The Scoop:
We love Academy Director Meghan Telpner's blog, and it's not just because we're biased!
The Scoop:
We love Academy Director Meghan Telpner's blog, and it's not just because we're biased!
Not exact matches
The movie is a
love letter to the forgotten musical (remember, most of the
Academy voters are on the older side), the creativity of the story by writer -
director Damien Chazelle is incredible, and the performances by Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are some of the best of the year.
Now the 89 - year - old, the
Academy's second oldest nominee (eight days younger than Faces Places
director Agnès Varda), seems to have a clear shot at his first win for his gentle and poignant treatment of André Aciman's
love story Call Me by Your Name.
«The Prestige» From acclaimed
director Christopher Nolan (Memento, Batman Begins, Insomnia) and starring a powerhouse cast including Golden Globe ® Nominee Hugh Jackman (Kate and Leopold), Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Psycho), four - time Golden Globe ® Nominee Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Match Point, A
Love Song for Bobby Long, Girl with a Pearl Earring) and the legendary two - time
Academy Award ® Winner Michael Caine (Best Supporting Actor for The Cider House Rules and Hannah and Her Sisters), «The Prestige» is the mysterious story of two magicians in Victorian - era London whose intense rivalry leads them on a life - long battle for supremacy filled with obsession, deceit and jealousy with astonishing twists and deadly consequences.
Twelve years later writer -
director Lisa Cholodenko saw some
Academy love with The Kids Are All Right, but this earlier work was notice to the industry that a fiercely independent lesbian sensibility had arrived.
There may be only five slots for
directors at the
Academy Awards, but the 69th annual DGA Awards spread the
love across multiple categories, including among its winners Damien Chazelle, Garth Davis, Becky Martin, and Miguel Sapochnik.
Love it or hate it, the 2016
Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography, Best
Director and Best Actor is one of the most bombastic technical achievements of last year.
You can spin it that it would have been a game changer in the Oscar race if either took
Director or Best Film here, but this organization didn't go along with The
Academy's «Birdman»
love last year so is it really that much of a key indicator?
Eight films were nominated for best picture, but you have to figure that the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences most
loves the films it also nominated for best
director: «Birdman» (Iñárritu), «Boyhood» (Linklater), «Imitation Game» (Morton Tyldum), «The Grand Budapest Hotel» (Wes Anderson) and «Foxcatcher» (Bennett Miller).
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In this modern take on the Hollywood musical from Damien Chazelle, the
Academy Award - nominated writer and
director of WHIPLASH, Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they
love.
«I Am
Love»
director Luca Guadagnino returns with his follow - up «A Bigger Splash;» can it find more success with the
academy?
I'm rooting for Brad Pitt and under more ideal circumstances the
Academy would've
love to have given him the statuette in 2009 — you know ideal being if Benjamin Button being awesome instead of long and just interesting for both lead actor and
director.
Even though both
directors were more heavily aided by film festivals and publications like ours to give them the attention they deserve, The
Academy nevertheless seems to credit themselves for championing these new voices in cinema by doling out the gift of Oscar
love.
The golden age of movie musicals saw four Best Picture winners as the
Academy fell in
love with the likes of Julie Andrews, and
directors like George Cukor and Robert Wise got their big Oscar wins.
Official Premise: Winner of 6
Academy Awards ® including Best
Director for writer / director Damien Chazelle, and winner of a record - breaking 7 Golden Globe ® Awards, LA LA LAND is more than the most acclaimed movie of the year — it's a cinematic treasure for the ages that you'll fall in love with again an
Director for writer /
director Damien Chazelle, and winner of a record - breaking 7 Golden Globe ® Awards, LA LA LAND is more than the most acclaimed movie of the year — it's a cinematic treasure for the ages that you'll fall in love with again an
director Damien Chazelle, and winner of a record - breaking 7 Golden Globe ® Awards, LA LA LAND is more than the most acclaimed movie of the year — it's a cinematic treasure for the ages that you'll fall in
love with again and again.
Like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick didn't get much
love from the
Academy — between them, they won a grand total of zero awards for Best
Director.
The least visually interesting of the bunch, you kind of wonder if the
Academy was just taken with the film's landscape or if this was the result of some carryover
love for Patton with Islands reuniting
director Franklin J. Schaffner and
director of photography Fred.
