Wednesday, January 31, 2018

25 Actresses with a bright future: Part 1


In honor of the metoo movement and in a growing desire to try and win support back for Hollywood in the wake of their so called "political elitism" movement I have decided to do a series in which I analyze and talk about actresses and their backgrounds in a series I will call "25 Actresses with a bright future"

Emma Stone: 


Major Performances: The Amazing Spider-Man, Battle of the Sexes, Zombieland
La La Land (She received an Oscar for this performance) and Birdman (She was a member of the Best Supporting Actress field that year) 


Upcoming Performances: The Favourite, Cruella, The Croods 2



Born in Scottsdale Arizona, she convinced her parents to let her move to Hollywood using a power point presentation featuring a background use of a Madonna song. Her first big break and her debut was in one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed high school dramas since John Hughes, 2007 Jonah Hill vehicle, Superbad.  That story, that romantic young naive love was one of the most sincere performances by a duo in a long time. 

From there she continued acting picking up more and more critical steam with performances like the one she delivered in 2011's "The Help" and her coming of age film "Easy A". Finally in 2014 she was rewarded by her peers for her supporting of Michael Keaton in that year's best picture recipient "Birdman". She is the every-woman, a sort of presence that stays away from the drama while bathing in the glow of quirk and charm. 





Margot Robbie



Major Performances: The Wolf of Wall Street (Which garnered her lot of accolades), About Time, Goodbye Christopher Robin, and I,Tonya (Which led to her successfully being nominated for her first Oscar) 


Upcoming Performances: Suicide Squad 2, Two Harley Quinn films, Mary, Queen of Scots 



Born in the land down under, she grew up in a family of four children, with her mom being a physiotherapist, her dad Doug Robbie. She first made her presence known in the 2013 romantic sci-fi film about time travelling romance, About Time, a film which is one of my personal favorites of that year. She was still despite that a completely unknown, a statement that would soon ring hollow. 

 The true moment of coming out was when she appeared alongside Leonardo Dicaprio in 2013's adaptation of Jordan Belfort memoir, The Wolf of Wall Street. She stole the show with her acting, her sexiness and that "daddy scene", even if her dramatic moments were more resounding. Here and there she has out acted Jared Leto and Will Smith, gotten to play historical figures in period pieces with Goodbye Christopher Robin, and snagged a well deserve oscar nomination for this year's figure skating film I, Tonya. 


Saoirse Ronan: 



Major Performances: Brooklyn (For which she received a best actress nomination), Atonement (For which she received a supporting actress nom), The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lovely Bones, Hanna, The Host, How I Live Now, Lady Bird (For which is nominated for Lead Actress)


Upcoming Performances: Mary, Queen of Scots (With Margot Robbie), The Seagull 


Born in one of the Burroughs of New York referred to as "The Bronx", her family moved to Ireland when she was three.  She spent a decent amount of time living in Ireland, especially Dublin where she picked up the deep accent she has today.  When Atonement came out in 2007 to rapturous acclaim and celebration, the Oscars decided that even at her age that she should be awarded with a nomination for best supporting actress.  

She continued working, picking up a role in a clunker thought to be the Twilight author's next big hit, as well as facing obscurity with movies like How I Live Now. Finally though, with the help of Wes Anderson she was thrust back into the light and a year following broke out completely with Brooklyn.  She is one of the most charming and sincere actresses alive and her relationship with her Lady Bird director, for which both of them are nominated for Oscars, shows just how cool Hollywood can be. 

Alicia Vikander


Major Performances: Ex Machina (A critical darling), The Danish Girl (For which she won an oscar, Anna Karenina, The Fifth Estate, Testament of Youth (For which she received minor critical praise)


Upcoming Performances: Tomb Raider, Freak Shift, Submergence 


Alicia is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer, born in Gothenburg, Sweden to another Swedish actress, Maria Fahl-Vikander. Spending a lot of her childhood in minor stage plays as well as time in Ballet, she didn't actually get her film start until 2009 with the film, "Pure". There she spent a lot of time within the confines of her home countries entertainment and cinematic industry. 

Alicia first became noteworthy for the more obscure film fans when she showed up in the 2012 Danish film "The Royal Affair" opposite Mads Mikkelsen.  She continued acting until a young up and coming director tagged her to appear in his Sci-fi film "Ex Machina" and her critical star burned brightly. She was so good in Ex Machina that her victory at the Oscars was shunned by a majority of people who felt she shouldn't have even been nominated.  Appearing in Man of U.N.C.L.E soon after was the most notable she's been since her Oscar. 

