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Giveaway – Win A Limited Edition Copy Of AMERICAN HUSTLE Original Motion Picture Soundtrack On Vinyl

Madison Gate Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, are releasing American Hustle – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a collection of music from the critically-acclaimed box office hit with ten Oscar-nominations, in a two 12″ LP gatefold blue and red colored 150 gram vinyl edition featuring six songs from the movie not included on the CD version.

The 12” Vinyl will be available exclusively at independent retailers, as part of Record Store Day’s annual Black Friday event on November 28, 2014.

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American Hustle – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack premieres “Stream Of Stars,” a previously-unreleased song from the legendary Jeff Lynne (Electric Light Orchestra, Traveling Wilburys) alongside ELO’s “Long Black Road,” an ultra-rare track previously available only on the Japanese release of Zoom, ELO’s final studio album.

The soundtrack album showcases an array of evocative 70s classics–including Wings’ “Live And Let Die,” Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love,” Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”, the Bee Gees’ “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” and more–while introducing provocative new tracks like Lebanese-American singer Mayssa Karaa’s Arabic cover rendition of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit,” produced by multiple Grammy nominee Mark Batson (Eminem, Alicia Keys, Dave Matthews Band). Susan Jacobs served as Music Supervisor for the film’s soundtrack.

The new 12″ 2LP gatefold vinyl release of the album features six songs used in the film, which were not included on the CD. The exciting new additions to the American Hustle – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album are songs by Steely Dan (“Dirty Work”), The Temptations (“Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone”), Todd Rundgren (“I Saw The Light”), David Bowie (“The Jean Genie”), Frank Sinatra (“The Coffee Song [They’ve Got An Awful Lot Of Coffee In Brazil]“) and Ella Fitzgerald (“It’s De-Lovely”).

Director David O. Russell meticulously supervised the creation of this exclusive vinyl edition of the soundtrack, supplying hand-written excerpts from the scrip, unique imagery from the film and artwork to enhance the look and feel of the album’s gatefold and sleeve.

Originally released on CD in December 2013, the American Hustle – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album has sold more than 85K units in the US alone. American Hustle – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is available on iTunes now.

Director David O. Russell deploys the music in American Hustle to drive and develop action and emotion, illuminating the interior of his characters and intensifying the 70s cultural milieu of the movie. Many film and music critics have praised the film’s music as an essential component in a thrill-packed cinematic adventure. “The movie’s exhilaration is in how Russell’s filmmaking fever lights up everything it touches,” wrote Owen Gleiberman in his “A” review of American Hustle in Entertainment Weekly (January 15, 2014).

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most extraordinary scandals of the 1970s, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man, Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner, Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams), is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife, Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence), could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Like David O. Russell’s previous films, American Hustle defies genre to tell a story of love, reinvention, and survival. The film is directed by David O. Russell, written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell, and produced by Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, and Jonathan Gordon. American Hustle won three Golden Globes including Best Picture, three BAFTA wins including Best Original Screenplay, was named ‘Best Film Of The Year’ by The New Yorker magazine, and several critics’ awards including the New York Film Critics Circle award for Best Picture and a SAG Ensemble nomination.

American Hustle – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

2LP Colored Vinyl

Side One

1. Jeep’s Blues | Duke Ellington

2. Dirty Work | Steely Dan *

3. A Horse With No Name | America

4. 10538 Overture | Electric Light Orchestra

5. I’ve Got Your Number | Jack Jones

Side Two

1. White Rabbit | Mayssa Karaa

2. I Feel Love | Donna Summer

3. Don’t Leave Me This Way | Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

4. Delilah | Tom Jones

Side Three

1. Live And Let Die | Wings

2. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart | Bee Gees

3. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | Elton John

4. Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone | The Temptations*

Side Four

1. I Saw The Light | Todd Rundgren *

2. Long Black Road | Electric Light Orchestra

3. The Jean Genie | David Bowie *

4. Stream Of Stars | Jeff Lynne

5. The Coffee Song (They’ve Got An Awful Lot Of Coffee In Brazil) | Frank Sinatra *

6. It’s De-Lovely | Ella Fitzgerald *

7. Irving Montage | Danny Elfman

* Songs not on CD release

American Hustle – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Out Friday, November 28

Madison Gate Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, are releasing American Hustle – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a collection of music from the critically-acclaimed box office hit with ten Oscar-nominations, in a two 12″ LP gatefold blue and red colored 150 gram vinyl edition featuring six songs from the movie not included on the CD version. The 12” Vinyl will be available exclusively at independent retailers, as part of Record Store Day’s annual Black Friday event on November 28, 2014.

Director David O. Russell deploys the music in American Hustle to drive and develop action and emotion, illuminating the interior of his characters and intensifying the 70s cultural milieu of the movie. Many film and music critics have praised the film’s music as an essential component in a thrill-packed cinematic adventure. “The movie’s exhilaration is in how Russell’s filmmaking fever lights up everything it touches,” wrote Owen Gleiberman in his “A” review of American Hustle in Entertainment Weekly (January 15, 2014).

American Hustle – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

2LP Colored Vinyl

Side One

1. Jeep’s Blues | Duke Ellington

2. Dirty Work | Steely Dan *

3. A Horse With No Name | America

4. 10538 Overture | Electric Light Orchestra

5. I’ve Got Your Number | Jack Jones

Side Two

1. White Rabbit | Mayssa Karaa

2. I Feel Love | Donna Summer

3. Don’t Leave Me This Way | Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

4. Delilah | Tom Jones

Side Three

1. Live And Let Die | Wings

2. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart | Bee Gees

3. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road | Elton John

4. Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone | The Temptations*

Side Four

1. I Saw The Light | Todd Rundgren *

2. Long Black Road | Electric Light Orchestra

3. The Jean Genie | David Bowie *

4. Stream Of Stars | Jeff Lynne

5. The Coffee Song (They’ve Got An Awful Lot Of Coffee In Brazil) | Frank Sinatra *

6. It’s De-Lovely | Ella Fitzgerald *

7. Irving Montage | Danny Elfman

* Songs not on CD release

Top 10 Tuesday: WAMG’s Favorite Oscar Nominees

We’re getting closer to Hollywood’s night to shine – the Oscars. This year’s nominations are a bevy of brilliant films, performances and crafts, the motion picture industry at its best.

The Academy Awards is the gold standard by which every other awards show is measured, because when it comes to the biggest night in film, nobody does it better than Oscar!

