Monday, February 25, 2013
The Rhode Island-filmed Moonrise Kingdom lost in its Oscar category for Best Original Screenplay.
Wes Anderson’s "Moonrise Kingdom," which was shot entirely in Rhode Island, lost Sunday night in its bid for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The Oscar instead went to "Django Unchained," which was written by Quentin Tarantino. What did you think about the win? Do you think the Oscar should have gone to Moonrise Kingdom? Tell us in the comment section below! Premiering to a worldwide audience in the spring of 2012 at the Cannes Film Festival, "Moonrise Kingdom" became a critical hit. Starring Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman and Bob Balaban, "Moonrise Kingdom" follows a young boy and girl (newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) who fall in love …
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Seth McFarlane and Emma Stone announced the list of nominees for The Oscars awards today, see the list here.
Steven Spielberg's film "Lincoln" led The Oscar hopefuls with 17 nominations, but Cambridge's own Ben Affleck was left off the list of hopeful for best director today when the list of nominees was announced. The Huffington Post reports that the media was abuzz when neither Affleck, Tom Hooper ("Les Miserables") nor Katherine Bigelow ("Zero Dark Thirty") made the list for Best Director. The trio's films did make the list of movies up for Best Picture, along with a host of others, including Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" and Ang Lee's "Life of Pi." The Rhode Island-filmed Moonrise Kingdom, which was shot on Prudence Island and at the Glen Manor House in Portsmouth, was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Best Actor …
Friday, February 24, 2012
A 1984 Portsmouth High School graduate and Emmy winner has been nominated for her work on the film "Moneyball."
If you watch the Academy Awards this Sunday, don't forget to keep an eye out for a Portsmouth High School graduate. Deb Adair, a Portsmouth native, is nominated for an Oscar in the category of "Sound Mixing" for her work in the 2011 film "Moneyball," starring Brad Pitt and directed by Bennett Miller. Other films nominated in the same category are "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," "Hugo," "Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon" and "War Horse." This is not the first Hollywood nomination for the 45-year-old re-recording mixer for Sony Pictures. Adair, also a graduate of Syracuse University, won an Emmy in both 1995 and 1996 for her work on Disney's "Aladdin" and an Emmy in 1997 for her work on Disney's "The Lion King." The Oscars will be…
