The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed its 276-member-strong class of 2013.
The list, published by The Hollywood Reporter, includes actors, cinematographers, designers, directors, documentarians, executives, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, "members-at-large," musicians, producers, PR folks, short filmmakers and animators, sound technicians, visual effects artists, and writers.
Jason Bateman, Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Milla Jovovich, Lucy Liu, Jennifer Lopez, Emily Mortimer, Sandra Oh, Jason Schwartzman, and Michael Peña are among the roster of actors, while "The Heat" and "Bridesmaids" helmer Paul Feig made the directors' cut.
"We did not change our criteria at all," says Academy president Hawk Koch of this year's larger-than-usual class. "Yes, this year there is a tremendous amount of women, a tremendous amount of people of color, people from all walks of life. This year, we asked the branches to look at everybody who wasn't in the Academy but who deserved to be.
The list, published by The Hollywood Reporter, includes actors, cinematographers, designers, directors, documentarians, executives, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, "members-at-large," musicians, producers, PR folks, short filmmakers and animators, sound technicians, visual effects artists, and writers.
Jason Bateman, Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Milla Jovovich, Lucy Liu, Jennifer Lopez, Emily Mortimer, Sandra Oh, Jason Schwartzman, and Michael Peña are among the roster of actors, while "The Heat" and "Bridesmaids" helmer Paul Feig made the directors' cut.
"We did not change our criteria at all," says Academy president Hawk Koch of this year's larger-than-usual class. "Yes, this year there is a tremendous amount of women, a tremendous amount of people of color, people from all walks of life. This year, we asked the branches to look at everybody who wasn't in the Academy but who deserved to be.
- 7/4/2013
- by Laura Larson
- Moviefone
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the 276 members of the entertainment industry invited to join organization. The list includes actors, directors, documentarians, executives, film editors, producers and more. Of those listed below, those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy's membership in 2013. "These individuals are among the best filmmakers working in the industry today," said Academy President Hawk Koch in a press release. "Their talent and creativity have captured the imagination of audiences worldwide, and I am proud to welcome each of them to the Academy." Koch also told Variety, "In the past eight or nine years, each branch could only bring in X amount of members. There were people each branch would have liked to get in but couldn't. We asked them to be more inclusive of the best of the best, and each branch was excited, because they got...
- 6/28/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The Academy just added 276 Oscar voters.
That’s 100 more than last year, and part of an easing of a longstanding cap on the number of new members allowed to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences each year.
AMPAS usually adds between 130 and 180 new members, replacing those who have quit or passed away. The membership now stands around 6,000.
Jason Bateman, Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emmanuelle Riva, and Chris Tucker are among the actors who have been invited to join, the organization announced today.
Other interesting additions: the musician Prince, Girls and Tiny Furniture writer/director/actress Lena Dunham,...
That’s 100 more than last year, and part of an easing of a longstanding cap on the number of new members allowed to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences each year.
AMPAS usually adds between 130 and 180 new members, replacing those who have quit or passed away. The membership now stands around 6,000.
Jason Bateman, Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emmanuelle Riva, and Chris Tucker are among the actors who have been invited to join, the organization announced today.
Other interesting additions: the musician Prince, Girls and Tiny Furniture writer/director/actress Lena Dunham,...
- 6/28/2013
- by Anthony Breznican
- EW - Inside Movies
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 276 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2013.
“These individuals are among the best filmmakers working in the industry today,” said Academy President Hawk Koch. “Their talent and creativity have captured the imagination of audiences worldwide, and I am proud to welcome each of them to the Academy.”
The 2013 invitees are:
Actors
Jason Bateman – “Up in the Air,” “Juno”
Miriam Colon – “City of Hope,” “Scarface”
Rosario Dawson – “Rent,” “Frank Miller’s Sin City”
Kimberly Elise – “For Colored Girls,” “Beloved”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – “Lincoln,” “The Dark Knight Rises”
Charles Grodin – “Midnight Run,” “The Heartbreak Kid”
Rebecca Hall – “Iron Man 3,” “The Town”
Lance Henriksen – “Aliens,” “The Terminator”
Jack Huston – “Not Fade Away,” “Factory Girl”
Milla Jovovich – “Resident Evil,...
“These individuals are among the best filmmakers working in the industry today,” said Academy President Hawk Koch. “Their talent and creativity have captured the imagination of audiences worldwide, and I am proud to welcome each of them to the Academy.”
The 2013 invitees are:
Actors
Jason Bateman – “Up in the Air,” “Juno”
Miriam Colon – “City of Hope,” “Scarface”
Rosario Dawson – “Rent,” “Frank Miller’s Sin City”
Kimberly Elise – “For Colored Girls,” “Beloved”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – “Lincoln,” “The Dark Knight Rises”
Charles Grodin – “Midnight Run,” “The Heartbreak Kid”
Rebecca Hall – “Iron Man 3,” “The Town”
Lance Henriksen – “Aliens,” “The Terminator”
Jack Huston – “Not Fade Away,” “Factory Girl”
Milla Jovovich – “Resident Evil,...
