SAG-AFTRA Merger Means Tougher Admissions, Potentially Costlier Membership (Exclusive)
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sag-aftra-merger-dual-membership-cost-284453
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
SAG/AFTRA MERGER BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sag-aftra-merger-dual-membership-cost-284453
84th Annual Academy Awards - Sunday 2/26/12 (7EST/4PST)
And the NOMINEES are:
Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir in "A Better Life"
George Clooney in "The Descendants"
Jean Dujardin in "The Artist"
Gary Oldman in "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
Brad Pitt in "Moneyball"
Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh in "My Week with Marilyn"
Jonah Hill in "Moneyball"
Nick Nolte in "Warrior"
Christopher Plummer in "Beginners"
Max von Sydow in "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"
Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close in "Albert Nobbs"
Viola Davis in "The Help"
Rooney Mara in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
Meryl Streep in "The Iron Lady"
Michelle Williams in "My Week with Marilyn"
Actress in a Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo in "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain in "The Help"
Melissa McCarthy in "Bridesmaids"
Janet McTeer in "Albert Nobbs"
Octavia Spencer in "The Help"
Animated Feature Film
"A Cat in Paris" Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
"Chico & Rita" Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
"Kung Fu Panda 2" Jennifer Yuh Nelson
"Puss in Boots" Chris Miller
"Rango" Gore Verbinski
Art Direction
"The Artist" Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
"Hugo" Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"Midnight in Paris" Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
"War Horse" Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales
Cinematography
"The Artist" Guillaume Schiffman
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Jeff Cronenweth
"Hugo" Robert Richardson
"The Tree of Life" Emmanuel Lubezki
"War Horse" Janusz Kaminski
Costume Design
"Anonymous" Lisy Christl
"The Artist" Mark Bridges
"Hugo" Sandy Powell
"Jane Eyre" Michael O'Connor
"W.E." Arianne Phillips
Directing
"The Artist" Michel Hazanavicius
"The Descendants" Alexander Payne
"Hugo" Martin Scorsese
"Midnight in Paris" Woody Allen
"The Tree of Life" Terrence Malick
Documentary (Feature)
"Hell and Back Again" Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
"If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front" Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
"Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
"Pina" Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
"Undefeated" TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas
Documentary (Short Subject)
"The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement" Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
"God Is the Bigger Elvis" Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
"Incident in New Baghdad"James Spione
"Saving Face" Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
"The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom" Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen
Film Editing
"The Artist" Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
"The Descendants" Kevin Tent
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
"Hugo" Thelma Schoonmaker
"Moneyball" Christopher Tellefsen
Foreign Language Film
"Bullhead" Belgium
"Footnote" Israel
"In Darkness" Poland
"Monsieur Lazhar" Canada
"A Separation" Iran
Makeup
"Albert Nobbs" Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
"The Iron Lady" Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland
Music (Original Score)
"The Adventures of Tintin" John Williams"The Artist" Ludovic Bource
"Hugo" Howard Shore
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Alberto Iglesias
"War Horse" John Williams
Music (Original Song)
"Man or Muppet" from "The Muppets" Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
"Real in Rio" from "Rio" Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett
Best Picture
"The Artist" Thomas Langmann, Producer
"The Descendants" Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" Scott Rudin, Producer
"The Help" Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
"Hugo" Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
"Midnight in Paris" Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
"Moneyball" Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
"The Tree of Life" Nominees to be determined
"War Horse" Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Short Film (Animated)
"Dimanche/Sunday" Patrick Doyon
"The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
"La Luna" Enrico Casarosa
"A Morning Stroll" Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
"Wild Life" Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
Short Film (Live Action)
"Pentecost" Peter McDonald and Eimear O'Kane
"Raju" Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
"The Shore" Terry George and Oorlagh George
"Time Freak" Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
"Tuba Atlantic" Hallvar Witzø
Sound Editing
"Drive" Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" Ren Klyce
"Hugo" Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
"War Horse" Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom
Sound Mixing
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
"Hugo" Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
"Moneyball" Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
"War Horse" Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson
Visual Effects
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
"Hugo" Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
"Real Steel" Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
"The Descendants" Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
"Hugo" Screenplay by John Logan
"The Ides of March" Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
"Moneyball" Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. Story by Stan Chervin
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Screenplay by Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan
Writing (Original Screenplay)
"The Artist" Written by Michel Hazanavicius
"Bridesmaids" Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
"Margin Call" Written by J.C. Chandor
"Midnight in Paris" Written by Woody Allen
"A Separation" Written by Asghar Farhadi
So there's still plenty of time to GO TO THE MOVIES and plan your OSCAR party!
