Street Talk
Director Aaron Ruell has joined Area 51, Santa Monica, for exclusive representation in spots and music videos. Ruell is best known for his acting role as older brother “Kip” in last year’s hit comedy Napoleon Dynamite…. Noam Murro–who earlier this year won the Directors Guild of America Award for outstanding directorial achievement in commercials–has reportedly signed on to helm Warner Bros. Pictures’ new version of Strangers on a Train. The property was first made into a film in 1951 by Alfred Hitchcock. Murro directs commercials through Biscuit Filmworks, Los Angeles…. Noted still photographer Simon Stock is making a foray into spot directing, signing with Godman, London, for representation….Animation director Chris Hauge has come aboard the roster of San Francisco-headquartered animation studio Wild Brain….Editorial house Final Cut, with offices in London and New York, has launched a shop in Santa Monica. The new West Coast office opens with partner/lead editor Eric Zumbrunnen, editor Jim Weedon and executive producer Saima Awan. Zumbrunnen comes over from Spot Welders, Santa Monica. Weedon shifts over from Final Cut, New York, where Awan had been freelancing as a producer….Editor Anthony Marinelli has joined Cut+Run, New York. The move reunites him with editor Chuck Willis who founded Cut+Run, New York. Willis and Marinelli earlier worked together at Crew Cuts, New York….Dan Murrell has joined postproduction house LaserPacific, Hollywood, as chairman/CEO. He formerly served as CEO of Home Box Office Asia….Category:Street Talk
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
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