So spring arrives with Oppenheimer having finished its winter-long Sherman’s March – with nuclear fission standing in for fire – through award season, as it kept racking up wins from one guild to the next, all the way through the BAFTAs, to Oscar night. In our December column, having just come back from the Hollywood … Read more
On Sunday, March 10, Jimmy Kimmel hosted the 96th Oscars live from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Heading into the evening, Christopher Nolan’s IMAX-sized biopic Oppenheimer was the year’s most-nominated film, with 13 total nominations, followed by Yorgos Lanthimos’ mad comedy Poor Things with 11 nominations and Martin Scorsese’s historical crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon with 10. Hoyte van … Read more
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) held its annual awards with Hoyte van Hoytema ASC NSC FSF earning the feature film award for Oppenheimer. The 38th ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards, held here at the Beverly Hilton, also honoured Warwick Thornton for The New Boy in the Spotlight Award category and Curren Sheldon for the documentary … Read more
Oppenheimer was triumphant on the night, winning seven BAFTAs for Best Cinematography for Hoyte van Hoytema ASC FSF NSC; Director for Christopher Nolan, Film; Leading Actor for Cillian Murphy; Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr; Editing for Jennifer Lame, and Original Score for Ludwig Göransson.
Nominees for the 96th Oscars were celebrated at a special lunch held at Los Angeles’ Beverly Hilton on Monday 12 February. The Oscar Nominees Luncheon is an annual tradition honouring those nominated for the prestigious gold statuettes both in front of and behind the camera. Among the attendees were four of the five Best Cinematography … Read more
The nominations for the 96th Oscars have been revealed, with the announcement of nominees taking place during a presentation at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. A total of 23 categories were announced as the movie-awards season hits its apex after a year that blasted off in July … Read more
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION The latest collaboration between Hoyte van Hoytema ASC NSC FSF and Christopher Nolan sees them take on their most groundbreaking creative project yet, bringing the fascinating true story of “father of the atomic bomb”, theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, to the screen. With over twenty years of experience as a cinematographer, … Read more