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A Look at the Oscar Contenders for Production Design Jazz Tangcay, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail David Fincher’s “Mank” looks to be the frontrunner in the production design Oscar race. Production designer Donald Graham Burt and set designer Jan Pascale have each scored one previous nomination in this category. Burt won for 2008’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” However, “Mank” goes up against Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” for which production designer Nathan Crow...

LOGIN How ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Production Designer Used a Steel Mill to Re-Create 1920s Chicago Oscar nominee Mark Ricker (“The Help,” “Julie & Julia”) talks to TheWrap about using an abandoned Pittsburgh factory for the acclaimed Netflix filmJoe McGovern | April 7, 2021 @ 12:11 PM Last Updated: April 10, 2021 @ 10:02 AM Netflix Production designer Mark Ricker’s first job in the industry was an internship in the art department for “The Handmaid’s ...

Dallas designer sees team get Oscar nod for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Robert Winn helped create the backdrop against which Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis starred. His team picked up a nomination for production design. Robert Winn worked on the team that received an Oscar nomination for "Ma Raineys Black Bottom."(Ben Torres / Special Contributor) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. It wasn’t his first encounter with the Academy Awards. Winn was part of the design team that won an Oscar for th...

Possible snub: “Sound of Metal” Possible surprise: “News of the World” Linda May, left, and Frances McDormand in “Nomadland.” (Searchlight Pictures) Analysis: The Producers Guild dropped its list of 10 best picture nominees on Monday. The Oscars is in its final year of its fluctuating slate that has always numbered either eight or nine movies. So that’s bad news for at least one PGA nominee, probably “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” as the academy owns a dispiriting history of i...

Share That video was amazing, it kicked me in the gut. I didnt expect it to, he said, before admitting to feeling emotional.  In addition to thanking the HCA, he spotlighted the people who have really done right by him, even when he didnt have a place to live as well as the friends who he has known and grown with.  Trailblazer Award: Ahead of the 48-year-old actor superstars acceptance speech, the virtual ceremony paid homage to his legendary career and extensive charity work Reciting an old...

UpdatedSun, Feb 28, 2021 at 3:16 pm CT Reply Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed "The Trial of Chicago 7," filmed partially in the city in fall 2019. (Niko Tavernise/NETFLIX © 2020) CHICAGO (Feb. 28, 2021) — The Golden Globes will stream live coast-to-coast Sunday night to name the Hollywood Foreign Press Associations picks for best film and television of the season. Two of the nights major nominees are set in Chicago: Aaron Sorkins tightly-written and timely "The Trial of the Chicago 7" and "M...

There are few living talents who could be viewed as much of a New York theater institution as George C. Wolfe, the two-time Tony-winning director whose overall grasp of the arts is such that he speaks in cascades of enthusiasm and insight that he can barely contain. But if you want to get his goat, just ask him about opening up a celebrated play for the big screen, such as he did with August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” in which Viola Davis plays the title role. “I would like ...

Celebrating Chadwick Boseman in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"

Directed by George C. Wolfe. Starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, Jeremy Shamos, Taylour Paige, Jonny Coyne, Michael Potts, and Dusan Brown. SYNOPSIS: It is 1927 and tensions are running high between Blues singer Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) and Levee her ambitiously outspoken trumpet player (Chadwick Boseman). As the recording session continues and her management team attempt to intercede things go from bad to worse. This second entry in the August Wilson Century C...

  TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The latest Netflix adaptation of one of Pittsburgh native August Wilson’s plays, the filmed-in-Pittsburgh “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” stars Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in a period piece that feels relevant and timely. An almost unrecognizable Davis, jettisoning any semblance of vanity, stars as Ma Rainey, a real historical figure and one of the earliest ...