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Oscars 2022: Jane Campion Wins Best Director, Making Her Third Female Winner Ever
It’s a fitting end for an extended awards season that so often saw “The Power of the Dog” director Jane Campion running off with award after award: The Kiwi filmmaker has won the Oscar for Best Director for her work on the lauded Western drama. The award makes Campion only the third woman to pick […]
Continue readingChloé Zhao Says She Expected Divisive Reaction to ‘Eternals’: ‘It Made a Lot of People Uncomfortable’
Oscar winner Chloé Zhao followed up Best Picture breakout “Nomadland” with Marvel’s “Eternals,” but even Zhao knew the film would yield divided opinions.“‘Eternals’ was planned to be released soon after ‘Endgame,’ and not at a time when everyone is having an existential crisis,” Zhao told Empire magazine. “The film itself is about existential crisis, both […]
Continue readingJane Campion Wins Top DGA Award for ‘The Power of the Dog’
Jane Campion made history at the DGA Awards on Saturday, becoming the second consecutive woman to win the kudo for theatrical feature film director — and only the third in its history. Campion won for Netflix’s “The Power of the Dog.”.The win gives Campion even more of an edge in the Oscar race as this […]
Continue readingJane Campion Wins Top Prize At 2022 DGA Awards
Like many other awards shows, the DGA Awards returned to an in-person event for 2022. This year’s event was hosted by Judd Apatow and featured a number of minor upsets. There was no big surprise with the top honor, however, as Jane Campion won her first DGA Award for “The Power of the Dog.”Read More: […]
Continue readingEvery Studio Film Directed by Female Filmmakers Coming Out in 2022 and 2023
As we limp into the third year of the pandemic, placating platitudes like “nothing is ever set in stone” continue to be the order of the day, as does tremendous flexibility when it comes to something relatively minor like, oh, when your next favorite movie is coming out. Despite the unpredictability of 2020 and 2021, […]
Continue readingLA Film Critics Awards: ‘Drive My Car’ Wins Best Picture, ‘Power of the Dog’ Runner-Up
The voting for the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s (Lafca) best films and best performances of 2021 took place virtually on Saturday. The awards were announced via the group’s Twitter account. throughout the day. The top prizes went to Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” for Best Picture, plus Best Director, Best Actor Simon Rex (“Red […]
Continue reading2021 Critics Poll: The Best Films and Performances, According to 187 Critics from Around the World
Last year, IndieWire’s annual critics survey was a squeaker, with two equally beloved films vying neck-and-neck for the top spot. In 2021, though, the final result has been anything but a photo finish. With 187 critics and journalists voting on the best films and performances in this year’s survey, Jane Campion’s Western character study “The […]
Continue reading‘Eternals’: How the VFX Served Chloé Zhao’s Naturalistic, Indie Aesthetic
Marvel knew exactly what it was getting with director Chloé Zhao, whose naturalistic aesthetic for “Eternals” was demonstrated in her Oscar-winning “Nomadland.” Crucially, this had a significant impact on the VFX: Zhao eschewed green and blue screens for shooting on location in the Canary Islands and England, where the natural light (particularly Magic Hour) and […]
Continue readingEternals Director Chloe Zhao To Executive Produce Series About The Murder Of Vincent Chin
Fresh off her entry into the MCU with Marvel’s “Eternals,” writer-director Chloé Zhao is bringing one of the most important American civil rights sagas to the small screen. Zhao joins Participant’s limited series (with Global TV SVP Miura Kite supervising under the Participant label), on the killing of Vincent Chin, as an executive producer.The series, […]
Continue readingHow Eternals Fails To Live Up To The Potential Of Jack Kirby
There’s no getting around it: Marvel Studios’ new film “Eternals” is a weird movie. Not just weird compared to other Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, but compared to all movies that came before or since. It contains rapid-fire tonal shifts that make your head spin, jumping from light comedy to action to cosmic sci-fi and back […]
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