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Spirits 2010 | "Paranormal"'s Peli: "The film had to have the look and feel of authentic home video"
Made for only $15,000, Oren Peli's breakout horror hit "Paranormal Activity" went on to conquer the US box office. Now, nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature, Peli discusses how his out-of-left-field hit came to be.
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Oscars 2010 | Maggie Gyllenhaal: "I feel very vulnerable watching myself in this movie."
"The release of this movie was tied completely to the awards season," Maggie Gyllenhaal told indieWIRE regarding Scott Cooper's "Crazy Heart," for which she has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. "And I could feel it so strongly. For example, when Jeff Bridges won the G...
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Spirits 2010 |"Zero Bridge"'s Tariq Tapa: "We were starting from ground zero every day"
"We were purely going along by what we could carry on our backs or what we could solve with our hands. It was a very savage or primitive way of working, but I think it taught me to appreciate the things about filmmaking that I took for granted." That's how "Zero Bridge" director Tariq Tapa sums up h...
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Oscars 2010 | "Precious"'s Gabby Sidibe: "People look at me and don't expect much. I expect a lot"
EDITOR'S NOTE: This interview was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of "Precious"'s theatrical release and is now being included in part of our series of profiles on Academy Award nominees.
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Spirit Awards 2010 | Tom Ford: "I have always been obsessed by film."
With his critically acclaimed adaptation of Christopher Ishwerood's novel "A Single Man," fashion designer Tom Ford successfully made the leap from designer to director. Ford discusses the film, nominated for three Independent Spirit awards including Best First Feature, screenplay and actor (Colin F...
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Oscars 2010 | "The Hurt Locker"'s Jeremy Renner: "What am I doing here?"
"It's hard to put it all into words," "The Hurt Locker" actor Jeremy Renner told indieWIRE regarding the attention the film and his performance have received on the awards circuit. "I can say it's palatable. I can actually swallow this pill to kind of be tossed into all this. It's been such a long t...
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Spirit Awards 2010 | "Crazy Heart""s Scott Cooper: "Truly independent in spirit."
First time writer, director and producer Scott Cooper has been recognized with Spirit Award Nominations for Best First Feature and Screenplay for his critically acclaimed, "Crazy Heart," which stars Jeff Bridges (nominated for both a Spirit Award and an Oscar) as a hard-living country music singer s...
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"Prophet," "Fish Tank" Top London Critic Honors
Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet" and Andrea Arnold's "Fish Tank" led the London Film Critics Awards, which honored the best in 2009 cinema. Both technically 2010 releases Stateside, the films took the awards for best film overall and best British film, respectively. Other major winners included "Let ...
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For Your Consideration: Predicting The Directing and Screenwriting Winners
With just over three weeks left until the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, indieWIRE is running weekly batches of predictions for the winners. Last week, we took on the acting winners, which generally seemed like some very predictable races (save maybe best actress, where Sandra Bullock is a front-runne...
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"Locker," "Cove" Among ACE Eddie Winners
Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" continued its pre-Oscar domination over James Cameron's "Avatar," beating it out for the American Cinema Editors' annual ACE Eddie awards. "Locker" editors Bob Murawski and Chris Innis beat out "Avatar" editors James Cameron, John Refua and Stephen Rivkin, as wel...
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