Oscars
-
Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, America Ferrera and Andrew Scott Complete Virtuosos Award Winners in Santa Barbara
They will join the previously announced Lily Gladstone, Greta Lee, Charles Melton and Da’Vine Joy Randolph
-
Irwin Winkler Looks Back at His Oscar Nights, Including the One Where ‘I Wanted to Shoot Myself’
TheWrap magazine: The Hollywood figure has produced all-time classics including “Rocky,” “GoodFellas” and “The Right Stuff”
-
Bradley Cooper to Receive Outstanding Performer of the Year at Santa Barbara Film Festival
The “Maestro” actor-director will receive his award on Feb. 8
-
How Composer Ludwig Göransson Took Viewers Inside J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Head
TheWrap magazine: “You’re with him — you’re feeling his feelings, you’re seeing through his eyes throughout the whole film,” Göransson says
-
Why John Carney Needed to Write ‘Good, Not Great’ Music for ‘Flora and Son’
TheWrap magazine: “It can’t be that she suddenly starts singing like Beyoncé and he starts writing Ed Sheeran songs,” Carney says
-
How Jarvis Cocker Channeled His Childhood Cowboy to Write Songs for ‘Asteroid City’
TheWrap magazine: The musician and longtime Anderson collaborator also appears in the 1950s-set film
-
Greta Gerwig to Receive Palm Springs International Director of the Year Award
The “Barbie” director will be feted on Jan. 4, 2024 at the Palm Springs Convention Center
-
Roger Ross Williams Had to Prepare ‘Cassandro’ Real-Life Subject for Artistic License: ‘It Wasn’t a Documentary’
TheWrap magazine: “This is a deeply emotional story of the love between a mother and a son, their isolation and loneliness,” the filmmaker says
-
How ‘Nyad’ Screenwriter Julia Cox Captured the Marathon Swimmer’s ‘Extreme, Intense, Very Esoteric Dream’
TheWrap Magazine: Cox drew from Diana Nyad’s memoir and conversations with the super athlete to write the biopic starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster
-
How ‘Rustin’ Cowriter Found the Mischievous Humor Within the Stature of a Civil Rights Icon
TheWrap Magazine: “Rustin was into pranks and jokes, and I felt like that played into his brilliance as a strategist,” says screenwriter Julian Breece
-
‘May December’ Screenplay Was Influenced By an ‘Eternal and Archetypal’ ’90s Tabloid Scandal
TheWrap Magazine: The Mary Kay Letourneau case was a precursor to the “never-ending true crime parade we have right now,” says screenwriter Samy Burch
-
How ‘Jaws’ Inspired the Michael Jordan-Infused ‘Air’
TheWrap magazine: “This kind of unknown employee at Nike, an underdog in his own right, was all very interesting to me,” screenwriter Alex Convery says of his massive industry break
-
‘The Color Purple’: How Nova Wav’s New Song Kept the Broadway Beat
TheWrap magazine: The Grammy-winning duo talks about “Keep on Movin,’” one of the new songs in the long-awaited musical Christmas release
-
How Billie Eilish and Finneas Tapped Into the Personal to Write Their ‘Barbie’ Ballad
TheWrap magazine: “The thing that we can relate to, that anyone can relate to, is having an identity crisis: not knowing who you are,” Finneas tells TheWrap
-
Dua Lipa Breaks Down ‘Barbie’ Song of the Summer: ‘It Was Kind of a Jigsaw Puzzle’
The singer came onto the project after the melody for “Dance the Night” had already been written
