Tag: Birdman
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Alfonso Cuarón wins Oscar for best director for Roma
Cuarón becomes fifth Mexican best director winner in six years, as he takes the Academy Award for his 70s-set drama RomaAlfonso Cuarón has won the Oscar for best director at the 91st Academy Awards for Roma.This is the second time Cuarón has taken the award, after winning in 2014 for his space drama Gravity. This…
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BAFTA Backs ‘Roma’ as Oscar Race Enters the Final Stretch
The winner of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ best film prize has gone on to lose the best picture Oscar each of the last four years: “Boyhood” was felled by “Birdman,” “The Revenant” was routed by “Spotlight,” “La La Land” (infamously) lost to “Moonlight,” and last year, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”…
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Ifp/Gotham Awards Became an Oscar Bellwether Under Outgoing Joana Vicente’s Watch
Since becoming the Independent Film Project’s executive director in late 2009, Joana Vicente has made her mark. In addition to increasing Ifp’s grant support, she also helped found the Made in NY Media Center and transitioned the org from a film-based foundation to an org that supports various media including film, television, web, podcasts and…
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“Roma” roars to a Golden Lion win at Venice and “The Favourite” is royally rewarded as is star Olivia Colman
Alfonso Cuaron claimed the coveted Golden Lion at the 75th Venice International Film Festival for his much-lauded “Roma,” a semi-biographical black-and-white neo-realist depiction of middle-class Mexico in the ’70s. He previously launched “Gravity” at the same event in 2013, which would win seven Academy Awards.What made this year’s moment extra-sweet was that jury president and…
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Damien Chazelle’s True Astronaut Epic ‘First Man’ Is Venice Film Festival Opener
While Damien Chazelle anxiously labors away in the editing room on his final cut of Universal’s space epic “First Man,” he will now have to finish it in time for the opening of the 75th annual Venice International Film Festival (August 29 – September 8). Chazelle’s “La La Land” also opened Venice in 2016 en…
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Michelle Williams Film About Underground Abortion Clinic Lands at Amazon
Michelle Williams is set to star in and produce “This is Jane” for Amazon Studios, sources familiar with the project told TheWrap on Tuesday.The film, based on the Laura Kaplan’s book “The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service,” will tell the true story of a Chicago woman who founded and ran Jane,…
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Amy Ryan Joins Mindy Kaling And Emma Thompson In FilmNation-30West Talk Show Comedy ‘Late Night’
Exclusive: Gone Baby Gone and Birdman actress Amy Ryan has joined the cast of Mindy Kaling’s comedy Late Night, I can reveal. Kaling, Emma Thompson, John Lithgow and Hugh Dancy star in the feature from director Nisha Ganatra (Cake), which is shooting now in New York. Kaling, star of The Mindy Project who appears in…
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Intl. Teaser Trailer for Academy Award Winner Armando Bo’s ‘Animal’ (Exclusive, Watch)
Armando Bo’s “Animal,” one of the most-anticipated Argentine films this year, now has a teaser trailer which hints at the background, some more plot, and above all pace of the return to Spanish-Language filmmaking of Bo, an Academy Award winning screenwriter for Alejandro G. Inárritu’s “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).”.Disney’s Buena Vista Intl.…
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‘Carne y Arena’ Trailer: Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Emmanuel Lubezki Make You Live the Immigrant Experience
Neither Alejandro González Iñárritu or Emmanuel Lubezki have any films scheduled to premiere in 2018, but that doesn’t mean you can’t see new material from the “Birdman” and “The Revenant” Oscar winners. Their virtual reality project “Carne y Arena” can be experienced at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through July 1, and now…
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Spirit Awards: ‘Change’ in the Air as ‘Get Out’ Aims for Oscars
Win on Saturday, lose on Sunday? That was the industry maxim that evolved over much of the three decades the independent cinema celebration the Spirit Awards and the annual Academy Awards stood as season-ending foils to one another. But six short years ago, that went out the window as one Spirit winner after another began…