Posts Tagged ‘James Cameron’

Kathryn Bigelow Beats Ex-Husband to Break ‘Best Director’ Glass Ceiling

In fame, Film, History, News, TV on 7 March 2010 tagged 82nd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, AP, Associated Press, Avatar, Best Director, James Cameron, Jane Campion, Kathryn Bigelow, Lina Wertmüller, Lost in Translation, Oscars, Seven Beauties, Sofia Coppola, The Hurt Locker, The Piano with no comments

Avatar director, James Cameron was rooting for ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow (who had a better seat than him at the ceremony) to beat him out for Best Director for her direction of The Hurt Locker and tonight Ms. Bigelow made history becoming the first ever female winner in the Best Director category. Bigelow is the first [...]

Academy Awards Nominations Announced

In Art, fame, Film, News, TV on 2 February 2010 tagged "An Education", 2010 Academy Awards, 82nd Academy Awards, A Serious Man, Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Avatar, District 9, Golden Raspberry Awards, Inglorious Basterds, James Cameron, Mo'Nique, Nine, Oscars, Penelope Cruz, Precious, Samuel Goldwyn Theater, Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side, The Hurt Locker, The Razzie Awards, Tom Sherak, Up in the Air, UP! with 2 comments

Anne Hathaway and Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences President, Tom Sherak announced the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California. Unfortunately Afghan Star, Where The Wild Things Are, and Spike Jonze were all snubbed while the Academy feasted on whatever hallucinogenic bait Sandra Bullock was [...]

Everything’s Illegal in Boston : Edge of Darkness

In Film, Opinion on 26 January 2010 tagged Anthony Bourdain, Avatar, Braveheart, Edge of Darkness, Eric Ripert, Hamlet, James Cameron, Mad Max, Mel Gibson, NorthMoor, Ocean's Eleven, Signs, Spike Jonze, Steven Soderbergh, The Matrix, Thomas Craven, Where the Wild Things Are with no comments

Film is an odd medium. One whose audio and visual elements rooted in the written word can be a platform for incredible exercises in art, technique, and technology. Sometimes, the characters and story of a film lead it to greatness. The realism hidden beneath the visual sheen of Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are [...]

Avatar, Celluloid Proof Not All Acts of Hubris Are Equal

In Art, Film, Opinion, Politics, War on 11 January 2010 tagged 3D, animism, Avatar, CGI, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Eric Steven Raymond, Fern Gully, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, George Lucas, Hubris, Jake Sully, James Cameron, Jurassic Park, Last of the Mohicans, Mark Romanek, Mech Warrior, Na'vi, Oddworld, Pandora, Phantasy Star Online, Sam Worthington, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, The Last of the Mohicans, transubstantiation with 3 comments

James Cameron’s Avatar is a work of hubris. A 3D, CGI-laden allegory of Dionysian proportions about the inevitable battle between nature and machines. In a rich world full of fluorescent colored creatures, lush landscapes, and floating mountains Cameron brings a tale that aims to be as vast as the world contained within it. Cameron manages [...]