Elizabeth Olsen 


Major Performances: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Godzilla (2014), Captain America: Civil War, Ingrid Goes West, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Wind River


Upcoming Performances: Avengers: Infinity War 

Born Elizabeth Chase Olsen, she would later end up growing up in the shadow of her sisters, financially at least, as she is the more talented actress. Born in Sherman Oaks, California to a real estate developer and a personal manager. Spending most of her youth in ballet classes, she found work in her sisters straight to DVD brand of cinematic drek. However after years of small roles her star got a small ignition from the critically lauded Martha Marcy May Marlene. 

Perhaps the coolest moment for her came when she was tapped to play a role in the 2014 telling of Godzilla opposite her fictional brother from Age of Ultron, Aaron Taylor Johnson. This would be the beginning of small relative success as she was included in both Civil War, and the yet to be released Infinity Wars. In addition she has found some minor Sundance and other festival success most specifically in the form of Wind River opposite Jeremy Renner and Ingrid Goes West opposite Aubrey Plaza.  She has a bright future ahead of her if she plays her cards correctly. 


Wednesday, December 27, 2017

The Evolution of Cinema



1. Cimarron: 1930 




2. Gone with the Wind: 1939





3. Frenchman's Creek: 1945





4. Black Narcissus: 1947 




5. An American in Paris: 1951





6. The King and I: 1956





7. West Side Story: 1961





8. Fantastic Voyage: 1966





9. Patton: 1970






10. Star Wars: 1977 





11. Gandhi: 1982






12. Batman: 1989






13. Titanic 1997






14. Return of the King: 2003







15. Avatar: 2009 







16. Mad Max: Fury Road: 2015














Sunday, December 24, 2017

1st Annual JR Awards for Film Excellence

My official 2017 JR award nominations 




This is my first annual awards. I created fun and fake nominations and awards for fun: The Nomination Leaderboard is as follows: 
Dunkirk- 16
The Shape of Water - 14
Logan - 14
Call Me by Your Name - 12
Last Jedi - 12
Wonder Woman - 11
Lady Bird - 11
Darkest Hour - 10
The Disaster Artist - 9
War for the Planet of the Apes - 9
Mudbound - 9
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - 8
Three Billboards - 8
Get Out - 6
The Florida Project - 6
Battle of the Sexes - 4
Beauty and the Beast - 4
Murder on the Orient Express - 3
Stronger - 3
Your Name - 2
Happy Death Day - 
The Lego Batman Movie - 2
Split - 2
IT - 2
Marshall - 1
Captain Underpants - 1
A Silent Voice - 1
Spider-Man Homecoming - 1
American Made - 2

Picture/Directing/Lead Acting Nominations


Best Picture nominations:





Dunkirk, Emma Thomas & Christopher Nolan (Warner Brothers)
Lady Bird, Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Evelyn O'Neil (A24)
The Florida Project, Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch (A24)
Logan, Simon Kinberg, Lauren Shuler Donner (Fox)
Wonder Woman, Zac Synder & Patty Jenkins (WB)
The Big Sick, Judd Apatow and Barry Mendel (Amazon)
Call Me by Your Name, Peter Spears & Luca Guadagnino (Sony Picture Classics)
The Shape of Water, Guillermo Del Toro & J. Miles Dale (Fox Searchlight)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Graham Broadbent & Martin McDonagh (Fox Searchlight)
Mudbound, Carl Effenson, Sally Jo Effenson, Cassian Elwes (Netflix)
Get Out, Jason Blum & Jordan Peele (Universal)
The Disaster Artist, Seth Rogen and Kelli Kenop (A24)

Best Directing in a motion picture: 





Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name
Guillermo Del Toro, Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Dee Rees, Mudbound
Sean Baker, The Florida Project
James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Doug Liman, American Made

Best Actor in a motion picture:





Timothee Chamalet, Call Me by Your Name
Hugh Jackman, Logan
James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Andy Serkis, War for the Planet of the Apes
Jake Gyllenhaal, Stronger
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
James McAvoy, Split
Gary Oldman, The Darkest Hour
Steve Carrell, Battle of the Sexes
Chadwick Boseman, Marshall
Tom Cruise, American Made

