producing critically acclaimed and groundbreaking independent films, Christine Vachon has landed her first Oscar nomination with Celine Song’s Past Lives. Appropriately, she found out about her nomination while she was on the ground at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where Past Lives premiered the year prior, becoming the sleeper hit of the […]
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‘Awards Chatter’ Podcast: Celine Song on True Story Behind ‘Past Lives,’ Final Draft’s Subtitles Problem and “In-Yun” in Her Life
Celine Song, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a 35-year-old Korean-Canadian playwright-turned-filmmaker whose largely autobiographical feature directorial debut, Past Lives, is now nominated for the best picture Oscar, and whose script for it has brought her a best original screenplay nod. Filmmaker magazine called Past Lives “as confident […]
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Ava DuVernay, Andrew Haigh and Celine Song to Be Honored at 2024 Kodak Film Awards
The sixth annual Kodak Film Awards announced their honorees, to be feted at an invitation-only event on Feb. 23 at the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Clubhouse in Los Angeles. Origin writer-director Ava DuVernay and All of Us Strangers writer-director Andrew Haigh will both receive the Auteur Award in recognition of their exceptional directorial achievements. Oscar […]
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The Latest Side Gig for A-Listers: Screening Host
On Jan. 12, Jennifer Lawrence showed up at a private screening room in Beverly Hills for Jonathan Glazer’s searing Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest. When the movie ended, she sat on a makeshift stage and asked questions of Glazer, production designer Chris Oddy and sound designer Johnnie Burn during the post-screening Q&A. The event was […]
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Robert Downey Jr., Jodie Foster and Jesse Eisenberg to Present at Sundance Opening Night Gala
Sundance is adding some stars to opening night. The festival’s kick-off gala, presented by Chase Sapphire, has confirmed Robert Downey Jr., Jesse Eisenberg, Jodie Foster and Christine Vachon to hit the podium and honor their collaborators at the event, which will be held at the DeJoria Center on Jan. 18. Oppenheimer star Downey will offer a tribute […]
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Golden Globes Snubs and Surprises: ‘May December’ Shut Out as ‘Barbie’ Underperforms and ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Surprises
Leading up to the 2024 Golden Globes, May December was a frequent topic of discussion as observers wondered why the movie, about an actress shadowing a couple whose large age gap made tabloid headlines, was submitted as a comedy. Producer Will Ferrell, who delivered a memorable moment in his best actor presentation with Kristen Wiig, […]
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‘Past Lives’ Named Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics
The National Society of Film Critics has selected Past Lives as the best picture of 2023. May December and The Zone of Interest each received two awards. May December was recognized with awards for best screenplay and supporting actor, Charles Melton. Zone of Interest helmer Jonathan Glazer was named best director, with star Sandra Hüller […]
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“We Wanted to Paint With the Light and Write With the Camera”: The THR Cinematographer Roundtable
“I think it was a voice from the wider audience telling us that people wanted to go to the cinemas again and people wanted to join in with an event,” says Oppenheimer cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema of the summer’s Barbenheimer phenomenon. Rodrigo Prieto, who lensed Greta Gerwig’s Barbie as well as Martin Scorsese’s Killers of […]
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Making of ‘Past Lives’: How Celine Song’s Unusual Exercises Helped Her Cast and Crew Deliver a Lived-In Drama
To achieve the hyper-naturalistic, lived-in connections among her trio of characters in Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song put both her cast and crew through a number of unusual exercises. For Greta Lee and Teo Yoo, who play childhood soulmates Nora and Hae Sung, that meant not being allowed to physically touch until the very moment […]
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‘Past Lives’ Star Teo Yoo on How He Used His Own Experiences of Loneliness to Inform His Character in Celine Song’s Film
A24’s Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song’s feature film debut, is a bittersweet and tender drama incorporating big ideas of cultural identity and fate within an intimate and surprising story of an unexpected love triangle. Centered on Greta Lee’s Nora, the film follows the young woman as she emigrates from South Korea to Canada with her parents […]
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America Ferrera, Eva Longoria, Greta Lee Celebrated at WIF Honors Event
Women in Film returned for its annual WIF Honors on Thursday night, once again recognizing the women working on the frontlines to change the entertainment industry for the better. The event, held at The Ray Dolby Ballroom in Los Angeles, kicked off with the presentation of the Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award, selected and presented by […]
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