The 84th Annual Academy
18TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD Awards (1/29/12)
18TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD Awards
Please don’t forget to VOTE and tune in!
VOTES MUST BE IN BY 12 NOON (PST) – FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012
VOTING INFORMATION:
VOTE:
Watch the results of your votes announced live at the 18th Annual SAG Awards Sunday, January 29th on TNT and TBS at 8pm ET, 7pm CT, 6pm MT and 5pm PT.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Choose “HAPPINESS, SATISFACTION, CONTENTEDNESS”
It’s hard to believe that these days we must actually “schedule” time for ourselves in our day planners. How did we let ourselves get to this point?
For many years Bonnie Ware worked in palliative care. In conversations with people faced with their own mortality she learned that these are the five most common regrets:
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
For many years Bonnie Ware worked in palliative care. In conversations with people faced with their own mortality she learned that these are the five most common regrets:
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I didn't work so hard.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.Two years ago I would have to admit that I was living with all five regrets. Luckily for me in 2009 I came to the proverbial “FORK IN THE ROAD” and I chose to significantly change my life’s path. I now strive to make conscious, wise and honest choices that will lead me towards happiness, satisfaction and contentedness. I’ll admit I’m still having trouble with #2 and #5 but I’m working on it!
I’ll leave you with this quote from Ms. Ware’s article, “Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness.”
FULL ARTICLE: Top 5 Regrets of the Dying (Bonnie Ware/Huffington Post 1/21/12) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bronnie-ware/top-5-regrets-of-the-dyin_b_1220965.html
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Friday, January 20, 2012
SAG&AFTRA cards in hand, full tank of gas and in very high spirits!
It’s hard to believe that YEAR 1 of my journey to become a working actor has come to an end. I started my journey in January 2011, SAG AND AFTRA cards in hand, full tank of gas and in very high spirits! Seventeen years outside of the industry had passed so I really had no clue as to how difficult, fun, exasperating, exciting, challenging, expensive, overwhelming and life-altering an experience this would be. WOW, it has been quite a year!
My 2011 (goals): discovery, classes, equipment & tools, study, reconnecting, and developing new relationships.
As I was lying in bed this morning I thought how do I credit those that were so influential and helpful? Apologies to anyone I may have inadvertently left off the credits! Then it came to me……… display it like CREDITS rolling at the end of a movie!
2011
Catherine Stanley
Drama West Buddies
Cyndi Stafford Photography
Laurel and John Jones
Laurel and John Jones
VOX, Coaching, Innovative, AKA &Tree Falls
Coaching, Commercial, Animation, Brian Nefsky (Disney) and Tom Rector (Phelps)
Writing for the Stage – Playwright
Power Group 10
Actors’ Network Buddies
VO2GOGO-Education/Coaching, Commercial Demo
VO2GOGO buddies
VOBG buddies
Voice Over Workout Group/Voice Trax West
WOG buddies
SUPPORT TEAM
Susan D. Welsh
Royce Bell
Lindy Burke
Margaret M. Hoskins
Shirley Knudson
Kameal Krukenberg
Rue Lannon
Lisa Peskay Malmsten
Miriam Margolis
Gillis Monroe
Barbara Munoz
Suzanne E. Narducy
Cynthia Stafford
Priscilla Silver
Dr. Richard Tebbano
Edward Villanueva
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
A RISING STAR!
EXTRA! EXTRA!
I've now seen Jessica Chastain in several different movies and she's one actor to watch! Her range, depth of character and ear for accents/dialects put her on my "A-LIST!"
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1567113/
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I've now seen Jessica Chastain in several different movies and she's one actor to watch! Her range, depth of character and ear for accents/dialects put her on my "A-LIST!"
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1567113/
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Meryl Streep is OUTSTANDING in the "IRON LADY!"
FROM THE STALLS
(19 January 2012)
MOVIE: “The Iron Lady”
RATING:
NO SPOILER ALERT necessary - I’ll just say that Ms. Streep’s performance is outstanding. Equally impressive were ALL the supporting cast members with a special shout out to Mr. Broadbent. From the actor’s point of view – I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!
www.imdb.com/title/tt1007029/
www.theironladymovie.co.uk
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