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The Hollywood Reporter

Award Special 42A, December 9, 2021
Magazine

The all-new Hollywood Reporter offers unprecedented access to the people, studios, networks and agencies that create the magic in Hollywood. Published weekly, the oversized format includes exceptional photography and rich features.

When Media Companies Pivot to Video, the Result Is a Boom of Doc Short Contenders • Outlets like The New York Times and The New Yorker have embraced original streaming content, making the documentary short subject category increasingly competitive: ‘This explosion … is an early warning sign that a news organization might have bigger ambitions

‘So Few People Could’ve Made This Film in the Way That He Did’ • Summer of Soul rerecording mixer Paul Hsu talks about working on Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson’s doc about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

December Brings Flurries (of Awards Activity) • THR’s awards expert takes a look at the films that are climbing and falling in the ranks of the Oscar race

‘It Was Almost the Most We’ve Ever Wanted to Do Anything’ • Grammy-winning siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell talk about their career leading up to Bond and why they had to write a song for the famous franchise

‘I Started to Think and Even Dream in German’ • Actor Dan Stevens and filmmaker Maria Schrader dissect their sci-fi film I’m Your Man, Germany’s Oscar submission for best international feature

‘WE ARE NOT MEANT TO BE ISOLATED — WE ARE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER, TO SHARE’ • Producers Denis Villeneuve (Dune), Tim White (King Richard), Laura Berwick (Belfast), Rebecca Hall (Passing), Mahershala Ali (Swan Song) and Tanya Seghatchian (The Power of the Dog) talk about the importance of the theatrical experience and gun safety on sets after the Rust tragedy

‘IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DARKEST SCENES, I WANT YOU TO LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF’ • Director Julia Ducournau reveals how writer’s block nearly kept her from making Neon’s genre-defying Titane, which won Cannes’ 2021 Palme d’Or and is now France’s submission for best international feature: ‘I honestly didn’t know if I had it in me’

INTERNATIONAL FILMS WITH A GENRE BENT • The success of Bong Joon Ho’s thriller Parasite, which won four Oscars, including best international film and best picture in 2020, has opened up the international category — typically the domain of straight-faced drama and period pictures — to more genre-flavored titles. These five global contenders come with their own edge:

FILMS THAT ‘CAN CREATE EMPATHY AND OPEN PEOPLE’S EYES’ • President director Camilla Nielsson and EP Thandiwe Newton discuss the perilous state of democracy in Zimbabwe

‘WHEN VICTIMS ARE WHITE, IT’S ALWAYS A PRIORITY • Finding Kendrick Johnson filmmaker Jason Pollock and former detective Mitch Credle on the unsolved murder case of a Black teen

In 2012, Farhadi’s A Separation Won Iran’s First Oscar


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Frequency: Weekly Pages: 52 Publisher: Penske Media Corporation Edition: Award Special 42A, December 9, 2021

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The all-new Hollywood Reporter offers unprecedented access to the people, studios, networks and agencies that create the magic in Hollywood. Published weekly, the oversized format includes exceptional photography and rich features.

When Media Companies Pivot to Video, the Result Is a Boom of Doc Short Contenders • Outlets like The New York Times and The New Yorker have embraced original streaming content, making the documentary short subject category increasingly competitive: ‘This explosion … is an early warning sign that a news organization might have bigger ambitions

‘So Few People Could’ve Made This Film in the Way That He Did’ • Summer of Soul rerecording mixer Paul Hsu talks about working on Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson’s doc about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

December Brings Flurries (of Awards Activity) • THR’s awards expert takes a look at the films that are climbing and falling in the ranks of the Oscar race

‘It Was Almost the Most We’ve Ever Wanted to Do Anything’ • Grammy-winning siblings Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell talk about their career leading up to Bond and why they had to write a song for the famous franchise

‘I Started to Think and Even Dream in German’ • Actor Dan Stevens and filmmaker Maria Schrader dissect their sci-fi film I’m Your Man, Germany’s Oscar submission for best international feature

‘WE ARE NOT MEANT TO BE ISOLATED — WE ARE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER, TO SHARE’ • Producers Denis Villeneuve (Dune), Tim White (King Richard), Laura Berwick (Belfast), Rebecca Hall (Passing), Mahershala Ali (Swan Song) and Tanya Seghatchian (The Power of the Dog) talk about the importance of the theatrical experience and gun safety on sets after the Rust tragedy

‘IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DARKEST SCENES, I WANT YOU TO LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF’ • Director Julia Ducournau reveals how writer’s block nearly kept her from making Neon’s genre-defying Titane, which won Cannes’ 2021 Palme d’Or and is now France’s submission for best international feature: ‘I honestly didn’t know if I had it in me’

INTERNATIONAL FILMS WITH A GENRE BENT • The success of Bong Joon Ho’s thriller Parasite, which won four Oscars, including best international film and best picture in 2020, has opened up the international category — typically the domain of straight-faced drama and period pictures — to more genre-flavored titles. These five global contenders come with their own edge:

FILMS THAT ‘CAN CREATE EMPATHY AND OPEN PEOPLE’S EYES’ • President director Camilla Nielsson and EP Thandiwe Newton discuss the perilous state of democracy in Zimbabwe

‘WHEN VICTIMS ARE WHITE, IT’S ALWAYS A PRIORITY • Finding Kendrick Johnson filmmaker Jason Pollock and former detective Mitch Credle on the unsolved murder case of a Black teen

In 2012, Farhadi’s A Separation Won Iran’s First Oscar


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