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Contenders – Editors Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, The Social Network.

With screenwriter Aaron Sorkin 's dialog-dense script and director David Fincher 's extensive coverage, one of the challenges faced by the editors of The Social Network – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall – was keeping the film at a viewable length....

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 4:42 PM by Below the Line

Contender – Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, The Social Network

“We were the experiment,” cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth says of shooting The Social Network for director David Fincher . By that, he means that they shot the whole film with a Red camera. “David and I shot a lot of HD before,” he noted, referring to...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 2:39 PM by Below the Line

Contender – Costume Designer Jenny Beavan, The King’s Speech

Award-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan faced severe strictures of time and money in clothing royals and commoners for The King’s Speech , the audience-pleasing film set in the 1930s about the struggles of King George VI ( Colin Firth ), to overcome...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 12:38 PM by Below the Line

Mike Leigh’s Organic Storytelling in Another Year

Another Year is the latest film from director, screenwriter and multiple Oscar-nominee Mike Leigh . Regarded as one of England’s most distinctive filmmakers of the last 20 years, Leigh’s body of work includes Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Vera Drake (2004) and...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 12:38 PM by Below the Line

Rendered Worlds, Creatures and Subtle Touches

For Jenny Fulle, visual effects producer and founder of post-house Creative Cartel, it’s been a good year for VFX, going all the way back to January. “The Book of Eli was good,” she allows, referring to the post-apocalyptic tale, and she also liked this...

Published Tue, Dec 21 2010 11:36 AM by Below the Line

Contender – Composer Hans Zimmer, Inception

Hans Zimmer , composer on the Warner Bros. film Inception , is truly a below-the-line type of guy. Going beyond just consulting with director Christopher Nolan before shooting, he also consulted with cinematographer Wally Pfister about color schemes,...

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 8:14 AM by Below the Line

Contender – Costume Designer Colleen Atwood, Alice in Wonderland

Director Tim Burton ’s magical, yet skewed spin on the fantasy adventure, Alice in Wonderland, inspired two-time Oscar-winning costume designer, Colleen Atwood, to take an imaginative twist on the classic tale.

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 8:14 AM by Below the Line

Contender – Visual Effects Supervisor Eric Barba, Tron

When you ask other visual FX supervisors what they think their field’s likely heavyweights will be at nomination time, the only answer you hear slightly more often than Inception is Tron .

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 8:14 AM by Below the Line

Contender – Makeup Artist Ken Diaz, Get Low

Ken Diaz started in the entertainment industry 35 years ago when he attended makeup school. Through mutual friend and eventual makeup effects expert Vince Prentice , he met Rob Bottin , who went on to a spectacular makeup effects career in the 1980s and...

Published Thu, Dec 16 2010 9:34 AM by Below the Line

15 Features in Line for 2010 VFX Oscar

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 15 films have been selected as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 83rd Academy Awards. The films are listed below in alphabetical order: Alice in Wonderland The Chronicles...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 1:27 PM by Below the Line

Contender – Composer Alexandre Desplat, Ghost Writer

According to Alexandre Desplat , composer of The Ghost Writer – a story about a writer who uncovers secrets that put his life in jeopardy when he is hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister – the most challenging aspect of composing...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 11:25 AM by Below the Line

Contender – Supervising Sound Editor Ren Klyce, The Social Network

In the opening scene of The Social Network the background walla and room ambiance are so loud one must strain to hear the dialog and pay close attention in order to figure out what is going on. That unusual mixing decision was by design according to Ren...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 11:25 AM by Below the Line

Contender – Makeup Artist Rick Baker, The Wolfman

Throughout his lengthy career, Rick Baker has created some of cinema’s most memorable monsters. The six-time Oscar winner for Best Makeup notably realized one of the greatest horror monsters in movie history with An American Werewolf in London . Now,...

Published Thu, Dec 9 2010 6:56 PM by Below the Line

Motion Picture Sound Editors Announce MPSE Filmmaker and Career Achievement Recipients for 58th Annual Golden Reel® Awards ceremony

The 2011 MPSE Filmmaker Recipient will be Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer, while the 2011 MPSE Career Achievement Recipient will be renowned sound designer and editor Walter Murch. The pair will be honored at the 58th Annual 2011 Golden Reel...

Published Tue, Dec 7 2010 4:06 PM by Below the Line

TAYLOR HACKFORD TO RECEIVE FILMMAKER AWARD FROM CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY

Academy Award® winning feature film and documentary director Taylor Hackford will receive the CAS Filmmaker Award at the 47th CAS Awards on February 19, 2011 at the Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. “The Cinema Audio Society...

Published Tue, Dec 7 2010 2:04 PM by Below the Line

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Contenders – Editors Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, The Social Network.

Contender – Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth, The Social Network

Contender – Costume Designer Jenny Beavan, The King’s Speech

Mike Leigh’s Organic Storytelling in Another Year

Rendered Worlds, Creatures and Subtle Touches

Contender – Composer Hans Zimmer, Inception

Contender – Costume Designer Colleen Atwood, Alice in Wonderland

Contender – Visual Effects Supervisor Eric Barba, Tron

Contender – Makeup Artist Ken Diaz, Get Low

15 Features in Line for 2010 VFX Oscar

Contender – Composer Alexandre Desplat, Ghost Writer

Contender – Supervising Sound Editor Ren Klyce, The Social Network

Contender – Makeup Artist Rick Baker, The Wolfman

Motion Picture Sound Editors Announce MPSE Filmmaker and Career Achievement Recipients for 58th Annual Golden Reel® Awards ceremony

TAYLOR HACKFORD TO RECEIVE FILMMAKER AWARD FROM CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY