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Chris Teague creates distinct worlds and lighting for "The Acolyte" in Star Wars series. He uses techniques like mapping the trajectory of locations and swatch palettes for color consistency. Teague talks about shooting on large sets, handling multiple characters, and using visual effects.

Screen Rant spoke to award-winning cinematographer Chris Teague about his tremendous work on The Acolyte, which culminated in the spectacular battle in episode 5. Set at the tail-end of the High Republic Era, roughly a century before the events of the Skywalker saga, The Acolyte is a murder mystery with a difference. Over the course of the first five episodes, investigations into a spate of Jedi assassinations have ultimately led the Jedi to a Sith Lord.

Screen Rant spoke to award-winning cinematographer Chris Teague ahead of the release of The Acolyte episode 5, and he revealed some of the secrets that make this show tick. He particularly focused on...

The complete list of nominees for the 93rd Academy Awards, which will be held at 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (PST) on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at various places in Los Angeles, including the Dolby Theater.

BEST PICTURE

Nomadland (Searchlight)

Minari (A24)

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)

Promising Young Woman (Focus)

Sound of Metal (Amazon)

Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros.)

Mank (Netflix)

The Father (Sony Classics)

BEST DIRECTOR

Chloé Zhao (Nomadland)

David Fincher (Mank)

Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)

Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)

Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round)

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)

Anthony Hopkins (The Father)

Gary Oldman (Mank)

Steven Yeun (Minari)

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Frances McDormand (Nomadland)

Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)

Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman)

Andra Day (The United States vs. Billie Holiday)

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)

Leslie Odom Jr. (One Night in Miami)

Sacha Baron Cohen (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

Lakeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah)

Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Olivia Colman (The Father)

Youn Yuh-jung (Minari)

Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm)

Amanda Seyfried (Mank)

Glenn Close (Hillbilly Elegy)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Nomadland (Chloé Zhao)

One Night in Miami (Kemp Powers)

The Father (Christopher Hampton & Florian Zeller)

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Sacha Baron Cohen and Co-Writers)

The White Tiger (Ramin Bahrani)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin)

Minari (Lee Isaac Chung)

Sound of Metal (Derek Cianfrance, Abraham Marder & Darius Marder)

Judas and the Black Messiah (Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas & Kenny Lucas)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Crip Camp (Netflix)

Time (Amazon)

Collective (Magnolia/Participant)

My Octopus Teacher (Netflix)

The Mole Agent (Gravitas)

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE

Another Round (Denmark)

Collective (Romania)

Better Days (Hong Kong)

Quo Vadis, Aida? (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

The Man Who Sold His Skin (Sweden)

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Soul (Pixar)

Wolfwalkers (Apple TV+/GKIDS)

Over the Moon (Netflix)

Onward (Pixar)

A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (Netflix)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Mank - Erik Messerschmidt

Nomadland - Joshua James Richards

News of the World -Dariusz Wolski

Judas and the Black Messiah - Sean Bobbitt

The Trial of the Chicago 7 -Phedon Papamichael

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Mank - Trish Summerville

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Ann Roth

Emma - Alexandra Byrne

Mulan - Bina Daigeler

Pinocchio - Massimo Cantini Parrini

BEST FILM EDITING

Sound of Metal - Mikkel E.G. Nielsen

Nomadland - Chloé Zhao

The Trial of the Chicago 7 - Alan Baumgarten

The Father - Yorgos Lamprinos

Promising Young Woman - Frédéric Thoraval

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal, Jamika Wilson

Mank - Kimberley Spiteri, Gigi Williams, Colleen LaBaff

Hillbilly Elegy - Eryn Krueger Mekash, Patricia Dehaney, Matthew Mungle

Emma - Marese Langan, Laura Allen, Claudia Stolze

Pinocchio - Dalia Colli, Dalia Colli and Francesco Pegoretti

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Soul - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste

Mank - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Minari - Emile Mosseri

