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Awards 2019
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Awards 2019
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Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein star as best friends and academic perfectionists Amy and Molly in the comedy about the bonds we create that last a lifetime in BOOKSMART. Having spent the last four years in high school singularly focused on besting their play-minded peers, these overachievers — on the eve of graduation — decide to cram years of not-to-be missed fun into one night. Going headlong into the evening, the duo face the possibility they have far more in common with those they’ve been judging than they realized. Directed by Olivia Wilde, from an original script by Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, and Katie Silberman. BOOKSMART also stars Billie Lourd, Diana Silvers, Skyler Gisondo, Molly Gordon, Noah Galvin, Austin Crute, Victoria Ruesga, Eduardo Franco, Nico Hiraga, Mason Gooding and Mike O’Brien, along with Jessica Williams, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte and Jason Sudeikis.
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Produced By
MEGAN ELLISON, p.g.a. CHELSEA BARNARD, p.g.a. DAVID DISTENFELD,
JESSICA ELBAUM, p.g.a. and KATIE SILBERMAN
OLIVIA WILDE
BEANIE FELDSTEIN
KAITLYN DEVER
JESSICA WILLIAMS
LISA KUDROW
BILLIE LOURD
WILL FORTE
JASON SUDEIKIS
Screenplay by EMILY HALPERN & SARAH HASKINS and SUSANNA FOGEL and KATIE SILBERMAN
JASON MCCORMICK
BRENT WHITE a.c.e.
JAMIE GROSS
KATIE BYRON
ERIKA TOTH HAM
RACHAEL FERRARA
APRIL NAPIER
Makeup Department Head LIZ LASH
Hair Department Head AUBREY MARIE
Supervising Sound Editor ONNALEE BLANK
Re-Recording Mixer SKIP LIEVSAY
Re-Recording Mixer PAUL URMSON
Additional Re-Recording Mixers ONNALEE BLANK, c.a.s., MATHEW WATERS, c.a.s.
Visual Effects Supervisor RAOUL YORKE BOLOGNINI
DAN THE AUTOMATOR
BEANIE FELDSTEIN, KAITLYN DEVER, JESSICA WILLIAMS, LISA KUDROW, WILL FORTE AND JASON SUDEIKIS
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Nominee :
Best Actress – Musical or Comedy
Beanie Feldstein
Winner:
AFCC Special Award for Best First Feature Film : Olivia Wilde
Nomination:
Best Comedy - Booksmart
Nomination:
Best First Feature : Jessica Elbaum, Katie Silberman, Chelsea Barnard, David Distenfeld, Megan Ellison
Nominee:
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award : Olivia Wilde
Winner:
Breakthrough Director Award : Olivia Wilde
Winner:
Trailerblazer Award : Olivia Wilde
Nominations:
Best Picture : Jessica Elbaum, Katie Silberman, Chelsea Barnard, David Distenfeld, Megan Ellison
Best Original Screenplay: Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, & Katie Silberman
Best Female Director : Olivia Wilde
Best Performance by an Actor or Actress 23 and Under : Kaitlyn Dever
Best First Feature : Jessica Elbaum, Katie Silberman, Chelsea Barnard, David Distenfeld, Megan Ellison
Best Independent Film : Jessica Elbaum, Katie Silberman, Chelsea Barnard, David Distenfeld, Megan Ellison
Best Comedy/Musical : Jessica Elbaum, Katie Silberman, Chelsea Barnard, David Distenfeld, Megan Ellison
Best Breakthrough:
Olivia Wilde – Director
Kaitlyn Dever – Actress
Kaitlyn Dever – Actress
Winner :
Best Directorial Debut : Olivia Wilde
Nominee:
Best Original Screenplay
Nominee:
Rising Star Award: Kaitlyn Dever
Winner:
Best Female Director – Olivia Wilde
Best Performance by an Actress 23 and Under – Kaitlyn Dever
Best Comedy/Musical (Tie) – "Booksmart"
Winner:
Trailblazer – Olivia Wilde
Winner:
Next Generation of Hollywood - Kaitlyn Dever
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From LAIKA, the makers of Coraline and Kubo and The Two Strings, comes the heartfelt adventure Missing Link. Hugh Jackman, Zoe Saldana and Zach Galifianakis lead an all-star voice cast in a groundbreaking stop-motion feature that combines hand-made craftsmanship with the latest in visual effects technology. Hugh Jackman is Sir Lionel Frost, a brave and dashing adventurer who considers himself to be the world’s foremost investigator of myths and monsters. The trouble is no one else seems to agree. Zach Galifianakis is Mr. Link also known as Big Foot. As species go, he’s as endangered as they get; he’s possibly the last of his kind, he’s lonely, and he believes that Sir Lionel is the one man alive who can help him. Along with the independent and resourceful Adelina Fortnight (Zoe Saldana), who possesses the only known map to the group’s secret destination, the unlikely trio embarks on an emotional journey through which each finds their true identity and place in the world as they seek Link’s distant relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La. The film is written and directed by Chris Butler, produced by Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner, and also features the voices of Stephen Fry, Timothy Olyphant, and Emma Thompson.