In anticipation of the star-studded night at the Dolby Theatre, the gang at WAMG has chosen their favorite nominees – from the Best Picture and Best Acting categories to the technical categories, here’s a close-up look at our Top 10 Favorite nominees.

BEST Picture – AMERICAN HUSTLE

By Jim Batts

The Best Picture Oscar usually goes to the film that shines a light on a social injustice, a historical event, or individuals battling injury or disease. The most wildly entertaining (sorry Marty and Leo, but three hours of arrogant drug abusers wears very thin) of the nine nominees has, at least, one of those areas covered. As it states right before the action begins, “some of this really happened”. AMERICAN HUSTLE looks into the “Abscam” scandal of the late 1970’s, but it’s so much more. It’s about people trying to survive, discovering true love, and being given second chances.

Perhaps even more than of the characters, the biggest second chance story may be the director and co-screenwriter David O Russell. Bouncing back from some box office duds and some humiliating on set secret videos, Russell has delivered the best of his recent comeback trilogy that began with THE FIGHTER and continued with last year’s (last year?!) SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK. HUSTLE owes much of its inspiration to Scorsese (particularly GOODFELLAS) as the camera careens through the hotel rooms and restaurants while a superb pop music soundtrack conveys every mood and atmosphere. But Russell’s not just aping a film-making master. The film explodes with energy and humor as it celebrates these cops and con men (and women).

As with PLAYBOOK, Russell has placed an actor in each of the Oscar categories this year. Many have worked with him before and now join forces in a very impressive repertory company. Christian Bale proves to be a new cinematic chameleon as he transforms into the schlubby (maybe the screen’s greatest comb-over!) Irving (this guy was Batman?). Amy Adams stuns as the slinky, sexy Sydney (and the “hoighty-toighty” Lady Edith), full of street smarts as she uses her wardrobe (those blouses opened doooown to there!) to distract. Particularly distracted (and smitten) is Bradley Cooper, freed from the paycheck drudgery of THE HANGOVER III, as the ambitious FBI man, Richie. The film’s biggest revelation may be Jennifer Lawrence as the manipulative Rosalyn who’s pathetic, seductive, and repellant, often at the same time. Also terrific is Jeremy Renner as the back-slapping politco who may just be the film’s center of morality along with comic Louis CK as Richie’s put-upon, frustrated superior. Oh, and there’s a fantastic cameo by an iconic actor in a highlight I won’t spoil. This is an unmatched movie dream team.

This year’s Oscars will more likely be a repeat of the 1990 awards when the more high-minded DANCES WITH WOLVES won out over GOODFELLAS. But as the years have gone by, which has been more celebrated, referenced, and studied? Sure, it’s nice that the Academy likes to send a nice moral message with the big prize, but I’m still hoping that Russell and his merry band of tricksters can pull off a truly big “golden” sting.

Best Documentary Feature – THE ACT OF KILLING

By Travis Keune

Rarely does a documentary film present itself with such an original approach as THE ACT OF KILLING. Director Joshua Oppenheimer takes an absolutely terrible part of Indonesian history and devises a method to explore the dark subject matter of the film with the actual people responsible for the atrocities that exposes the truth with full transparency, but with a touch of surreality.

Oppenheimer asked the individuals responsible for the executions of alleged communists in Indonesia to reenact what occurred on film in whatever way they felt most comfortable.The result of which is honest, but oddly just as entertaining as it is heartbreaking, especially as the emotional toll begins to build and erupt and the killers humanity shows through and the regret and guilt emerges. As an audience, we bare witness to this experiment in psychology unfolding in a way never before seen on film.

The film is sometimes awkward, or even difficult to watch, but the end result is a masterpiece in documentary filmmaking that won the support of Werner Herzog and will leave a lasting impression.

Best Cinematography – Roger Deakins PRISONERS

By Michelle McCue

The terrifying events that unfold in PRISONERS cause each character to react in a manner he or she likely never would have thought possible.

Screenwriter Aaron Guzikowski’s story and Director Denis Villeneuve’s film, along with a top-flight roster of actors, including Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo and Paul Dano, are captured by legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins.

Deakins utilized color, along with light and shadow, to amplify the atmosphere around the story while most of the time, giving this heavy drama a monochromatic feel. Creating a claustrophobic, dark element, the cinematographer shot the film digitally. The days in PRISONERS are gloomy and overcast, and the nights, largely because of Deakins’ work, are very poetic.

Roger Deakins is a ten-time Academy Award nominee for Best Cinematography, for his work on Joel and Ethan Coen’s FARGO, THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE, O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and TRUE GRIT; Frank Darabont’s THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION; Martin Scorsese’s KUNDUN; Andrew Dominik’s THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD; Stephen Daldry’s THE READER, which he shared with Chris Menges; and, most recently, Sam Mendes’ SKYFALL.

Yet, the Oscar has always eluded him.

However, nominated seven times for the BAFTA Award, Deakins has won three for THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and TRUE GRIT.

His work has also garnered him eight nominations for the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC) Best Cinematography Award, with five wins, and two Independent Spirit Awards, with an additional nomination. In 2008, he received the National Board of Review’s Career Achievement Award, and in 2013, Deakins was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the UK, the only cinematographer to have been given this high honor.

Deakins has been nominated eleven times for the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award and won three, for SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE and SKYFALL. Cited was his work on the ten features listed above, as well as on Sam Mendes’ REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. He received the ASC’s Lifetime Achievement award in 2011.

He has also served as visual consultant for several animated features, including WALL•E, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, RANGO, RISE OF THE GUARDIANS and THE CROODS. He is currently consulting on HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 and the cinematographer on Angelina Jolie’s UNBROKEN.

Academy Voters! Don’t you think now would be a good time to finally acknowledge Deakins with an Oscar?

BEST Actress – Cate Blanchett as Jasmine, BLUE JASMINE

By Tom Stockman

Were it a weaker year for the Best Actress category, Judi Dench would be a shoo-on for her swan song PHILOMENA or Sandra Bullock might take home the big prize for her desperate and resourceful turn in GRAVITY. But it’s not a weak year. It’s an extraordinarily strong one, but neither of these gals (nor Ms Streep or Ms Adams) stands a chance against Cate Blanchett and her ferocious performance in BLUE JASMINE.