Claude Lelouch)-- World Premiere A successful film composer (
Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin, The Artist) falls in
love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet, in this glorious romantic drama from the great French
director Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman).
The Shape of Water,
director Guillermo det Toro's «fish out of water» love story, led all nominees when the nominations for the 90th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning, receiving thirteen, including Best Picture and both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for d
director Guillermo det Toro's «fish out of water»
love story, led all nominees when the nominations for the 90th Annual
Academy Awards were announced this morning, receiving thirteen, including Best Picture and both Best
Director and Best Original Screenplay for d
Director and Best Original Screenplay for del Toro.
Alcon, one of the longest - running independent film finance and production companies in the world, has financed and produced, and / or co - financed / produced 33 films to date, including the recent critically acclaimed film Blade Runner 2049 from
Academy Award - nominated
director Denis Villeneuve and starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford; the
Academy Award - nominated Best Picture The Blind Side, which earned Sandra Bullock a Best Actress Oscar; The Book of Eli, starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman; Insomnia, starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank and directed by Chris Nolan; The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; P.S. I
Love You, starring Hilary Swank; the critically acclaimed dramatic thriller Prisoners, directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo, Terrance Howard and Paul Dano; and the family hit Dolphin Tale starring Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Kris Kristofferson.
Hannibal and Clarice's
love / hate, respect / revulsion relationship is a remarkably complex one, and by far the biggest sin committed by the Hannibal team of
director Ridley Scott (replacing the Oscar - winning Demme) and screenwriters David Mamet and Steven Zaillian (taking over for Silence's also -
Academy - awarded Ted Tally) is their failure to satisfactorily reintroduce it.
The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro's surreal, cross-species
love story landed the most
Academy Award nominations (13), including for Best
Director, Picture and Original screenplay, as well as trio of acting categories.
Winner of four
Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best
Director — Guillermo del Toro, I shouldn't have to say much to sing the praises of this fantastical
love story about a mute woman, an amphibian creature, and the group of outcasts who help them.
The sci - fi fantasy about
love across species lines was nominated for the most
Academy Awards, 13, including in a half - dozen major categories: Best Picture,
Director, Original Screenplay, Lead Actress (Sally Hawkins), Supporting Actress (Octavia Spencer) and Supporting Actor (Richard Jenkins).
The
Academy Award - nominated
director has a commentary that's a musical scored by Jon Brion (Punch - Drunk
Love), one set in the year 2031, and another with a series of arguments and feuds that end with Paul Rudd and Christina Applegate feeling slighted.
«Lady Bird» - which saw Greta nominated for Best
Director at this year's upcoming
Academy Awards - follows outspoken teenager Christine who must navigate a
loving but turbulent relationship with her strong - willed mother over the course of an eventful and poignant senior year of high school.
The film was clearly a labor of
love for writer -
director Guillermo del Toro, and that labor and
love was rewarded at the 90th
Academy Awards.
The third collaboration of
Academy Award nominee Keira Knightley with
director Joe Wright, following the award - winning boxoffice successes «Pride & Prejudice» and Atonement,» is the epic
love story «Anna Karenina,» adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard («Shakespeare in Love&raqu
love story «Anna Karenina,» adapted from Leo Tolstoy's classic novel by
Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard («Shakespeare in
Love&raqu
Love»).
I can't imagine the
Academy going for Black Swan in such a big way as the BFCA did, but on the other hand it could surely rack up quite a few nominations if they really
love it: Picture,
Director, Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Costume Design and so on.
He's been responsible for some of the best -
loved blockbusters of the past decade, yet as was the case with Steven Spielberg in the 1970s and 1980s, the
Academy seems to think that ecstatic reviews and record - breaking box - office are all any popular
director needs.
Anna Karenina is acclaimed
director Joe Wright's bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of
love, stirringly adapted from Leo Tolstoy's great novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Lo
love, stirringly adapted from Leo Tolstoy's great novel by
Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in
LoveLove).
«Success
Academy's THINK literacy is aligned with our vision for excellent instruction at Roots and provides the tools our teachers need to implement a rigorous, engaging ELA program that builds knowledge, cultivates critical thinking, and fosters a deep
love of reading,» said Jonathan Hanover, founder and executive
director of Roots Elementary in Denver.
«I've
loved working with students as
Director of the Denius - Sams Gaming
Academy in the University of Texas» Moody College of Communication.