Monday, Dec. 20, 2021

Leonardo DiCaprio has been an outspoken environmental advocate for as long as he's been famous. But while he's produced documentaries, contributed millions to the cause through his foundation, sat on several relevant boards and even used his Oscar speech to talk about climate change, the topic...

Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021

You know you're in deep doodoo when that planet-destroying comet on a collision course with Earth isn't your biggest problem.

Your biggest problem: You're the scientist who discovered the darned thing but nobody has the patience or the bandwidth or the political will to believe it. And it...

Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020

Adam McKay was head writer at "Saturday Night Live" during the 2000 election — a heady era for the sketch show that saw the phrase "strategery" become lodged in the nation's consciousness, Darrell Hammond's Al Gore explain his "lockbox" and a blue-suit clad Will Ferrell dance as Janet Reno. ...

Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019

The Costume Designers Guild has announced that Academy Award-winner Charlize Theron will be honored with the Spotlight Award, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director and producer Adam McKay will be bestowed the Distinguished Collaborator Award, and Mary Ellen Fields, former owner of Bill...

Friday, May. 24, 2019

Composer Nicholas Britell is a two-time Oscar nominee for Best Original Score, both for films directed by Barry Jenkins: Best Picture Academy Award winner Moonlight in 2017, and If Beale Street Could Talk this year. Britell’s feature filmography also includes a couple of...

Monday, Apr. 1, 2019

While a DGA Award is a high honor, Adam McKay was in even more rarefied air this year when he scored two Guild nominations for different projects--for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Vice, and in the Dramatic TV Series category for the HBO series Succession...

Friday, Mar. 29, 2019

SHOOT will publish a Special Directors>e.dition on Monday, April 1, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT’s March/April print issue (including extended versions of some stories).

The mix of profiles spans world class talent along the lines...

Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019

The Directors Guild of America unveiled the nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2018, as well as the nods for the First-Time Feature Film Director honor.

Earning nominations in both categories was Bradley Cooper for his feature...

Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018

Christian Bale had a choice to make. He'd been hemming and hawing about Adam McKay's very unconventional proposition that he play Dick Cheney in a biopic about the former vice president of the United States, and his deadline to decide was coming up.

"I thought it was going to be...

Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018

Blow your nose, and you'll miss the split-second shot of a younger Donald Trump in "Vice," Adam McKay's exhaustingly entertaining (and entertainingly exhausting) Dick Cheney movie.

But make no mistake: the filmmaker wants us to be thinking about Trump. What he's telling us — implicitly,...

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