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Director Richard Yelland has secured representation in Canada via Imported Artists, Toronto. He continues to be repped stateside by Conceive Media, a satellite of bicoastal/international Believe Media….Plum Productions, Santa Monica, has signed director Jake Schreier. Already at his new roost, Schreier, 23, has wrapped his first commercial, a job for Pontiac. Schreier made his initial mark with the short film I Love My Cat. During his sophomore year as a Tisch Scholar at NYU film school, Schreier gained distribution for the film, which screened on the Independent Film Channel, as well as at other venues. He also recently helmed a music video for The Thrills….Dana Tynan, a noted fashion photographer recently turned director, has joined Detour, a Venice, Calif.-based production house headed by executive producer Josh Canova, for representation as a commercial helmer….Vinton Studios, Portland, Ore., has added three commercial directors to its advertising division: animator/video helmer/painter/multimedia artist Courtney Booker; Jeff Drew, who created the animated short film Walk, which has scored on the festival circuit; and animation director and designer Aaron Sorenson….Commercial film and design company Hornet, New York, has signed stop-motion animation artist Peter Sluszka for exclusive representation. His recent endeavors include collaborating with director Michel Gondry of bicoastal/international Partizan on a music video for the single “Walkie Talkie Man” from Kiwi rock/hip-hop amalgam Steriogram. The clip received a Grammy nomination for best short form music video of the year….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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