Coveted Black Pencils were scare at the 44th annual British Design & Art Direction Global Awards (D&AD) held last week in London. Only two Black Pencils were bestowed–one upon Leo Burnett Canada’s “Big Ideas Come Out of Big Pencils” Web site, and the other for the design of the relaunch issue of The Guardian.
TV/cinema commercials didn’t garner Black this year, a bit of a comedown from the 2005 competition when Honda’s “Grrr” out of Wieden+Kennedy, London, picked up a pair of Blacks as well as six Yellow Pencils.
However Yellow Pencils made their mark in the ’06 TV/cinema leg of the D&AD Awards. For example, in the direction category, Jonathan Glazer of Academy, London, scored Yellow with Stella Artois’ “Ice Skating Priests” for Lowe, London. Also honored with Yellow for direction was Dougal Wilson of Blink, London (and Furlined, Santa Monica), for Orange’s “Dance” from Mother, London.
Copping two Yellows (one for TV commercials over 120 seconds; the other in the cinema spot category) was Sony Bravia television sets’ “Balls” directed by Nicolai Fuglsig of bicoastal/international MJZ for Fallon, London.
Also copping a pair of Yellows was 3Mobile’s offbeat “Tuperzik,” directed by Traktor via bicoastal/international Paritzan.
And garnering a special effects Yellow Pencil was Framestore CFC, London, for Guinness’ “noitulovE,” directed by Daniel Kleinman of Kleinman Productions, London, for Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, London.
For a full list of winners, visit dandad.co.uk.
For Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” Robert Pattinson Again Puts Accent On His Performance
Often when Robert Pattinson gets a script, one of the first things he does โ to the annoyance of his girlfriend, Suki Waterhouse โ is try on different voices to bring his character to life.
"I've always had that sort of response to a script," he reflected, but said it became a practice while making his 2014 film, "The Rover." "I think I feel very uncomfortable just doing something in my own accent. And for a while I felt like just doing an American accent felt like I was acting more."
It's unsurprising, then, that when he was offered a starring role in "Mickey 17" โ director Bong Joon Ho's first feature film since his Oscar-winning "Parasite" โ Pattinson's wheels immediately began turning over what his character(s) would sound like.
"Mickey 17," a Warner Bros. release hitting theaters March 7, tells the story of Mickey Barnes, a naive but sympathetic protagonist who signs up to be an "expendable" in a world that makes use of "human printing" for dangerous tasks and research. When an expendable dies on the job, another version of them is printed with their consciousness and memories of their death intact.
But Mickey's immortality is threatened when a very different version of him is printed while the 17th Mickey is mistakenly believed to be dead.
"I needed to find an actor who could cover both personalities," Bong said through a translator, recalling Pattinson's performances in "The Lighthouse" and "Good Time" as he considered the more sinister and conniving Mickey 18.
The inspiration โ and creative choices โ behind "Mickey 17"
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