The Hollywood Reporter

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The Hollywood Reporter

Do the Oscars Need a Contemporary Costume Design Category? • The Academy overwhelmingly favors costume designs for period or fantasy films — not just with wins but with nominations — ultimately ignoring designers who work on movies set in the present day

Jostling for Attention as the Clock Ticks Down • With Oscar nominations balloting set to begin March 5, the battle for Academy voters’ eyeballs is underway

Capturing Billie Holiday’s ‘Tumultuous’ Journey • Cinematographer Andrew Dunn used one extended Steadicam shot to show the legendary singer as she confronts the horrors of racism in Lee Daniels’ new film

A Story ‘About a Healing Road’ • The latest from Oscar-nominated director Paul Greengrass, known for his fact-based political thrillers, is News of the World, a Western drama that cuts to the heart of America

Yes, I Did Say That! • A look at who’s saying what in the awards race

‘I Had No Idea What Was Going to Happen Next’ • The stars of Palm Springs recall the ‘huge mixtape energy’ of their first meeting, the camaraderie on set and the thrill of reading a script that keeps defying all expectations

How to Build a Bromance in the Wild • First Cow director Kelly Reichardt and star John Magaro chat about their sweet drama exploring the friendship between two men in a remote trading post in the Oregon Territory, and why headshots don’t matter much — except when casting a cow

What It’s Like to Ask ‘a Crew to Put Their Health Potentially on the Line’ • The producers of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, One Night in Miami and Malcolm & Marie committed to problem-solving amid the pandemic, with doctors on call, quarantine bubbles and, in the case of Borat, having to engage with one person who refused to get a COVID test

‘Brutal Heat Wave’ and Money Troubles • While they didn’t have to handle a COVID-19 shoot, these six top producers had to overcome other major hurdles to make their films

WHEN THERE IS NO ‘H IERARCHY OF REALISM’ • With his first feature film, Florian Zeller created a confusing puzzle of time and place, in hopes that viewers of The Father would feel as lost as the main character, a man suffering from dementia

‘A WORLD THAT’S FULL OF LIFE AND JOY’ • Writer-director Lee Isaac Chung’s drama Minari, about a Korean American family chasing the American dream, was inspired by his own childhood in Arkansas

THREE ODES TO OCTOGENARIANS • The protagonists in these shortlisted documentaries may be getting up there in years, but they’ve got plenty of life to share, as proven through these unique explorations of loneliness, mortality and the ‘fountain of youth’

WHEN A CZECH PAINTER MEETS A NORWEGIAN THIEF • Benjamin Ree set out to make a film about an artist who meets the man who stole two of her paintings, but the documentarian soon realized he needed to follow his movie’s fascinating subjects for three years, through life and near death

AND ON THIS FARM THERE WAS A PIG NAMED GUNDA • ‘My call is for empathy,’ says the filmmaker behind the black-and-white documentary that gives audiences an inside look at the lives of a pig and her piglets

The Drama of Trauma Five international features dig into the scar tissue left by violence and loss

‘ Real Gangsters as Extras’ Chung Mong-hong’s fifth feature explores a family torn apart by violent crime

‘I Carry Her With Me Forever’ • Judas and the Black Messiah’s Dominique Fishback details the life-changing experience of her role in the political drama

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