Well, the Directors Guild of America has had their say this evening. A few minutes ago, Sam Mendes was awarded the top prize from the DGA, wrapping up an Academy Award win in the process. Mark it down, folks. Mendes will win his second Oscar in Best Director for 1917, coming up the middle in the latter stages of the awards season. This Directors Guild win makes it all but a certainty. Read on for the rest of the results, which also included the Best First Time Feature prize going to Alma Har’el for Honey Boy. Congrats to all of the winners! Here are all of the DGA results: Theatrical Feature Film Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite” (Neon) Mr. Bong’s Directorial Team: Unit Production Manager: Park Min Chul First Assistant Director: Kim Seong Sik Winner: Sam Mendes, “1917” (Universal Pictures) Mr. Mendes’s Directorial Team: Unit Production Managers: Callum McDougall, Hannah Godwin...
- 1/26/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
In case you thought it was going to be a quiet Saturday, think again. Tonight is one of the bigger precursor days of the season, with several awards being given out that could tangibly impact the Oscar race. Without question, Academy Award voters will be paying attention, as American Society of Cinematographers Awards, the Annie Awards, the Cinema Audio Society Awards, the USC Scripter Awards, and of course the Directors Guild of America Awards are being announced. Look for the results to be posted later today here on the site, but for the moment, just settle in and expect an evening that shapes the race in its final days… As a reminder, here are the nominees at these precursors: Directors Guild Of America Awards The nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement In Theatrical Feature Film For 2019 are (in alphabetical order): Bong Joon Ho Parasite (Neon) Mr. Bong’s Directorial Team:...
- 1/25/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Directors Guild of America has nominated Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite,” Sam Mendes for “1917,” Martin Scorsese for “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and Taika Waititi for “Jojo Rabbit.”
The DGAs are seen as a stepping stone to the Oscars, where the last six best director winners also went home with an Academy Award. Last year, “Roma” filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón scored the feature film directing award, beating out Bradley Cooper for “A Star Is Born,” Spike Lee for “BlacKkKlansman,” Adam McKay for “Vice,” and Peter Farrelly for “Green Book.”
Three female filmmakers — Mati Diop for “Atlantics,” Alma Ha’rel for “Honey Boy” and Melina Matsoukas for “Queen & Slim” — were recognized by the Directors Guild in the first-time feature film award category differing from the Golden Globe Awards and the BAFTA Awards, which both failed to nominate female directors this year.
Some surprise...
The DGAs are seen as a stepping stone to the Oscars, where the last six best director winners also went home with an Academy Award. Last year, “Roma” filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón scored the feature film directing award, beating out Bradley Cooper for “A Star Is Born,” Spike Lee for “BlacKkKlansman,” Adam McKay for “Vice,” and Peter Farrelly for “Green Book.”
Three female filmmakers — Mati Diop for “Atlantics,” Alma Ha’rel for “Honey Boy” and Melina Matsoukas for “Queen & Slim” — were recognized by the Directors Guild in the first-time feature film award category differing from the Golden Globe Awards and the BAFTA Awards, which both failed to nominate female directors this year.
Some surprise...
- 1/7/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Annnd … action! The Directors Guild has raised the curtain on the film nominees for its 72nd annual DGA Awards.
Vying for the marquee Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize are Bong Joon Ho (Parasite), newly minted Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes (1917), Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) and Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit).
“In a year full of excellent films, DGA members have chosen an extraordinary group of filmmakers to nominate for this year’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film Award,” Directors Guild President Thomas Schlamme said. “These directors represent the highest standard of filmmaking, and their films are a testament to innovative storytelling, artistic achievement and the passion that filmmakers share with their audiences. Being nominated by their peers is what makes this award particularly meaningful for directors, and I congratulate all of the nominees for their outstanding work.”
Notably absent...
Vying for the marquee Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film prize are Bong Joon Ho (Parasite), newly minted Golden Globe winner Sam Mendes (1917), Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) and Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit).
“In a year full of excellent films, DGA members have chosen an extraordinary group of filmmakers to nominate for this year’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film Award,” Directors Guild President Thomas Schlamme said. “These directors represent the highest standard of filmmaking, and their films are a testament to innovative storytelling, artistic achievement and the passion that filmmakers share with their audiences. Being nominated by their peers is what makes this award particularly meaningful for directors, and I congratulate all of the nominees for their outstanding work.”
Notably absent...
- 1/7/2020
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
The Directors Guild of America’s feature-film nominations contain a lineup of acknowledged masters including Martin Scorsese for “The Irishman,” Quentin Tarantino for “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” Sam Mendes for “1917” and Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho for “Parasite.”
Taika Waititi may not have been mentioned in their company when he was best known for making comedies and horror flicks like “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” but he joined the ranks of those other directors on Tuesday morning when the Directors Guild nominated him for “Jojo Rabbit.”
But the slate of nominees also means that the DGA will face some of the same questions that were aimed at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association when it nominated an all-male slate of directors for the Golden Globe.
Also Read: Taika Waititi Says He Didn't Even Try to Pitch Studios on His WWII Comedy 'Jojo Rabbit...
Taika Waititi may not have been mentioned in their company when he was best known for making comedies and horror flicks like “What We Do in the Shadows” and “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” but he joined the ranks of those other directors on Tuesday morning when the Directors Guild nominated him for “Jojo Rabbit.”
But the slate of nominees also means that the DGA will face some of the same questions that were aimed at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association when it nominated an all-male slate of directors for the Golden Globe.
Also Read: Taika Waititi Says He Didn't Even Try to Pitch Studios on His WWII Comedy 'Jojo Rabbit...
