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Disney+ Orders Thiller From ‘The Power of the Dog’ & ‘It’s A Sin’ EPs – Deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ is moving into the contemporary UK thriller space with the greenlight of a series based on Alex Dahl’s parents-worst-nightmare novel Playdate. The Power of the Dog and It’s a Sin producers Tanya Seghatchian, John Woodward and Nicola Shindler are combining to produce the five-parter, which comes from the decorated trio’s Brightstar and Quay Street Productions and will commence…

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Cold War (2018)

“Let’s go to the other side. The view will be better there.”

Country: Poland / UK / France

Directed by: Pawel Pawlikowski

Written by: Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki & Piotr Borkowski Story by: Pawlikowski

Cinematography by: Lukasz Zal

Edited by: Jaroslaw Kaminski

Produced by: Tanya Seghatchian & Ewa Puszczynska

Music by: Marcin Masecki

Production Design by: Marcel Slawinski, Katarzyna Sobanska-Strzalkowska & Benoît Barouh

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Full article: "FANTASTIC BEASTS – Hollywood Authentic"

On Set "FANTASTIC BEASTS"

April 5, 2022

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which is set decades prior to the Harry Potter series, feels strangely prescient: Newt Scamander must help Professor Albus Dumbledore and a band of outsiders to stop the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald from seizing control of the wizarding world. As Dumbledore says to Newt, ‘The world as we know it is coming undone. Grindelwald is pulling it apart with hate.’

But let’s rewind. Last October, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first of eight Potter films, was re-released after 20 years. In that film Richard Harris played Albus Dumbledore (after two outings as the wizard, he was replaced following his death by Michael Gambon), and today the role of inhabiting the character’s back story in the Fantastic Beasts films belongs to a bearded Jude Law. In the new film, Law is reunited with Eddie Redmayne as “magizoologist” Newt Scamander, an experience that he says ‘is like spending time with an old friend… He’s both great fun and very entertaining to be with, interested and interesting. And he’s also someone that takes it to another level when it comes to prep.’ Director David Yates, who directed four of the Potter films and all three Fantastic Beasts movies, agrees: ‘Eddie works harder than any actor I know. He is an absolute workaholic and a perfectionist. I think the thing I love about him most is he’s transformative.’

The first Potter book was published in 1997, with a print run of just 500, after author JK Rowling was famously rejected by 12 publishers. Warner Bros bought the rights for a reported $1 million, and the first Potter film was shot at Leavesden in Hertfordshire, in a former aircraft engine factory that had previously provided the setting for GoldenEye and The Dark Knight.

Warner Bros Studios at Leavesden quickly became the exclusive home to the franchise and then, in 2016, to its extension, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. One of the Potter series’ biggest achievements is the way in which it helped to cement the UK’s status in the special effects industry. On the first Potter film, complicated visual effects were done on the west coast of America, but by the second, they were assigned to the UK. As Tanya Seghatchian, who executive produced several Potter films, has pointed out, ‘Now we’re recognised as the leading provider for visual effects in the world. Every facility is fully booked and that wasn’t the case before Harry Potter.’

In 2009, when I was invited on the set of the sixth Potter film, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it was eight years since the release of the first movie in the franchise, and Leavesden studios had already morphed from what had been essentially some sheds without sound stages into something altogether slicker. I was struck by the scale of the vast metal hanger at its core, but also by its capacity for intimacy. Cast and crew had pushbikes to pedal from one location to the next, Hogwarts’ Great Hall was built to scale and the Weasleys’ small, cold and dark living room had a strong smell of washing powder which was at odds with its dankness. Daniel Radcliffe, an engaging Harry Potter on screen and a thoughtful young man off it, explained how he learned to dive for an underwater scene in The Goblet of Fire in Europe’s largest film-making tank, which was set up in a corner of the studio. 

Fast forward to the pandemic and it is Eddie Redmayne whose swimming skills are called into action. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, a sequence in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore in which Newt enters summer waters had to be shifted to night shoots in Leavesden in December. Not the warmest of prospects, but achievable at the Warner Bros Hertfordshire studios, which in the decade since my visit have grown even further into an astonishing state-of-the-art operation.