Best Actress in a motion picture:





Zoe Kazan, The Big Sick 
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Brooklyn Prince, The Florida Project
Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes
Elizabeth Olsen, Windriver

Best Screenplays and Supporting Acting:



Best Original Screenplay:





Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, Big Sick
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Guillermo Del Toro and Vanessa Taylor, Mudbound
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
Anthony McCarten, The Darkest Hour

Best Adapted Screenplay:





James Mangold and Scott Frank, Logan
Allen Heinberg, Wonder Woman
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name
Dee Rees and Virgil Williams, Mudbound
Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
John Pollono, Stronger

Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture:





Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Woody Harrelson, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Garret Hedlund, Mudbound
Jason Mitchell, Mudbound
Michael Stuhlbarg, Call Me by Your Name
Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project 
Ray Romano, The Big Sick
Patrick Stewart, Logan


Best Supporting Actress in a motion picture:





Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Dafne Keen, Logan
Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
Laurie Metcalfe, Lady Bird
Kristin Scott Thomas, The Darkest Hour
Penelope Cruz, Murder on the Orient Express
Judi Dench, Murder on the Orient Express
(Posthumous) Carrie Fisher, Star Wars: The Last Jedi


Under the Line Awards: 


Best Musical Score: 





Hans Zimmer, Dunkirk
Alexander Desplat, The Shape of Water
Dario Marianelli, The Darkest Hour
Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
John Williams, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Rupert Gregson-Williams, Wonder Woman
Michael Giacchino, War for the Planet of the Apes
Mark Mothersbaugh, Thor: Ragnarok

Best Cinematography:





Hoyte Van Hoytema, Dunkirk
Dan Lausten, The Shape of Water
Rachel Morrion, Mudbound
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Call Me by Your Name
Bruno Delbonnel, The Darkest Hour
Ben Davis, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
John Mathieson, Logan


Sound Mixing:




Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Baby Driver
War for the Planet of the Apes
Beauty and the Beast
Wonder Woman
Darkest Hour
Logan


Sound Editing:




Dunkirk
Baby Driver
Thor: Ragnarok
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Logan
War for the Planet of the Apes
Wonder Woman
Beauty and the Beast


Costume Design:





Beauty and the Beast, Jacqueline Durran
Darkest Hour, Jacqueline Durran
The Shape of Water, Luis Sequeira
Wonder Woman, Lindy Hemming
Dunkirk, Jeffrey Kurland
Murder on the Orient Express, Alexandra Byrne

Production Design:





Dunkirk, Nathan Crowley
The Shape of Water, Paul D. Austerberry
The Darkest Hour, Sarah Greenwood
Beauty and the Beast, Sarah Greenwood
War for the Planet of the Apes, James Chinlund
The Disaster Artist, Chris L. Spellman
Mudbound, David J. Bomba



Best Use of Visual Effects:

The Kamikaze Scene, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Ape Technology, War for the Planet of the Apes 
The War Aesthetic, Dunkirk
The Bridge Fight Scene, Thor Ragnorak
The Fish Man Technology, The Shape of Water
The Climax, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
No Man's Land, Wonder Woman 
The Seizure Scenes, Logan

Best Use of Make Up:

Tommy Wiseau, The Disaster Artist
The Fish Creature, The Shape of Water
Churchill, Darkest Hour 
Alien Creatures, Star Wars: The Last Jedi 
Gomora and Nebula, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Shell Effect, Ghost in the Shell 

Miscellaneous Awards:



The Award for Best Action Sequence:   



                          


Star-Lord verse Ego set to "The Chain", Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Kamikaze attack, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Chase Scene, Baby Driver
The Avalanche, War for the Planet of the Apes
The Led Zepellin, Bifrost battle, Thor: Ragnarok
The Dogfight, Dunkirk 
No Man's Land, Wonder Woman


The Winters Award for the Blockbuster with the Most to Say:





War for the Planet of the Apes
Wonder Woman
Thor: Ragnarok
Logan
Dunkirk
Star Wars: The Last Jedi 


The Jimbo Award for the Worst Movie of the Year: 





Baywatch
Resident Evil: Final Chapter
Underworld: Blood Wars
Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Transformers: The Last Knight
XXX: Return of Xander Cage
The Space Between Us
A Cure for Wellness


The Best Examination of Homosexuality:

Battle of the Sexes
Lady Bird
Call Me By Your Name


The Best Shot of the Year:

