"It's an exciting day," Sony Pictures Classics co-president Michael Barker says by phone the day his company's films racked up eight Independent Spirit Award nominations last week. "I'm really happy for...
Now that the nominations have been announced, it seems like a good time to go ahead and point you to our interviews with various individuals who woke up to good news this morning. This list is on-going as we stil...
The nominations have been unveiled for the 84th annual Academy Awards, and from that list, we can glean this and that about the vast voting body. What do the snubs mean? What do the surprise inclusions mean? ...
As we push on through the final week of the 2012-2013 film awards season, here's a look back at our chats with the lucky artists who heard their names called on January 10.
We ended up talking to an even 50 Oscar nom...
Bennett Miller is knackered. He's recently touched down from the Toronto Film Festival where his film "Moneyball" first screened for the masses. It was a project with plenty of baggage by the time he came ar...
“Did you like the movie?” Nicolas Winding Refn asks buoyantly from a New York sidewalk, as he takes a brief stroll around the block from his hotel. He’s escaped for a hit of air in the midst of a p...
At an abandoned Pasadena hospital, Woody Harrelson patiently waits for a shot to be set up as he plays with the gold jewelry on his fingers. He's decked out like a slick street hustler, a scorpion tattoo on his neck. ...
You can't really peg Joseph Gordon-Levitt down. Hollywood can't, I should say. One minute he's blasting onto the scene in indies like "Mysterious Skin" and "Brick," the next he's tackling blockbust...
The 2011 awards season may be young, with a great many breathless winners yet to soak the stage in tears, but I'm not sure we'll see another acceptance speech quite as humbly overwhelmed as Olivia Colman's at the Brit...
"Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost." This statement of purpose, at once urgent and evasive of reality, by the late choreographer Pina Bausch has been appropriated as the chief marketing line of Wim Wenders...
