Innehållsförteckning för Awards Special 34B - December 11, 2024 från The Hollywood Reporter

In the months leading up to the production of The Brutalist, writer-director Brady Corbet texted his leading actor, Adrien Brody, from Italy, where the filmmaker was struggling to find a location he had envisioned. In a key sequence in the film, Brody, as Jewish Hungarian refugee architect László Toth, travels with his wealthy patron, played by Guy Pearce, to obtain white marble from quarries carved into the mountains of Carrara, Italy. Corbet and his co-writer and romantic partner, Norwegian filmmaker Mona Fastvold, had written the dramatic landscape — where Michelangelo got his marble — into their 168-page script to supply an emotionally resonant backdrop for a dark turning point in the story, but Corbet couldn’t locate a spot for filming until Brody intervened. “I texted him back, ‘I got you,’…

Several directors of photography are in Oscar contention this year after reteaming with a director they had worked with previously. Some lensed $100 million-plus epics, while others shot films with tighter budgets. Whatever their situation, six of this year’s leading DPs gathered on Zoom in October for THR’s annual Cinematographer Roundtable to discuss their paths into the profession, their stance on VFX and the biggest challenges they faced on their projects this year. The six roundtablists were Maria’s Ed Lachman, who previously worked with Pablo Larraín on El Conde; Gladiator II’s John Mathieson, who lensed the first movie as well as others from Ridley Scott’s filmography; Wicked’s Alice Brooks, whose collaborations with director Jon M. Chu include In the Heights; Emilia Pérez’s Paul Guilhaume, who shot Jacques Audiard’s Paris, 13th…

Icelandic musician Hildur Gudnadóttir has experienced a very distinct shift since winning the best original score Academy Award for her work in Todd Phillips’ Joker. “It’s like getting married to it, because you get this prefix,” she jokes to The Hollywood Reporter about “Oscar winner” preceding any reference to her. “It’s hard to see my name written anywhere without this prefix.” The 42-year-old returned as the composer for Joker’s sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, a choice she says was a no-brainer. “It was always a given that I would be a part of the sequel because the music was such a big part of the first one,” she explains, noting that she wanted to make sure the sound stayed consistent with the first film. Gudnadóttir says that, sonically speaking, the…

Marissa Bode had all but given up on the idea she would get the part of Nessarose in Jon M. Chu’s feature adaptation of Wicked. “My last call-back that I had, prior to that, I didn’t think that I got it. I hadn’t heard back from casting,” Bode tells The Hollywood Reporter about her bid to land a part in the beloved stage musical. To distract herself, the 24-year-old says she made a “cute little spooky video” about witches, “not even thinking about Wicked.” But just two days after uploading the video to Instagram, she heard back from casting about another Zoom callback with Chu, who she says told her to be careful about posting a witch-themed video because no one knew she was up for the role of Nessarose.…