Defying some expectations that awards powerhouse The Artist might dominate the proceedings, director Martin Scorsese's Hugo earned the most nominations of any film honored by the Oscars this morning, nabbing a spot in categories including Best Picture, Directing, Cinematography, Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, and Visual Effects.... »
American Cinema Editors today announced nominations for the 62nd Annual ACE Eddie Awards recognizing outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries. Winners will be revealed during ACE’s 62nd annual black-tie awards ceremony on Saturday, February 18, 2012 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. As previously announced, the ceremony will be hosted by actor/comedian Patton Oswalt. Later this month ACE will announce the Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year honoree and two Career Achievement honorees.... »
Steve James, whose acclaimed documentary The Interrupters was overlooked by the Oscars, came out on top at the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking, held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens lsat night. His film took the Cinema Eye prizes for Outstanding Achievement in Direction and Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, the first time in the award's five-year history that a single film has won the two top awards.... »
Guillaume Schiffman, AFC (The Artist), Jeff Cronenweth, ASC (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), Robert Richardson, ASC (Hugo), Hoyte van Hoytema, FSF, NSC (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), and Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC (The Tree of Life) have been nominated in the feature film category of the 26th Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards. The winner will be announced at the ASC Awards celebration at the Hollywood and Highland Grand Ballroom on February 12.... »
Eric Tu was the first student at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, to double-major in advertising strategy and concepts and film directing. That should give you an idea of his sensibility, which led him through a career that began with stints on L.A. commercial shoots, followed by work as a freelance photographer and cinematographer in the music industry, both on festival shoots and music videos.... »
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today narrowed the field of films that are being considered for a visual-effects Oscar this year from 15 to 10.... »
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the motion picture and long-form television nominations for the 23rd Annual Producers Guild Awards.... »
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced nominees in three television categories for the 26th Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards competition.... »
Director Ian Karr, the founder of New York's IKA Collective, got his start as a filmmaker in the same way as so many precocious youngsters — shooting films featuring his friends and dog and blowing things up with firecrackers and model-rocket engine materials. As an adult, he is a man of many talents, making promos for the likes of Showtime Networks, Discovery Channel, and Penguin Group (USA). He stretched out recently with the Billy Ray Cyrus music video below, part of a project for Hallmark Channel. We asked him five questions about work, the iPhone, and a little funny business.... »
Paul Babin, SOC, toplines the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Awards of the Society of Camera Operators, to be handed out on Sunday, February 12, at the ATAS Goldenson Theater in North Hollywood. Babin will receive the group's award for Lifetime Achievement as Camera Operator.... »
P+S Technik is setting up shop in Hollywood, with a new North American support center taking over sales and service of P+S products in North America.... »
During a gala evening of celebration at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Post Alliance – the professional organization for the post production community - presented the Sixth Annual HPA Awards to a sold out audience of industry insiders and luminaries.... »
Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC, William Wages, ASC, Francis Kenny, ASC, and Fred Godfrey will be honored by their peers during the 26th American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration on February 12 at the Hollywood & Highland Grand Ballroom.... »
