The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is expanding its membership.
According to a press release, the organization that hands out Oscars each year at the Academy Awards has extended invitations to join the Academy to 398 artists and executives who have made notable contributions to the motion picture industry.
“The Academy is proud to welcome these artists and professionals into our membership. They represent extraordinary global talent across cinematic disciplines and have made a vital impact on the arts and sciences of motion pictures and on movie fans worldwide,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang in a joint statement.
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There are some big names and familiar faces among the invitees, including musicians Taylor Swift and David Byrne, and numerous actors, ranging from Selma Blair to Keke Palmer to “Elvis” Oscar nominee Austin Butler.
According to a press release, the organization that hands out Oscars each year at the Academy Awards has extended invitations to join the Academy to 398 artists and executives who have made notable contributions to the motion picture industry.
“The Academy is proud to welcome these artists and professionals into our membership. They represent extraordinary global talent across cinematic disciplines and have made a vital impact on the arts and sciences of motion pictures and on movie fans worldwide,” said Academy CEO Bill Kramer and Academy President Janet Yang in a joint statement.
Read More: The Academy Announces 2024 Oscars Date As Well As Submission Deadline
There are some big names and familiar faces among the invitees, including musicians Taylor Swift and David Byrne, and numerous actors, ranging from Selma Blair to Keke Palmer to “Elvis” Oscar nominee Austin Butler.
- 6/28/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
The Robert Eggers movie The Lighthouse has gotten a 4K Ultra HD upgrade from A24 in the form of a Special Collector’s Edition release that’s now available from their online shop.
The Special collector’s edition of Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is available in Standard Blu-ray and—for the very first time!—4K Uhd with a new Hdr master.
Featuring original artwork by Tobias Kaspar and a 64-page interior booklet, the printed discpack comes enclosed in an embossed wave-textured slipcase.
Disc extras include:
Exclusive mini documentary on composer Mark Korven Costume walkthrough and interview with costume designer Linda Muir 2019 making-of featurette Deleted scenes
Book contents include:
Storyboard excerpts by David Cullen Production design drawings by Craig Lathrop BTS photography by Eric Chakeen Bib-front shirt pattern made by Marvin Schlichting to Linda Muir’s design
You can grab your copy on Blu-ray ($45) or 4K Uhd ($47) from A24’s website right now.
The Special collector’s edition of Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse is available in Standard Blu-ray and—for the very first time!—4K Uhd with a new Hdr master.
Featuring original artwork by Tobias Kaspar and a 64-page interior booklet, the printed discpack comes enclosed in an embossed wave-textured slipcase.
Disc extras include:
Exclusive mini documentary on composer Mark Korven Costume walkthrough and interview with costume designer Linda Muir 2019 making-of featurette Deleted scenes
Book contents include:
Storyboard excerpts by David Cullen Production design drawings by Craig Lathrop BTS photography by Eric Chakeen Bib-front shirt pattern made by Marvin Schlichting to Linda Muir’s design
You can grab your copy on Blu-ray ($45) or 4K Uhd ($47) from A24’s website right now.
- 3/20/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Reportedly, Sebastian Stan clocks in at 6 feet tall, comparable with 6-foot-2 Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, whom the actor plays in Pam & Tommy. Co-star Lily James hits 5-foot-7 in flats, which corresponds with Pamela Anderson. But, via extensive research, Pam & Tommy costume designer Kameron Lennox determined that Anderson’s documented height may be with her trademark 4-inch heels on.
In the Hulu limited series (nominated for an Emmy for outstanding contemporary costumes), James often wore Anderson-style high heels, such as for an incognito trip to the library to access the nascent internet, where her Christian Louboutin boots (a take on Uggs) brought James near Stan’s height. But, in the preceding scene, shot from the waist up, James actually stood flat-foot for a tension-filled conversation with Stan as the hotheaded Tommy. “It was so important that [Pam] felt smaller, like she’s vulnerable,...
Reportedly, Sebastian Stan clocks in at 6 feet tall, comparable with 6-foot-2 Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, whom the actor plays in Pam & Tommy. Co-star Lily James hits 5-foot-7 in flats, which corresponds with Pamela Anderson. But, via extensive research, Pam & Tommy costume designer Kameron Lennox determined that Anderson’s documented height may be with her trademark 4-inch heels on.
