Tag: Moonlight
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Mahershala Ali Wins Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for ‘Green Book’
For his first big film role post-“Moonlight,” Oscar winner Mahershala Ali continued to add to his cache of awards, taking home the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Peter Farrelly’s “Green Book” on Sunday night. In the fact-based historical feature, Ali plays Dr. Don Shirley, an African-American jazz pianist and composer,…
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Barry Jenkins Calls ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ the ‘Best Spider-Man Film Ever’
If you’ve been to Barry Jenkins’ Twitter in the last day or so, you already know how much the “Moonlight” and “If Beale Street Could Talk” director loved “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.” If you haven’t, take a look: “Certified hype: Spider-man #IntoTheSpiderVerse is magnificent!” he wrote. “In being the best Spider-man film ever, one of…
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Screen Gems Casts Constance Wu in Pregnancy Comedy, Naomie Harris in Cop Thriller
Screen Gems is stocking up on actors as it preps its upcoming slate, tapping Crazy Rich Asians star Constance Wu to topline an untitled pregnancy comedy, and Oscar-nominated Moonlight actress Naomie Harris to star in the cop thriller Black and Blue, Collider has confirmed. Glow actress Kimmy Gatewood is directing the pregnancy comedy from a…
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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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Oscars 2019: Best Original Score Predictions
Among the standout scores in contention this year are experimental and modern “Black Panther” (Ludwig Göransson), “If Beale Street Could Talk” (“Moonlight” Oscar nominee Nicholas Britell), and “BlacKkKlansman” (Terence Blanchard). Returning nominees could include Oscar-winners Justin Hurwitz (“First Man”), Hans Zimmer (“Widows”), and Alexandre Desplat (“Isle of Dogs”).In “BlacKkKlansman,” Spike Lee’s adaptation of the true…
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Paul Thomas Anderson, Master of the Close-Up, Is Jealous of Barry Jenkins’ Shots
Paul Thomas Anderson’s close-ups are widely regarded as the best in the business and second only to the director’s own filmmaking hero Jonathan Demme (there are no shortage of essays and video compilations devoted to Anderson’s use of close-up shots). So imagine how Barry Jenkins must have felt when Anderson admitted to being jealous of…
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6 Takeaways From Variety’s 2018 Inclusion Summit
Innovators from across film, television, and digital media gathered at Variety‘s Inclusion Summit Thursday to discuss the state of diversity and representation within the entertainment industry.Among the event’s keynote conversations and moderated panels were discussions with Entertainment Studios CEO Byron Allen, Oscar-winning “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins, and actress Eva Longoria Baston, who shared her experience…
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David Oyelowo: ‘We don’t give black and brown actors the chance to fail’
A new BBC documentary explores race and Hollywood in the wake of Moonlight’s Oscar win. The actor, along with other film-makers, asks whether that moment actually made a difference“There’s a mistake. Moonlight. You guys won best picture. This is not a joke. Come up here.” The fiasco of the 2017 Oscars, when retro musical La…
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Damien Chazelle: ‘I liked doing something that was the polar opposite of La La Land’
The Oscar-winning director on his new movie about the 1969 moon landing, that infamous best film mix-up, and finding time for a honeymoonDamien Chazelle, 33, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Canadian mother (a history teacher) and a French father (a computer science professor). He released his first feature film, the jazz musical…
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Teyonah Parris, Jahi Winston To Star In ’12 O’Clock Boys’; Angel Manuel Soto Directing Film From Sony & Overbrook
Exclusive: Teyonah Parris, Jahi Winston, and Will Catlett are attached to star in the dirt-bike drama, 12 O’Clock Boys, with Puerto Rican filmmaker Angel Manuel Soto at the helm. Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins wrote the initial draft for the script, while Sherman Payne did the rewrites.Jada Pinkett Smith, Caleeb Pinkett, Marc Bienstock, and Clarence Hammond of…