The range of emotions Woody Allen’s script demanded of Blanchett was immense and she responded with a performance people will be talking about for a long time. Blanchett was a riveting image in BLUE JASMINE, not just for the things Jasmine said but for the ravaged beauty and sadness she allowed the camera to find in her face and clothes-horse figure. Blanchett fully embodied the agony of Jasmine as the character went from vodka-soaked delusional to haughty dismissal of those she considered inferior and from gloomy introspection to babbling madness.

Constantly throwing back Xanax and martinis to cope, Blanchett performed emotional highs and lows, often within the same scene and her performance was really something to see. The Oscar will join the many other awards she’s deservedly received for this role.

Best Picture – CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

By Melissa Thompson

Going in to see CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, I was pretty much prepared to see another “docudrama” that was going to depict a real-life event. I didn’t know too much about the story of Captain Richard Phillips and the Maersk Alabama, other than the nightly blurbs we would see on the news during the time the events occurred. Somali Pirates, merchant marines, hostages, Navy Seals – all the buzz words were there, so like many others I was enticed into seeing the movie. Turns out it was a REALLY good movie. It had everything. Good guys, bad guys, a hero, numerous gunfights, a ton of suspense, and best of all, a happy ending of sorts. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, but couldn’t help but think it was almost “too good”.

So many “true stories” these days take so much dramatic license, you don’t really know how much is true and how much is embellished just to create a more powerful narrative. But I wasn’t 100% convinced. So I did some research, and what I found was pretty amazing. Turns out, the way the events are portrayed in the film is EXACTLY how it happened. Details and timelines are precise, as well as much of the dialogue that took place between the crew, the pirates, and Phillips himself. I was most fascinated by this clip – CNN news footage that could be easily confused with the movie if you didn’t know what you were watching:

With so many films these days relying on CGI and special effects, it was refreshing to see a true story be, well, true! There was no cliffhanger, or plot twists, or ridiculous global destruction. Just the harrowing sequence of events told from the perspective of those who were actually there. If that is not a Best Picture nominee, I don’t know what is.

BEST Original Screenplay – HER

By Gary Salem

The original screenplay nomination for HER is my favorite because Spike Jonze had so many ideas that work together on different levels. He created a compelling sci-fi romance in a world that looks strange and familiar at the same time.

The operating system gets inside Theodore’s head both literally and figuratively. Her gets inside the viewer’s head and stays there to give them something to think about, like being in love…with technology.

Best Animated Short Film – GET A HORSE!

By Melissa Howland

Directed by Lauren MacMullan and produced by Dorothy McKim, GET A HORSE! is the perfect blend of black and white hand drawn animation and 3D computer imaging.

The short is a contemporary homage to the first animated shorts featuring Mickey Mouse, with all-new, black-and-white, hand-drawn animation that’s paired with full-color, 3D, CG filmmaking—in the same frame. Mickey (voice of Walt Disney), his favorite gal pal Minnie Mouse and their friends Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow delight in a musical haywagon ride—until Peg-Leg Pete shows up and tries to run them off the road. This groundbreaking short takes a sharp turn when Mickey finds himself separated from Minnie and must use every trick up his sleeve to find his way back to her.

GET A HORSE! is packed with laughs, and features archived recordings of Walt Disney for the voice of Mickey Mouse. As a short, it stands apart from anything we’ve seen in animation, and is sure to put a smile on your face!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – Jonah Hill as Donnie Azoff, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

By Tom Stockman

I wasn’t sure of Jonah Hill’s performance as Jordan Belcourt’s bucktoothed loose-cannon first lieutenant Donnie Azoff in WOLF OF WALL STREET would be received as brilliantly comic or an undisciplined train wreck.

It was a strange role, one that straddled drama and dark comedy but it was perfect for the actor. Whether masturbating in public or swallowing goldfish, Hill was so much fun to watch in WOLF OF WALL STREET and clearly made an impression on the Academy.

He won’t win, in part because of the political incorrectness of the character, and because it’s a strong field, but he deserved the nom and I’m glad he got it.

Best Actress – Sandra Bullock as Dr. Ryan Stone, GRAVITY

By Sam Moffitt

I have not seen very many of the movies up for awards this year. But I cannot imagine that any actor or actress could possibly do better work than Sandra Bullock does in GRAVITY.

Set in outer space this remarkable film is really about inner space. Stranded through a series of calamities in Earth orbit Sandra Bullock’s character Ryan Stone goes through serious changes trying to get back to solid ground. I’m not sure if everything she does is possible with the current technology of space travel but the tension and suspense are unbearable.

GRAVITY is an epic look at the human will to survive, that incredible drive that can bring people through to safety in the most grueling of ordeals. Gravity is a love song to every person who ever struggled to overcome cancer, who was ever ship wrecked, buried under rubble, lost in the desert, wounded in a war, maimed in an accident and struggled against over whelming odds to not only survive but to prevail and get on with their lives.

Think of all the people in just the last ten years affected by hurricanes, civil wars, drought, famine, volcanoes, tornados, tsunamis and their struggles to survive.

The sorrows of the whole human race are laid on Sandra Bullock’s frail shoulders and she comes through, my Lord how she comes through!

How heartbreaking to see tears in zero gravity, and in 3-D! How awesome to see the performance of a lifetime that relies so much on body language, facial expressions and gestures. And her performance is almost entirely alone. The only recent film comparable would have to be 127 Hours and James Franco’s brilliant performance in another story of survival against all the odds.

The sight of Ms Bullock curled in a fetal position and turning slowly, slowly in zero gravity is awesome, heartbreaking, primal, (on a gut level) and so poetic and beautiful, all at once. This is genius film making by Alfonso Cuaron and Sandra Bullock is the only passenger on a roller coaster ride back to the pull of Earth’s Gravity.

Sandra Bullock has already won an Oscar, for The Blind Side, but if ever an actor deserves another win it is her incredible work in GRAVITY. She is one of the best actors of her generation; GRAVITY is one for the ages.

BEST ACTOR – Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

By Michael Haffner

I hope Mr. DiCaprio doesn’t take offense when I say that I truly believe he was born to play Jordan Belfort. Or is Jordan Belfort now really only a “person” thanks to DiCaprio? Either way, the character that emerges on the screen is Scorsese’s dizzying, frantic, and hilarious THE WOLF OF WALL STREET is equal parts unbelievable and frighteningly real thanks in no small part due to Leonardo Dicaprio’s fearless performance. In their fifth on-screen collaboration, Scorsese seems to unleash the shackles on his cinematic muse. Drugs are consumed in excess. Sex is as regular as brushing your teeth multiple-times-a-day.

