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Amid the barrage of critical brickbats tossed at Sunday night’s Oscar show — plus the widespread dissatisfaction with certain winners — I didn’t see much mention made of this particular milestone, but it strikes me as worthy of note, particularly a year after Kathryn Bigelow’s history-making Best Director win. I’m happy to say that one […]
Another barrier broken?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:12 am · March 3rd, 2011
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OSCAR GUIDE: Best Sound Mixing
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:59 am · February 14th, 2011
I feel like we’ve done a pretty decent job of educating some of our readership on the difference between Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing over the last five years here at In Contention. It struck me that we haven’t really covered it in a focused way this season, and the Oscar Guide seems […]
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TECH SUPPORT: Final analysis, part one
Posted by gerardkennedy · 8:57 am · January 20th, 2011
It seems hard to believe that it’s been more than six months since I wrote this year’s introductory Tech Support column ( a dissection of the art direction race). Much has changed since then, naturally, as we are less than a week away from the big day when we find out the nominees for the […]
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Sound Mixing — Volume I
Posted by gerardkennedy · 3:44 pm · September 2nd, 2010
Last week, while discussing the sound editing category, I explained the difference between that art form and sound mixing. The Oscar for the latter is shared between two (or more) persons who construct the soundtrack of a movie. The re-recording mixers bring together everything – dialogue, sound effects, music – into what we hear in […]
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On the sound of ‘Inception’
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 12:02 pm · July 20th, 2010
I totally meant to post this over the weekend as it’s been live since Saturday. Alas, I forgot. I’ve been high on the guys at SoundWorks Collection since I stumbled across their work last year. As you know, we’ve always been concerned with shining a proper spotlight on below-the-line efforts in filmmaking. SoundWorks Collection focuses […]
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So, is ‘Inception’ a go for Oscar?
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:08 pm · July 5th, 2010
Now that the review embargo walls have crashed on “Inception” (though most of what’s out there is web-based media as we’ll wait a while for print reactions), I guess it’s fair to dive into the awards implications of the film. I preferred to stay away from that kind of talk in my review. The first […]
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