Word: oscars
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...billion-a-year animation industry. Hayao Miyazaki is living proof that indigenous storytelling has international appeal. Three of the top five grossing films in Japanese history were produced by Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli. Of those, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle were honored by the Oscar committee. No longer ghettoized in Saturday-morning cartoons or serial blockbusters like Ice Age and Shrek, animation now encompasses the content for mighty subindustries, including games, cartoons for television and cable, live-action special-effects films, commercials and - the latest frontier - mobile phones. Asian countries have distinct advantages in the business, in addition...
...music in a 3-1/2 hr. production, and do it all without retakes and post-production computer effects? Most daunting, how to satisfy the million of Tolkien fans whose image of Middle-Earth has been molded by many readings of the text, not to mention Peter Jackson?s Oscar-winning film version...
...mean?” This crudely simple line delivered in Hayek’s painfully desperate tone breaks the heart and comes off as more significant than the sum of its parts. Farrell, on the other hand, seems like he’s still trying for that Oscar nomination. Following performances in epics such as “Alexander,” he once again plays a character much more grandiloquent than the actor is in real life. Although a solid performance overall, Farrell sways from overacting, as though he were on stage, to settling comfortably into Bandini?...
When Ang Lee thanked "everybody in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China" last week while accepting a Best Director Oscar for his gay-cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain, the mainland returned the love. The state-run China Daily called Lee "the pride of the Chinese people all over the world" and "the glory of Chinese cinematic talent." But it ignored the fact that Lee was born and raised in Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province. Lee's shout-out to his fellow Taiwanese was excised from the mainland broadcast of the Oscars?as was a speech on gay love, which...
YOUR PAST FEW MOVIES HAVE BEEN COMMERCIALLY APPEALING BUT NOT ART HOUSE. HAVE YOU GIVEN UP ON ANOTHER OSCAR? [Laughs] It's not like you go out and try and drum those roles up. I'm interested in all kinds of roles. The Silence of the Lambs, for all intents and purposes, was not an Oscar-bait movie. I don't know, I just don't have rules for it. I think what interests me is being a part of the storytelling, not necessarily being the drummer with the solo...