by Danny Miller | Feb 26, 2016 | Interviews, What's Hot
This year’s Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design are especially impressive. Three-time winner Sandy Powell was nominated twice, for her work on Carol and Cinderella. Jacqueline West received her third Oscar nomination for The Revenant. Oscar winner Jenny Beavan...
by Danny Miller | Jan 20, 2016 | Features, What's Hot
For the second year in a row, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences has failed to include a single African American actor among its slate of 20 acting nominees. This has caused an uproar on social media (#OscarsSoWhite) and very public declarations by...
by Danny Miller | Feb 22, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
Every year just before the Academy Awards I like to travel 50 years back in time and get a feel for the hoopla leading into that year’s Oscars broadcast. Last year, I was surprised to learn that the host of the 1964 show, Jack Lemmon, someone I assumed was beloved by...
by Danny Miller | Feb 2, 2015 | Features, What's Hot
This post is part of the third annual 31 Days of Oscar Blogathon hosted by three classic movie bloggers: Kellee Pratt (@IrishJayHawk66) of Outspoken & Frecked, Aurora (@CitizenScreen) of Once Upon a Screen, and Paula Guthat (@Paula_Guthat) of Paula’s Cinema Club....
by Danny Miller | Dec 12, 2014 | Interviews, What's Hot
Zeresnay Berhane Mehari’s film Difret picked up audience awards at the Sundance, Berlin, and World Cinema Festivals before becoming Ethiopia’s official submission to the upcoming 87th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. With an executive producer credit...