Director David Yates told me that he likes ‘the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it’s like having a big train set’. A huge train set: Christian Mänz, the Oscar-nominated VFX supervisor on Harry Potter and then Fantastic Beasts, has a team of 1,500 people working on the creation of visual effects. He also collaborates closely with Stuart Craig, production designer on all eight Potter films, and whose job it is to bring the wizarding world to life. Craig has described asking JK Rowling about the geography of Hogwarts: ‘She immediately took out a pen and paper, and made the most extraordinarily complete map on a sheet of A4. I was still referring to that map on the eighth film.’ 

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was written by Rowling and Steve Kloves, who wrote all the Potter screenplays. If production designer Craig creates the universe, then VFX supervisor Mänz augments that reality. The Fantastic Beasts films are set in the historical past, with this latest taking place in the ’30s, in the build-up to World War II, and featuring global locations that have been specially created at Leavesden. For example, to prepare a scene set in Paris, 90 digitally-scanned locations helped recreate a version of the French capital so that the team could work out what could be physically built and what then had to be digitally recreated. 

Mads Mikkelsen, who plays Grindelwald, explains the benefit of such technical expertise: ‘We didn’t have to pretend. It’s a minimum of green screen work; everything is there.’ Law, too, is enthusiastic: ‘It’s a total dream for actors because you just step on [set] and you don’t have to do an awful lot of imagining. It’s all there with trams and cars and shop fronts or vistas and views, whatever. And we jumped through various cities around the world at various times. Being on something this scale is very rewarding.’

Amy Raphael is a journalist, critic and novelist. She has written for The Face, NME and British Esquire; her books include the biographies of Mike Leigh and Danny Boyle.

📸 Greg Williams Photography

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The Big Screen Awards unveil 2022 nominations

SOURCE: KARLOVY VARY / ‘BOILING POINT’

The shortlist for The Big Screen Awards 2022 has been announced, with Philip Barantini’s Boiling Point leading the way with six nominations.

Two of the new categories, Breakthrough British Filmmaker and Actor, include the likes of Reggie Yates, Bella Ramsey, Honor Swinton Byrne and Jim Archer.

Companies nominated for this years awards include The Walt Disney Company, Picturehouse, Vue, Odeon, Altitude, Curzon, Lionsgate UK, Everyman Group, Cineworld, Sony Pictures, MUBI and BFI Distribution.

The Big Screen Awards were rebranded from the Screen Awards, last held in 2019, and aim to recognise the achievements of marketing, distribution, publicity and exhibition teams and companies for their work releasing films into UK cinemas and connecting them with audiences.

In addition to the breakthrough UK filmmaker and actor awards, there are three other new categories for 2022: Big Screen Event; the Green Screen Award; and the Diversity and Inclusion Initiative.

The shortlist will now be debated by an independent jury of industry experts, who select the final winners. This year’s Big Screen Awards judges are listed here.

The Best British Film category will be decided by a public vote.

The Big Screen Awards ceremony will be held on November 24 at the Brewery, London.

For more information on this year’s nominees, click here.

The Big Screen Awards 2022

Best British Film of the Year

After Love (UK distributor: BFI Film Distribution; producer: Matthieu de Braconier)

Ali & Ava (UK distributor: Altitude Film Distribution; producer: Tracy O’Riordan)

Belfast (UK distributor: Universal; producers: Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas)

Boiling Point (UK distributor: Vertigo Releasing; producers: Hester Ruoff, Bart Ruspoli)

The Father (UK distributor: Lionsgate UK; producers: Philippe Carcassonne, Simon Friend, Jean-Louis Livi, David Parfitt, Christopher Spadone)

Good Luck To You, Leo Grande (UK distributor: Lionsgate UK; producers: Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski)

The Lost Daughter (UK distributor: Netflix; producers: Charles Dorfman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Osnat Handelsman-Keren, Talia Kleinhendler)

