Michael Crapser has joined Santa Monica-based visual effects studio Moving Pixels as partner/executive producer. He will work closely with Moving Pixels’ principal/creative director Tony Smoller. Crapser comes over from Rhythm & Hues Studios, Los Angeles, where he served as executive producer of its commercial live-action and CG divisions. As earlier reported (4/12, p. 1), Oliver Fuselier was recently named executive producer of Rhythm & Hues’ live action spot division, which operates under the new Rhythm Live banner……Another former Rhythm & Hues staffer, editor Nate Hubbard, has left that studio to launch Migrant Editors, a Manhattan Beach, Calif.-based shop that specializes in editing on location. Hubbard spent the past six years at Rhythm & Hues…. Director Glenn Ashley, formerly with since closed OneSuch Films, has come aboard New York-headquartered The Joneses. Prior to OneSuch, Ashley served as a creative director at agency Temerlin McClain, Irving, Texas….Sound designer Claude Letessier has joined music/sound design house stimmüng, Santa Monica…. Editorial house Fresh has opened, with founding editors Megan Bee, Ben Darling and Bipasha Shom, and executive producer Tommy Murov. The new venture is affiliated with Spot Welders and is based in the same Venice, Calif.-based complex which houses that longstanding editorial company. Fresh, however, is a totally separate shop and has just kicked off with a couple of projects for Young & Rubicam, Irvine, Calif…..New York-based audio post facil-ity Tonic has added two new senior audio engineers: Ed Campbell and Bill Cavanaugh. In another move at the company, former audio assistant Ozzie Sutherland has been promoted to audio engineer….Design director Jeremy Lasky, editorial director Brendan Werner and effects director Daniel Gonzalez—all former R/GA broadcast studio staffers—have teamed to form boutique post house Perception….3-D animator/visual effects artist Mark Glaser has launched Sway Digital Studio, a 3-D animation/digital effects studio. The new shop is currently housed in interim quarters in Pacific Palisades, Calif….VideoWorks, New York, has been renamed Aptinet, and will now specialize in agency test commercials….
London Critics Name “The Brutalist” The Film of the Year
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s immigrant saga, won the Film of the Year prize at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
While The Brutalist garnered just one award, it was the marquee honor. Meanwhile Nickel Boys, Conclave and A Real Pain all receivd multiple awards, and Zoe Saldaña was honored twice.
Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller Conclave took two awards for British/Irish Film of the Year and Actor of the Year for Ralph Fiennes, while RaMell Ross’s radical Colson Whitehead adaptation Nickel Boys was recognized with Director of the Year and the Technical Achievement Award for Jomo Fray’s first-person cinematography. Jesse Eisenberg’s dark comedy A Real Pain was the night’s other multiple prizewinner, landing Screenwriter of the Year for the actor-filmmaker, and Supporting Actor of the Year for co-star Kieran Culkin.
Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai-set drama All We Imagine as Light was named Foreign Language Film of the Year, while the Palestinian-Israeli collective behind No Other Land took Documentary of the Year.
Alongside Conclave, British productions awarded by the Circle in the top categories included Mike Leigh’s intimate character study Hard Truths, which took Actress of the Year for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, while Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was named Animated Feature of the Year. In the British/Irish-specific categories, Saoirse Ronan won British/Irish Performer of the Year for her performances in The Outrun and Blitz, 14-year-old Nykiya Adams won Young British/Irish Performer of the Year for her screen debut in Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Rich Peppiatt won the... Read More