Karin Levinson has joined New York-based rhinofx as VP of business development for long form entertainment, which is a newly created role at the company. She will spearhead new business opportunities for rhinofx in the feature film, episodic TV and videogame entertainment arenas….Additionally rhinofx has secured Maggie Klein and Diana Mandelare of Maggie Klein & Company for representation on the East Coast…..Buzz Management has been named East Coast spot sales representative for RIOT’s facilities in Santa Monica and New York. RIOT provides visual effects, compositing, CG and other post services. Buzz Management was formed in 2003 by Delores Hively and Dawn Goodburn….Hollywood, Calif.-based production house Zoo, headed by executive producers Gower Frost and Jan Wieringa, has signed FinnSaxon Represents–Rachel Finn, Santa Monica, and Mary Saxon, who’s based in San Francisco–for representation on the West Coast and in Texas. Zoo’s directorial roster includes Simon West, Michal Utterback, Luca Maroni, Diane Van Ussel and James Frost….Partos Company, Santa Monica, has recently signed cinematographers Tico Poulakais, Curtis Clark, Chris Robertson and Yoshi Yasaki, as well as production designers Jeremy Hindle and Billy Bostock….Orlando Management, Sherman Oaks, Calif., has signed DP Robin Miller for exclusive representation. His credits include spots for such clients as Carl’s Jr., Epson, Walmart, Heinz, Casio, Chrysler and Honda…..Production designer Robert De Vico has signed with Innovative Artists, Santa Monica, for exclusive representation in commercials, music videos and features….
A Nomination Tradition: DGA Award, Best Director Oscar Discrepancy Continues
The awards season norm has seen the nearly annual occurrence of at least one difference between the lineups of Best Director Oscar and the DGA Award nominees. In only five of the 77 years of the DGA Awards have the Guild nominations exactly mirrored their Academy Award counterparts. This time around Edward Berger and Coralie Fargeat are in line with the predominant history. Fargeat earned a Best Director Oscar nomination this week for The Substance (MUBI). Berger, who didn’t make the directorial Oscar cut, earned a DGA Award nomination for Conclave (Focus Features). Four of the five directors vying for the DGA Award and the Outstanding Achievement in Directing Oscar are in sync this year: Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez (Netflix) Sean Baker for Anora (Neon), Brady Corbet for The Brutalist (A24), and James Mangold for A Complete Unknown (Searchlight). On the flip side of tradition, if Fargeat were to win the directing Oscar, that development wouldn’t be aligned with but rather bucking history. Only eight times has the DGA Award winner not gone on to win the Oscar. That happened most recently in 2020 when Sam Mendes won the DGA Award for 1917 while Bong Joon-ho scored the Oscar for Parasite. Fargeat has already made a bit of history, scoring just the 10th Best Director Oscar nomination ever for a woman. The Substance is up for five Oscars--the other nominations being for Best Picture, Leading Actress (Demi Moore), Original Screenplay (Fargeat), and Makeup & Hairstyling (Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stephanie Guillon, Marilyne Scarselli). Even without a Best Director nomination, Conclave tallied eight Oscar nods--for Best Picture, Leading Actor (Ralph... Read More