The Power Of The Dog (UK distributor: Netflix; producers: Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman)

The Reason I Jump (UK distributor: Picturehouse Entertainment; producers: Jeremy Dear, Stevie Lee, Al Morrow)

The Souvenir: Part II (UK distributor: Picturehouse Entertainment; producers: Ed Guiney, Joanna Hogg, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton, Luke Schiller)

Big Screen Event of the Year

Baby Lame presents Showgirls Live!, Rio Cinema

Gentleminions Screenings, Vue Entertainment

Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Film

Irish premiere of Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast, Belfast Film Festival

Kino Dreams – A Wim Wenders Retrospective, Curzon Film

Nightmare Alley at Screen on the Green, Pearl & Dean, IM Marketing, Searchlight Pictures & Jaguar

UK Royal Premiere of Top Gun: Maverick, Odeon Luxe Leicester Square

Other nominees listed at ScreenDaily

The Big Screen Awards

Northern Ireland Premiere • Belfast Film Festival • 4 November 2021

Remember… there is something about this place that inbuilt in its character is a very strong sense of identity. Sort of an invitation to claim it, own it, your home, like through a stick of rock, so when you leave that or lose that I think you can have a troubled time. — Sir Kenneth Branagh

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NEWS: London Film Festival: 'Game of Thrones' and 'Star Wars' star Gwendoline Christie to join Main Jury

The other jurors include ‘The Power of the Dog’ Producer Tanya Seghatchian and 'One Night in Miami' writer and 'Soul' co-director Kemp Powers who make up the official competition jury for the 2022 BFI London Film Festival. LFF kicks off on Wednesday, Oct. 5 with the world premiere of Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical.

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BEST PICTURE

THE NOMINEES ARE:

5. Licorice Pizza, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

Produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, Sara Murphy, & Adam Somner

Not so much a paean for a world long lost, but rather an uncanny conjuring of its moods and attitudes, relishing in some while interrogating others. Appears to be in conversation with its era’s own portrait of a bygone California, American Graffiti, employing many of that film’s devices and cultural assertions, asking us to pay close attention to the dissonance of its message to modern eyes and ears. Deceptively tricky.

4. Drive My Car, dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Produced by Akisiha Yamamoto

An intertextual treatise on the power of artistic expression to transcend language, as well as the challenge of grieving for someone whom you have hopelessly unresolved issues with, using the text to exorcise those feelings of resentment. Masterful.

3. The Power of the Dog, dir. Jane Campion

Produced by Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, & Tanya Seghatchian

An expertly constructed subversion of the western genre where toxic masculinity is the bad guy, paying close attention to how Phil’s performance of machismo tortures those around him, as well as himself with his internalized homophobia, but is perhaps most interesting in its exploration of how that vindictiveness and desire to control breeds its own wickedness in its targets- its titular “power,” as it were.

2. Zola, dir. Janicza Bravo

Produced by Kara Baker, Dave Franco, Elizabeth Haggard, David Hinojosa, Vince Jolivette, Christine Vachon, & Gia Walsh

A frenetic, simultaneously vapid and ruminative vision of our times. Bravo intrinsically understands what was so compelling about A’Ziah King’s infamous twitter thread, knowing precisely when to deliberately leave things surface level and when to probe the deeper implications of what’s being presented to us. A stunning tonal balancing act.

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1. The Souvenir Part II, dir. Joanna Hogg

Produced by Ed Guiney, Joanna Hogg, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton, & Luke Schiller

“Did you avoid the temptation to be obvious?”

Takes the first film’s subtextual connecting of the act of filmmaking to the work of processing trauma and makes it explicit in inspired, remarkably vulnerable fashion. Hogg varies her tactics here, peppering in bolder cinematic flourishes and unexpectedly comedic beats, expanding the scope of her vision in ways that are somehow both gutsy and refined. Feels borderless.

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Oscars: Full List of Nominations - 2022

'The Power of the Dog' leads nominees for the 94th annual Academy Awards with 12 noms. Other top-nominated films were 'Belfast,' 'Dune,' 'King Richard' and 'West Side Story.'

