More from Tyler Coates
Oscars: Billie Eilish, Ryan Gosling and Jon Batiste to Perform Nominated Original Songs
Jon Batiste, Becky G, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, Scott George and the Osage Singers, and Ryan Gosling and Mark Ronson will perform this year’s nominated songs on the 96th Academy Awards, executive producer and showrunner Raj Kapoor and executive producers Molly McNearney and Katy Mullan announced today. This will be Eilish and O’Connell’s second […]
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Bradley Cooper on Writing, Producing, Directing and Starring in ‘Maestro’: “It All Feels Like One Thing To Me”
Before scoring three Oscar nominations this year for Netflix’s Maestro — including best picture, actor and original screenplay (the latter shared with Josh Singer) — Bradley Cooper had already garnered an impressive nine Academy Award nominations as an actor (Silver Linings Playbook in 2013, American Hustle in 2014, American Sniper in 2015 and A Star Is […]
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‘The Zone of Interest’ Producer on Finding New Relevancy in a Holocaust Drama: “Our Political Culture Is Closer to That of the Perpetrator Than We Think”
When Jonathan Glazer began developing the project that became The Zone of Interest — nominated for five Oscars, including best picture and best international feature — he and producer James Wilson began to ask a series of questions that would require them to find the rationale behind making another film that depicts the events of […]
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Dorian Film Awards: ‘All of Us Strangers’ Sweeps Queer Film Critic Honors
Searchlight’s All of Us Strangers scored three prizes at the 15th Annual Dorian Awards, handed out by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. Andrew Haigh’s supernatural drama starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal won film of the year, LGBTQ film of the year and LGBTQ screenplay of the year. “Twelve years ago, Andrew Haigh’s […]
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‘Past Lives’ Tops Spirit Awards Disrupted by Israel-Hamas Protest
A24’s Past Lives won the top prize for best feature at the 39th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards, with writer-director Celine Song also winning best director for her feature film debut. American Fiction’s Jeffrey Wright won best lead performance for his role in the Amazon MGM Studios comedy, presented to him by his fellow Oscar […]
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SAG Awards: ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘The Bear’ Score Three Wins Apiece
Universal’s Oppenheimer took took the top prize at the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning best cast in a film — while also taking the prizes for lead and supporting actor. Cillian Murphy won best actor for his role as in the eponymous scientist who led the Manhattan Project’s creation of the atomic bomb. He […]
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‘The Holdovers’ Producer Mark Johnson on the Anxieties of Trusting a Director: “The Process Works, but It’s as Frustrating as Can Be”
Mark Johnson is a veteran producer who won a best picture Oscar in 1989 for Rain Man, one of many collaborations with director Barry Levinson (the pair earned a second best picture nom in 1992 for Bugsy). Just over three decades later, Johnson earned his third Oscar nomination for Focus Features’ The Holdovers, his second […]
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Production Designer Reveals Crew Actually Destroyed a House for Explosive Scene
Jack Fisk’s résumé lists collaborations with an incredible group of directors, among them Terrence Malick (Fisk has worked with the auteur since his debut, 1973’s Badlands), David Lynch (The Straight Story, Mulholland Drive) and Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, The Master). But Apple’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which scored Fisk his third […]
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Script to Scene: ‘The Holdovers’ Screenwriter David Hemingson on Bringing Humor to Melancholy Moments
David Hemingson describes this scene as a bridge that slowly brings the film’s central characters — teacher Paul (Paul Giamatti), angsty teen Angus (Dominic Sessa) and cook Mary (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) — closer together. Not only does it put Paul and Mary on equal footing as he helps her prepare dinner, but she quickly takes […]
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Script to Scene: ‘Barbie’ Screenwriters Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach Break Down a Climactic Moment
“For a long time we called it the ‘God Space,’ ” Greta Gerwig says of the ethereal setting for the conversation between Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) and her creator, Ruth Handler (Rhea Perlman). “What other God does Barbie have?” Gerwig and Noah Baumbach took inspiration from celestial spaces in films like Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s […]
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The Academy’s International Feature Category Isn’t as Global as Some May Expect
In April 2019, the Academy made a major change to the category formerly known as best foreign-language film. The following March, at the 92nd Academy Awards, Parasite made Oscar history when it became the first non-English film to take best picture — and the first movie to win the Oscar for the newly designated category […]
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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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