Tag: Moonlight

  • Mahershala Ali wins best supporting actor Oscar for Green Book

    Mahershala Ali wins best supporting actor Oscar for Green Book

    Actor takes Academy Award for role as pianist Don Shirley in deep south road movie, despite controversy surrounding the film-makersMahershala Ali has won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role as Don Shirley in Green Book in the 91st Academy Awards.This is Ali’s second Oscar win, after he took the award in the…

  • Mahershala Ali Wins Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for ‘Green Book’

    Mahershala Ali Wins Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for ‘Green Book’

    Mahershala Ali has won the 2019 Academy Award for his supporting performance in Best Picture contender “Green Book.” Ali beat a competitive field of contenders that included Adam Driver (“BlacKkKlansman”), Sam Elliott (“A Star Is Born”), Richard E. Grant (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”), and Sam Rockwell (“Vice”).Read More: 2019 Oscar Predictions: 91st Academy AwardsThis…

  • ‘Native Son’ Trailer: The Sundance Film Debuts On HBO This April

    ‘Native Son’ Trailer: The Sundance Film Debuts On HBO This April

    After a well-received premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Native Son heads to HBO in April. Director Rashid Johnson and writer Suzan-Lori Parks adapt Richard Wright’s acclaimed novel into modern times, with Moonlight‘s Ashton Sanders as a young man coming of age in the south side of Chicago. Ahead of the April premiere on HBO,…

  • BAFTA Backs ‘Roma’ as Oscar Race Enters the Final Stretch

    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”…

  • ‘High Flying Bird’: Andre Holland Explains How He Pitched a Movie to Steven Soderbergh

    ‘High Flying Bird’: Andre Holland Explains How He Pitched a Movie to Steven Soderbergh

    For André Holland, there is much riding on the success of the Netflix sports drama “High Flying Bird,” which made its world premiere at the 2019 Slamdance Film Festival and lands on Netflix today. The movie features an intriguing pairing behind the camera, with a script by “Moonlight” Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney directed by…

  • ‘True Detective’: Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff Were Mistaken for Camera Guys

    ‘True Detective’: Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff Were Mistaken for Camera Guys

    Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff met at the airport. The “Moonlight” and “Somewhere” stars were on their way to Arkansas to start production on the much-anticipated, long-awaited third season of “True Detective.” Buzz was already strong; a daunting 120-day shoot was looming, cloaked in secrecy and filmed in remote Arkansas locations far removed from their…

  • ‘Green Book’, ‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ Find China Release Dates

    ‘Green Book’, ‘How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’ Find China Release Dates

    Best Picture Oscar nominee Green Book has secured a China release of March 1, a handful of days after the Academy Awards are handed out in Hollywood. Alibaba Pictures, which owns a stake in Amblin Partners, is a financier on the film and will be expected to lean on its popular ticketing platform Tao Piao…

  • Mahershala Ali: ‘I had to protect myself from people’s fear of me’

    Mahershala Ali: ‘I had to protect myself from people’s fear of me’

    The Moonlight actor has topped his Oscar win with a Golden Globe for Green Book. He talks about fatherhood, being a Muslim in Trump’s America and years of typecastingExactly two years ago, in early 2017, the actor Mahershala Ali and his wife were about to give birth – one after the other. “It’s something we…

  • ‘Beale Street’ Re-Creations Evoke 1970s Harlem

    ‘Beale Street’ Re-Creations Evoke 1970s Harlem

    For weeks, director Barry Jenkins and the department heads of his latest film, “If Beale Street Could Talk,” met at production designer Mark Friedberg’s Manhattan home, where they crafted the look of the movie, released on Christmas Day, scene by scene.Costume designer Caroline Eselin, who had worked with Jenkins on his Oscar-winning “Moonlight,” cherished the…

  • Alfonso Cuarón Leads Asc Cinematography Nominations for ‘Roma’

    Alfonso Cuarón Leads Asc Cinematography Nominations for ‘Roma’

    Alfonso Cuarón (“Roma”) will compete against feature cinematographers Matthew Libatique (“A Star is Born”), Robbie Ryan (“The Favourite”), Linus Sandgren (“First Man”), and Łukasz Żal (“Cold War”) in the 33rd annual Asc Awards. They will be held February 9 at the Ray Dolby Ballroom in Hollywood, marking the Asc’s 100th anniversary.However, after making history last…