the morning after

A good year.

4 ways a best picture roundtable: 2004

A look back at 2004 with the roundtable when Clint Eastwood's old-fashioned weepie Million Dollar Baby swept the majors.

4 ways a best picture roundtable: 2003

So me, Fisti and the gang move on to 2003. What a snoring year. Return of the King sweep.... snooze. Kill Bill, Vol. 1 got no nominations but it should have.

4 ways a best picture roundtable: 2002

Onward to the 2002 Oscars discussion on Fisti's blog!

The group seemed to mostly love Bowling for Columbine. It is strange watching that film so many years later. Times have changed and yet they haven't.

4 ways a best picture roundtable

Andrew of A Fistful of Films is running a fun, casual little round-table discussion of Oscars' Best Pictures (Motion Picture of the Year, Animated Film, Foreign Language Film, and Documentary) from 2001 onwards with myself and a panel of lively bloggers.

It's been interesting revisiting these and discovering some gems (documentary Murder on a Sunday Morning, for example) for the first time.

Check out 2001 here.

designing oscar

One of the highlights from Sunday's low-key, genial Oscar telecast was the amazing graphic design from The Mill +.

Creative Director Manija Emran says, “We used the beam of light as our visual icon. The beam is significant in three ways; on a practical level it acts as the projector beam, it’s representative of the heroic aspect and finally it evokes the idea of a performer stepping out onto a grand stage.”





Best Picture...

My astute friend Chris Cosgrove noticed how the graphics were "expressive in what they are representing," with the adapted screenplay nominees using headlines and text collages whereas the original scripts were just original sketches.

Costume Design...

Make-Up...

Song...

Production Design...

Memoriam...

Cool show reel below... 

2014 Oscars Graphics Montage by Mill+ from The Mill on Vimeo.