The awards season is off and running–and SHOOT is off to a great start with the first of its multi-part The Road To Oscar Series in which cinematographer Sean Bobbitt, BSC, reflected on director Steve McQueen and their collaboration on “12 Years a Slave” (Fox Searchlight), and editor Kevin Tent shared backstory on working with director Alexander Payne on “Nebraska” (Paramount). The same issue featured interviews and profiles of directors Paul Greengrass (“Captain Phillips”; Sony/Columbia), Brian Percival (“The Book Thief”; Fox), Ben Stiller (“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”; Fox), Scott Cooper (“Out of the Furnace”; Relativity) and J.C. Chandor (“All is Lost”; Roadside Attractions), as well as DPs Barry Ackroyd, BSC (Captain Phillips) and Anthony Dod Mantle, ASC, BSC (Ron Howard’s “Rush”; Universal Pictures).
Upcoming installments of our The Road To Oscar Series are tentatively slated to cover director John Lee Hancock (“Saving Mr. Banks”; Disney) as well as other directors and artisans ranging from writers to editors, cinematographers and production designers who have contributed to such movies as “Inside Llewyn Davis” (CBS Films), “The Wolf of Wall Street” (Paramount), “American Hustle” (Sony/Columbia), “Gravity” (Warner Bros), “Her” (Warner Bros), “The Butler” (The Weinstein Company), “Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom” (The Weinstein Company), “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company), “Dallas Buyers Club” (Focus Features), “Iron Man 3” (Disney), “Lone Survivor” (Universal), “Labor Day” (Paramount), “42” (Warner Bros.), “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” (IFC Films/Sundance Selects), “Enough Said” (Fox/Searchlight), and “The Hobbitt: The Desolation of Smaug” (Warner Bros).
Our coverage will also include the awards competitions leading up to–and the implications they carry for–the Oscars. This week, for example, the nominations for The Gotham Awards were announced with films in the running including “Upstream Color” (erbp), “Before Midnight” (Sony Pictures Classics), “Gimme the Loot” (Sundance Selects), “Blue Caprice” (Sundance Selects), “Short Term 12” (Cinedigm), “Blue Jasmine” (Sony Pictures Classics), “The Crash Reel” (HBO Documentary Films), “The Act of Killing” (Drafthouse Films), “First Cousin Once Removed” (HBO Documentary Films), “Let The Fire Burn” (Zeitgeist Films), and “Our Nixon” (Cinedigm, CNN Films).
While not every film may be in the running for an Oscar�, there are still many good business reasons to promote them. There are many award shows leading up to the Oscars that recognize award-worthy work that can set your film, show, and talent apart from the crowd. That’s why each year, major movie studios, television studios, television net