News of the World - James Newton Howard

Da 5 Bloods - Terence Blanchard

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

"Speak Now" (One Night in Miami)

"Io Si (Seen)" (The Life Ahead)

"Husavik" (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga)

"Hear My Voice" (The Trial of the Chicago 7)

"Fight For You" (Judas and the Black Messiah)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Mank - Production Design: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - Production Design: Mark Ricker; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara and Diana Stoughton

News of the World - Production Design: David Crank; Set Decoration: Elizabeth Keenan

The Father - Production Design: Peter Francis; Set Decoration: Cathy Featherstone

Tenet - Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas

BEST SOUND

Sound of Metal - Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés and Phillip Bladh

News of the World - Oliver Tarney, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller and John Pritchett

Soul - Ren Klyce, Coya Elliott and David Parker

Mank - Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance and Drew Kunin

Greyhound - Warren Shaw, Michael Minkler, Beau Borders and David Wyman

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

Tenet - Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley and Scott Fisher

The Midnight Sky - Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon and David Watkins

The One and Only Ivan - Nick Davis, Greg Fisher, Ben Jones and Santiago Colomo Martinez

Mulan - Sean Faden, Anders Langlands, Seth Maury and Steve Ingram

Love and Monsters - Matt Sloan, Genevieve Camilleri, Matt Everitt and Brian Cox

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

If Anything Happens I Love You

Burrow

Yes-People

Opera

Genius Loci

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT

A Concerto Is a Conversation

A Love Song for Latasha

Colette

Do Not Split

Hunger Ward

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

Two Distant Strangers

Feeling Through

The Present

The Letter Room

White Eye...

It’s hard to think of a musical that would benefit more from a Blu-ray boost than Ken Russell’s kaleidoscopic all dancing, all singing send-up of theatrical clichés on the music hall stage, circa 1925. We’re just happy that the adorable Twiggy got to be put in a film like this, to be enjoyed forever. The Russell crowd is all aboard, led by Glenda Jackson and Murray Melvin. Gosh!

The Boy Friend

Blu-ray

The Warner Archive Collection

1971 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 136 min. / Street Date February 21, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99

Starring: Twiggy, Christopher Gable, Max Adrian, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin, Moyra Fraser, Georgina Hale, Sally Bryant, Vladek Sheybal, Tommy Tune, Brian Murphy, Graham Armitage, Antonia Ellis, Caryl Little, Glenda Jackson.

Cinematography: David Watkin

Film Editor: Michael Bradsell

Production Design: Tony Walton

Costumes: Shirley Russell

Written by: Ken Russell from the musical by Sandy Wilson

Produced and Directed by: Ken Russell

Some...

The Visual Effects Society announced the nominees for the 15th Annual Ves Awards this morning and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Games Of Thrones” dominated the field. The winners will be announced Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017.

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The nominees are as follows:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

“Doctor Strange”

Stephane Ceretti

Susan Pickett

Richard Bluff

Vincent Cirelli

Paul Corbould

“Fantastic Beasts And Where to Find Them”

Christian Manz

Olly Young

Tim Burke

Pablo Grillo

David Watkins

“Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children”

Frazer Churchill

Hal Couzens

Andrew Lockley

Jelmer Boskma

Hayley Williams

“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”

John Knoll

Erin Dusseault

Hal Hickel

Nigel Sumner

Neil Corbould

“The Jungle Book”

Robert Legato

Joyce Cox

Andrew R.

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Richard Lester’s directing career has had a rather tortured epilogue. His last completed film was the dreadful, unloved Return of The Musketeers (1989), during the making of which his long-time friend and troupe-member Roy Kinnear died after a freak accident. To add insult to injury, the Comic-Con crowd has been burning Lester in effigy ever since Richard Donner’s cut of Superman II was released in 2006. Donner had been fired as director of the 1980 sequel half way through filming and Lester was hired to finish the job. Since the release of the Donner cut, expressing a preference for the original, jokier version is rather like suggesting that Cesar Romero was a better Joker than Heath Ledger.

