Cameron and AVATAR Lead Golden Globes
January 18, 2010 by Rubin Safaya · Leave a Comment
James Cameron won Best Director for his science-fiction/action film Avatar, which also won Best Motion Picture-Drama, beating other critics’ favorites, Inglourious Basterds, Precious and Up In The Air. Best Motion Picture – Comedy was awarded to Warner Bros. Pictures’ absurdist road-trip, The Hangover. Disney/Pixar’s animated geriatric adventure Up won Best Animated Feature Film, edging out [...]
AMPAS Selects Best Visual Effects Candidates
January 6, 2010 by Rubin Safaya · Leave a Comment
Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS®) announced the seven contenders for Best Visual Effects in the 82nd Academy Awards®: Twentieth Century-Fox’s $400 million gamble, Avatar, Tri-Star’s alien allegory to Apartheid, District 9, Warner Bros. Pictures’ releases Terminator Salvation andHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Paramount Pictures’ rebooted Star Trek, DreamWorks’ Transformers: [...]
Avatar
December 18, 2009 by Rubin Safaya · 3 Comments
Reportedly approaching costs of $300 million and shelved for ten years while director James Cameron waited for computer graphics technology to satisfy his imagination and his budget, his long-awaited epic, Avatar, has finally come. Does the film live up to the tremendous expectations it set? No and yes. A team of scientists is sent to [...]