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Even as Oscar nominees arrived on the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre this afternoon, their ire did not cease over the Academy’s decision to push eight categories to a pre-taped portion of the show. Slammed Oscar nominated tick, tick…Boom! film editor Myron Kerstein whose category is one of those in the pre-show, “We…

Kodi Smit-McPhee, an Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actor, along with Film Editing nominee Peter Sciberras and Cinematography nominee Ari Wegner, joined me for Netflix’s panel on The Power of the Dog at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event. Smit-McPhee thinks his much acclaimed performance as the…

On Tuesday, The Power of the Dog‘s Ari Wegner became the second woman ever to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography. Wegner's recognition comes on the heels of Rachel Morrison’s nom back in 2018 for her work on Dee Rees’ historical Netflix drama Mudbound, which did not result in a win. The Power of the Do…

After being approached for The Power of the Dog, cinematographer Ari Wegner went directly to Thomas Savage’s 1967 novel of the same name for a sense of the story and its world, given the fact that a draft of the script was not yet ready. Wegner found Savage’s work to be “an amazing piece of literature,” given its…

Producer Tanya Seghatchian and cinematographer Ari Wegner took to the stage Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event to discuss how they put together Netflix’ The Power of the Dog. “It wasn’t immediately that we knew we were going to try to make it into a film,” Seghatchian said, relating that…