Most importantly, money can buy you happiness. Well. . . at least a form of happiness. And just as the high from drugs begins to fade away, and the sex eventually reaches its climax, and the money eventually runs out, so too does one’s happiness if you invest your entire life in material belongings. This is all the more ironic considering the film is centered around a power driven financial investor whose job requires him to invest other’s money. The idea of a film chronicling the lavish lifestyle of greedy corporate investors is far from original. However, in the hands of veteran director Scorsese, the escapades conducted by this wild WOLF is consistently entertaining and leaves the audience hungry for more – which says a lot considering the film is almost 3 hours long. Some audience members might not be able to look past the hedonistic activities portrayed on screen by Leonardo DiCaprio.

I know for a fact there have been several screenings where moviegoers walked out of the film. I’m not here to convince those people that I’m right and they’re wrong for walking out, but I will say that they’re choosing to ignore the best performance to date from Mr. DiCaprio. Several times throughout the film we see him take the stage and deliver rousing speeches to his merry band of heathens. He takes to the mic like a Southern Baptist preacher, delivering rags to riches stories and exciting his “congregation” into a fury of shouting, reveling, and fanatical responses that wouldn’t seem out of place among some places of worship. It is in moments like these where I also found myself converted.

I truly adore THE WOLF OF WALL STREET and I know that my love for Scorsese’s film wouldn’t be the same if it not for DiCaprio’s portrayal of Jordan Belfort. You hear stories of DiCaprio jet-setting across Europe with a harem of Victoria Secrets’ models and you can’t help but compare his real life a bit to the film’s main character – which was inspired by real events. Although I know I should separate an actor’s personal life from his career, I can’t help but feel that in this case of “life imitating art” or “art imitating life,” that the result is worthy of Oscar gold.

So that’s our favorites. Let us know yours in our comments section below.

Watch the Oscars this Sunday, March 2, on ABC.

BAFTA 2014 Winners – GRAVITY Leads With 6 Awards; 12 YEARS A SLAVE Clinches Best Picture

With two weeks to go until the 86th Academy Awards are handed out in Hollywood, all eyes were on London as the EE British Academy Film Awards were announced Sunday evening from the Royal Opera House.

12 YEARS A SLAVE was named Best Film with Chiwetel Ejiofor winning leading actor. GRAVITY won six awards including British Film, Director, Original Music, Cinematography, Sound and Special Visual Effects, while AMERICAN HUSTLE won three BAFTAs for Original Screenplay, Make Up & Hair, and Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence.

Leading Actress was presented to Cate Blanchett for playing the title role in BLUE JASMINE – her third BAFTA win – and in his feature film debut Barkhad Abdi won Supporting Actor for CAPTAIN PHILLIPS.

Hosted by Stephen Fry, the ceremony featured a live performance from multi-platinum-selling artist Tinie Tempah and Mercury Prize nominee Laura Mvula.

Dame Helen Mirren was the recipient of the BAFTA Fellowship, Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema went to Peter Greenaway (THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER), while the EE Rising Star Winner (voted for by the public) was Will Poulter.

Check out the red carpet arrival photos HERE.

Full list of winners:

Outstanding British Film: GRAVITY – Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman, Jonás Cuarón

Best Film: 12 YEARS A SLAVE – Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen

British Short Film: ROOM 8 – James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner

British Short Animation: Sleeping With The Fishes – James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa

Production Design: THE GREAT GATSBY – Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn

Sound Winner: GRAVITY – Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro

Editing Winner: RUSH – Dan Hanley, Mike Hill

Documentary Winner: THE ACT OF KILLING – Joshua Oppenheimer

Make-Up and Hair Winner: AMERICAN HUSTLE – Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell, Kathrine Gordon

Costume Design Winner: THE GREAT GATSBY – Catherine Martin

Original Music Winner: GRAVITY – Steven Price

Animated Film Winner: FROZEN – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: Kieran Evans – Kelly + Victor

Supporting Actor: Barkhad Abdi – CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

Cinematography: GRAVITY – Emmanuel Lubezki

Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence – AMERICAN HUSTLE

Original Screenplay Winner: AMERICAN HUSTLE – Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell

Adapted Screenplay Winner: PHILOMENA – Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope

Special Visual Effects Winner: GRAVITY – Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny

Film Not in the English Language Winner: THE GREAT BEAUTY – Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima

Leading Actor Winner: Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 YEARS A SLAVE

Director Winner: Alfonso Cuarón – GRAVITY

Leading Actress Winner: Cate Blanchett – BLUE JASMINE

AMERICAN HUSTLE Surpasses $200 Million At Worldwide Box Office

On the heels of receiving 10 Academy Award nominations – including the rare feat of scoring nods for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and all four acting categories – Columbia Pictures and Annapurna Pictures’ AMERICAN HUSTLE has surpassed $200 million at the worldwide box office, it was announced today by Jeff Blake, chairman, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for Sony Pictures.

To date, the Atlas Entertainment Production starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, and Jennifer Lawrence, has grossed $138.7 million in North America, setting a career high for director David O. Russell at the domestic box office, surpassing the $132.1 million take of Silver Linings Playbook.

AMERICAN HUSTLE has also proven to be just as strong a player to international audiences, grossing $64 million to date in overseas markets, with territories including Germany, Russia and Korea yet to open. The film has opened #1 in six territories – UK, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, and Greece – and the UK box office is so strong that American Hustle has nearly tripled the box office of Silver Linings Playbook in that territory. Annapurna’s international sales company, Panorama Media, has handled international sales of the film throughout the world. Sony Pictures distributes the film in the U.S., Latin America, South Africa, and Eastern Europe (excluding Russia and the Ukraine).

AMERICAN HUSTLE is now the highest-grossing film, both domestically and internationally, for Annapurna Pictures.

Commenting on the announcement, Blake said, “Congratulations go to our filmmakers. David O. Russell has scored again with critics and audiences alike – he has delivered a tremendous film, one that has connected with moviegoers in every country around the world. I also want to congratulate Chuck Roven – a longtime friend and one of our industry’s prolific producers – on his first Oscar® nomination, as well as his fellow producers, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, and Jonathan Gordon on their nominations. In fact, special congratulations go to Megan on becoming the first woman with two nominations for Best Picture in one year. They and their entire cast and crew dedicated themselves to David’s vision for a truly special film, and we’re excited and gratified by their success.”