BEST PICTURE Belfast (Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers) CODA (Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers) Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers) Drive My Car (Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer) Dune (Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers) King Richard (Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers) Licorice Pizza (Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers) Nightmare Alley (Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, Producers) The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers) West Side Story (Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers)

BEST DIRECTOR Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza) Kenneth Branagh (Belfast) Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car) Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)

BEST ACTRESS Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter) Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers) Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos) Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

BEST ACTOR Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos) Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog) Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!) Will Smith (King Richard) Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter) Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) Judi Dench (Belfast) Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog) Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Ciarán Hinds (Belfast) Troy Kotsur (CODA) Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog) J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos) Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN Cruella (Jenny Beavan) Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran) Dune (Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan) Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira) West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)

BEST SOUND Belfast (Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri) Dune (Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett) No Time to Die (Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor) The Power of the Dog (Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb) West Side Story (Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Don’t Look Up (Nicholas Britell) Dune (Hans Zimmer) Encanto (Germaine Franco) Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias) The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY CODA (Screenplay by Siân Heder) Drive My Car (Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe) Dune (Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth) The Lost Daughter (Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal) The Power of the Dog (Written by Jane Campion)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Belfast (Written by Kenneth Branagh) Don’t Look Up (Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota) King Richard (Written by Zach Baylin) Licorice Pizza (Written by Paul Thomas Anderson) The Worst Person in the World (Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier)

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Oscar Nominations 2022: ‘Power of the Dog’ Leads With 12 Nods, ‘Dune’ Follows With 10 (Full List)

Best actor is a race between Hollywood heavyweights Denzel Washington (“The Tragedy of MacBeth”) and Will Smith (“King Richard”), along with respected veterans such as Bardem, Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick … Boom!”) and Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Power of the Dog”).  Best actress will be a contest between Cruz, Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”), Olivia Colman (“The Lost Daughter”), Nicole Kidman (“Being the Ricardos”) and Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”).

The 94th annual Academy Awards will be on March 27 at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. The in-person ceremony will be televised on ABC. For the first time in three years, the Oscars will have a host in 2022, Craig Erwich, president of ABC Entertainment and Hulu Originals, announced in January. Variety later learned that multiple hosts will likely take the stage, however no official names have been revealed yet.

Here is the full list of 2022 Oscar nominations:

Best Picture

“Belfast,” Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, producers

“CODA,” Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, producers

“Don’t Look Up,” Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, producers

“Drive My Car,” Teruhisa Yamamoto, producer

“Dune,” Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, producers

“King Richard,” Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, producers

“Licorice Pizza,” Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, producers

“Nightmare Alley,” Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, producers

“The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, producers

“West Side Story,” Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, producers

Best Director

Kenneth Branagh (“Belfast”)

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (“Drive My Car”)

Paul Thomas Anderson (“Licorice Pizza”)

Jane Campion (“The Power of the Dog”)

Steven Spielberg (“West Side Story”)

Best Lead Actor

Javier Bardem (“Being the Ricardos”)

Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Power of the Dog”)

Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick … Boom!”)

Will Smith (“King Richard”)

Denzel Washington (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”)

Best Lead Actress

Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”)

Olivia Colman (“The Lost Daughter”)

Penélope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”)

Nicole Kidman (“Being the Ricardos”)

Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”)

Best Supporting Actor

Ciarán Hinds (“Belfast”)

Troy Kotsur (“CODA”)

Jesse Plemons (“The Power of the Dog”)

J.K. Simmons (“Being the Ricardos”)

Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Power of the Dog”)

Best Supporting Actress

Jessie Buckley (“The Lost Daughter”)

Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”)

Judi Dench (“Belfast”

Kirsten Dunst (“The Power of the Dog”)

Aunjanue Ellis (“King Richard”)

