Showing posts with label Emmanuel Lubezki. Show all posts
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Emmanuel Lubezki Shoots the Vanity Fair "Diversity" Cover and Makes History in Hollywood in 2019

By José Alberto Hermosillo
Hollywood Vanity Fair Cover ©2019 Vanity Fair

It took decades for Vanity Fair to have a “Diversity” Cover like this and make history in Hollywood - a fanciful effort made up by the new faces of young and talented people working in Hollywood and around the World.

The work of the great Mexican cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki is magic, pure gold. Congratulations on this excellent work of art.

Hollywood Vanity Fair Cover ©2019 Vanity Fair

The diverse talent in front of the camera is integrated by:

Yalitza Aparicio, “Roma.”
Chadwick Boseman, “Black Panther.”
Timothée Chalamet, “Beautiful Boy.”
Elizabeth Debicki, “Widows.”
Henry Golding, “Crazy Rich Asians.”
Nicholas Hoult, “The Favorite.”
Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk.”
Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Saoirse Ronan, “Mary Queen of Scots.”
Tessa Thompson, “Sorry to Bother You.”
John David Washington, “BlacKkKlansman.”

It is always fascinating to know a little more about the lives of the stars. 

Starting with the new Superhero Chadwick Boseman from “Black Panther.” He was a terrific basketball player and graduated from Howard University in Washington D.C. Destiny got him close to Denzel Washington, who paid his tuition at the British American Dramatic Academy at Oxford University in London.

The star of “Roma,” Yalitza Aparicio, was a kindergarten teacher when she got the part while accompanying her pregnant sister to the auditions in her hometown in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, Mexico. Aparicio’s natural performance earned her a surprising Best Actress Oscar nomination.

The story of Henry Golding is fascinating as well. He was born in Betong, Sarawak, Malaysia, and went to Surrey, England, at age eight. He returned to Kuala Lumpur, where he started his acting career as a host of a top-notch travel TV show. Then he got cast to play this multi-millionaire in the box-office smash “Crazy Rich Asians.”

Often, Vanity Fair has photoshoots of models from different backgrounds. In this Hollywood historical issue, the fashion-forward magazine had a diverse group of Oscar-nominated actors and Golden Globe winners in front of the lenses of one of the best photographers in the World.

The 25th Hollywood Issue - Moving Pictures was photographed by three-time Oscar winner Emmanuel ‘Chivo’ Lubezki and styled by Samira Nasr.

For more on those shining stars, visit: 

The Hollywood Cover - Moving Pictures

The 2019 Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue Cover

 

Behind the Scenes of Vanity Fair’s 2019 Hollywood Issue Cover Shoot

Emmanuel Lubezki, director of photography. Eight times Oscar-nominee and three times Oscar-Winner, Best Cinematography. His outstanding work includes #Gravity #Birdman #TheRevenant. A Little Princess, Sleepy Hollow, A New World. Children of Men, The Tree of Life, Knight of Cups, Like Water for Chocolate, Ambar, Bandidos, Miroslava, Sólo con tu Pareja, Y tu mamá también, Meet Joe Black, A Walk in the Clouds, The Bird Cage,  Reality Bites, Alí, Burn After Reading. Things You Can Tell Just by Looking At Her, Great Expectations.
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Monday, July 20, 2015

Can “The Revenant” Be a Good Oscar® Contender?

By Jose Alberto Hermosillo
Copyright © 2015 Twenty Century Fox
“The Revenant” is the latest work of the Oscar® winner Mexican helmet Alejandro G. Iñárritu - the question is if this film has the potential to win gold this year - the answer is “yes” and “no.” 

A contender “yes” because it has the quality of so many talented people working on the set. 

“No” because never a survivor movie has won an Oscar® for best picture, unless “The Revenant” can be the exception and make history.

In recent years, survivor movies have been snubbed out of gold, films like: "Life of Pi," "Gravity," "All is Lost" have been compensated on the technical categories, not for acting or best picture. 