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"DO-DILLY-DO (A FRIEND LIKE YOU)"
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY WALTER MARTIN
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Morgan Hay
Benoit Dubuc
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Phil Brotherton
Nick Mariana
Ralph Procida
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Dan Casey
Katy Hughes
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Flabbergastingly complicated production with an eye for incredibly subtle humor and dazzling visual detail.”
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- SCREENRANT
- GOLD DERBY
One of the most ambitious animated films ever created.”
- AWARDS DAILY
A visual treat with lots of humor and plenty of heart.”
- Rotten Tomatoes
A garganutuan achievement.”
- Yahoo! Movies
A stunningly-staged globe-trotting journey.”
- Empire Magazine
An absolute technical marvel with ambitious storytelling, charismatic characters, impressive visuals, humor and heart.”
- Collider
The studio continues to be evolving masters of scope and scale without ever sacrificing the intimate, delicate details. The results are jaw-dropping. An absolute delight with a brain as big as its heart.”
- IGN Movies
A singular and exquisitely crafted piece of stop-motion animation.”
- IndieWire
- RogerEbert.com
Adds a new sense of seamlessness to the company’s signature handmade, hand-moved elements.”
- Rolling Stone
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“At LAIKA, it’s like Santa’s workshop if the elves had piercings and lots of tattoos. People are building sets and props, painting scenery, building puppets, designing and fabricating costumes, figuring out lighting and camera angles.”
“Mr. Link is given that name by Sir Lionel for his convenience but it’s a real turning point in the film when he renames himself ‘Susan.’ I also wanted to slyly wink at gender identity, of course. It’s a classic yearning of the human being to understand who they are. Identity is what you give yourself. It’s not what others put upon you.”
"Nothing excites us more than an original story idea that pushes us into uncharted cinematic waters. When we can really dig in, when we can explore the lives and build the worlds of incredible new characters that audiences haven't met before, and bring them to life with our own unique brand of animation, that's where LAIKA soars. There's really nothing like it. This is what made Missing Link so thrilling to bring to life."
“All fabrics for LAIKA costumes are created in-house. Nothing is bought off the shelf. Not only do we need to create costumes on a miniature scale, they need to withstand the puppet performances. Many fabrics are constructed from a very lightweight, stretchy fabric base dyed to a particular base color, digitally embroidered to give it an even woven texture in miniature scale, then finished with a print overlay and hand-painted detail. A lot of experimentation in textile creation happens here, to produce these intricately detailed costumes.”
“When I toured the LAIKA studio I was just amazed. First of all, the size of it, the number of artists involved, the amount of time it takes to make one frame: 24 frames a second! The years it takes and the level of artistry to make these films. It’s a mixture of the size of the operation, the hours they put in, and the people! If you’re going to spend that much time over the course of years, you have to love it and they ALL LOVE IT!”