In the Hulu limited series (nominated for an Emmy for outstanding contemporary costumes), James often wore Anderson-style high heels, such as for an incognito trip to the library to access the nascent internet, where her Christian Louboutin boots (a take on Uggs) brought James near Stan’s height. But, in the preceding scene, shot from the waist up, James actually stood flat-foot for a tension-filled conversation with Stan as the hotheaded Tommy. “It was so important that [Pam] felt smaller, like she’s vulnerable,...
- 7/26/2022
- by Fawnia Soo Hoo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robert Eggers’s viking epic, “The Northman,” has been out for a few weeks now, and while it hasn’t done huge business at the box office – about 31 million as of this writing – it’s an interesting release for early potential awards conversations.
Eggers burst onto the scene in 2015 when his debut feature “The Witch” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where the filmmaker received a jury prize for his direction. It wouldn’t be released by A24 until a year later, at which point it continued to achieve acclaim, winning two Indie Spirit awards in February 2017 for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.
Eggers’s latest movie stars Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, who, as a young Nordic prince, was chased from his home after his father, King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), is brutally murdered by his brother Fjölnir (Claes Bang). Decades later Amleth has become a Viking berserker, but...
Eggers burst onto the scene in 2015 when his debut feature “The Witch” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where the filmmaker received a jury prize for his direction. It wouldn’t be released by A24 until a year later, at which point it continued to achieve acclaim, winning two Indie Spirit awards in February 2017 for Best First Feature and Best First Screenplay.
Eggers’s latest movie stars Alexander Skarsgård as Amleth, who, as a young Nordic prince, was chased from his home after his father, King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), is brutally murdered by his brother Fjölnir (Claes Bang). Decades later Amleth has become a Viking berserker, but...
- 5/16/2022
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
After taking a deep dive into Viking culture, storytelling, and the arduous craft of garment making, costume designer Linda Muir was ready to become the medieval Coco Chanel of director Robert Eggers’ “The Northman.” In fact, one of the first things she did was construct an enormous chart to plot all of the scenes and character beats in this “Hamlet” riff on power and vengeance, rooted in the same 12th century Danish historical text adapted by Shakespeare.
“Robert provides me with an incredible amount of information and takes great care in answering my questions and filling me in not just on the backstory of the characters but then how that backstory relates to the sagas, relates to the culture,” Muir told IndieWire. “Then I did my master’s chart so I can look at it all in one go as a game plan. Then, when I understand where those changes should be seated,...
“Robert provides me with an incredible amount of information and takes great care in answering my questions and filling me in not just on the backstory of the characters but then how that backstory relates to the sagas, relates to the culture,” Muir told IndieWire. “Then I did my master’s chart so I can look at it all in one go as a game plan. Then, when I understand where those changes should be seated,...
- 4/27/2022
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Without a doubt, Robert Eggers’ “The Northman” traffics in his now-usual brand of haunted atmospherics and wonky mysticism, a signature whose intensity is upped by the savage bloodlust of its characters and the vastitudes of his first big-budget epic with a price tag reportedly hovering between 70 million and 90 million.
The only thing more intensely stressed than the dilemma of a Viking prince in the year 895 played to brutal, muscular perfection by Alexander Skarsgård, is the all-consuming dedication of its tactile production design, its brooding, cinematographic ambiance and the craftsmanship of its furry, hierarchical costuming.
For the craggy look and authentic feel of “The Northman,” credit Eggers’ forever production designer Craig Lathrop, cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and costume designer Linda Muir, the team that worked closely with the director on his 2015 feature debut, “The Witch,” and also 2019’s “The Lighthouse.”
Lathrop says that save for having bigger budgets and scale for its sets in Ireland and Iceland,...
The only thing more intensely stressed than the dilemma of a Viking prince in the year 895 played to brutal, muscular perfection by Alexander Skarsgård, is the all-consuming dedication of its tactile production design, its brooding, cinematographic ambiance and the craftsmanship of its furry, hierarchical costuming.
For the craggy look and authentic feel of “The Northman,” credit Eggers’ forever production designer Craig Lathrop, cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and costume designer Linda Muir, the team that worked closely with the director on his 2015 feature debut, “The Witch,” and also 2019’s “The Lighthouse.”