I do wonder sometimes whether the fanboys realise what an important, highly influential and iconoclastic director they’re dismissing when they’re kicking sand into Lester’s face. Martin Scorsese would certainly correct them (sternly,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed its 276-member-strong class of 2013.

The list, published by The Hollywood Reporter, includes actors, cinematographers, designers, directors, documentarians, executives, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, "members-at-large," musicians, producers, PR folks, short filmmakers and animators, sound technicians, visual effects artists, and writers.

Jason Bateman, Rosario Dawson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Milla Jovovich, Lucy Liu, Jennifer Lopez, Emily Mortimer, Sandra Oh, Jason Schwartzman, and Michael Peña are among the roster of actors, while "The Heat" and "Bridesmaids" helmer Paul Feig made the directors' cut.

"We did not change our criteria at all," says Academy president Hawk Koch of this year's larger-than-usual class. "Yes, this year there is a tremendous amount of women, a tremendous amount of people of color, people from all walks of life. This year, we asked the branches to look at everybody who wasn't in the Academy but who deserved to be.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today the 276 members of the entertainment industry invited to join organization. The list includes actors, directors, documentarians, executives, film editors, producers and more. Of those listed below, those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy's membership in 2013. "These individuals are among the best filmmakers working in the industry today," said Academy President Hawk Koch in a press release. "Their talent and creativity have captured the imagination of audiences worldwide, and I am proud to welcome each of them to the Academy." Koch also told Variety, "In the past eight or nine years, each branch could only bring in X amount of members. There were people each branch would have liked to get in but couldn't. We asked them to be more inclusive of the best of the best, and each branch was excited, because they got...

The Academy just added 276 Oscar voters.

That’s 100 more than last year, and part of an easing of a longstanding cap on the number of new members allowed to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences each year.

AMPAS usually adds between 130 and 180 new members, replacing those who have quit or passed away. The membership now stands around 6,000.

Jason Bateman, Jennifer Lopez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emmanuelle Riva, and Chris Tucker are among the actors who have been invited to join, the organization announced today.

Other interesting additions: the musician Prince, Girls and Tiny Furniture writer/director/actress Lena Dunham,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 276 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2013.

“These individuals are among the best filmmakers working in the industry today,” said Academy President Hawk Koch. “Their talent and creativity have captured the imagination of audiences worldwide, and I am proud to welcome each of them to the Academy.”

The 2013 invitees are:

Actors

Jason Bateman – “Up in the Air,” “Juno”

Miriam Colon – “City of Hope,” “Scarface”

Rosario Dawson – “Rent,” “Frank Miller’s Sin City”

Kimberly Elise – “For Colored Girls,” “Beloved”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt – “Lincoln,” “The Dark Knight Rises”

Charles Grodin – “Midnight Run,” “The Heartbreak Kid”

Rebecca Hall – “Iron Man 3,” “The Town”

Lance Henriksen – “Aliens,” “The Terminator”

Jack Huston – “Not Fade Away,” “Factory Girl”

Milla Jovovich – “Resident Evil,...

It’s finally sunny here in London! The mercury is on its way to 28 (centigrade of course) and I’m sitting in my garden, listening to soon-to-be-defunct BBC Radio 6 music (which makes me sad). But fear not – there were enough cold hours for me to sit in front of the telly and bring you news of what the devil’s been going on in Britain.

Gareth Thomas

First up is a documentary made for ITV’s Tonight Show about homophobia in modern Britain. Afraid to be Gay was presented by newly out king of rugby Gareth Thomas, who does a better job of expressing a personality than most sports “personalities.”

The documentary featured Gareth’s coming out party attended by Dr. Christian Jessen of Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies, and singer Will Young, presenting partners Colin and Justin. Please note, I feel very resentful of that as I didn’t have a comin gout party.