How the Hair Design of Mudbound Became the Basis of an Oscar Nominated Performance
...it.” Carey Mulligan in Mudbound Courtesy: Netflix Photo: Steve Dietl Means is a major catalyst in Mudbound. There are characters that work tirelessly and will never own anything themselves. Other characters feel...
Mudbound Composer on the History of African-American Persistence That Inspired the Score
...Mudbound tells the story of two such families, one black and one white, whose fates are intertwined on a Mississippi farm in the 1940s. With Mudbound, Bessie, and Pariah, Rees has picked...
Mudbound & Come Sunday Composer Tamar-kali's Singular Path
...hired. There isn’t any official data on how many of those are women of color, but it’s an even smaller fraction. With her critically acclaimed score for Mudbound, and now with her...
Oscars 2018: The Imaginative, Thoughtful, and Timely Nominated Films
...for her work on the powerful Mudbound. Get Out received the rare Best Picture nomination for a horror film. It also scooped up a nod for Best Actor, Best Director, and Best...
The Shape of Water, Jordan Peele & Frances McDormand: Your 2018 Oscar Highlights
...in the World Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Supporting Actress Mary J. Blige – Mudbound Allison Janney – I, Tonya Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread Laurie Metcalf –...
A Peek at Your Oscar Contenders—A Day Before The Nominations
...in a year that boasts three worthy best director nominees in Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird), Dee Rees (Mudbound) and Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman)? After a slew of critics’ prize and a Golden...
The 55th Annual New York Film Festival Begins Today
...name; Dee Rees’ Mudbound, which Netflix reportedly bought out of Sundance for $12.5 million; Todd Haynes’s era-hopping fantasia Wonderstruck starring Julianne Moore, which wowed Cannes audiences but not the jury; Greta Gerwig’s...
Your 2018 Golden Globes Nominees Speak to a Really Good Year on Screens Big & Small
...and Loving Vincent. Coco’s signature song “Remember Me” also made it onto the Best Original Song list alongside selections from Ferdinand, Mudbound, The Star and The Greatest Showman. Big Little Lies leads...
"A Journal for Jordan" Screenwriter on Adapting This Moving True Story for Denzel Washington
Virgil Williams knows a thing or two about crafting a screenplay based on a previously written work. After all, his script for Netflix’s Mudbound, co-written with director Dee Rees and adapted from...
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TIFF 2017: The Films That Made the Biggest Splash
...Call Me By Your Name (Sony Pictures Classics) and Dee Rees’ Mudbound (Netflix). The former, with a script by the legendary James Ivory, is a sensual pean to first love, culture and...
Anne Hathaway Eyeing Role in Iran-Contra Film, The Last Thing He Wanted
Dee Rees, the director of Mudbound, Pariah, and Bessie, is teaming up with Anne Hathaway for her next project. Variety reports that Rees will direct a big screen adaptation of Joan Didion’s...
Your 2018 Golden Globes Winners
...Franco, The Disaster Artist Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Mary J. Blige, Mudbound Hong Chau,...
Horizon Award Winner Shira Baron on The Importance of Listening
...have shepherded a slew of incredible films. Cassian Elwes (Dallas Buyers Club, Mudbound), Lynette Howell Taylor (A Star is Born, Blue Valentine, Captain Fantastic), and Christine Vachon (Collette, Carol, Beatriz at Dinner,...
Director Shaka King Breaks Down the Magic Trick Behind “Judas and the Black Messiah”
...target. After writing a finished script with first-timer Will Berson, King enlisted heavyweight producers Ryan Coogler and Charles D. King (Mudbound, Harriet, Just Mercy), secured co-financing from Warner Bros., and filmed in...
Director Marian De Pontes on her Horizon Award-Winning Film "Etana"
...Cassian Elwes (Dallas Buyers Club, Mudbound), Lynette Howell Taylor (A Star is Born, Blue Valentine, Captain Fantastic), and Christine Vachon (Collette, Carol, Beatriz at Dinner, Boys Don’t Cry) created the Horizon Award...
Honey Boy Cinematographer Natasha Braier on Earning an ASC Spotlight Nomination
...of comes from assuming what might be called the “Rachel Morrison” role in this year’s awards. Morrison, of course, is the Oscar (and ASC) nominated DP who shot Black Panther and Mudbound...
Oscar-Nominee Shaka King on Writing & Directing “Judas and the Black Messiah”
...script with first-timer Will Berson, King enlisted heavyweight producers Ryan Coogler and Charles D. King (Mudbound, Harriet, Just Mercy), secured co-financing from Warner Bros., and filmed in Cleveland as a stand-in for...
Oscar Watch: Black Panther Cinematographer Rachel Morrison on how to Make an Intimate Epic
When Oscar-nominated cinematographer Rachel Morrison (the first woman ever nominated in the category for her work on Mudbound) started working on Black Panther, she had an uncanny feeling; this massive, ultimately groundbreaking...
Writer/Director Boots Riley on his Staggeringly Original Sorry to Bother You
...of Mudbound. Nobody was totally sold, but they were interested. Then I got into the directors lab, and was working on who to cast in the film. We were going through different...
TIFF 2017: What We're Excited About This Year in Toronto
...who returns to the small town and reunites with his former high-school teacher (Edie Falco). The Dee Rees-directed Mudbound (Netflix), a period drama starring Carey Mulligan, Jason Clark and Mary J. Blige...