Best Adapted Screenplay

“CODA,” screenplay by Siân Heder

“Drive My Car,” screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe

“Dune,” screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth

“The Lost Daughter,” written by Maggie Gyllenhaal

“The Power of the Dog,” written by Jane Campion

Best Original Screenplay

“Belfast,” written by Kenneth Branagh

“Don’t Look Up,” screenplay by Adam McKay; story by Adam McKay and David Sirota

“King Richard,” written by Zach Baylin

“Licorice Pizza,” written by Paul Thomas Anderson

“The Worst Person in the World,” written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

Best Cinematography

“Dune,” Greig Fraser

“Nightmare Alley,” Dan Laustsen

“The Power of the Dog,” Ari Wegner

“The Tragedy of Macbeth,” Bruno Delbonnel

“West Side Story,” Janusz Kaminski

Best Animated Feature Film

“Encanto,” Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer

“Flee,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie

“Luca,” Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren

“The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht

“Raya and the Last Dragon,” Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho

Best Animated Short Film

“Affairs of the Art,” Joanna Quinn and Les Mills

“Bestia,” Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz

“Boxballet,” Anton Dyakov

“Robin Robin,” Dan Ojari and Mikey Please

“The Windshield Wiper,” Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez

Best Costume Design

“Cruella,” Jenny Beavan

“Cyrano,” Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran

“Dune,” Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan

“Nightmare Alley,” Luis Sequeira

“West Side Story,” Paul Tazewell

Best Original Score

“Don’t Look Up,” Nicholas Britell

“Dune,” Hans Zimmer

“Encanto,” Germaine Franco

“Parallel Mothers,” Alberto Iglesias

“The Power of the Dog,” Jonny Greenwood

Best Sound

“Belfast,” Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri

“Dune,” Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett

“No Time to Die,” Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor

“The Power of the Dog,” Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb

“West Side Story,” Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy

Best Original Song

“Be Alive” from “King Richard,” music and lyric by Dixson and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

“Dos Oruguitas” from “Encanto,” music and lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Down To Joy” from “Belfast,” music and lyric by Van Morrison

“No Time To Die” from “No Time to Die,” music and lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell

“Somehow You Do” from “Four Good Days,” music and lyric by Diane Warren

Best Documentary Feature

“Ascension,” Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell

“Attica,” Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry

“Flee,” Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie

“Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein

“Writing With Fire,” Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh

Best Documentary Short Subject

“Audible,” Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean

“Lead Me Home,” Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk

“The Queen of Basketball,” Ben Proudfoot

“Three Songs for Benazir,” Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei

“When We Were Bullies,” Jay Rosenblatt

Best Film Editing

“Don’t Look Up,” Hank Corwin

“Dune,” Joe Walker

“King Richard”, Pamela Martin

“The Power of the Dog,” Peter Sciberras

“Tick, Tick…Boom!” Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum

Best International Feature Film

“Drive My Car” (Japan)

“Flee” (Denmark)

“The Hand of God” (Italy)

“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom” (Bhutan)

“The Worst Person in the World” (Norway)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

“Coming 2 America,” Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer

“Cruella,” Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon

“Dune,” Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr

“The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh

“House of Gucci,” Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras

Best Production Design

“Dune,” production design: Patrice Vermette; set decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos

“Nightmare Alley,” production design: Tamara Deverell; set decoration: Shane Vieau

“The Power of the Dog,” production design: Grant Major; set decoration: Amber Richards

“The Tragedy of Macbeth,” production design: Stefan Dechant; set decoration: Nancy Haigh

“West Side Story,” production design: Adam Stockhausen; set decoration: Rena DeAngelo

Best Visual Effects

“Dune,” Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer

“Free Guy,” Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick

“No Time to Die,” Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver

“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick

Best Live Action Short Film

“Ala Kachuu – Take and Run,” Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger

“The Dress,” Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki

“The Long Goodbye,” Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed

“On My Mind,” Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson

“Please Hold,” K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse

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The novel The Power of the Dog had been percolating for some time in the back of the brain of filmmaker Jane Campion, previously an Academy Award winner for writing the screenplay for The Piano. Eventually, she felt compelled to adapt it for the screen.