Russell sees AMERICAN HUSTLE as the third part in a trilogy of reinvention that began in The Fighter and continued in Silver Linings Playbook – and with this film, the themes play out on an even larger canvas. Armed with a vision for an alluring film unlike any other, Russell and his cast and crew met the challenge, resulting in 10 Academy Award® nominations across several branches. American Hustle has also been presented with three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by a Cast, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Screenplay.

It is nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards and has been cited on over 230 top critics’ lists.

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most extraordinary scandals of the 1970s, AMERICAN HUSTLE tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Like David O. Russell’s two previous films, American Hustle defies genre to tell a story of love, reinvention, and survival.

The film is directed by David O. Russell, written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell, and produced by Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, and Jonathan Gordon.

www.americanhustle-movie.com

AMERICAN HUSTLE, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS And FROZEN Are Big Winners At ACE Eddie Awards

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CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (edited by Christopher Rouse, A.C.E.) and AMERICAN HUSTLE (edited by Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., Crispin Struthers & Alan Baumgarten, A.C.E.) won Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) and Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy/Musical) respectively at the 64th Annual ACE Eddie Awards Friday evening where trophies were handed out in ten (10) categories of film, television and documentaries.

The black-tie ceremony was held in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel with over 1,000 in attendance to celebrate the year’s best editing.

FROZEN (edited by Jeff Draheim) won Best Edited Animated Feature Film and 20 FEET FROM STARDOM (edited by Douglas Blush, Kevin Klauber & Jason Zeldes) won Best Edited Documentary (Feature).

June Squibb and Will Forte flank Best Animated Feature winner, Jeff Draheim (‘Frozen’). © Linda Treydte / Tilt Photo

Television winners included ”The Office – Finale” (edited by David Rogers & Claire Scanlon) for Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television, “Breaking Bad – Felina” (edited by Skip MacDonald, A.C.E.) for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial television, “Homeland – Big Man in Tehran” (edited by Terry Kelley, A.C.E.) for Best Edited One-Hour Series for Non-Commercial Television, “Behind The Candelabra” (edited by Mary Ann Bernard)for Best Edited Miniseries or Motion Picture for Television, and “Anthony Bourdain – Parts Unknown: Tokyo” (edited by Nick Brigden) for Best Edited Non-Scripted Series. In the Best Edited Documentary (Television) category, which was newly created last year, “The Assasination of President Kennedy” (edited by Chris A. Peterson) took top honors.

The Student Editing Competition winner was Ambar Salinas of Video Symphony who beat out hundreds of competitors from film schools and universities around the country. Oscar® winning film editor and sound designer Walter Murch, A.C.E. presented the ACE Eddie Award to the Salinas.

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Award-winning director Paul Greengrass received the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year honor presented to him by his “Captain Phillips” star Tom Hanks. Greengrass joins an impressive list of filmmakers who have received ACE’s highest honor, including Norman Jewison, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Robert Zemeckis, Alexander Payne, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Richard Donner, among others.

Robert C. Jones, Lifetime Career Achievement honoree, with presenter Warren Beatty. © Linda Treydte / Tilt Photo

American Cinema Editors President Alan Heim, A.C.E. with Randy Roberts, A.C.E., recipient of the prestigious Heritage Award for his outstanding commitment to American Cinema Editors. © Linda Treydte / Tilt Photo

Lifetime Career Achievement Awards went to industry veterans Richard Halsey, A.C.E. and Robert C. Jones with the Dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Teri Schwartz presenting to Halsey and Warren Beatty presenting to Jones. The very special Heritage Award, which has only been presented a few times in the organizations history, was presented by ACE President Alan Heim, A.C.E. to Randy Roberts, A.C.E. for his lengthy and unwavering commitment to the organization. The Heritage Award is not presented every year, only when warranted by an outstanding individual.

Among the evening’s presenters were Warren Beatty, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Will Forte, June Squibb, Peter Krause, Hamish Linklater, Sarah Paulson, James Wolk, Walter Murch, Michiel Huisman and Steve Coogan. Serving as Master of Ceremonies was actor Bob Odenkirk.

Christopher Rouse, A.C.E. (‘Captain Phillips’) Accepts his ACE Eddie trophy on stage. © Peter Zakhary / Tilt Photo

A full list of winners follows:

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC):
Captain Phillips
Christopher Rouse, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL):
American Hustle
Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., Crispin Struthers & Alan Baumgarten, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Frozen
Jeff Draheim

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE):
20 Feet from Stardom
Douglas Blush, Kevin Klauber & Jason Zeldes

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (TELEVISION):
The Assassination of President Kennedy
Chris A. Peterson

BEST EDITED HALF-HOUR SERIES FOR TELEVISION:
The Office: “Finale”
David Rogers & Claire Scanlon

BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
Breaking Bad: “Felina”
Skip MacDonald A.C.E.

BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
Homeland: “Big Man in Tehran”
Terry Kelley, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE FOR TELEVISION:
Behind the Candelabra
Mary Ann Bernard

BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES:
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown: Tokyo
Nick Brigden

BEST STUDENT EDITING
Ambar Salinas, Video Symphony

James Wolk and Hamish Linklater (‘The Crazy Ones’) with David Rogers and Claire Scanlon, winners of Best Edited Half-Hour Series for Television for ‘The Office – Finale”. © Linda Treydte / Tilt Photo

12 YEARS A SLAVE and GRAVITY Tie At 25th Annual Producers Guild Awards – Winners

12 YEARS A SLAVE and GRAVITY have tied at this year’s PGA. With AMERICAN HUSTLE taking the SAG ensemble on Saturday night, we have a bonafide Best Picture race on our hands folks! This is the first tie for the top film in Producers Guild Award history.

The PGA split keeps the Oscar race wide open in one of the tightest three-way battles in years, with “American Hustle” still in the game following a week of big showings at the Golden Globes, Oscar nominations and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Tonight the Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced this year’s winning motion picture and television productions at the 25th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

David Heyman, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, Alfonso Cuaron, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision for Producers Guild/AP Images)

In addition to the competitive awards, the Producers Guild presented special honors to Barbara Broccoli & Michael G. Wilson (David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures), Robert Iger (Milestone Award), Peter Jackson & Joe Letteri (Vanguard Award), Chuck Lorre (Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television), Chris Meledandri (Visionary Award) and FRUITVALE STATION (Stanley Kramer Award). The 2014 Producers Guild Awards Co-Chairs are Lori McCreary (INVICTUS, “Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman”) and Michael De Luca (CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, MONEYBALL, THE SOCIAL NETWORK).

