... 91st Academy Awards took place last night in Los Angeles, with Green Book taking top honors for ‘Best Picture’, as well as Oscars for ‘Actor in a Supporting Role’ (Mahershala Ali) and ‘Writing - Original Screenplay’ (Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, ...

... discuss his new studio’s business plan in our “VFX for Spots” feature on page 28. A big topic this time of year is the Oscars, and Post, in addition to hosting a special section on our new Website, offers our “Best Bets” feature this month on page ...

Tadeusz Lysiak’s live-action short The Dress (Sukienka) won an Oscar-qualifying award at the 2021 Atlanta Film Festival. The 30-minute Polish film focuses on a woman with dwarfism, Julia, who works as a maid in a dingy motel while trying to find love ...

The 94th Academy Awards are almost here, and the nominations are in. Of course, there are the usual shocks, WTF moments and surprises. No best director nom for Denis Villeneuve’s impressive work on Dune, despite the sci-fi epic’s 10 nominations? No ...

The narrative poem “Namoo” (a Korean word meaning “tree”) chronicles the heartwarming and heartbreaking biographical moments, from beginning to end, of one particular man, whose journey is represented via a tree of life. The animated short, written ...

HOLLYWOOD - Favorite Academy Awards host Billy Crystal made his triumphal return to Oscar night this past Sunday as only he can – by outlandishly insinuating himself into a large number of well known scenes from nominated films including ...

LOS ANGELES - An Inconvenient Truth, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary, was edited by Cut + Run/Los Angeles' Dan Swietlik, with additional editing by the studio's Javier Alvarez and independent editor Jay Cassidy. The film ...

Rosenbaum is a two-time Academy Award winner, having received Oscars for work on Avatar and Forrest Gump. His career spans more than 20 years, and his film credits also include VFX work on I, Robot; X2: X-Men United; The Perfect Storm; Contact; ...

... could get any better than that. I certainly didn’t even dare to think Oscar nominations! I don’t think I’ve missed a single Oscars since I was seven years old, and to be actually attending as a nominee this year is ridiculous. I couldn’t feel ...

Minkler will move to the freshly upgraded Stage 1. The company feels that his appointment will help Todd-AO maintain its position as a leader in the high-end feature film market. Minkler spent 15 years on Stage 1 at Todd-AO West in Santa Monica, and ...

This is the second Academy Award for King, who won five years ago for his sound editing work on Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. He was also nominated by the Academy for sound editing on War of the Worlds. King and The Dark Knight ...

He received two nominations for "Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Songs" for the tracks "O Saya" and "Jai Ho," as well as a nomination for "Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score." His ...

The Dark Knight was also nominated for a MPSE Golden Reel Award in the category of "Best Sound Editing: Dialogue & ADR in a Feature Film." King served as supervising sound on the film. Hugo Weng supervised dialogue editing and Linda Folk was the ...

Wanted is an action film that's loosely based on the comic book miniseries of the same name. The film stars James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman, and is also nominated in the "Best Sound Mixing" category. "We extend our warmest ...

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (www.oscars.org), based in Hollywood, the film was nominated in the "Best Cinematography" category. Claudio Miranda served as director of photography on the project. The Awards will be ...

Framestore CFC (www.framestore-cfc.com) created the huge and heroic polar bear, Iorek, his evil arch-enemy, Ragnar, and a host of supporting bears. The studio also created the icy CG environments in which they live. The award was accepted on behalf ...

The studio’s work for The Golden Compass involved the creation of the hero daemons, including Richard's daemon Pan in all his incarnations; the Golden Monkey (Kidman’s daemon); Stelmaria (Craig’s daemon); the spyflies and numerous other characters. ...

Kodak chairman/CEO Antonio Perez will accept the award on behalf of Kodak scientists. The award is the ninth Oscar that Kodak has received for scientific and technical excellence, and service to the motion picture industry. The company’s ...

For Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, artists at ILM used Autodesk Inferno as part of the SABRE visual effects system. Inferno was used for compositing actors - shot bluescreen - with water plates and digital mattes, as well as to add ...

MPC also provided DI services for the film Pride and Prejudice. Walk The Line had DI work done by Modern Video Film, while Hustle & Flow was posted by Fotokem. Additional Quantel users included ILM ( Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith ...

... Oscar in 2003 for his work on Master And Commander. And for King Kong, Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn are nominated. It is the second nomination for both. In 2002, they also received Oscars for their work on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

HOLLYWOOD - Favorite Academy Awards host Billy Crystal made his triumphal return to Oscar night this past Sunday as only he can – by outlandishly insinuating himself into a large number of well known scenes from nominated films including ...

... - and we are grateful to have been entrusted with the opportunity to work on this project." Millan has been nominated for six Academy Awards, and this is his third win. He's received Oscars for his work on both "Gladiator" and "Apollo 13."

HOLLYWOOD, CA - "The Aviator" was recognized with five Oscars last night, including the one for "Best Editing." The feature was cut by Thelma Schoonmaker on a Lightworks nonlinear editing system, a systems she's been using exclusively for the past ...

... - and we are grateful to have been entrusted with the opportunity to work on this project." Millan has been nominated for six Academy Awards, and this is his third win. He's received Oscars for his work on both "Gladiator" and "Apollo 13."

SAN FRANCISCO - Inspired by the recent discovery of Edison's first sound film (circa 1894), Academy Award-winning film editor/sound mixer Walter Murch will present a thought-provoking assessment of the technical and cultural implications of early ...

HOLLYWOOD - Ascent Media's Soundelux has signed a deal with Academy Award-winning supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler. Stambler was formerly president, CEO and driving creative force behind Burbank-based SoundStorm. "We believe that Bruce ...

LOS ANGELES - As widely reported throughout the media, Oscar-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith died yesterday of cancer at the age of 75. Goldsmith is known for creating the musical scores for the "Star Trek" and "Planet of the Apes" series. In ...

HOLLYWOOD — How fitting that The Social Network, David Fincher’s new movie about maverick social networking entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg, would employ a highly-inventive workflow using Apple Final Cut Pro 7 and Adobe’s After Effects CS5 and Premiere ...

... Oscar in 2003 for his work on Master And Commander. And for King Kong, Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn are nominated. It is the second nomination for both. In 2002, they also received Oscars for their work on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.