“It intrigued me for many reasons: I couldn’t guess what was going to happen, it was incredibly detailed, and I felt that the person writing the story had lived this experience,” says Campion. “It’s not just a cowboy story from 1925 of ranch life. This is a lived experience, and I think because of that I felt a real trust for the story. I loved how deeply it explores masculinity and that it’s also about a hidden love.”

At the center of The Power of the Dog is Montana rancher Phil Burbank (played in the film by Benedict Cumberbatch), a charismatic but unflinchingly cruel figure that dominates his ranch hands. When his gentler brother George (Jesse Plemons) marries, Phil levels his brutal, bullying sights on George’s wife Rose (Kirsten Dunst) and her sensitive son Peter (Kodi Smit-McPhee). But Phil’s toxic barrage disguises an agonizing inner struggle, which once exposed, could be his undoing.

“He’s so complicated and cruel but, as mean and unkind as he often is, he’s also the tormented lonely lover safe only by treasuring feelings from a long gone past,” says Campion. “He is in an impossible situation of being an alpha male who is homophobic and also homosexual. It’s incredibly painful and complicated. I found Phil moving and I found the mysterious relationship between him and the boy exciting and satisfying.”

“I saw the potential of this as material for Jane,” says producer Tanya Seghatchian, a frequent Campion collaborator. “It’s a rich psychodrama with extraordinary roles for the central characters, has an incredibly cinematic landscape, and a chilling and surprising ending that really works.”

Our approach to the adaptation was to boldly fillet the book to make it tighter and more propelling for film, whilst honoring Thomas Savage’s vision, of course,” says Seghatchian. “Jane has an instinct for finding hidden notes and knowing how to intensify sensuality. One of her real gifts is making invisible emotions visible. We pinpointed themes and emotional gaps to explore more deeply and Jane crafted scenes only partially described in the book in a visual language. Jane is a master at highlighting desire and making it come alive cinematically.”

In an attempt to capture as much of the flavor and spirit of Savage’s work, the New Zealand-based Campion made a foray to Montana to gain a deeper perspective on the region. While there, she visited the Savage family ranch and soaked in as many details about the author’s life and lore from his descendants, further informing her take on the source material.

She also consulted with novelist Annie Proulx, who authored the short story Brokeback Mountain and penned an afterword to a 2001 edition of Savage’s book, discussing the iconography of the American West and Savage’s intensely masculine tale from the perspective of a female writer.

“I really do honor other people’s work, and I wanted to honor Thomas Savage with this film,” says Campion. “When I read a book like this, I don’t take the adaptation lightly. I want it to be as good as it can be. I wouldn’t say I’m a perfectionist, but I do like to do things really thoroughly!”

Click below to read the script for the pic from Netflix, which released Dog in theaters around Thanksgiving and launched it on the streaming site December 1. It has been one of the buzziest titles on this season’s awards circuit since its Venice Film Festival debut, where Campion won the Best Director award. It was named one of the films of the year by AFI among a slew of critics group honors, and took the Golden Globes’ Best Picture – Drama award. It has 10 Critics Choice nominations to go along with numerous acting noms for Cumberbatch, Dunst and Smit-McPhee, and directing and writing honors for Campion (though notably the screenplay is not eligible for the WGA Award)

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The list of stars who will be present at the London Film Festival has been announced: Campion, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Tanya Seghatchian, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier, Ari Wegner We will finally see Benedict and Jesse together The UK premiere of #thepowerofthedog at the London Film Festival as one of the main works of this festival will be held on Monday 11 October at the Royal London Hall.

