'Grand Budapest Hotel,' 'Into The Woods' Among Art Directors Guild Nominees

"Interstellar" also among the nominees for the Art Directors Guild's 19th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which will be handed out Jan. 31 at the Beverly Hilton.

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Film Critics Are "Celebrity-Worshipping Awards-Givers"

At last year's New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner, critic Armond White was reported to have heckled Steve McQueen, who was accepting a best director award for 12 Years a Slave, by calling out, "You're an embarrassing doorman and garbage man."

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Oscars: 4 Animated Movies That Could Make History

Though no animated feature ever has been nominated for the best production design Oscar, there's nothing in the rule book to prevent that from happening. Animation filmmakers argue it's time that their production design teams get their due. After all, everything they create is built entirely from scratch.

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DreamWorks Animation: Bonnie Arnold, Mireille Soria Co-Presidents of Feature Animation

"Mireille and Bonnie are two of the most accomplished and prolific filmmakers working in feature animation today," Katzenberg said in a statement. "I am confident in their ability to marshal the extensive creative resources available at our studio and lead DreamWorks' vast ranks of artists and filmmakers as they produce the highest quality entertainment."

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Joan Rivers, Legendary Comedienne, Dies at 81

The breakthrough standup comic, writer, actress, fashion critic, red-carpet doyenne, gossip and businesswoman died Thursday at 1:17 p.m. local time at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, her daughter Melissa announced.

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Cinematic Cuts Exploit How Your Brain Edits What You See

It’s amazing that film editing works, because it’s so disruptive to the visual information coming into the brain, says Jeffrey Zacks, a neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Louis. On the other hand, Zacks says, our brains do quite a bit of editing of their own—and we’re every bit as oblivious to that as we are to the film editor’s cuts.

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The Man Behind the Most Iconic Movie Posters of the ’80s and ’90s

 Any art-collecting movie nerd worth his or her Reese’s Pieces owns at least one John Alvin creation. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Blade Runner, The Gremlins,Jurassic Park—Alvin designed poster art for all of them. By hand. They are among the most enduring images of recent film history, even if his name isn’t is as recognizable as, say, Saul Bass.

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