Amid Gravity's incredible awards season run - which culminated this Sunday with 7 Oscar wins at the Academy Awards - director Alfonso Cuarón weighed into the debate surrounding the film's status as a British film.
"You cannot tell from my accent, but I consider myself part of the British film industry," he said as he collected his BAFTA for Best Director earlier this year. "I have lived in London for 13 years and done almost half of my movies here. I make a very good case for curbing immigration."
Just an hour previously, Gravity triumphed in the Best British Film category igniting a mini-social media storm questioning its national identity.
Cuarón's film may not be a kitchen sink drama about working class grind, but look past the Hollywood stars and Warner Bros backing and there's no question that this is a film that - like the Harry Potter series before it...
"You cannot tell from my accent, but I consider myself part of the British film industry," he said as he collected his BAFTA for Best Director earlier this year. "I have lived in London for 13 years and done almost half of my movies here. I make a very good case for curbing immigration."
Just an hour previously, Gravity triumphed in the Best British Film category igniting a mini-social media storm questioning its national identity.
Cuarón's film may not be a kitchen sink drama about working class grind, but look past the Hollywood stars and Warner Bros backing and there's no question that this is a film that - like the Harry Potter series before it...
- 3/4/2014
- Digital Spy
Visual effects have seen a few landmark moments of late, with the likes of Avatar, Tron: Legacy and Life of Pi shifting things forward in terms of tech.
Then there was Gravity, which was a sort of iPhone moment for cinema. It set a new bar for visual fidelity and graphics, putting virtually every VFX-orientated movie before it to shame.
This was in part thanks to the efforts of London-based visual effects studio Framestore. Still glowing from the movie's awards successes, Digital Spy was lucky enough to catch up with a few of the team behind Gravity and chat to them about the technology used in the movie.
What became immediately clear was that working on Gravity was unlike any visual effects task they had done before.
The majority of Framestore's creations for the movie were made specifically for it, resulting in experimentation with entirely new techniques in order to...
Then there was Gravity, which was a sort of iPhone moment for cinema. It set a new bar for visual fidelity and graphics, putting virtually every VFX-orientated movie before it to shame.
This was in part thanks to the efforts of London-based visual effects studio Framestore. Still glowing from the movie's awards successes, Digital Spy was lucky enough to catch up with a few of the team behind Gravity and chat to them about the technology used in the movie.
What became immediately clear was that working on Gravity was unlike any visual effects task they had done before.
The majority of Framestore's creations for the movie were made specifically for it, resulting in experimentation with entirely new techniques in order to...
- 3/3/2014
- Digital Spy
Gravity earns six prizes, Frozen four at 12th annual Visual Effects Society awards.
It was a big night for two of the dominant films of the awards season as the prizes were handed out in Los Angeles on February 12.
Film category winners of the 12th Annual Ves Awards:
Outstanding Visual Effects In A Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture
Gravity
(Tim Webber, Nikki Penny, Neil Corbould, Richard McBride)
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects In A Feature Motion Picture
The Lone Ranger
(Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Shari Hanson, Kevin Martel)
Outstanding Animation In An Animated Feature Motion Picture
Frozen
(Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, Lino Di Salvo)
Outstanding Animated Character In A Live Action Feature Motion Picture
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
Smaug
(Eric Reynolds, David Clayton, Myriam Catrin, Guillaume Francois)
Outstanding Animated Character In An Animated Feature Motion Picture
Frozen: Bringing the Snow Queen to Life
(Alexander Alvarado, Joy Johnson, [link...
It was a big night for two of the dominant films of the awards season as the prizes were handed out in Los Angeles on February 12.
Film category winners of the 12th Annual Ves Awards:
Outstanding Visual Effects In A Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture
Gravity
(Tim Webber, Nikki Penny, Neil Corbould, Richard McBride)
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects In A Feature Motion Picture
The Lone Ranger
(Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Shari Hanson, Kevin Martel)
Outstanding Animation In An Animated Feature Motion Picture
Frozen
(Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, Lino Di Salvo)
Outstanding Animated Character In A Live Action Feature Motion Picture
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
Smaug
(Eric Reynolds, David Clayton, Myriam Catrin, Guillaume Francois)
Outstanding Animated Character In An Animated Feature Motion Picture
Frozen: Bringing the Snow Queen to Life
(Alexander Alvarado, Joy Johnson, [link...
- 2/13/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Today was a busy day for some of the smaller guilds with the Visual Effects Society, the Cinema Audio Society, and the Makeup and Hairstylists Guilds all announcing their nominations for 2013.
First, we have the Ves, whose main category to look at is “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture,” where we find Gravity and four other nominees that are just going to have to be happy with the fact that they got nominated. This is perhaps the easiest category to call in the entirety of awards season, and I don’t mean just here, but for the Oscar as well (Last year’s winner, Life of Pi, easily took this category before going on to claim the Oscar). It’s true that films like The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and Star Trek Into Darkness had outstanding effects as well, but nothing even came close to the amazing,...
First, we have the Ves, whose main category to look at is “Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture,” where we find Gravity and four other nominees that are just going to have to be happy with the fact that they got nominated. This is perhaps the easiest category to call in the entirety of awards season, and I don’t mean just here, but for the Oscar as well (Last year’s winner, Life of Pi, easily took this category before going on to claim the Oscar). It’s true that films like The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and Star Trek Into Darkness had outstanding effects as well, but nothing even came close to the amazing,...
- 1/15/2014
- by Jeff Beck
- We Got This Covered
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