Sound Design: ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Avatar’
Filed under Entertainment, Youtube/Vimeo/Videos
3 great movies (as 1) and another follower almost a decade later. All with great sound design concepts, done by the same group of people. Worth the watch.
More videos here.
Tags: Avatar, sound design, the Lord of the Rings
James Cameron Shows Off His Fusion 3D Camera
Filed under Entertainment, Tech, Youtube/Vimeo/Videos
In the good way of course! This same camera system is currently in use by Michael Bay for Transformers 3 and Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson for Tintin.
Tags: 3D, Avatar, James Cameron, James Cameron Pace, Pace 3D camera
Trailer: Avatar Special Edition Re-release
Filed under Entertainment, Trailers, Youtube/Vimeo/Videos
Yea, we’re all over it again. This time with extra nine minutes of new never-before-seen footage, and will be your chance to see this in glorious 3D once again.
Worldwide Re-release: 27 August 2010
Tags: Avatar, Avatar Special Edition
Oscars 2010!
Filed under Entertainment
I’m a bit late on this, but nevermind 
Winners are highlighted in Bold and placed on Top in the list.
PICTURE:
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Pixar’s Up
Up in the Air
DIRECTOR:
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
James Cameron – Avatar
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels – Precious
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
ACTOR:
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
ACTRESS:
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Mo’Nique – Precious
Penélope Cruz – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Mark Boal – The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman – The Messenger
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
Bob Peterson & Pete Docter – Pixar’s Up
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Geoffrey Fletcher – Precious
Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell – District 9
Nick Hornby – An Education
Armando Iannucci & Simon Blackwell – In the Loop
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner – Up in the Air
ANIMATED FEATURE:
Pixar’s Up
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
Ajami (Israel)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophète (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)
ART DIRECTION:
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Mauro Fiore – Avatar
Bruno Delbonnel – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Barry Ackroyd – The Hurt Locker
Robert Richardson – Inglourious Basterds
Christian Berger – The White Ribbon
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
The Cove
Burma VJ
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Which Way Home
DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
Music by Prudence
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Rabbit à la Berlin
ANIMATED SHORT:
Logorama
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
A Matter of Loaf and Death
LIVE-ACTION SHORT:
The New Tenants
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
VISUAL EFFECTS:
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
COSTUME DESIGN:
The Young Victoria
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
MAKEUP:
Star Trek
Il Divo
The Young Victoria
FILM EDITING:
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
SOUND MIXING:
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
SOUND EDITING:
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Pixar’s Up
ORIGINAL SCORE:
Michael Giacchino – Pixar’s Up
James Horner – Avatar
Alexandre Desplat – Fantastic Mr. Fox
Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders – The Hurt Locker
Hans Zimmer – Sherlock Holmes
ORIGINAL SONG:
“The Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart
“Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog
“Down in New Orleans” from The Princess and the Frog
“Loin de Paname” from Paris 36
“Take It All” from Nine
So what you guys think about the winners? I’m not happy with quite a number of them.
Tags: Academy Award 2010, Avatar, District 9, Oscar, Oscar 2010, Oscar Awards, Oscars 2010, The Hurt Locker
Avatar everyone!
Filed under Entertainment, Visual Graphics & Images
Want to see some of your favourite celebs in the form of Navi (Avatars)? Well here’s a compilation featuring some cool takes, and I’d picked a good few to feature herein.
Enjoy!
and finally cameron himself!
Tags: Avatar, Avatar celebrities, fake Avatars
Avatar Deleted Scenes
Filed under Entertainment, Visual Graphics & Images
Many of you who had been following Avatar from the beginning would have realised that the final movie did not have any of the earth scenes that were seen in the trailers. I was left wondering myself, until a few articles came up online explaining the rationale of removing them. Here are some of the known reasons:
1. Cameron wanted to go straight into the story, it was basically the “Director’s cut” and not “Fan cut”. These scenes will be later added into the DVD/Blu-ray release.
2. IMAX limitation disallowed up to 12 mins of these deleted scenes.
Some cool scenes (shots) that were missing:
This one is a deleted scene from post-climax sequences
And finally, one important shot that tells everything about earth:
Tags: Avatar, Avatar deleted scenes, James Cameron
Oscar 2010 Nominations Announced!
Filed under Entertainment, General
Finally the Oscar 2010 Nominees are in, announced less than a minute ago, live on Oscar‘s site.
Here’s the primary list:
BEST PICTURE
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
BEST DIRECTOR
James Cameron — Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow — The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino — Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels — Precious
Jason Reitman — Up in the Air
BEST ACTOR
Morgan Freeman — Invictus
Jeff Bridges — Crazy Heart
George Clooney — Up in the Air
Colin Firth — A Single Man
Jeremy Renner — The Hurt Locker
BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep — Julie & Julia in It’s Complicated
Sandra Bullock — The Blind Side
Helen Mirren — The Last Station
Gabourey Sidibe — Precious
Carey Mulligan — An Education
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz — Inglourious Basterds
Christopher Plummer — The Last Station
Matt Damon — Invictus
Stanley Tucci — The Lovely Bones
Woody Harrelson — The Messengers
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mo’Nique — Precious
Vera Farmiga — Up in the Air
Penélope Cruz — Nine
Diane Kruger — Inglourious Basterds
Maggie Gyllenhaal — Crazy Heart
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Marc Boal — The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino — Inglourious Basterds
Aessandro Camon and Oren Moverman — The Messenger
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen — the Serious Man
Up
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
District 9
Nick Hornby — An Education
In the Loop
Jeffrey Fletcher — Precious
Jason Reitman — Up in the Air
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline — Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr Fox — Wes Anderson
The Princess
The Secret of Kells
Up
Click here to view the full list.
Anything unexpected? Plenty of it I guess.
Tags: Academy Award 2010, Avatar, District 9, Oscar, Oscar 2010, Oscars 2010, The Hurt Locker
