Tag: Coco
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Guillermo del Toro on His Oscar Wins and How to Push for Inclusion in Hollywood
Following in the footsteps of Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar victory as best director for his fairy-tale romance “The Shape of Water” marked the fourth time in five years that the movie Academy’s top prize for cinema craftsmanship has gone to a Mexican filmmaker. It also came in a year…
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Media Representation of Women, Minorities Both Lacking and Inauthentic, Says Survey
“Black Panther,” “Coco,” and “Wonder Woman” are breaking barriers, putting women and minority characters front and center. A new YouGov survey, however, finds that most Americans still believe there are not enough film roles for women and people of color.The survey of 1,220 adults found that 37% of respondents believed women had enough roles available,…
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Oscars: Robert Lopez Becomes First Double Egot Winner With Original Song Award
With his latest Oscar victory, Robert Lopez makes history by becoming the first person to achieve the Egot twice.At the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday night, Lopez and his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez collected the best original song honor for “Remember Me” from the animated film Coco, meaning he’s now bagged at least two coveted awards…
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‘Coco’ Completes Awards-Season Sweep With Animated Feature Oscar
And you will know them by the trail of dead. We’re talking about every animated movie released in 2017 not titled Coco, which laid waste to its rivals this awards season and capped it off tonight with the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. The Disney/Pixar toon already had at least a dozen trophies wins…
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Pixar’s ‘Coco’ Is Filled With ‘The Shining’ References/Easter Eggs
What do Coco and The Shining have in common? Not much — aside from The Shining uber-fan and Coco co-director Lee Unkrich. The director has a long-running tradition of placing sly homages to the Stanley Kubrick horror film in all of the Pixar films he has worked on since 1995’s Toy Story. And more than…
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The Morning Watch: ‘Star Wars’ The Animated Movie, ‘Coco’ Script to Screen & More
The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, watch a hand drawn, animated, abridged version of…
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‘Coco’ Interview: Co-Director Adrian Molina on the Music, Influences, and More
I’d never conducted an interview at a Unesco World Heritage site before a couple of weeks ago. But after speaking with Adrian Molina, the co-director of Pixar’s Coco, at the ancient ruins of Monte Alban in Oaxaca, Mexico, I can cross that very specific thing off my bucket list. In honor of the movie’s home…
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Cas Awards 2018: ‘Dunkirk’ Wins Top Sound Mixing Honor
After losing the Mpse Award for sound editing, “Dunkirk” grabbed sound mixing honors Saturday night at the 54th Cas Awards at the Omni. Pixar’s “Coco” and National Geographic’s “Jane” took the animation and documentary prizes.With the Oscars a week away, will Christopher Nolan’s audio tour-de-force win both sound editing and sound mixing? Or will it…
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‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Game Of Thrones’ And ‘Coco’ Win Big At 2018 Cas Awards
The final, yes, the final guild honor to be handed out before the Academy Awards this year were the Cas Awards Saturday night and there were few surprises from the Cinema Audio Society. The guild awarded honors to the the presumptive winner of the Sound Mixing Oscar, “Dunkirk,” as well as the massively popular “Game…
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‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Game of Thrones’ Win Cinema Audio Society Awards for Sound Mixing
Christopher Nolan’s World War II thriller “Dunkirk” walked away with top honors for sound mixing from the 54th annual Cinema Audio Society Saturday night, hosted by “The Daily Show” correspondent Michael Kosta.The film, which received eight Oscar nominations including best sound editing and best sound mixing, previously received the British Academy’s sound prize and an…