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Last Updated: Dec. 15, 2022
2023 Oscars Predictions: Best Sound The Woman King, Lashana Lynch, 2022. © TriStar Pictures /Courtesy Everett Collection
Category Commentary: Celebrating 25 years since James Cameron’s “Titanic” (1997) tied for the most wins ever and the Oscar ceremony itself, which boasted the highest ratings in Academy history, some of the same artisans are in the race again. Those include sound designers Mark Mangini (“The Fifth Element...
Last Updated: Dec. 15, 2022
2023 Oscars Predictions: Best Sound The Woman King, Lashana Lynch, 2022. © TriStar Pictures /Courtesy Everett Collection
Category Commentary: Celebrating 25 years since James Cameron’s “Titanic” (1997) tied for the most wins ever and the Oscar ceremony itself, which boasted the highest ratings in Academy history, some of the same artisans are in the race again. Those include sound designers Mark Mangini (“The Fifth Element...
- 12/19/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
“You want to be able to communicate very complicated ideas through art. And you hope that it works,” divulges Stephanie Hsu. In “Everything Everywhere All at Once” writers and directors The Daniels tasked her with the dual roles of Joy and Jobu in their multiverse-hopping adventure. She recently earned an Independent Spirit nomination for her performance, proof that she certainly made the complexity of her characters “work” in the hit film. Watch the exclusive video interview above.
Hsu describes the Daniels as her “artistic soulmates” due to their shared love of experimenting, improvising and a “deep intention to hopefully offer some goodness in the art that we make.” The actress embodies Joy, the sullen daughter of Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn, and Jobu Tupaki, Joy’s nihilistic alternate universe counterpart, who is set on destroying the multiverse. It’s a lofty concept, but because of her connection with The Daniels, she...
Hsu describes the Daniels as her “artistic soulmates” due to their shared love of experimenting, improvising and a “deep intention to hopefully offer some goodness in the art that we make.” The actress embodies Joy, the sullen daughter of Michelle Yeoh’s Evelyn, and Jobu Tupaki, Joy’s nihilistic alternate universe counterpart, who is set on destroying the multiverse. It’s a lofty concept, but because of her connection with The Daniels, she...
- 12/9/2022
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
“The whole point of this movie is to make sense of the noise. So we had to establish noise,” says “Everything Everywhere All at Once” supervising sound editor Brent Kiser. Time traveling through the multiverse is a central concept in the Daniels’ maximalist film, but the directors were adamant about a “lo fi” quality to the sound. So Kiser and sound effects editor Andrew Twite gave the cacophonous design a warm, familiar feeling. “We’re living in a Windows 95 world,” quips Kiser. Watch the exclusive video interview above.
See Son Lux interview: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ composers
“There was a natural rhythm to the movie,” explains Twite, describing the specific ways in which the movie was edited. “The sound design was naturally able to follow those beats as well,” he continues, “it was a great lesson for us in timing and rhythm.” The sonic landscape of the film would...
See Son Lux interview: ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ composers
“There was a natural rhythm to the movie,” explains Twite, describing the specific ways in which the movie was edited. “The sound design was naturally able to follow those beats as well,” he continues, “it was a great lesson for us in timing and rhythm.” The sonic landscape of the film would...
- 12/5/2022
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
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