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Oscar Nominee Josh Singer On The Long & Winding Road To ‘Maestro’; Plus Is A ‘Bullitt’ Remake In His Future? – Behind The Lens
Never say never to Josh Singer, the Oscar-winning screenwriter who spent 10 years in an effort to bring Leonard Bernstein’s life to the big screen. Along the way he worked with some very big names to do it including first Martin Scorsese, then Steven…
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Emerald Fennell On The Secrets Of ‘Saltburn’, Becoming A Promising Young Writer And Winning An Oscar – Behind The Lens
Emerald Fennell has enjoyed acclaim as an actress (this year even appearing as Midge in Barbie) and even an Emmy nomination for The Crown, but she hit the zeitgeist in 2020 when she won the Original Screenplay Oscar and was nominated as Best Director for her…
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Greta Gerwig On Doing What She Was Made For & How She’s Living Her Technicolor Hollywood Dream With ‘Barbie’ – Behind The Lens
When talking about Greta Gerwig, it is hard to know where to start. How about becoming the first solo woman director ever to have a billion-dollar grossing movie?
How about being the director and co-writer of the highest-grossing Warner Bros movie of al…
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Irwin Winker On Keeping ‘Rocky’ Rolling With The ‘Creed’ Franchise, Plus Looking Back On 60 Years Of Making Movies – Behind The Lens
Irwin Winkler’s films have been nominated for 52 Oscars including five for Best Picture. They have won 12, and more importantly proved the test of time with enduring status as classics including his Best Picture Oscar winner Rocky, GoodFellas, Raging Bull, Th…
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Andrew Haigh On Making ‘All Of Us Strangers’, Working On Ridley Scott Classics & The Billy Wilder Movie He Calls The Best Of All Time: “It’s Flawless” – Behind The Lens
Filmmaker Andrew Haigh has been a critical darling since his 2011 breakthrough directorial achievement with Weekend. He’s won dozens and dozens of awards from film festivals and critics groups over the years for a filmography that also includes such highly…
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J.A. Bayona On Tackling The Unthinkable In Spain’s Oscar Entry ‘Society Of The Snow’ And Why It Was Necessary To Tell This Tragic 50 Year Old True Story From A New Perspective – Behind The Lens
In a remarkably short period of time Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (aka J.A. Bayona) has risen to the top of his profession with an international career spanning indie movies to blockbusters and key legacy titles. Beginning in 2007 with his…
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Cord Jefferson On His Path From Journalist To Emmy-Winning TV Writer To The Acclaimed, Oscar-Buzzed ‘American Fiction’ – Behind The Lens
So far, Cord Jefferson is having a hell of a feature film directorial and screenwriting debut. His first movie, American Fiction, had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September and came away from it winning the much-desired and often…
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James L. Brooks On A Career Spanning ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ To ‘Terms Of Endearment’ To ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ And So Much More – Behind The Lens
James L. Brooks is an icon to be sure, a TV and film legend who has been responsible for some of the most beloved movies and television series of all time. As an individual he holds an Emmy record with the most wins (21 and counting) for shows including The M…
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Jimmy Chin And Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi On Being Married To Filmmaking And Each Other, Plus The Challenges Faced On Their Narrative Debut ‘Nyad’ – Behind The Lens
With an Oscar, five Emmys, a BAFTA award and major wins across many top film festivals including Toronto and Sundance, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi have risen to the top of the list of documentary filmmakers working today. Their celebrated films…
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Alexander Payne On Going Back To The ’70s For ‘The Holdovers’, The Movies That Inspire Him, And The Genre He Hopes To Ride Into Soon – Behind The Lens
Out of the seven previous feature films Alexander Payne has directed, three of them have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, he has been nominated for Best Director three times and won two Oscars for Adapted Screenplay. That is not a bad track…
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George C. Wolfe On Why ‘Rustin’ Matters & What This Man For All Seasons Thinks About Being Called A “Spectacular Tornado” – Behind The Lens
George C. Wolfe has been called everything from “the spectacular tornado” to “the keeper of African American culture.” Both of those would be right, but what is undeniable is this multiple Tony Award-winning theater legend has had a career hard to rival…
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Eva Longoria On Her ‘Flamin’ Hot’ Directorial Career, Making A Difference For The Latino Community, And How Diane Warren Stalked Her To Write A Song For The Film – Behind The Lens
Everyone knows Eva Longoria as a TV and film actress, most notably her long run on the hit ABC series Desperate Housewives and so many other roles. But she has quietly been building up another career behind the camera as a director, having helmed numerous…
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