With the 2022 Academy Awards approaching, UCLA students and visitors were interviewed on campus to predict the winner for Best Picture. Read more...
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March 22, 9:59 pm
Oscars 2022: Q&A: Alumnus discusses process behind visual effects in ‘Don’t Look Up’
This post was updated March 27 at 9:46 p.m. Otherworldly visual effects take center stage in “Don’t Look Up.” Nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, Adam McKay’s “Don’t Look Up” follows the story of astronomy graduate student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and her professor Dr. Read more...
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March 22, 9:39 pm
Oscars 2022: Daily Bruin staff predicts winning lineup for 94th annual Academy Awards
This post was updated March 27 at 10:08 a.m. A grand night of celebration awaits this year’s Oscar nominees. Hollywood’s most anticipated ceremony is just around the corner, and filmmakers from around the world are ready to take home their Oscars’ gold. Read more...
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March 22, 8:11 pm
Oscars 2022: ‘Bestia’ reveals monster within in examination of Chilean military dictatorship
This post was updated March 27 at 10:05 p.m. A porcelain shell can’t contain a beast. In “Bestia,” a short film co-written by Martín Erazo and director Hugo Covarrubias, the sinister violence of the Chilean military dictatorship is depicted using puppets made of porcelain and felt. Read more...
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March 20, 9:20 pm
Oscars 2022: Score producer on ‘King Richard’ talks matching music with story
This post was updated March 27 at 9:54 p.m. “King Richard” is keeping score, on and off the court. Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, the biopic looks at the life of Richard Williams (Will Smith), father to tennis stars Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena Williams (Demi Singleton), through Venus’ journey from dreamer to professional player. Read more...
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March 13, 11:25 am
Oscars 2022: Alumnus’s visual effects work brings ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ magic to big screen
This post was last updated June 14 at 7:38 p.m. Web-slinging through the multiverse would be pure scientific fantasy without visual effects. Bringing the fictional world of Spider-Man to life on the big screen, alumnus and visual effects supervisor Kelly Port was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for his work in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” After Peter Parker (Tom Holland) asks Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to cast a spell that would conceal his superhero alter-ego, he accidentally opens his world to the interdimensional villains of past Spider-Man films. Read more...
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March 12, 11:12 pm
Oscars 2022: UCLA lecturer helps guide cultural representation on ‘Raya and the Last Dragon’
This post was updated March 27 at 9:43 p.m. From cultural nuances to character naming, accurate representation is a team effort. For Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon,” this team was the Southeast Asia Story Trust. Read more...