- 6/28/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
By Neil Pedley
There's something for everyone this week at the multiplex, what with Carrie and company offering something for the ladies with "Sex and the City," the Tae Kwon Do comedy "The Foot Fist Way" being an alternative for the guys, and "Savage Grace"... well, again, let's just say there's something for everyone.
"Bigger, Stronger, Faster*"
With everyone from Little League coaches to members of the U.S. Congress weighing in on the issue of performance enhancing drugs in sports, body builder (and former user) Christopher Bell injects his own story into this documentary that explores America's obsession with excellence and what it realistically takes to achieve it. Bell chronicles his own family's history of steroid use as a jumping off point to explore the wider love/hate relationship between professional athletes and performance enhancing drugs in a culture where winning is everything and there are no points for second place.
There's something for everyone this week at the multiplex, what with Carrie and company offering something for the ladies with "Sex and the City," the Tae Kwon Do comedy "The Foot Fist Way" being an alternative for the guys, and "Savage Grace"... well, again, let's just say there's something for everyone.
"Bigger, Stronger, Faster*"
With everyone from Little League coaches to members of the U.S. Congress weighing in on the issue of performance enhancing drugs in sports, body builder (and former user) Christopher Bell injects his own story into this documentary that explores America's obsession with excellence and what it realistically takes to achieve it. Bell chronicles his own family's history of steroid use as a jumping off point to explore the wider love/hate relationship between professional athletes and performance enhancing drugs in a culture where winning is everything and there are no points for second place.
- 5/26/2008
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
PARK CITY -- Creation, whether in science or art, is wondrous. That's the main thrust of "Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic," filmmaker Jon Else's inspired documentary about the cataclysmic 48 hours before the test of the first atomic bomb, as refracted through the rehearsal of an opera conceived by Peter Sellars and composed by John Adams.
With a sobering and enlightening leitmotif of historical footage and clips of J. Robert Oppenheimer and his scientific team, Else focuses on the splendidly grandiose attempt of theater guru Sellars and his artistic team's attempt to distill the enormity of the creation of the A-bomb. Even for those of us who find it most wondrous that Sellars is able to secure funding even from the cultural elite for his grandiose piffles, "Wonders" is a complex and illuminating glimpse into human creativity.
Many will be surprised to learn that Oppenheimer had a poet's sensibility, read John Dunne, mastered many languages and grappled with philosophical complexities. In Oppenheimer, the scientific mind fused with the poet's sensibility. The fact that such a Renaissance man was the visionary for the most devastating weapon ever conceived by mankind at the time is one of the paradoxes, ironies and other complexities that Else has explored in this compelling documentary.
Tightly layered with uncanny insights and profound illuminations, "Wonders" is a masterful distillation of explosive elements: science, art, psychology and humanity.
WONDERS ARE MANY: THE MAKING OF DOCTOR ATOMIC
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Credits:
Producers: Bonni Cohen, Jon Else
Screenwriter-director-cinematographer: Jon Else
Editor: Deborah Hoffman
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
With a sobering and enlightening leitmotif of historical footage and clips of J. Robert Oppenheimer and his scientific team, Else focuses on the splendidly grandiose attempt of theater guru Sellars and his artistic team's attempt to distill the enormity of the creation of the A-bomb. Even for those of us who find it most wondrous that Sellars is able to secure funding even from the cultural elite for his grandiose piffles, "Wonders" is a complex and illuminating glimpse into human creativity.
Many will be surprised to learn that Oppenheimer had a poet's sensibility, read John Dunne, mastered many languages and grappled with philosophical complexities. In Oppenheimer, the scientific mind fused with the poet's sensibility. The fact that such a Renaissance man was the visionary for the most devastating weapon ever conceived by mankind at the time is one of the paradoxes, ironies and other complexities that Else has explored in this compelling documentary.
Tightly layered with uncanny insights and profound illuminations, "Wonders" is a masterful distillation of explosive elements: science, art, psychology and humanity.
WONDERS ARE MANY: THE MAKING OF DOCTOR ATOMIC
ITVS
Actual Films
Credits:
Producers: Bonni Cohen, Jon Else
Screenwriter-director-cinematographer: Jon Else
Editor: Deborah Hoffman
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Director John Else, who won the first ever Sundance documentary award in 1980 for his film The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb returns to Sundance, and to familiar subject matter, with Wonders Are Many, a documentary about the making of Doctor Atomic, an opera produced in San Francisco about Robert Oppenheimer in the weeks leading up to the detonation of his atomic bomb. Art imitates annahilation in the work of composer John Adams, the most accomplished living American composer, and stage director Peter Sellers, who has directed hundreds of productions across the world, as they write, cast, rehearse and design the first ever opera that contains pieces of once-classified information and a actual-size replication of the atomic bomb. Interwoven is footage of Oppenheimer himself, interviews with Robert Wilson, one of the grad-students present at Oppenheimer’s top-secret Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, and lots
- 1/21/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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