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MPSE Career Achievement Honoree John Roesch on a Life in Sound
Next month, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) will present John Roesch with its 2013 Career Achievement Award. It’s a crowning achievement for the veteran Foley artist, whose career spans more than three decades and over 400 films, including such …
Lincoln Leads Oscar Field with 12 Nominations
This is not a hugely surprising year for Oscar nominations, with the plaudits falling into place more or less as pundits had predicted. The biggest snubs took place in the Best Director category, which left Zero Dark Thirty's Kathryn Bigelow …
Nikon’s D800 Gets Down and Dirty for Dexter
Dexter, Showtime's award-winning series that sprang from the 2004 novel, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, entered its seventh season last fall with a renewed perspective on the tale of a forensics analyst who also happens to be a vigilante serial killer. Says …
ASC Names Feature Film Award Nominees
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC, continued his remarkable run with the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), nabbing his 11th nomination for an ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement this morning for his work on the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall. Also nominated …
Studio’s Top Stories of 2012: Part Two
One of my favorite tasks at the end of every year is digging into StudioDaily's analytics and tallying the pageviews for the most popular stories we published in the last 12-month period. The traffic stats always yield an interesting mix …
Studio’s Top Stories of 2012: Part One
One of my favorite tasks at the end of every year is digging into StudioDaily's analytics and tallying the pageviews for the most popular stories we published in the last 12-month period. The traffic stats always yield an interesting mix …
ASC Announces Television Nominees for Best Cinematography
Fox shows led the pack with three nominations from the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for television programming, including the "Guitar Face" episode of Ben and Kate (pictured, top). The cable trio of Cinemax, HBO, …
Bully Doc Wins Stanley Kramer Award from PGA
The controversial documentary Bully has received official plaudits from the Producers Guild of America. Writer-producer-director-cinematographer Lee Hirsch and writer-producer Cynthia Lowen will receive the 2013 Stanley Kramer Award award at the PGA Awards ceremony on January 26. Harvey and Bob Weinstein …
Academy Announces Documentary Shortlist
Following a controversy-fraught screening season in which members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) documentary branch waded through well over 100 DVD copies of eligible films, AMPAS has pared its for-your-consideration shortlist to just 15 titles. …
Directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon on The Central Park Five
Over the past decade, Ken Burns has become a polarizing figure in the documentary field, even as his PBS series have reached more viewers than any American documentarian besides Michael Moore. For many, his work has settled into a cozy …