The Burning Plane, Dunkirk
Staring into a fire, Call Me By Your Name
The Space Fireworks, Guardians of the Galaxy
Transforming from a landscape to a dirty face, The Darkest Hour


The Best Scene of the Year (Best Action Scene can be recycled):

The Crashing Plane, Dunkirk
The Stuhlbarg Monologue, Call Me By Your Name
The Space Funeral, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The Kamikaze Attack, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
No Man's Land, Wonder Woman
The Ending Scene, Logan
"I did not hit her", The Disaster Artist
The Prom, Lady Bird
Entering the Sunken Place, Get Out 
Any scene with multiple personality McAvoy, Split


Best Examination of Parenting Dynamics:


Lady Bird
Call Me by Your Name
The Big Sick
The Lego Batman Movie
Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri
The Big Sick
The Florida Project


Best Young Performer:


Daphne Keen, Logan
Amiah Miller, War for the Planet of the Apes
Brooklyn Prince, The Florida Project


Best Love Story:

Your Name
Call Me By Your Name
Lady Bird
Battle of the Sexes
The Big Sick
Wonder Woman
The Shape of Water


Best Comedy:

The Disaster Artist
The Big Sick
Lady Bird
Thor: Ragnarok
Spider-Man Homecoming
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Happy Death Day 
Logan Lucky

Best Use of Music:

The Ticking Clock, Dunkirk
The Synchronized Soundtrack, Baby Driver
Guardian's Mix-tape Volume 2, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Channing Tatum's Daughter singing Denver, Logan Lucky
Mark Strong singing Denver, Kingsman
Led Zepellin in Thor, Thor Ragnarok 


The Genre Movie that Transcended its Field:


Get Out
Dunkirk
Baby Driver
Lady Bird
The Big Sick
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Thor: Ragnarok
IT


The Surprise of the Year:


Adam Sandler's acting in The Meyerowitz Stories
Bo Burnham's acting in The Big Sick 
Netflix finally making a Good Movie
The transcendent nature of Genre films
James Franco's directing in The Disaster Artist
IT actually being pretty good 

The Worst Scene of the Year:

Star Wars does Mary Poppins, Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The opening car dance, Baby Driver
The space PowerPoint, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
The cliff, Thor: Ragnarok 
Fish Sex, The Shape of Water
The repetitive sorority house scene, Happy Death Day
The president is kidnapped, Geostorm
Fassbender make out session, Alien Covenant

The JADDLES Award for Best Animated Movie:






The Lego Batman Movie
Captain Underpants
Your Name
A Silent Voice


The JWR career achievement Award for Excellence: 

Alfred Hitchcock: For allowing psychological horror to gain traction in the cinematic universe, a genre that plays as much on the effects on nerve wracking tension as actual horror. Movies that find influence in Hitchcock include, Get Out and It Comes at Night






Monday, March 6, 2017

Sing Review


Sing Review:


























Of all the musical based movies that came out in 2016 this is by far the worst. It is a boring, uneventful and borderline unintelligible piece of cinema that feels like an advertisement for the vocals of the people at the center of it.  The Story focuses on a failing theater koala who stages a singing competition, one of the worst forms of entertainment in existence, to try and save his business. While the primary story focuses on the competition a few I found myself feeling like I was watching the special features for American Idol on YouTube. Well they are not similar but I'd imagine that the mundane lives of the American Idol contestants would provide more entertainment than this.

The generic use of modern music, it felt like a karaoke night at a bar was recorded and edited into a film so that kids could have yet another sing along to enjoy, lacking any thematic or emotional depth for anyone old enough to drive a car. of the minor story-lines focus on boring family drama and uneventful relationships. When movies focus on multiple story-lines at once they sometimes get overbearing and it becomes increasingly annoying to try and follow, and while the supporting story-lines were not difficult to follow, I must add that they felt like the background stories of a sitcom being added to a feature length film.


Seth McFarlane was by far and away the most annoying animated character I dealt with all year when it came to drawn cinema, and that is a hard feat to match, considering that chicken from Moana. Hell, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has a better singing voice than half the cast of the movie. Also, I really wish they would stop trying to make singers, actors, as the idea of someone like Tori Kelly becoming an actual cinematic presence is cringe inducing, as her voice acting in this movie was terrible and uninspired. There is not much more I can say for this film, as it lacked anything that made it worth my while. It is sad that Matthew McConaughey has hit this point in his career after the alleged reconnaissance he was working towards recently.