Lathrop says that save for having bigger budgets and scale for its sets in Ireland and Iceland,...
- 4/21/2022
- by A.D. Amorosi
- Variety Film + TV
Revenge is a dish best served cold, and it doesn’t get any colder, literally or figuratively, than the bitter portion ladled up in Robert Eggers’ merciless yarn of medieval vengeance, The Northman. This seriously nasty and violent tale comes across as an intense labor of love on the part of the American director and his Icelandic co-writer, the poet Sjón; there’s scarcely a moment of softness, sentiment or relaxation here, just fierce and ferocious determination to fight and prevail in an unstintingly harsh environment. For the most part it’s an enthralling immersion in a forbidding time and place, enhanced by an immoderately attractive cast and saddled only by a dramatic sameness that settles in after a while and gradually diminishes the film’s impact.
There haven’t been too many Viking movies, most likely because the time and place involved pretty seriously restrict the format to two things—sailing and marauding,...
There haven’t been too many Viking movies, most likely because the time and place involved pretty seriously restrict the format to two things—sailing and marauding,...
- 4/11/2022
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
For The Northman, co-writer/director Robert Eggers transports audiences to the year 895 Ad for his epic Viking tale fueled by vengeance, betrayal, and blood. At the start, we’re introduced to King Aurvandil (Ethan Hawke), who is returning from battle and welcomed warmly by his wife, Queen Gudrún (Nicole Kidman), and his young son and heir to the throne, Amleth (played by Oscar Novak). After undergoing a rite of passage that helps young Amleth continue his journey towards adulthood, Aurvandil’s devious brother, Fjölnir (Claes Bang), decides to betray his family by mercilessly slaughtering his brother and kidnapping Queen Gudrún as a means of claiming her as his own. Amleth manages to escape before Fjölnir’s henchmen can kill him, and as the young man leaves everything and everyone he knows behind, Amleth makes a promise to himself that one day he will avenge his father’s murder and rescue...
- 4/11/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
There are a couple of pieces already online about Linda Muir’s meticulous costume design for 1890s set The Lighthouse – see Here and Here. As such, anything we might add would largely be clickbait redundant. So, go and read those serious and informative articles and then come back here to join us in celebration of something those pieces don’t discuss, but is possibly even more important than all that painstaking period recreation and making oilskins from scratch: high-waisted trousers.
Out of all the trends that work their way into mainstream menswear, high-waisted trousers don’t seem to stick. Certainly they are popular in women’s clothing, where, with an apparently undetected degree of irony, they are largely employed to invoke masculine attire. Yet for cis-gendered menswear, high-waisted trousers remain primarily the preserve of the vintage community. There has been a pleasing revival for suits, especially on younger men, who...
Out of all the trends that work their way into mainstream menswear, high-waisted trousers don’t seem to stick. Certainly they are popular in women’s clothing, where, with an apparently undetected degree of irony, they are largely employed to invoke masculine attire. Yet for cis-gendered menswear, high-waisted trousers remain primarily the preserve of the vintage community. There has been a pleasing revival for suits, especially on younger men, who...
- 2/4/2020
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
This Friday, A24 releases the powerful new horror movie, The Witch, which was written and directed by Robert Eggers. His debut feature stars Anya Taylor-Joy as Thomasin, a young woman who is uprooted alongside the rest of her family and forced to relocate to a plantation on the cusp of an ominous forest containing otherworldly dangers that threaten to tear her entire family apart.
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with both Eggers and Taylor-Joy at the press day for The Witch; here’s what the duo had to say about what inspired Eggers’ directorial debut, preparing for the project, and much more.
Robert, I know your background before directing was that you were working in other aspects of filmmaking in terms of costumes and stuff like that. How much did having that kind of visual background help you to prepare for making The Witch?
Robert Eggers:...
Daily Dead recently had the opportunity to speak with both Eggers and Taylor-Joy at the press day for The Witch; here’s what the duo had to say about what inspired Eggers’ directorial debut, preparing for the project, and much more.
Robert, I know your background before directing was that you were working in other aspects of filmmaking in terms of costumes and stuff like that. How much did having that kind of visual background help you to prepare for making The Witch?
Robert Eggers:...
- 2/18/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
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