First Man, the moonshot tale of Neil Armstrong in the launchpad years before his historic voyage won the Academy Award for visual effects, topping a field of eclectic competitors that included the superhero epic Avengers: Infinity War, a Star Wars film directed by Ron Howard and Steven Spielberg’s pop-culture collage R…

An expert when it comes to films of epic scale, Nathan Crowley ventured into the unknown with First Man, his first outing with Damien Chazelle, which finally got him to the Moon. Centered on astronaut Neil Armstrong, and the many missions leading up to the historic success of Apollo 11, the pic was a massive technical…

With several Westerns under her belt prior to The Ballad of Buster Scruggs—the Coen brothers' latest—Mary Zophres knows the many challenges that come with the territory. Earning her first Oscar nomination for True Grit back in 2010, the costume designer has shared the experience of so many artists, who have confronted…

Progressing to the upper echelon of film scoring with admirable speed, Justin Hurwitz had a predicament with First Man, setting out to craft music unlike any he'd composed before. Collaborating with director Damien Chazelle since his days at Harvard, Hurwitz had a whirlwind experience with his last project, the…

Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite lived up to its name in the nominations for the BAFTA Film Awards which were unveiled this morning in London. The twisted look inside the court of Queen Anne is the leader at 12 mentions including for Best Film, Best British Film, Director, Original Screenplay, Actress (Golden Globe…

UPDATE, writethru: BAFTA has revealed its nominations for this year’s EE British Academy Film Awards with Fox Searchlight’s The Favourite from Yorgos Lanthimos leading the list of contenders at 12. Also making strong showings are Netflix’s Roma, Warner Bros’ A Star Is Born, Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody and Universal’s First…

The Oscar-winning scribe behind such historical projects as Spotlight, The Post and First Man, Josh Singer can't overemphasize the importance of getting his stories right. On the latter film from Damien Chazelle, based on a biography by James R. Hansen, the writer dove head first into a project of incredible…

Vice, the Adam McKay-helmed Dick Cheney biopic, racked up four wins, including Best Picture, at the 23rd edition of Capri, Hollywood – The International Film Festival. The Christian Bale and Amy Adams starring film also picked up awards for Best Supporting Actress (Adams), Best Film Editing, as well as Best Makeup and…

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Even though Christmas is almost upon us , Hanukkah is in the rear view mirror, and 2019 is right around the corner, we can’t say that has stopped the major studios from trying to compete with the likes of Netflix

and other entities for a stake in this …

After collaborating with Damien Chazelle on La La Land to the tune of three Oscar nominations, sound editors Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Morgan embarked on a transformative odyssey with First Man, which defied their preconceptions of how sound might manifest in a big-budget space drama. Scripted by Josh Singer, Chazelle's…

The Favourite led all movies with a whopping 14 nominations for the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s 24th annual Critics’ Choice Awards including Best Picture, Director and nods for all three of its stars — Olivia Colman, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. This had to be a bit of deja vu for distributor Fox Searchlight…

Christmas came a little early for some of Hollywood's finest this morning as the nominations for the 76th annual Golden Globes were announced by Terry Crews, Leslie Mann, Christian Slater and Danai Gurira.

For the likes of Vice, A Star Is Born, Sacha Baron Cohen, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Killing Eve, there are…