Rating: 1.5/4 Stars

Logan Review





























Verdict: A fitting sendoff, that works well as both a comic book adaptation and a true film, this is a piece of art that feels more like true cinema than a populist money grab.


Logan is the epitome of emotion in a genre film, resigning itself to be an analytical piece on aging, depression, family, angst, worthlessness, and mortality, as opposed to a crowd pleasing, happy meal selling work of populist appeal.  To begin with, we are taken through layers of nuance we could never get with a movie made for ten-year-old, as even though Tony Stark is a drunkard, you never experience it that much in the movies, as it is supposed to be kid friendly. This is not a knock on the previously mentioned character but rather acknowledgement of the greatness of Logan.

Logan is a drunkard, a depressed and angst filled soul, a man who lived almost two hundred years, forced to see every bad thing that ever happened during that time. He is a man that exists in a depressed state, aging due to a poison inside him, his attempt to save mutant kind successful, only to see everyone he knows die anyways. It is quite beautiful to see both Xavier and Logan at their worst, a side of them that really utilizes the R rating, as both of dirty mouthed, but not to a point where it feels like a shtick.

You can tell from every word of dialogue, every mannerism, every exchange that Professor X would have preferred anyone but Logan to be the one who was his caregiver, disappointed that one of his favorite pupils is his biggest disappointment. In the world of Days of Future Past, Logan was willing to undertake the task to save mutant kind, and here we see an aging Logan refusing to even help a family of farmers. As the story progresses so does Logan's old heroic self and the bond that existed with the old X-Men, three generations of X-Men working together to save the future of mutant kind from private industry militarized forces.

I read another review, one that cited that this is the rare comic movie where people forget to take medicine, and where cars don't start. There are scenes where people who would have lived in a less bleak movie die, and where a car gets stopped by a fence it would have broken through in another film. It is a dystopian piece, one where the worst thing that happens to civilians is they get knocked over and disillusioned by a physic seizure, where the future survives and the past doesn't. It is a powerful and emotional movie, one that could be shown during Oscar season to a bunch of old white guys and play more like a quality film and less like an annoying reminder that the lowest common denominator rules box office sales.

The villains are nothing more than a simple red neck with a metallic hand and a scientist working to create a new breed of mutants. The existence of a literal metaphor aside, the villains are more corrupt humans than world destroying monsters or adopted ice gods from a different realm. It is all about the evils of corporate conspiracy rather than the evils of global domination. That is the beauty of it all as you don’t ever feel that the villains are sensationalized creatures of death and destruction.  

When Heath Ledger’s performance as the Joker was revealed to the world, it was hailed as one of the best genre performances of all time and even went on to win an Oscar. The most amazing part of Logan is that at least three performances match that one in quality and two of them even exceed it. Hugh Jackman being allowed to show the brutality and nuance of Wolverine due the freedom granted by Fox to James Mangold, lets himself show why he was the perfect guy for this role, as it is the best he has ever been. Patrick Stewart who does not look as old in real life is aged to perfection, and his dementia is so well played that I looked wide eyed and open mouthed at him simply rambling on about Taco Bell.  Finally Daphne Keen was a revelation, her dialogue-less emotion powerful, and her physical ass kicking, awe inducing.

Lastly, I would like to give props to James Mangold for utilizing westerns in his film, as with La La Land last year it feels more like it is honoring its inspirations and less like it is trying to steal them to get praise. I am sure when the script was written, Mangold, who also directed 3:10 to Yuma, decided that every set piece and shot that he filmed was the true vision of how he wanted this saga to end, as it feels like a true passion project and less like a crowd-pleasing film. It is dark, bleak and grim and never stops throwing emotional gut punches, which is one of the greatest thing about the film.  When I heard X-23 say the word “Daddy”, it felt true and emotional deep, and not unintelligent like “Martha”, and that is something I can’t help but thankful for. 

Rating: 4/4

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

ACE Eddie Award Nominations





This morning the American Cinema Editors announced their nominees for the best achievements this year. Notable surprises were Florence Foster Jenkins and Sing Street being left off the nominations list in favor of Hail Caesar and The Jungle BookMeanwhile on the other side, all five nominees for dramatic editing were as expected, although the editors of SilenceJackie, and Hidden Figures did have some pull and would have been deserving nominees. 