The 2014 Producers Guild nominated films and television programs are listed below in alphabetical order by category along with producers. The producers’ names for each nominated production are listed in alphabetical order and may not reflect the order of screen credits. The winners are indicated in bold and with an asterisk (*).

Last year, the PGA awarded ARGO with its Darryl F. Zanuck Outstanding Producer Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, marking the sixth consecutive year the Producers Guild has presaged the Motion Picture Academy’s choice.

David Heyman, Alfonso Cuaron (Photo by John Shearer/Invision for Producers Guild/AP Images)

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:

American Hustle (Columbia Pictures)
Producers: Megan Ellison, Jon Gordon, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle

Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
Producers: Letty Aronson, Stephen Tenenbaum

Captain Phillips (Columbia Pictures)
Producers: Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin

Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
Producers: Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter

* Gravity (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Producers: Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman

Her (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Producers: Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay

Nebraska (Paramount Pictures)
Producers: Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa

Saving Mr. Banks (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Producers: Ian Collie, Alison Owen, Philip Steuer

* 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Producers: Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt & Dede Gardner

The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount Pictures)
Producers: Riza Aziz, Emma Koskoff, Joey McFarland

(Photo by John Shearer/Invision for Producers Guild/AP Images)

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:

The Croods (DreamWorks Animation)
Producers: Kristine Belson, Jane Hartwell

Despicable Me 2 (Universal Pictures)
Producers: Janet Healy, Chris Meledandri

Epic (Twentieth Century Fox)
Producers: Jerry Davis, Lori Forte

* Frozen (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
Producer: Peter Del Vecho

Monsters University (Pixar Animation)
Producer: Kori Rae

The television nominees and winners are:

The David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television:

American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
Producers: Brad Buecker, Dante Di Loreto, Brad Falchuk, Alexis Martin Woodall, Ryan Murphy, Chip Vucelich

* Behind the Candelabra (HBO)
Producers: Susan Ekins, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Polaire, Jerry Weintraub

Killing Kennedy (National Geographic Channel)
Producers: Mary Lisio, Larry Rapaport, Ridley Scott, Teri Weinberg, David W. Zucker

Phil Spector (HBO)
Producers: Michael Hausman, Barry Levinson

Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel)
Producers: Philippa Campbell, Jane Campion, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman

The Long-Form Television category encompasses both movies of the week and mini-series.

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures:

A PLACE AT THE TABLE (Magnolia Pictures)
Producers: Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush

FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY (First Run Features)
Producers: Brad Bernstein, Rick Cikowski

LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM (HBO Documentary Films)
Producers: Andrea Nix Fine, Sean Fine, Miriam Weintraub

* WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS (Focus Features)
Producers: Alexis Bloom, Alex Gibney, Marc Shmuger

WHICH WAY IS THE FRONT LINE FROM HERE? THE LIFE AND TIME OF TIM HETHERINGTON (HBO Documentary Films)
Producers: James Brabazon, Nick Quested

The Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Drama:

* Breaking Bad (AMC)
Producers: Melissa Bernstein, Sam Catlin, Bryan Cranston, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, Mark Johnson, Stewart Lyons, Michelle MacLaren, George Mastras, Diane Mercer, Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett

Downton Abbey (ITV – United Kingdom; PBS – United States)
Producers: Julian Fellowes, Nigel Marchant, Gareth Neame, Liz Trubridge

Game of Thrones (HBO)
Producers: David Benioff, Bernadette Caulfield, Frank Doelger, D.B. Weiss, Christopher Newman, Greg Spence, Carolyn Strauss

Homeland (Showtime)
Producers: Henry Bromell, Alexander Cary, Michael Cuesta, Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Michael Klick, Meredith Stiehm

House of Cards (Netflix)
Producers: Joshua Donen, David Fincher, Karyn McCarthy, John Melfi, Eric Roth, Kevin Spacey, Beau Willimon

The Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television, Comedy:

30 Rock (NBC)
Producers: Jack Burditt, Robert Carlock, Luke Del Tredici , Tina Fey, Matt Hubbard , Marci Klein, Jerry Kupfer , Colleen McGuinness, Lorne Michaels, David Miner, Dylan Morgan , Jeff Richmond , Josh Siegal, Tracey Wigfield

Arrested Development (Netflix)
Producers: John Foy, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Mitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, Troy Miller, Richard Rosenstock, Jim Vallely

Big Bang Theory, The (CBS)
Producers: Bill Prady, Chucke Lorre, Steve Molaro, Faye Oshima Belyeu

* Modern Family (ABC)
Producers: Paul Corrigan, Abraham Higginbotham, Ben Karlin, Elaine Ko, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Jeffrey Morton, Dan O’Shannon, Jeffrey Richman, Chris Smirnoff, Brad Walsh, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker

VEEP (HBO)
Producers: Simon Blackwell, Christopher Godsick, Armando Iannucci, Stephanie Laing, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Frank Rich, Tony Roche

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television:

30 for 30 (ESPN)
Producers: Bill Simmons, John Dahl, Erin Leyden, Connor Schell

* Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN)
Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandra Zweig

Duck Dynasty (A&E Networks)
Producers: Deirdre Gurney, Scott Gurney, Mike Odair, Hugh Peterson, Adam Saltzberg, Charlie Van Vleet

Inside The Actors Studio (Bravo)
Producers: James Lipton, Shawn Tesser, Jeff Wurtz

Shark Tank (ABC)
Producers: Mark Burnett, Becky Blitz, Bill Gaudsmith, Yun Lingner, Clay Newbill, Jim Roush, Laura Skowlund, Max Swedlow

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment & Talk Television:

* Colbert Report, The (Comedy Central)
Producers: Meredith Bennett, Stephen T. Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, Barry Julien, Matt Lappin, Emily Lazar, Tanya Michnevich Bracco, Tom Purcell, Jon Stewart

Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC)
Producers: David Craig, Ken Crosby, Doug DeLuca, Gary Greenberg, Erin Irwin, Jimmy Kimmel, Jill Leiderman, Molly McNearney, Tony Romero, Jason Schrift, Jennifer Sharron, Josh Weintraub