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BAFTA EE British Academy Film Awards Winners in 2019

BEST FILM

BLACKkKLANSMAN Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele

THE FAVOURITE Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday

GREEN BOOK Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler

Winner - ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez

A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber, Lynette Howell Taylor

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

BEAST Michael Pearce, Kristian Brodie, Lauren Dark, Ivana MacKinnon

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY Graham King, Anthony McCarten

Winner - THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

McQUEEN Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Andee Ryder, Nick Taussig

STAN & OLLIE Jon S. Baird, Faye Ward, Jeff Pope

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE Lynne Ramsay, Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, James Wilson

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

APOSTASY Daniel Kokotajlo (Writer/Director)

Winner - BEAST Michael Pearce (Writer/Director), Lauren Dark (Producer)

A CAMBODIAN SPRING Chris Kelly (Writer/Director/Producer)

PILI Leanne Welham (Writer/Director), Sophie Harman (Producer)

RAY & LIZ Richard Billingham (Writer/Director), Jacqui Davies (Producer)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CAPERNAUM Nadine Labaki, Khaled Mouzanar

COLD WAR Paweł Pawlikowski, Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska

DOGMAN Matteo Garrone

Winner - ROMA Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez

SHOPLIFTERS Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kaoru Matsuzaki

DIRECTOR

BLACKkKLANSMAN Spike Lee

COLD WAR Paweł Pawlikowski

THE FAVOURITE Yorgos Lanthimos

Winner - ROMA Alfonso Cuarón

A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper

LEADING ACTRESS

GLENN CLOSE The Wife

LADY GAGA A Star Is Born

MELISSA McCARTHY Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Winner - OLIVIA COLMAN The Favourite

VIOLA DAVIS Widows

LEADING ACTOR

BRADLEY COOPER A Star Is Born

CHRISTIAN BALE Vice

Winner - RAMI MALEK Bohemian Rhapsody

STEVE COOGAN Stan & Ollie

VIGGO MORTENSEN Green Book

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

AMY ADAMS Vice

CLAIRE FOY First Man

EMMA STONE The Favourite

MARGOT ROBBIE Mary Queen of Scots

Winner - RACHEL WEISZ The Favourite

SUPPORTING ACTOR

ADAM DRIVER BlacKkKlansman

Winner - MAHERSHALA ALI Green Book

RICHARD E. GRANT Can You Ever Forgive Me?

SAM ROCKWELL Vice

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET Beautiful Boy

ORIGINAL MUSIC

BLACKkKLANSMAN Terence Blanchard

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Nicholas Britell

ISLE OF DOGS Alexandre Desplat

MARY POPPINS RETURNS Marc Shaiman

Winner - A STAR IS BORN Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson

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Read the complete list of 2019 BAFTA nominees.

Best Film

BlacKkKlansman – Jason Blum, Spike Lee, Raymond Mansfield, Sean McKittrick, Jordan Peele

The Favourite – Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lee Magiday

Green Book – Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Charles B. Wessler

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez

A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper, Bill Gerber, Lynette Howell Taylor

Outstanding British Film

Beast – Michael Pearce, Kristian Brodie, Lauren Dark, Ivana MacKinnon

Bohemian Rhapsody – Bryan Singer, Graham King, Anthony McCarten … our interview with Dexter Fletcher is here.

The Favourite – Yorgos Lanthimos, Ceci Dempsey, Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

McQueen – Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui, Andee Ryder, Nick Taussig

Stan & Ollie – Jon S. Baird, Faye Ward, Jeff Pope

You Were Never Really Here – Lynne Ramsay, Rosa Attab, Pascal Caucheteux, James Wilson

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer

Apostasy – Daniel Kokotajlo (Writer/Director)

Beast – Michael Pearce (Writer/Director), Lauren Dark (Producer)

A Cambodian Spring – Chris Kelly (Writer/Director/Producer)

Pili – Leanne Welham (Writer/Director), Sophie Harman (Producer)

Ray & Liz – Richard Billingham (Writer/Director), Jacqui Davies (Producer)

Film Not In The English Language

Capernaum – Nadine Labaki, Khaled Mouzanar – Our interview with director Nadine Labaki is here.

