When the average moviegoer today thinks of unrewarded talent, Leonardo DiCaprio springs to mind with his zero-for-four win rate at the Academy Awards. DiCaprio’s association with being snubbed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has become so popular it has reached meme status. Read more...
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February 26, 2:19 am
Q&A: UCLA professor talks diversity and representation in cinema
The nominees in the main acting categories of the 2016 Academy Awards are entirely white. For the second year in a row, the lack of diversity at the Oscars led to big names boycotting the ceremony and the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite trending online. Read more...
Photo: UCLA professor Darnell Hunt compiles the “Hollywood Diversity Report” every year to track the change over time of minority representation in Hollywood productions. (Efren Piñon/Daily Bruin)
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February 24, 11:16 pm
Let’s Animate: Bruin Animated Filmmakers heads first project on vegetarian zombie
Daily Bruin A&E is following the Bruin Animated Filmmakers, a new club on campus, as they create a short animated film. In this week’s installment: an introduction to the club, the premise of their film and their storyboarding process. Read more...
Photo: Bruin Animated Filmmakers was founded by fourth-year student computer science student Joey Gomez-Benito (center right) and fourth-year theater student Nick Brunner (second from left). (Julie Hanash/Daily Bruin)
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February 22, 12:08 am
Trailer Talk: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’
Movie trailers are like free samples at Costco: The good ones excite you and leave you wanting more, while the bad ones make you cringe. Each week, A&E columnist Matthew Fernandez will dissect movie trailers and analyze the Hollywood fare to come. Read more...
Photo: “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” released May 27, will not be directed by Tim Burton like 2010’s “Alice in Wonderland.” (Disney)
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February 19, 12:26 pm
Q&A: Disney film animator Chad Sellers talks career, working on ‘Zootopia’
Chad Sellers makes magic with Disney. Sellers works at Walt Disney Animation Studios as an animator and has helped craft films like “Tangled,” “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Frozen.” The partially self-taught animator worked for a video game company and Blue Sky Studios, most famous for the “Ice Age” series, before securing a job with Disney. Read more...
Photo: Chad Sellers, an animation supervisor for “Zootopia,” visited a film class at UCLA on Wednesday to give a guest lecture. Sellers said the biggest challenge on “Zootopia” was capturing the movement of many different species, from an elephant to a shrew. (Courtesy of Disney)
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February 18, 3:07 pm
Second Take: Writers Guild Awards results set stage for Oscars predictions
The red carpet arrivals begin. One by one, familiar faces – actors – and not so familiar faces – writers – walk by an elaborate backdrop. Read more...
Photo: “Spotlight” was one of the winners at the Writers Guild Awards on Saturday, Feb. 13, taking home the best original screenplay award. The WGA have generally been a good indication as to what film will triumph at the Academy Awards, with six of the last 10 Oscar winners for best original screenplay also winning at the WGA. (Open Road Films)
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February 17, 12:11 am
‘Light out of Darkness’ illuminates stories of Holocaust survivors
As a young woman, Sophie Zeidman Hamburger had faced death before the German Nazi soldiers at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. At the age of 93, she told her story to a group of eager students in the main room of Hillel at UCLA. Read more...
Photo: A Holocaust survivor shows pictures of her family before the Holocaust to students. UCLA alumnus Andrew Rosenstein took inspiration from the experiences of the survivors to film a documentary, “Light Out of Darkness.”