Yesterday, in downtown Los Angeles at the Spirit Awards, John Waters was on stage rehearsing his lines, while producers, writers and crew watched. Morgan Spurlock was lead to his position for a run-through, while crew scurried to unload boxes and set up props inside the new main tent. Backstage...
Read More »Actor Ben Stiller, Oscar winning documentarian Barbara Kopple, under-fire "Hurt Locker" producer Nicolas Chartier, actors from "The Wire" and "Watchmen" and maybe even a Lindsay Lohan sighting highlighted some of the events here in Los Angeles leading up to the big night. The social circuit picked u...
Read More »EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of "A Serious Man"'s release, and is now being included in a series of profiles on this year's Oscar nominees.
Read More »Former Editor-in-Chief of the news site, The Onion, Robert Siegel has been making quite the splash in Tinseltown over the past few years. He began as a writer, penning the award-winning script for Darren Aronovsky's "The Wrestler," and released his directorial debut "Big Fan" (which he also wrote) l...
Read More »indieWIRE conducted a poll of our own writers as well as many of our criticWIRE participants, asking two questions about this year's Film Independent Spirit Awards: Who will win, and who should win? In thirteen categories, our insiders suggested who might take home an award at the ceremony this Frid...
Read More »With only a few days to go until a cadre of sexy and funny people (hand-picked by Adam Shankman?) hand out Hollywood's most coveted honor, the stories surrounding the awards are not slowing down despite the fact that pencils and papers are down and votes are counted. On Thompson on Hollywood, Anne ...
Read More »While the live action and animated short film categories might not get a lot of airtime during the Oscar broadcast, the Academy makes up for it by hosting a special screening of the nominated shorts a week before the televised ceremony. The Academy’s annual Oscar Shorts screening has become such a...
Read More »Over the past few weeks, this column has been taking looks at a variety of categories in the 82nd Academy Award race, from the animated, foreign & doc feature races, the acting races, and the potential directing and screenwriting winners.
Read More »Lynn Shelton made quite the impression in 2009 with her second feature film, "Humpday," the story of two straight guys and life-long friends (filmmaker and actors Mark Duplass and Josh Leonard) who decide to shoot and enter a porn film festival with a project that stars themselves (and only themselv...
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