Best Visual Effects Oscar Semi-Finalists: Tom Cruise, James Bond Movies Out as Academy comes up with a few surprises.
Ray Harryhausen: Visual effects titan. Ray Harryhausen: ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ & ‘One Million Years B.C.’ visual-effects artist has died Long before the computer-generated imagery of Jurassic Park, Avatar, The…
Famous Children of Famous Parents: Edoardo Ponti and Nastassja Kinski, with Enrico Lo Verso in The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars. Edoardo Ponti & Bryce Dallas Howard live action shorts…
Carlo Rambaldi: E.T. creator. Carlo Rambaldi: E.T. creator, three-time Oscar winner dies. Special-effects designer and mechatronics expert Carlo Rambaldi, best known as the creator of the alien E.T. in Steven…
WikiLeaks Cables bring out Michael Moore Revelations plus Oscar-Winning Star Wars Talent Dies and hairy-chested Adam Sandler Death Hoax.
Visual effects supervisor Craig Barron (left, Alice in Wonderland, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and Oscar-winning sound editor Ben Burtt (E.T., Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, WALL-E) at…
DGA Awards make history: Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker: Iraq War drama directed by Directors Guild Award nominee Kathryn Bigelow. (Image: Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment). Kathryn Bigelow (The…
A Time for Burning: Monday Nights with Oscar A Time for Burning, a 1967 Oscar-nominated documentary about the interactions between two segregated churches in Omaha, Nebraska, during the height of…
Matte Painting artwork + Robert Mitchum Interviews with Roger Ebert in which The Night of the Hunter actor disses Steve McQueen and Robert Wise.
Cars: Pixar Annie Awards’ winner featuring voices of Owen Wilson + Paul Newman is overshadowed as DreamWorks Animation release wins in more categories.
An animated Pixar hit, a costly motion-capture fantasy and an ‘end of the world’ disaster flick are among eligible entries for next year’s Academy Awards.
Shahab Hosseini in Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC), among whose members are the majority of the United States’ most influential and respected film commentators,…
“When Worlds Collide: The Science of Movies” is the title of the Academy’s Science and Technology Council’s program about the physics behind some of Hollywood’s best-known action and science-fiction scenes.…
Travelin’ Thru and Nobody Jesus But You among eclectic Best Song Oscar list + movies Best Visual Effects for teens and kids + Slamdance movies.