Winners for the 2020 New Zealand Television Awards were announced today, with the event becoming of the few physical screen award ceremonies to be held during the pandemic.
The Luminaries, produced by Southern Light Films and Working Title TV, was the big winner in the drama craft categories with multiple wins including Best Script: Drama for Eleanor Catton, who adapted her Man Booker Prize-winning book for television, Best Director: Drama for Claire McCarthy, Best Cinematographer: Drama for Denson Baker, Best Production Design for Felicity Abbott and Daniel Birt, Best Costume Design for Edward K. Gibbon, Best Makeup Design for Jane O’Kane and Best Post Production Design for Alana Cotton. Lead actor Himesh Patel, who played Emery Staines in the series, won the award for Best Actor.
Taika Waititi, Paul Yates, Jemaine Clement won the Best Comedy award for season 2 of their Wellington Paranormal, while Yates also won Best Script: Comedy for the same program.
The Luminaries, produced by Southern Light Films and Working Title TV, was the big winner in the drama craft categories with multiple wins including Best Script: Drama for Eleanor Catton, who adapted her Man Booker Prize-winning book for television, Best Director: Drama for Claire McCarthy, Best Cinematographer: Drama for Denson Baker, Best Production Design for Felicity Abbott and Daniel Birt, Best Costume Design for Edward K. Gibbon, Best Makeup Design for Jane O’Kane and Best Post Production Design for Alana Cotton. Lead actor Himesh Patel, who played Emery Staines in the series, won the award for Best Actor.
Taika Waititi, Paul Yates, Jemaine Clement won the Best Comedy award for season 2 of their Wellington Paranormal, while Yates also won Best Script: Comedy for the same program.
- 11/18/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Publicity veterans Jonathan Rutter and Pamela Godwin-Austen on the list.
The Academy has invited 842 people from 59 countries – half of them women – including Lady Gaga, Adele, and Black Panther star Letitia Wright, to join the ranks in 2019.
The invitees include Jamie Bell, Claes Bang, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan, and directors Matteo Garrone, Jennifer Kent and Mélanie Laurent, as well as Hollywood filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
Not every one of the 842 may choose to join the Academy, although based on recent years, the acceptance rate is in the high 90% range. Besides women accounting for 50% of the new invitees, the Academy...
The Academy has invited 842 people from 59 countries – half of them women – including Lady Gaga, Adele, and Black Panther star Letitia Wright, to join the ranks in 2019.
The invitees include Jamie Bell, Claes Bang, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan, and directors Matteo Garrone, Jennifer Kent and Mélanie Laurent, as well as Hollywood filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
Not every one of the 842 may choose to join the Academy, although based on recent years, the acceptance rate is in the high 90% range. Besides women accounting for 50% of the new invitees, the Academy...
- 7/1/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Publicity veterans Jonathan Rutter and Pamela Godwin-Austen on the list.
The Academy has invited 842 people from 59 countries – half of them women – including Lady Gaga, Adele, and Black Panther star Letitia Wright, to join the ranks in 2019.
Potential new members include Jamie Bell, Claes Bang, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan, and directors Matteo Garrone, Jennifer Kent and Mélanie Laurent, as well as Hollywood filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
Not every one of the 842 may choose to join the Academy, although based on recent years, the acceptance rate is in the high 90% range. Besides women accounting for 50% of the new invitees, the...
The Academy has invited 842 people from 59 countries – half of them women – including Lady Gaga, Adele, and Black Panther star Letitia Wright, to join the ranks in 2019.
Potential new members include Jamie Bell, Claes Bang, Andrea Riseborough, Peter Mullan, and directors Matteo Garrone, Jennifer Kent and Mélanie Laurent, as well as Hollywood filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller.
Not every one of the 842 may choose to join the Academy, although based on recent years, the acceptance rate is in the high 90% range. Besides women accounting for 50% of the new invitees, the...
- 7/1/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Neill Blomkamp’s 2015 sci-fi film “Chappie,” about an artificially intelligent law enforcement robot captured by a group of gangsters, starred Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman and notably the rap duo Die Antwoord, comprised of Ninja and Yolandi Visser, who appeared as themselves. In the film, the duo had their own lair where they kept and “raised” Chappie, the robot, to be one of their own. Now, Ninja claims in an Instagram post that they painted the lair themselves and were never credited for their work.
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In the post, he blames the “dumb fucks” who “forgot” to credit them and goes on to target the film’s art director. “said art direction was by some fat fuck who smiled in our face when Neill [Blomkamp] was around then flipped 2 retard gremlin face when Neill was gone…...
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In the post, he blames the “dumb fucks” who “forgot” to credit them and goes on to target the film’s art director. “said art direction was by some fat fuck who smiled in our face when Neill [Blomkamp] was around then flipped 2 retard gremlin face when Neill was gone…...
- 11/1/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
"Alone in the hissing laboratory of his wishes, Mr Pugh minces among bad vats and jeroboams, tiptoes through spinneys of murdering herbs, agony dancing in his crucibles, and mixes especially for Mrs Pugh a venomous porridge unknown to toxicologists which will scald and viper through her until her ears fall off like figs, her toes grow big and black as balloons, and steam comes screaming out of her navel." —Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood.
Britain's film industry in the nineteen-forties, stoked to new heights of relevance and seriousness by the mission of wartime, rolled on with considerable momentum, arguably climaxing in 1948, the year that saw production of Powell & Pressburger's The Red Shoes, Thorold Dickinson's The Queen of Spades, Olivier's Hamlet and David Lean's Oliver Twist. (It couldn't last: the same year saw the Rank Organisation introduce Production Facilities Limited, quickly nicknamed Piffle, a body intended to strategize...
Britain's film industry in the nineteen-forties, stoked to new heights of relevance and seriousness by the mission of wartime, rolled on with considerable momentum, arguably climaxing in 1948, the year that saw production of Powell & Pressburger's The Red Shoes, Thorold Dickinson's The Queen of Spades, Olivier's Hamlet and David Lean's Oliver Twist. (It couldn't last: the same year saw the Rank Organisation introduce Production Facilities Limited, quickly nicknamed Piffle, a body intended to strategize...
- 9/30/2010
- MUBI
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