Filmmaker Tribute Videos

Cinematical pointed me towards these really cool videos on YouTube by a 25-Year-Old freelance editor nicknamed barringer82, who has edited together a few compilation music videoes of his favorite directors. (…)

Gore Verbinski to Direct Big Budget Animated Film

Director Gore Verbinksi will follow up his billion-dollar Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy with an animated film with a budget estimated at $100 million to be written by John Logan (The Aviator, Sweeney Todd). (…)

Martin Scorsese Directs a Phone Call

Martin Scorsese recorded a Wireless Courtesy Message for AT&T. (…)

Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island Changes Title To…Ashecliffe

Well, it’s official: Martin Scorsese’s mystery drama, due in 2009 and formerly known as Shutter Island, is now entitled Ashecliffe. (…)

Ben Kingsley and Mark Ruffalo Join Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island

Ben Kingsley and Mark Ruffalo have joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. Based on the Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone) novel, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. (…)

Sylvester Stallone Offered Role in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island?

Has Martin Scorsese gone mad? The legendary director has apparently offered Sylvester Stallone the part of Chuck Aule in the big screen adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Shutter Island!? (…)

Martin Scorsese & Leonardo DiCaprio go to Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane is an author known for his Boston-based mystery novels, two of which have been adapted to the big screen. (…)

Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese Reteam for New Gangster Movie

Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese will re-team for feature film adaptation of Don Winslow’s The Winter of Frankie Machine. (…)

Naveen Andrews Dreams of Working with Martin Scorsese

Lost star Naveen Andrews wants desperately to work with Martin Scorsese.
“I’d love to work with him. I think he’s the best director in America today,” Andrews told /Film. (…)

William Monahan and Martin Scorsese hook up for The Long Play

Martin Scorsese has at least six projects in development (that we know about). We took an in-depth look at those films last week (you can read that report here). Well add another film to that list. (…)

Editors Blog: Oscar Notes

Random Notes from the Editor:
Errol Morris’ short film which opened the Academy Awards show was fantastic. If you didn’t see it, you can check out the video at Oscar.com. (…)

2007 Academy Awards Winners

Let’s look at the results from the 79th Academy Awards ceremony:

Best Motion Picture of the Year:
The Departed

Babel
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen

Achievement in Directing:
Martin Scorsese for The Departed

Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel
Paul Greengrass for United 93

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role:
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond
Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role:
Helen Mirren for The Queen

Penélope Cruz for Volver
Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet for Little Children

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role:
Alan Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine

Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
Djimon Hounsou for Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
Mark Wahlberg for The Departed

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role:
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls

Adriana Barraza for Babel
Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Happy Feet (George Miller)

Cars
Monster House

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year:
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) - Germany (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

After the Wedding - Denmark (Susanne Bier)
Days of Glory (Indigènes) - Algeria (Rachid Bouchareb)
Pan’s Labyrinth - Spain/Mexico (Guillermo del Toro)
Water - Canada (Deepa Mehta)

Best Documentary Film of the Year:
An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim)

Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Iraq in Fragments
Jesus Camp
My Country, My Country

Best Adapted Screenplay:
William Monahan for The Departed

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Children of Men
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal

Best Original Screenplay:
Michael Arndt for Little Miss Sunshine

Guillermo Arriaga for Babel
Iris Yamashita and Paul Haggis for Letters from Iwo Jima
Guillermo del Toro for Pan’s Labyrinth
Peter Morgan for The Queen

Best Cinematography:
Guillermo Navarro for Pan’s Labyrinth

Vilmos Zsigmond for The Black Dahlia
Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
Dick Pope for The Illusionist
Wally Pfister for The Prestige

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score:
Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel

Thomas Newman for The Good German
Philip Glass for Notes on a Scandal
Javier Navarrete for Pan’s Labyrinth
Alexandre Desplat for The Queen

Best Original Song
An Inconvenient Truth: Melissa Etheridge (”I Need To Wake Up”)

Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Scott Cutler, Anne Preven (”Listen”)
Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Siedah Garrett (”Love You I Do”)
Cars: Randy Newman (”Our Town”)
Dreamgirls: Henry Krieger, Willie Reale (”Patience”)

Other Awards
Best Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth (Eugenio Caballero, Pilar Revuelta)
Best Achievement in Visual Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (John Knoll, Hal T. (…)

Martin Scorsese’s Upcoming Movie Slate

Martin Scorsese has become the popular high demand director due to The Departed’s Oscar buzz. Warner Bros have acquired screen rights to yet another project for the director. (…)

Movies That Should Have Won an Academy Award, But Didn’t

Have you ever seen the movie How Green Was My Valley? Me neither.
Have you even heard of the movie? Didn’t think so.
Yet John Ford’s film somehow won 5 Oscars including Best Picture. (…)

William Monahan Talks The Departed 2

Ever since the award buzz kicked in, everyone seems to be talking about a sequel to The Departed. Some even say a trilogy is in the works. (…)