Cold War – Paweł Pawlikowski, Tanya Seghatchian, Ewa Puszczyńska

Dogman – Matteo Garrone

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, Gabriela Rodríguez

Shoplifters – Hirokazu Kore-eda, Kaoru Matsuzaki

Documentary

Free Solo – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

McQueen – Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui

RBG – Julie Cohen, Betsy West

They Shall Not Grow Old – Peter Jackson

Three Identical Strangers – Tim Wardle, Grace Hughes-Hallett, Becky Read

Animated Film

Incredibles 2 – Brad Bird, John Walker

Isle Of Dogs – Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord 

Director

BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee

Cold War – Paweł Pawlikowski

The Favourite – Yorgos Lanthimos

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper

 Original Screenplay

Cold War –  Janusz Głowacki, Paweł Pawlikowski

The Favourite – Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara

Green Book – Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

Vice – Adam McKay

Adapted Screenplay

BlacKkKlansman – Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott

Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty

First Man – Josh Singer

If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins

A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper, Will Fetters, Eric Roth

Leading Actress

Glenn Close – The Wife … read our interview with Close’s daughter, actress Annie Starke, on acting in The Wife, here.

Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born

Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Olivia Colman – The Favourite

Viola Davis – Widows

Leading Actor

Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born

Christian Bale – Vice

Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody

Steve Coogan – Stan & Ollie

Viggo Mortensen – Green Book

 Supporting Actress

Amy Adams – Vice

Claire Foy – First Man

Emma Stone – The Favourite

Margot Robbie –  Mary Queen of Scots

Rachel Weisz – The Favourite

Supporting Actor

Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman

Mahershala Ali – Green Book

Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Sam Rockwell – Vice

Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy

 Original Music

BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard

If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell

Isle Of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat

Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman

A Star Is Born – Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Lukas Nelson

Cinematography

Bohemian Rhapsody – Newton Thomas Sigel

Cold War – Łukasz Żal

The Favourite – Robbie Ryan

First Man – Linus Sandgren

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón

Editing

Bohemian Rhapsody – John Ottman

The Favourite – Yorgos Mavropsaridis

First Man – Tom Cross

Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, Adam Gough

Vice – Hank Corwin

Production Design

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald – Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock

The Favourite – Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton

First Man – Nathan Crowley, Kathy Lucas

Mary Poppins Returns – John Myhre, Gordon Sim

Roma – Eugenio Caballero, Bárbara Enríquez

Costume Design

The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs – Mary Zophres

Bohemian Rhapsody – Julian Day

The Favourite – Sandy Powell

Mary Poppins Returns – Sandy Powell

Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne

Make Up & Hair

Bohemian Rhapsody – Mark Coulier, Jan Sewell

The Favourite – Nadia Stacey

Mary Queen of Scots – Jenny Shircore

Stan & Ollie – Mark Coulier, Jeremy Woodhead

Vice – Nominees TBC

Sound

Bohemian Rhapsody – John Casali, Tim Cavagin, Nina Hartstone, Paul Massey, John Warhurst

First Man – Mary H. Ellis, Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor

Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Gilbert Lake, James H. Mather, Christopher Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith

A Quiet Place – Erik Aadahl, Michael Barosky, Brandon Procter, Ethan Van der Ryn

A Star Is Born – Steve Morrow, Alan Robert Murray, Jason Ruder, Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic

 Special Visual Effects

Avengers: Infinity War – Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Kelly Port, Dan Sudick

Black Panther – Geoffrey Baumann, Jesse James Chisholm, Craig Hammack, Dan Sudick

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald – Tim Burke, Andy Kind, Christian Manz, David Watkins

First Man – Ian Hunter, Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, J.D. Schwalm

Ready Player One – Matthew E. Butler, Grady Cofer, Roger Guyett, David Shirk 

British Short Animation

I’m Ok – Elizabeth Hobbs, Abigail Addison, Jelena Popović

Marfa – Gary McLeod, Myles McLeod

Roughhouse – Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom

British Short Film

73 Cows – Alex Lockwood

Bachelor, 38 – Angela Clarke

The Blue Door – Ben Clark, Megan Pugh, Paul Taylor

The Field – Sandhya Suri, Balthazar de Ganay

Wale – Barnaby Blackburn, Sophie Alexander, Catherine Slater, Edward Speleers

EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)

Barry Keoghan

Cynthia Erivo

Jessie Buckley

Lakeith Stanfield

Letitia Wright

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