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Below-the-Line Artists Discuss Their Oscar-Nominated Crafts
Creating a tsunami, chasing SUVs and sewing bear pelts — it’s just another day on set.
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Oscar Eligibility Rules: Trickier Than Tax Code?
Limiting the number of producers named on nominated films has proved controversial.
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5 Questions for John Wells
BACKLOT: The ‘Company Men’ writer-director on a second stint as WGA West president.
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Backlot: Honors Focus on Actors
The Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Virtuoso Award recipients share snippets from the making of their movies.
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Backlot: Made in Utah
From “Thelma & Louise” to “127 Hours,” Hollywood has had a longtime love for the Beehive State. Now lawmakers are stuggling to save the state’s incentives program.
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The Story Behind the Casting of ‘True Grit’s’ Hailee Steinfeld
With only a few short film and minor TV roles, she beat out 15,000: “Just the thought of it was kind of intimidating,” she tells THR of auditioning.
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Anatomy of a Contender: ‘True Grit’
First, Joel and Ethan Coen had to persuade Jeff Bridges to take an iconic role then they sifted through 15,000 audition videos to find a great unknown.
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Anatomy of a Contender: Making of ‘The Town’
How Ben Affleck and company managed a prison visit, 10 days at Fenway Park, 'cowboys and Indians' gunfights and the stress of multiple endings.
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Backlot: Made in the Caribbean
With a wealth of locales that can double for everything from Mumbai to Massachusetts, Hollywood has come calling to tap the Caribbean's versatility and production savvy.
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Why the Business of Child Actors Isn’t Child’s Play
The earning potential of the typical "successful" child actor is not nearly as much as one might think.
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How Avi Lerner’s ‘Expendables’ Gamble Paid Off
Israel Film Festival Honoring Nu Image/Millenium Film Co-Chair
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