Congratulations to All the Winners of the 88th Annual Academy Awards!
Even though I didn’t watch the Oscars past Chris Rock’s opening monologue, I’m Happy for the three wins for The Revenant and especially for its director, Alejandro González Iñárritu for his second best director award. Emmanuel Lubezki for cinematography, and Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor. Check out our previous post here.
The movie Spotlight winning Best picture was sweet. I had the great pleasure of speaking to writer Josh Singer, director Tom McCarthy, and actor Brian Darcy James. But the highlight for me was, talking to the actual journalists who broke the Boston Globe priest story in 2002, Mike Rezendes, Ben Bradlee Jr., Walter Robinson, and Sacha Pfeiffer. Listen in on our conversation here.
Congrats to Mad Max for all its technical awards (Sound mixing/editing, Editing, Production/costume design.) Se Fija!’s Angela Ortíz caught up with Mad Max and Mad Max Fury Road director George Miller (best director nominee) at a screening and Q&A about the film back in April of 2015. See our post here.
Congratulations to our Chilean friends on your first Oscar win for your country, CHILE! Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala for the Bear Story, Best Short Film (Animated).
And of course to finish up, my favorite animation won, Inside Out. You really need to check out our post on it. Listen in and laugh your heart out with Mindy Kaling, Lewis Black, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader and Phyllis Smith. Plus Director Pete Docter and Producer Jonas Rivera, click here. — A.O.