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'Nickel Boys'
Filmmaker Interview
Editing “Nickel Boys” was every bit as experimental as the unique way it was shot.  
MARIA, Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, 2024.  © Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection
Filmmakers Fortnight
"Shōgun" and "House of the Dragon" both earned double nominations for outstanding TV cinematography.
'WICKED', from left: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, 2024.
Return to Oz
Paul Tazewell tells IndieWire about his costume design shape language for Elphaba and Glinda: spiraling mushrooms and effervescent pink bubbles (see the making of video below).
David Schwimmer in 'Goosebumps: The Vanishing'
Stay Out of the Basement
For Season 2, the creative team went full body horror as David Schwimmer's botanist gets into some serious trouble.
(L-R): Taka (voiced by Kelvin Harrison Jr.), Sarabi (voiced by Tiffany Boone), Rafiki (voiced by Kagiso Lediga), and Mufasa (voiced by Aaron Pierre) in Disney’s live-action MUFASA: THE LION KING. Photo courtesy of Disney. © 2024 Disney Enterprises Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The Circle of Life
MPC's Adam Valdez explains how the new Quad Cap mo-cap process added more humanlike qualities to an intimate Barry Jenkins film.
NICKEL BOYS, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, 2024. © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / courtesy Everett Collection
Ellis-Taylor and the crafts team talk creating her indelible performance as an anguished grandmother in RaMell Ross' adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel.
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, 2024. ph: Macall Polay / © Searchlight Pictures /Courtesy Everett Collection
Like a Rolling Stone
Production Designer François Audouy adopted a Dylan mantra for authentically recreating the Greenwich Village experience: "How does it feel?"
Mikey Madison in 'Anora'
Director of photography Drew Daniels tells IndieWire how he and director Sean Baker carefully crafted a visual style designed to give the impression of life happening on the fly.
'The Brutalist,' A24
Function Over Form
Production designer Judy Becker channeled Adrien Brody's Brutalist architect to create a towering building symbolizing his lived history and struggle.
GLADIATOR II, (aka GLADIATOR 2), Paul Mescal, 2024. ph: Aidan Monaghan  / © Paramount Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection
Interview
The composer tells IndieWire about his seventh collaboration with Ridley Scott and how he paid tribute to the "Gladiator" score by Hans Zimmer while still writing 100 minutes of new music.
'Wicked,' Chistery
Monkey Business
ILM's Pablo Helman tells IndieWire about crafting the painful transformation of Chistery and the rest of the monkeys in the Emerald City.
'Nosferatu' cinematographer Jarin Blaschke with Nicholas Hoult
Interview
Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke tells IndieWire, “There's an aversion to beauty and being earnest these days, a kind of a grunge going on. It’s nice to strive for beauty and have no embarrassment about it."
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