- 1/7/2020
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
The filmmakers' love for baseball shows in every frame of The Final Season. What doesn't come through is a love for good drama. Poor writing, an indifferent production and sincere but often wooden acting make Season one big strikeout. The film may score fans in home entertainment, but its theatrical outlook is poor despite Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings) in the dual role of the film's hero and exec producer.
This is yet another "based on a true story" sports picture. A high school baseball team from Norway, Iowa, a town of 586 people, won 19 State Championships in 22 years. Then in 1991 -- destined to be its final season as Norway was to merge with a neighboring school district because of state cutbacks -- a new coach named Kent Stock took over and drove his players to win a final championship, the school's 20th.
Which leaves writers Art D'Alessandro and James Grayford with a great ending but no story. So they invent a false conflict between the coach and his kids, a player from Chicago with an attitude, a perennial naysayer, a political battle between the townsfolk and school board, a couple of lame romances and even a bus driver with a heart problem to fill in the gaps between the games. The film thereby misses its real story -- the dying of small-town American life and the role of school sports in such communities.
Astin stars as Kent Stock, as assistant coach the year before, who took over from legendary head coach Jim Van Scoyoc (Powers Booth). Van Scoyoc actually left not because of an evil school board's refusal to renew his contract, but to take a dream job as pitching coach in the Detroit Tigers' farm system. The movie then portrays Stock as a former girl's volleyball coach, who is therefore greeted on his first day of practice by a dugout filled with volleyballs.
Despite the loss of several players, Stock pushes his players to win enough games to make the playoffs. Along the way, he finds time for a very PG-ish romance with Rachel Leigh Cook, playing a state official promoting the school merger. The central focus among the players rests with Michael Angarano, a surly catcher who sneaks smokes and throws off attitude, the result of the death of his mother and inattention of his dad (Tom Arnold in little more than a cameo).
The dialogue throughout is cheesy and often without subtext. Baseball action, staged by director David Mickey Evans, is routine and lacking in excitement. The only actor who shows much life is Angarano, though his rebel-without-a-cause routine is a tad old.
Even for those who know nothing about Norway and its baseball team, there is something all too predictable, preordained even, about this movie's portrait of its final season.
THE FINAL SEASON
Yari Film Group Releasing
Final Partners presents a Carl Borack/TRMC production in association with Fobia Films
Credits:
Director: David Mickey Evans
Screenwriters: Art D'Alessandro, James Grayford
Producers: Michael Wasserman, Steven Schott, Tony Wilson, Parker Widemire, Herschel Weingrod
Executive producers: Sean Astin, Carl Borack
Director of photography: Daniel Stoloff
Production designer: Chester Kaczenski
Music: Nathan Wang
Costume designer: Lynn Brannelly-Newman
Editor: Harry Keramidas
Cast:
Kent Stock: Sean Astin
Jim Van Scoyoc: Powers Boothe
Polly Hudson: Rachel Leigh Cook
Mitch: Michael Angarano
Jared: James Gammon
Roger Dempsey: Larry Miller
Burt Akers: Tom Arnold
Sheryl Van Scoyoc: Lucinda Jenney
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
This is yet another "based on a true story" sports picture. A high school baseball team from Norway, Iowa, a town of 586 people, won 19 State Championships in 22 years. Then in 1991 -- destined to be its final season as Norway was to merge with a neighboring school district because of state cutbacks -- a new coach named Kent Stock took over and drove his players to win a final championship, the school's 20th.
Which leaves writers Art D'Alessandro and James Grayford with a great ending but no story. So they invent a false conflict between the coach and his kids, a player from Chicago with an attitude, a perennial naysayer, a political battle between the townsfolk and school board, a couple of lame romances and even a bus driver with a heart problem to fill in the gaps between the games. The film thereby misses its real story -- the dying of small-town American life and the role of school sports in such communities.
Astin stars as Kent Stock, as assistant coach the year before, who took over from legendary head coach Jim Van Scoyoc (Powers Booth). Van Scoyoc actually left not because of an evil school board's refusal to renew his contract, but to take a dream job as pitching coach in the Detroit Tigers' farm system. The movie then portrays Stock as a former girl's volleyball coach, who is therefore greeted on his first day of practice by a dugout filled with volleyballs.
Despite the loss of several players, Stock pushes his players to win enough games to make the playoffs. Along the way, he finds time for a very PG-ish romance with Rachel Leigh Cook, playing a state official promoting the school merger. The central focus among the players rests with Michael Angarano, a surly catcher who sneaks smokes and throws off attitude, the result of the death of his mother and inattention of his dad (Tom Arnold in little more than a cameo).
The dialogue throughout is cheesy and often without subtext. Baseball action, staged by director David Mickey Evans, is routine and lacking in excitement. The only actor who shows much life is Angarano, though his rebel-without-a-cause routine is a tad old.
Even for those who know nothing about Norway and its baseball team, there is something all too predictable, preordained even, about this movie's portrait of its final season.
THE FINAL SEASON
Yari Film Group Releasing
Final Partners presents a Carl Borack/TRMC production in association with Fobia Films
Credits:
Director: David Mickey Evans
Screenwriters: Art D'Alessandro, James Grayford
Producers: Michael Wasserman, Steven Schott, Tony Wilson, Parker Widemire, Herschel Weingrod
Executive producers: Sean Astin, Carl Borack
Director of photography: Daniel Stoloff
Production designer: Chester Kaczenski
Music: Nathan Wang
Costume designer: Lynn Brannelly-Newman
Editor: Harry Keramidas
Cast:
Kent Stock: Sean Astin
Jim Van Scoyoc: Powers Boothe
Polly Hudson: Rachel Leigh Cook
Mitch: Michael Angarano
Jared: James Gammon
Roger Dempsey: Larry Miller
Burt Akers: Tom Arnold
Sheryl Van Scoyoc: Lucinda Jenney
Running time -- 117 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 10/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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