Director Patrick Osborne has signed with Nexus Studios for worldwide representation spanning commercials, branded content and music videos. Osborne is known for his animated short Feast which won an Oscar in 2015, and the VR film Pearl, nominated in 2017 for a Best Animated Short Oscar and recipient of a juried Emmy Award for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Programming.
Feast, a Disney animated short, tells a heart-warming and romantic tale featuring a fast-food obsessed dog named Winston. Pearl, the first ever VR film to earn an Oscar nomination, was created for Google Spotlight Stories. Pearl delves into a father-daughter relationship over the years, centered on their time together on the road in a car. In Pearl we see the girl Sarah grow before our eyes largely within the confines of the car which is eventually handed down to her. Also passed on to Sarah is her dad’s love for the arts as she becomes a musician/performer like her dad. In addition to garnering an Emmy Award and an Oscar nomination, Pearl earned three Annie Awards in 2017.
Prior to directing, Patrick was animation supervisor on the Oscar-winning short Paperman and an animator on Disney features including Wreck It Ralph, Tangled and Bolt.
Nexus Studios founder and executive creative director Christopher O’Reilly said, “Patrick is a captivating storyteller and one of the most exciting talents working in animation. He has a curiosity for the world that informs both his stories and how he goes about making them.”
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More