More from Carolyn Giardina
13 of the Best Chase Scenes in Movie History
Put your pedal to the metal: Here's a handful of the most heart-racing, mind-bending, edge-of-your-seat chase scenes in film history.
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“It’s a Silent Fire”: Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis
Industry pros sweat the possibility that many digital files will eventually become unusable — an archival tragedy reminiscent of the celluloid era.
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“I Got a Little Blood on Me”: A Makeup Artist Legend Looks Back on ‘Rocky’ and ‘Star Trek’
Michael Westmore, a Makeup Artists & Hair Stylists Guild honoree, recalls when Stallone took him to fights for research and how he created a "whole city’s worth" of aliens.
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‘The Boy and Heron’ Producer on Why Hayao Miyazaki Came Out of Retirement
“What he wanted to do was basically tell his life story,” Toshio Suzuki, president of Japan-based Studio Ghibli, says about the Oscar-nominated animated feature.
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‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Poor Things,’ ‘Saltburn’ Collect Art Directors Guild Awards
Additional winners included 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,' 'The Last of Us' and Taylor Swift's "I Can See You."
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‘Oppenheimer,’ ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ Among Advanced Imaging Society Award Winners
Jeffrey Wright and Alexander Payne are among the special honorees.
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How a Legendary Production Designer Helped Bring the Story of Malcolm X to Life With Color
Wynn P. Thomas, due to receive a lifetime achievement award at this year’s Art Directors Guild Awards for work on movies such as ‘Mars Attacks and ‘Hidden Figures,” talks about his partnership with Spike and being “the illustrator of the screenplay.”
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‘Godzilla Minus One’ VFX Oscar Nom Seemed to Be an “Unreachable” Goal
Takashi Yamazaki, who served on the film as writer, director and VFX supervisor, talks to THR about his inspiration for the Kaiju film, as well as how the CG monster was created to interact with water.
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Mark Gustafson, Stop-Motion Veteran and Oscar Winner for ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ Dies at 63
He also worked on the California Raisins characters and Wes Anderson's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox.'
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William Shatner to be Honored by Visual Effects Society
“With his portrayal of Captain Kirk, Shatner is the originator of one of the most iconic science fiction characters in history," said VES' exec director.
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U.S. ‘Avatar’ Workers Vote to Unionize In Boost for VFX Organizing Effort
Workers at a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios opted to join the crew union IATSE. "This is the core team that answers to Jim Cameron," says one VFX industry source. "They are not necessarily impressive in size, but in influence."
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Lifted Into Launch Position at California Science Center
A 450-foot crane lifted the 170,000-pound orbiter into the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center in downtown Los Angeles.
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