To have a positive turnout, "The Revenant" should be listed as a historical time-period drama to fit in the same category of the Oscar® winners: "Dances with Wolves," "Braveheart," and "Gladiator."
Copyright © 2015 Twenty Century Fox

Inspired by real events, “The Revenant” is a visceral and a cinematic experience. 

In this epic adventure of "survival" Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio), after the attack by a bear is abandoned by his hunting team and betrayed by his own people, including John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). He must fight against the dangers of the wilderness in the hard winter of North America.
 
The free adaptation from the Michael Punke’s novel was made by Mark L. Smith and Alejandro G. Iñárritu. 

Some members of the crew said: “The shooting of this movie was a living hell.” 


How can you aspire to perfection without any sacrifice?
Adriana Barraza in "Babel." Copyright © 2006. Paramount.

In the shooting of “Babel,” Adriana Barraza collapsed in the desert due to the heat exhaustion, the production was stopped for more than six hours. The result was an Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her. 


Perhaps, DiCaprio having suffered the extreme cold weather conditions can be an Oscar® hopeful regardless of his silent character.

Emmanuel Lubezki, Photo by Jose A. Hermosillo Copyright © 2015
The trailer exhibits the beautiful and haunting cinematography by the two times Oscar® winner Mexican D.P. Emmanuel ‘El Chivo’ Lubezki (“Gravity,” “Birdman”). 

The way the "Revenant" was shot was similar to the work he did in Terrence Malick’s “The New World.” Emmanuel shoots every frame with natural light, an influence from the “dogma” movement. 

Lubezki may win his third consecutive Oscar® for this movie.


“The Perfect Storm” has been positioned "perfectly" for Iñárritu’s “The Revenant” at the awards season. 

Now, we need to wait and see if the weather conditions, the critics, the Academy members, and the audience can say: “This ‘epic' has what it takes to win the gold this year."
Trailer:
New Regency and 20th Century Fox released the trailer of
THE REVENANT
In theaters limited release December 25th and wide in January 2016!4

DOCUMENTARY:  The Revenant "A World Unseen"

 

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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Oscars Winners A Minority Gets the Top Awards

By Jose Alberto Hermosillo,

The biggest award in the film industry was entreating and finished on time and big time. Many of the expected won with only a few surprises, the greatest of all was for Birdman as the best picture winner.

History was made. Again!  A Mexican director won for the second year on the row. Last year Alfonso Cuarón got the gold for Gravity, last night Alejandro G. Iñarrítu won best director for Birdman, bring him a total of three personal Oscar statuettes, including best original screenplay and best picture producer.

Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki won, becoming the first Mexican winning two consecutive years.
Birdman Mural @ Arclight Hollywood. Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo.

Best Picture:

Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo.
Achievement in directing
Performance by an actor in a leading role
  • Eddie Redmayne in “The Theory of Everything”
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
  • J.K. Simmons in “Whiplash”

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
  • Patricia Arquette in “Boyhood”
Best animated feature film of the year
  • “Big Hero 6” Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli
Achievemenot in cinematography
Achievement in costume design
  • “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Milena Canonero
Best documentary feature
  • “CitizenFour” Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky
Best documentary short subject
  • “Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1” Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry
Achievement in film editing
  • “Whiplash” Tom Cross
Best foreign language film of the year
  • “Ida” Poland
The Grand Budapest Hotel display at the Academy. Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
  • “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
  • “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Alexandre Desplat
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
  •  “Glory” from “Selma”
    Music and Lyric by John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn
Achievement in production design
  • “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration:
Best animated short film
  •  “Feast” Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed
Best live action short film
  •  “The Phone Call” Mat Kirkby and James Lucas
Achievement in sound editing
  • “American Sniper” Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman
Achievement in sound mixing
  • “Whiplash” Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins and Thomas Curley
Achievement in visual effects
  • “Interstellar” Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
Screenwriter Graham Moore. Photo by Jose Alberto Hermosillo.   
Adapted screenplay
  • “The Imitation Game” Written by Graham Moore    

Original screenplay