Tag: First Man
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‘Avengers,’ ‘Spider-Verse’ and ‘Lost in Space’ Lead Visual Effects Society Awards Winners
It was a great night for Marvel at the 17th annual Visual Effects Society Awards on Tuesday night. The comic book publisher’s wares led the film fields, with “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” nabbing four wins apiece.“Spider-Verse,” a dominant animated feature on the awards circuit this year, swept each of its categories.…
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‘Avengers,’ ‘Spider-Verse’ and ‘Lost in Space’ Lead Visual Effects Society Awards Winners
It was a great night for Marvel at the 17th annual Visual Effects Society Awards on Tuesday night. The comic book publisher’s wares led the film fields, with “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” nabbing four wins apiece.“Spider-Verse,” a dominant animated feature on the awards circuit this year, swept each of its categories.…
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Ves Awards 2019: ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Win Top VFX Prizes
Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War” was the big VFX winner at the 17th annual Ves Awards Tuesday at the Beverly Hilton, grabbing four prizes, including photoreal feature. And Sony’s animated Oscar favorite, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” also scored four awards, including animated feature.While it’s a significant momentum builder for “Infinity War” in its quest to be…
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How ‘Black Panther’ and ‘First Man’ Changed the Game in the Oscar Craft Races
While Marvel’s “Black Panther” exceeded expectations by leading the Oscar crafts races with six nominations, a testament to the global impact of Ryan Coogler’s zeitgeist-changing, superhero phenomenon, Damien Chazelle’s “First Man” underperformed by receiving only four nods. This definitely changed the dynamics, resulting in several surprises and snubs.Most shocking was the snubbing of team Chazelle’s…
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Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen Join ‘Sopranos’ Movie Prequel (Exclusive)
Corey Stoll and Billy Magnussen are set to join the ensemble of the “The Sopranos” movie prequel, “The Many Saints of Newark.”They join Alessandro Nivola, Jon Bernthal, and Vera Farmiga, who had previously been added to the cast. More players from the “Sopranos” lore are expected to be coming on board.New Line could not be…
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‘Avengers,’ ‘Lost in Space,’ ‘Ready Player One’ Lead Visual Effects Society Nominations
The Visual Effects Society announced nominees for the organization’s 17th annual awards on Tuesday.Leading the way in the film and TV fields, respectively, were Marvel’s “Avengers: Infinity War” and Netflix’s “Lost in Space.” Each picked up six nominations. Pixar’s “Incredibles 2” received the most nominations among animated feature contenders with five.“Ready Player One” also landed…
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Critics’ Choice Awards 2019 Winners: ‘Roma’ Takes Best Picture, Director
“Roma” was the big winner at the Critics’ Choice Awards, winning Best Picture, Foreign-Language Film, Director, and Cinematography (both for Alfonso Cuarón). Other honorees include Christian Bale, who was named Best Actor for his performance as Dick Cheney in “Vice,” and Lady Gaga (“A Star Is Born”) and Glenn Close (“The Wife”), who tied for…
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Exclusive: ‘First Man’ Composer Justin Hurwitz on Grief, the Moon Landing, and the Theremin
How do you combine overwhelming grief and wild ambition to result in a phenomenally melodic film score? Just ask Justin Hurwitz, the composer behind the Neil Armstrong drama First Man. This isn’t Hurwitz’s first collaboration with director Damien Chazelle, as the two were college roommates at Harvard and have been working together ever since. And…
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Bafta nominations 2019: fascinating Favourite continues its journey in the awards season sun | Peter Bradshaw
The black-comic satire set at the court of Queen Anne takes a deserved lead on home ground, with moonshot drama First Man re-emerging in the awards raceGiven that the Baftas always have an Oscar-shaped shadow looming over them, it was fitting that this year’s nomination list includes a little bit of transatlantic tit-for-tat: the American…
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Twentieth Century Fox dominates Baftas with 25 nominations
Distributor picks up company record 25 Bafta nods.In its final year of independent operation prior to the Disney takeover, Twentieth Century Fox once again led the field for most Baftas nominations, picking up a company record 25.For the fourth time in five years Fox led the pack ahead of Entertainment One and Universal, which both…