The Illusionist Articles

Andrew Garfield, Jesse Eisenberg in David Fincher’s The Social Network Sight & Sound, possibly the most respected film publication in the world, published its list of top-ten (actually top twelve) 2010 releases back in late November. However, the list (extended to 13 films) only appeared online in the last couple of days or so. At the very top is David Fincher’s Facebook drama The Social [...]

DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon — instead of Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 (above) — topped the International Animated Film Society’s 2011 Annie Award nominations. [Full list of Annie Awards 2011 nominees.] Directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, How to Train Your Dragon received a total of 15 nods, including Best Animated Feature. In that category, it’ll be competing against Toy Story 3 [...]

2007 American Society of Cinematographers Awards American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) award 2007 feature-film nominations: January 11, 2007 2007 ASC award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 18, 2007 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Children of Men   Feature Films * Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC, (Children of Men) Dick Pope, BSC (The Illusionist) Robert Richardson, ASC (The [...]

Children of Men (top); Edward Norton, Jessica Biel in The Illusionist (middle); Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin in The Good Shepherd (bottom) The feature-film nominees for the 2007 American Society of Cinematographers Award are critics’ fave Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men), plus Dick Pope (The Illusionist), Robert Richardson, (The Good Shepherd), Dean Semler (Apocalypto), and veteran Vilmos Zsigmond (The Black Dahlia), who has been shooting films [...]