Composer Robert Miller has exited Amber Music, New York and London, and is launching his own as-of-yet-unnamed music studio in New York with executive producer Vera Pandolfo. She was formerly producing at New York agency Amster Yard….West Hollywood-based production house Copper Media and executive producer Thom Sidoti have parted ways….Brad Stratton, former VP/music producer and director of music production at D’Arcy, New York, has joined Fluid, New York, in the position of senior music producer….Echo Boys, Minneapolis, has signed sound designer/audio engineer Ken Chastain….Atlanta-based Crawford Post Production has added editor Terry Boyer. He was formerly with now defunct Click 3X Atlanta as senior editor….Michael Mees has joined Ohio Edit, New York, as senior editor. He was most recently freelancing on longform projects, and prior to that was with Spot Welders, Venice, Calif.…Billy Pittard, former president/CEO of now defunct design house Pittard Sullivan, has been named president of SupplyMan Inc., a new Los Angeles-based company looking to serve as an online shopping mall for the film, TV and commercial production communities via its www.supplyman.com service. Initially, set construction supplies can be ordered through the service. Over the next few months, supplies and services for the full range of film and TV production will become available via supplyman.com….Lee Garfinkel, president/chief creative officer worldwide for D’Arcy, has been named to the Film Jury for the Cannes International Advertising Festival. The Jury is chaired by Jeff Goodby, co-chairman of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco….
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