All Academy Awards articles – Page 41
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Features'Mad Max: Fury Road': driven to the edge
Mad Max: Fury Road has garnered critical acclaim and global box office of $375m and counting. But it was an arduous journey, as director George Miller, producer Doug Mitchell and production designer Colin Gibson tell Tom Grater.
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FeaturesBest Picture race: bounty hunters
Will Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight be the film to shake up this year’s awards season? Jeremy Kay looks at which movies have achieved glory so far.
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NewsOscars: 'Star Wars', 'The Martian' on FX longlist
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has announced the expanded roster of 20 films in contention for the visual effects Oscar.
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FeaturesAwards Season: Directors, Writers
Interviews with Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Danny Boyle, Aaron Sorkin, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Phyllis Nagy.
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FeaturesWriter Phyllis Nagy talks adapting 'Carol'
Directors, producers and actors came and went but Phyllis Nagy remained the one constant. The writer of Patricia Highsmith adaptation Carol talks to Nikki Baughan
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FeaturesCary Joji Fukunaga on the perilous 'Beasts Of No Nation' shoot
Making Beasts Of No Nation was a long-held ambition for True Detective director Cary Joji Fukunaga. He talks to Jeremy Kay about overcoming the perilous shoot and the Netflix pay-off
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FeaturesAlejandro Gonzalez Inarritu on the challenges of 'The Revenant'
For Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, making The Revenant was comparable to Ernest Shackleton’s heroic exploration of the Antarctic. He tells Jeremy Kay about the challenges and rewards of endurance film-making
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FeaturesDanny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin talk 'Steve Jobs'
Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin, the director and writer of Steve Jobs, tell Mark Salisbury why it is crucial for film-makers to tell the stories of the tech titans shaping our world
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FeaturesRidley Scott on why he landed on 'The Martian'
With The Martian, Ridley Scott has landed the biggest global hit of his career. The director tells Jeremy Kay about his initial reservations, working with Matt Damon and why he keeps so busy
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FeaturesSteven Spielberg talks 'Bridge Of Spies' and future projects
Steven Spielberg reveals how his latest feature, Bridge Of Spies, has been more than 50 years in the making, why he continues to shoot on film and whether he would ever re-cast Indiana Jones. Michael Rosser reports
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NewsDanny Boyle: Facebook, Apple are “beyond governments”
In an interview with Screen, the Steve Jobs director warns that technology giants need to be accountable or there will be a “price to pay”.
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NewsOscars: 15 documentaries make shortlist
Amy, Cartel Land, Where To Invade Next and Best of Enemies have made it on to the Academy Award documentary shortlist from a pool of 124 submissions.
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Features'The Peanuts Movie': Snoopy's welcome return
When the Schulz family entrusted the Peanuts characters with director Steve Martino, they had two stipulations: no twerking and no iPhones.
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Features'Minions': the three stooges
Charlie Chaplin, Peter Sellers and Mr Bean were the inspirations behind animation success story Minions. John Hazelton explores the rise of the be-goggled ones.
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Features'Shaun The Sheep Movie': silence of the lambs
For a film with no dialogue, Shaun The Sheep Movie still took two years to write. The runaway hit’s creative team at Aardman talk to Ian Sandwell about the rigours and rewards of remaining mute.
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Features'Inside Out': ode to joy
The team behind Pixar’s Inside Out found inspiration for their strikingly ambitious trip into the human mind in some unlikely places, as Pete Docter tells Jeremy Kay.
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Features'The Good Dinosaur': Jurassic bark
The Good Dinosaur director Peter Sohn talks to Elbert Wyche about bringing a friendly dinosaur and a dog-like boy to life and hatching the film’s environment from present-day reality
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Features'Anomalisa': existential risk
Animator Duke Johnson had to convince writer-director Charlie Kaufman that his spoken-word play Anomalisa would work as a feature film.
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FeaturesAwards Season: Animation
Reports on the making of Inside Out, Shaun The Sheep Movie, The Good Dinosaur, Anomalisa, The Peanuts Movie and Minions
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Features'Goodnight Mommy': the directors of Austria's Oscar submission on their creepy debut
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala discuss the challenges of casting twins and fighting in the editing suite