“For the first time in any LAIKA film, we embraced a full shot-specific animation philosophy. In past films, because we were 3D printing every single face, we oftentimes would reuse facial expressions for different shots throughout the film. But for Missing Link, we produced unique faces for every single shot. Instead of a facial animator having to pick from a library of pre-existing expressions, they had the opportunity to start with a clean slate. They would create custom animation, timings, reactions and responses based on exactly what the shot needed. And I think that was extremely important to allow that comedic timing to come through in our film. We ended up producing over 106,000 faces. To put that in perspective, our first film, Coraline, had about 20,000 faces for the entire film and our most recent film, Kubo and the Two Strings, had about 64,000.”
“We did things with Link that have never been done before. Not only was there squash and stretch, but Link also has a breather and a belly mover. When Link sighs, he is actually inhaling and exhaling breath. He also has a belly mover so his large belly could bounce as he walks. He is a funny character and the way the puppet was created helps us communicate that humor. I don’t think Link is the first puppet that has ever had a belly mover, but it’s definitely the first time we had all these elements in one puppet.”
““In terms of visual effects work, the work we do here at LAIKA is very similar to what the VFX department would be doing on a big live action superhero film. Perhaps people tend to think of us in terms of traditional 2D animation or they think of us in terms of computer-generated animation. But the reality of the work that we're doing here is that it is live action because of the puppets and real objects/sets, etc. to which we apply photo-realistic visual effects. So, you know, we have actors just as a live-action film would have actors. We shoot those actors on green screen sometimes. The difference is that our actors happen to be 10 or 12 inches tall as opposed to six feet. And they're photographed over the course of weeks, one frame at a time, as opposed to capturing an acting performance on a live-action set. But the process itself of creating visual effects for this film is very much live action-based. So, everything is much smaller. Everything takes a lot more time, but it's a live-action visual effects workflow.”
“I remembered the soundtrack to the original 1956 Around the World in 80 Days, which was one of Chris Butler’s inspirations. It had made an impression on me as a kid. I felt that the music for Missing Link should have that same kind of epic sweep right from the beginning when we meet Sir Lionel trying to photograph Nessie the monster in Scotland.”
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LAIKA animators photograph the maximum number of increments for cinema projection, 24 frames per second. In industry vernacular, this is known as “shooting on ones”. That means for every second there are 24 unique poses an animator creates. LAIKA is likely the only stop motion feature studio in the world that shoots on ones, as a rule. LAIKA films hew closely to the “naturalistic” style, which requires the painstaking technique of shooting on ones.
Sir Lionel’s bagpipe, which he uses to attract Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, was made with a specially-built latex balloon which was inflated and deflated through syringes.
The reins, bridle and saddle on the horse are made from real leather that had been thinned down dramatically to achieve the required scale. Many of the books in Lionel’s study were also leather bound using authentic bookbinding techniques.
Adelina’s hair uses nearly 2,000 feet of multi-colored silk thread in various colors (over 1/3 of a mile) which are then blended and styled by hand to mimic the shapes and linear qualities of the pen and ink illustrations of the "Gibson Girl" look.
The exterior train is an actual working train on rails that was pulled by a motorized winch. It ran too smoothly along the rails, so bits of tape painted to look like rust were added to the track so that the wheels would bump along for more authentic carriage motion.
The smallest camera head used at LAIKA was built for the interior of the Manchuria ship set. It allowed the camera to be mounted to a long pole and then sent down inside the long corridor of the ship to capture animation.
The Animation Tracker software and controller, newly developed for Missing Link, use a series of knobs which are linked to encoders on motors. An animator can use the controller to remotely move elements on sets. (This was used extensively in animating the Elephant, for instance.) The software provided a visual graph, mapping of the position of the Elephant, and allowed the animator to compare that position to prior frames.
There were 64 individually rigged ice blocks which could be independently controlled for the shot in which the ice bridge begins to break.
To achieve the shot in the ice pit, in which Mr. Link’s face is reflected in multiple facets of an ice wall, an array of 10 cameras was set up to simultaneously capture each individual reflection at a different angle.
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