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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Friday announced a merger between the mayor's Evolve Entertainment Fund and Group Effort Initiative, an initiative created by Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, to offer more people from under-represented communities employment, training and mentorship opportunities in the entertainment…

Deadline’s Anita Busch contributed to this article. Cinematographer Philippe Le Sourd expected to work for six months on director Wong Kar Wai’s epic martial arts actioner The Grandmaster, but it ended up being a 3-year job. "Making The Grandmaster was a challenge," he said. “It was a big journey, and I didn't expect…

Stephen Prouty worked his magic on changing the 40-something Johnny Knoxville into an 86-year-old man in Paramount's Jackass: Bad Grandpa over a 10-month period through different seasons. That, in itself, presented a challenge "because we started in the fall in Ohio and we had to adjust our procedure as we went into…

Tim Webber, who is Oscar-nominated for Best Achievement in Visual Effects on the Alfonso Cuaron-directed space epic Gravity, received his education in math, physics and art – and all were all put to good use on film. "I got to use my physics education. It helped me understand the way things move in zero gravity. It…

For Steven Price, the composer of Gravity's score, it was a year of regular experiments with melodies and sounds. "It constantly evolved," says Price. "I was on it for a year, and we wrote it as we went. I literally started on the first day and was still writing on the last day." The results were textured sounds…

AwardsLine deputy editor Anna Lisa Raya contributed to this article. "Normally you'd walk into a room, the set dresser turns up three days before with 20 prop men, and they dress it. You'd look at it, you think of it, and you move things around. This was not like that at all," said Andy Nicholson, the Oscar-nominated…

AwardsLine Editor Christy Grosz contributed to this report. There's a lot of overlap between sound mixing and sound editing but both have a lot to do with creating believability of the story and mood of a picture. For Universal/Emmett Furla's war pic Lone Survivor, a team of three are nominated for Best Achievement in…

"It seems to me the potential benefits of an editor's early participation [in a project] could be creatively and fiscally significant," notes Christopher Rouse, who is Oscar-nominated for Best Achievement in Editing for Captain Phillips. Director Paul Greengrass brought his regular collaborator Rouse in six months…

Michael Wilkinson, who is nominated for Best Costume Design Oscar for Sony/Annapurna’s American Hustle , began working with costumes on theater productions in Sydney when he was 17. After dabbling behind the scenes on several productions, his interest as a costume designer took hold and he eventually found himself…

Catherine Martin, who has won two Academy Awards for Costume Design and Best Art Direction/Set Decoration on the French-themed musical Moulin Rouge in 2001, has two noms for one movie again this year: The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann. The Warner Bros remake based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel…

With her work on Best Picture nominee 12 Years A Slave, Patricia Norris now has been Oscar-nominated six times for costumes, but the statuette has eluded her. Norris first was nominated in 1979 for Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven. Two years later, she was nominated again for David Lynch’s The Elephant Man. Following…

"Every set had to be viewed in the context of the whole," said Judy Becker, Oscar-nominated production designer for Sony/Annapurna's American Hustle. "We had to look at the character from where they start and to where they go to … each of those sets has a place in the telling of the personal story." David O. Russell's…