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) 


Arrival: Joe Walker, ACE
Hacksaw Ridge: John Gilbert, ACE
Hell or High Water: Jake Roberts
Manchester by the Sea: Jennifer Lame
Moonlight: Nat Sanders, Joi McMillon

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)


Deadpool: Julian Clarke, ACE
Hail, Caesar!: Roderick Jaynes
The Jungle Book: Mark Livolsi, ACE
La La Land: Tom Cross, ACE
The Lobster: Yorgos Mavropsaridis

Best Edited Feature Film (Animated)


Kubo and the Two Strings: Christopher Murrie, ACE
Moana: Jeff Draheim, ACE                                                   
Zootopia: Fabienne Rawley & Jeremy Milton

Best Edited Documentary (Feature)

13th: Spencer Averick                                                           
Amanda Knox: Matthew Hamachek                                   
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years: Paul Crowder    
O.J.: Made in America: Bret Granato, Maya Mumma & Ben Sozanski      
Weiner: Eli B. Despres

Artios Casting Award Nominations

Today that Casting Society of America announced their nominees. Not many surprises here, with almost every potential front runner for best picture being nominated. However their is one glaring omission, Fences, which could have been nominated in place of Girl on the Train, a film which many already think is having an undeserved run this awards season. The voting commences immediately with the actual winners being announced on January 17, 2017.

BIG BUDGET – COMEDY
“Deadpool” Ronna Kress, Jennifer Page (Location Casting), Corinne Clark (Location Casting)
“Hail, Caesar!” Ellen Chenoweth, Susanne Scheel (Associate)
“La La Land” Deborah Aquila, Tricia Wood
“Rules Don’t Apply” David Rubin, Melissa Pryor (Associate)
“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” Bernard Telsey, Tiffany Little Canfield, Jo Edna Boldin (Location Casting), Conrad Woolfe (Associate), Marie A.K. McMaster (Associate)
BIG BUDGET – DRAMA
“Arrival” Francine Maisler, Lucie Robitaille (Location Casting)
“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” Fiona Weir, Jim Carnahan (Location Casting)
“Hidden Figures” Victoria Thomas, Jackie Burch (Location Casting), Bonnie Grisan (Associate)
“Nocturnal Animals” Francine Maisler
“The Girl on the Train” Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee, Joey Montenarello (Associate), Adam Richards (Associate)
STUDIO OR INDEPENDENT – COMEDY
“20th Century Women” Laura Rosenthal, Mark Bennett
“Bad Moms” Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, Meagan Lewis (Location Casting)
“CafĂ© Society” Juliet Taylor, Patricia DiCerto, Meghan Rafferty (Associate)
“Hell or High Water” Richard Hicks, Jo Edna Boldin, Chris Redondo (Associate), Marie A.K. McMaster (Associate)
“The Edge of Seventeen” Melissa Kostenbauder, Coreen Mayrs (Location Casting), Heike Brandstatter (Location Casting)
STUDIO OR INDEPENDENT – DRAMA
“Captain Fantastic” Jeanne McCarthy, Angelique Midthunder (Location Casting), Amey Rene (Location Casting)
“Jackie” Mary Vernieu, Lindsay Graham, Jessica Kelly (Location Casting)
“Lion” Kirsty McGregor
“Loving” Francine Maisler, Erica Arvold (Location Casting), Anne N. Chapman (Location Casting), Michelle Kelly (Associate)
“Manchester By the Sea” Douglas Aibel, Carolyn Pickman (Location Casting), Henry Russell Bergstein (Associate)
LOW BUDGET – COMEDY OR DRAMA
“Christine” Douglas Aibel, Stephanie Holbrook, Tracy Kilpatrick (Location Casting), Blair Foster (Associate)
“Goat” Susan Shopmaker, D. Lynn Meyers (Location Casting)
“Hello, My Name is Doris” Sunday Boling, Meg Morman
“Moonlight” Yesi Ramirez
“White Girl” Jessica Daniels
ANIMATION
“Finding Dory” Kevin Reher, Natalie Lyon
“Moana” Jamie Sparer Roberts, Rachel Sutton (Location Casting)
“The Jungle Book” Sarah Halley Finn, Tamara Hunter (Associate)
“The Little Prince” Sarah Halley Finn, Tamara Hunter (Associate)
“Zootopia” Jamie Sparer Roberts