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC)
Producers: Hillary Hunn, Lorne Michaels, Gavin Purcell, Michael Shoemaker

Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
Producers: Scott Carter, Sheila Griffiths, Marc Gurvitz, Dean Johnsen, Bill Maher, Billy Martin, Matt Wood

Saturday Night Live (NBC)
Producers: Ken Aymong, Erin Doyle, Steve Higgins, Erik Kenward, Lorne Michaels, Lindsay Shookus

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Competition Television:

Amazing Race, The (CBS)
Producers: Jerry Bruckheimer, Elise Doganieri, Jonathan Littman, Bertram van Munster, Mark Vertullo

Dancing With The Stars (ABC)
Producers: Ashley Edens-Shaffer, Conrad Green, Joe Sungkur

Project Runway (Lifetime)
Producers: Jane Cha Cutler, Desiree Gruber, Tim Gunn, Heidi Klum, Jonathan Murray, Sara Rea, Colleen Sands

Top Chef (Bravo)
Producers: Tom Colicchio, Daniel Cutforth, Casey Kriley, Jane Lipsitz, Erica Ross, Nan Strait, Andrew Wallace

* Voice, The (NBC)
Producers: Stijn Bakkers, Mark Burnett, John de Mol, Chad Hines, Lee Metzger, Audrey Morrissey, Jim Roush, Kyra Thompson, Nicolle Yaron, Mike Yurchuk, Amanda Zucker

The following programs were not vetted for producer eligibility this year:

The Award for Outstanding Sports Program:

24/7 (HBO)
Hard Knocks (HBO)
Monday Night Football (ESPN)
Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel (HBO)
* SportsCenter (ESPN)

The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program:

Dora the Explorer (Nickelodeon)
iCarly (Nickelodeon)
Phineas and Ferb (Disney Channel)
* Sesame Street (PBS)
SpongeBob Squarepants (Nickelodeon)

The Award for Outstanding Digital Series:

Burning Love (http://screen.yahoo.com/burning-love/)

Epic Rap Battles of History (www.epicrapbattlesofhistory.com)

Lizzie Bennet Diaries, The (www.youtube.com/lizziebennet)

Video Game High School (http://www.rocketjump.com/category/vghs)

* Wired: What’s Inside (http://video.wired.com/series/what-s-inside)

20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Winners

The cast of “American Hustle” poses at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 18, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

SAG-AFTRA presented its coveted Actor® statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2013 at the “20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®” in ceremonies attended by film and television’s leading actors, held Saturday, January. 18, at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center.

Honored with individual awards were Cate Blanchett, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey and Lupita Nyong’o for performances in motion pictures and Ty Burrell, Bryan Cranston, Michael Douglas, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Helen Mirren and Maggie Smith for performances in television.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards originated awards for the outstanding performances by a motion picture cast and by television drama and comedy ensembles. The Actor® for a motion picture cast performance went this year to AMERICAN HUSTLE, while the Actors® for television drama and comedy ensemble performances went this year to “Breaking Bad” and “Modern Family.”

The honors for outstanding action performances by a stunt ensemble in film and television were awarded to LONE SURVIVOR and “Game of Thrones.”

(L-R) Actresses Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Rohm, and Amy Adams attend the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 18, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/WireImage)

20th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS® RECIPIENTS

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY / Ron Woodroof – “DALLAS BUYERS CLUB” (Focus Features)

(Photo by Michael Buckner/WireImage)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

CATE BLANCHETT / Jasmine – “BLUE JASMINE” (Sony Pictures Classics)

(Photo by Theo Wargo/WireImage)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

JARED LETO / Rayon – “DALLAS BUYERS CLUB” (Focus Features)

(Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

LUPITA NYONG’O / Patsey – “12 YEARS A SLAVE” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

AMERICAN HUSTLE (Columbia Pictures)

AMY ADAMS / Sydney Prosser

CHRISTIAN BALE / Irving Rosenfeld

LOUIS C.K. / Stoddard Thorsen

BRADLEY COOPER / Richie DiMaso

PAUL HERMAN / Alfonse Simone

JACK HUSTON / Pete Musane

JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Rosalyn Rosenfeld

ALESSANDRO NIVOLA / Federal Prosecutor

MICHAEL PEÑA / Sheik (Agent Hernandez)

JEREMY RENNER / Mayor Carmine Polito

ELISABETH RÖHM / Dolly Polito

SHEA WHIGHAM / Carl Elway

Actor Bradley Cooper speaks onstage while Jeremy Renner, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams look on during 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on January 18, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/WireImage)

TELEVISION PROGRAMS

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

MICHAEL DOUGLAS / Liberace – “BEHIND THE CANDELABRA” (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

HELEN MIRREN / Linda Kenney Baden – “PHIL SPECTOR” (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

BRYAN CRANSTON / Walter White – “BREAKING BAD” (AMC)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

MAGGIE SMITH / Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham – “DOWNTON ABBEY” (PBS)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

TY BURRELL / Phil Dunphy – “MODERN FAMILY” (ABC)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS / Vice President Selina Meyer – “VEEP” (HBO)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

BREAKING BAD (AMC)

MICHAEL BOWEN / Uncle Jack

BETSY BRANDT / Marie Schrader

BRYAN CRANSTON / Walter White

LAVELL CRAWFORD / Huell

TAIT FLETCHER / Lester

LAURA FRASER / Lydia Rodarte-Quale

ANNA GUNN / Skyler White

MATTHEW T. METZLER / Matt

RJ MITTE / Walter White Jr.

DEAN NORRIS / Hank Schrader

BOB ODENKIRK / Saul Goodman

AARON PAUL / Jesse Pinkman

JESSE PLEMONS / Todd

STEVEN MICHAEL QUEZADA / Gomez

KEVIN RANKIN / Kenny

PATRICK SANE / Frankie

(Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

MODERN FAMILY (ABC)

JULIE BOWEN / Claire Dunphy

TY BURRELL / Phil Dunphy

AUBREY ANDERSON EMMONS / Lily Tucker-Pritchett

JESSE TYLER FERGUSON / Mitchell Pritchett

NOLAN GOULD / Luke Dunphy

SARAH HYLAND / Haley Dunphy

ED O’NEILL / Jay Pritchett

RICO RODRIGUEZ / Manny Delgado

ERIC STONESTREET / Cameron Tucker

SOFIA VERGARA / Gloria Delgado-Pritchett

ARIEL WINTER / Alex Dunphy

SAG AWARDS® HONORS FOR STUNT ENSEMBLES

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture

LONE SURVIVOR (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series

GAME OF THRONES (HBO)

Morgan Freeman presented Rita Moreno with the union’s highest honor, the 50th Annual Life Achievement Award, following a filmed salute. Tom Hanks introduced a filmed “In Memoriam” tribute to the members lost in the past year.

(Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

A Look At AMERICAN HUSTLE’s Production Design And Costumes

AMERICAN HUSTLE marks the third part in a three-film evolution for filmmaker David O. Russell. Beginning with THE FIGHTER, continuing with SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK, and playing out on a larger canvas than ever before in AMERICAN HUSTLE, Russell centers on characters who are trying to change their lives through a process of reinvention.

Read Jim Batts’ 5 star review HERE.

There’s nothing more that I love about a film, especially this type of period piece drama, than the aesthetics and the work of the crew behind the scenes. We are brought into the world of AMERICAN HUSTLE through their artistic use of costumes and sets.

In recreating the 70’s, Russell relied on his longtime collaborator, production designer Judy Becker, to bring about the look he desired for the film. Becker was excited by the opportunity. Her research, combined with the screenplay, inspired her to build unique worlds for the characters that expresses who they are.

“That’s one of the things that drew me to this project,” says Russell. “So much of this movie takes place in different worlds: it’s the world of the Long Island home of Rosalyn Rosenfeld, it’s the world of Sydney Prosser’s East Side apartment, its’ the world of Richie’s Brooklyn apartment, it’s the world of the FBI with Stoddard Thorsen, it’s the museum with Irving, it’s City Hall, it’s the home of Carmine Polito with his five children and his wife in Camden, it’s the beautiful local restaurant where Carmine takes Irving out to dinner with the wives. So many, many worlds, bringing warmth to the film.”

But it wasn’t just the chance to re-team with one of her most cherished collaborators that excited her – she was also drawn to the film by the fact that it is set in New York in the 1970s. “I have been interested in tackling that period for a long time, partly because it’s my favorite period in film history,” she says. “The funny thing is, I was surprised by the world I found myself creating – instead of the gritty 1970s New York that influenced me, the movie took a more glamorous point of view.”

For a designer, Russell’s concept for the themes of American Hustle added several layers that made the project especially intriguing: because the characters are running a con, the designs would not only show who the characters are, but who they are pretending and aspiring to be. Becker’s approach is best seen in the contrast between Sydney’s New York apartment and Rosalyn’s Long Island home. “They are really contrasting worlds – what was interesting was that we used similar palettes, textures, and materials, but completely different taste levels for those two sets,” says Becker.

“For Rosalyn’s house, the character is a stay-at-home mom and housewife, a woman who clearly enjoys decorating and maybe enjoys decorating too much,” Becker laughs. “Everything is based on reality and our research, but it looks a little over-the-top: we made extensive use of foil-patterned wallpaper, different patterns, furniture from the Pace Collection, and custom-made engraved Lucite screens. It may not be tasteful, but it’s a feast for the eyes – and tells you immediately who Rosalyn is.”

To contrast Rosalyn’s home, Becker sought to make Sydney’s apartment more sophisticated and stylish.

“She lives on the Upper East Side in a white brick building – common for single girls of that era. For Sydney we created a more minimalist look; where Rosalyn had gold, Sydney has a sunny yellow; where Rosalyn had wallpaper, Sydney has neutral grasscloth,” Becker notes. “It’s sexy, the apartment of a woman who would look cool at Studio 54. When one of my assistants saw the apartment, he walked in and said, ‘Wow, I wish my girlfriend had an apartment that looked like this’ – and that’s the feeling that we wanted that apartment to have.”

With the film set in the 1970s, costume designer Michael Wilkinson had a chance to express the decade’s distinctive design through the film’s fashion. His designs further expressed the film’s theme: characters remaking themselves, transforming themselves into the people they aspire to be.

“Michael constructs each character’s personality in the fabrics they like, the colors they like, how they feel when you’re around them,” says Russell. “The cream bathing suits that he put Irving and Sydney in when they meet – this tells you a lot about them – they’re stylish, but very much of their period.”

Wilkinson explains, “The characters are wholly unique and wildly imaginative. In the script, there were a lot of opportunities to explore different social backgrounds, from the vibrant, racially diverse world of blue-collar New Jersey to ultra-fashionable Upper East Side Manhattan to the sprawling suburbs of Long Island. 1978 – the year the film takes place – is a fascinating year, because it marks the beginning of a transition away from a truly flamboyant, exaggerated lines of the 1970s and into a more streamlined, early 80s vibe.”

Clothing plays an important role in defining Bale’s and Adams’ characters. In fact, each character has over 40 costumes. “There had to be something about Irv’s clothes that was very appealing – you want to trust him, you want to believe him. There’s an aspect to his character that wants to fly a little below the radar. It’s Sydney who starts helping him find a way to present himself to the world. We played with a lot of beautiful fabrics, some colors that were quite expressive, great combinations of vests and shirts, stripes and plaids.’”

In addition to remaking Irving, Sydney is also remaking herself.

“She’s a small-town girl who arrives in New York. She has a natural sense of style – and when she meets Irv, she gets the confidence to explore it. She picks out Diane von Furstenberg dresses, wears Halston, and starts really enjoying this new silhouette, this new freedom – it’s super-sophisticated and confident.” For Sydney and for all of the characters, Wilkinson worked with real clothes from the period to be as authentic as possible. He also ended up building a lot of clothes from scratch, designing costumes for specific moments in the film.

Adams’ character is contrasted against Jennifer Lawrence’s character, Rosalyn.

Wilkinson says that the designs for Lawrence’s costumes are meant to underscore the character as another hustler. “Rosalyn is a master of emotional manipulation – she really knows how to work a person over and she uses her sexuality to push her agenda. At the same time, we had to balance that against the fact that she lives this totally boring existence in the suburbs,” Wilkinson explains. “She has wild mood swings, and this is reflected in her clothes, from her frumpy house dresses and muumuus to her ‘dressed-to-kill’ evening wear.”

Cooper’s character, the FBI Agent who falls under the spell of the hustlers he lures in, is another character remade through the film. “He starts off as someone who doesn’t care so much about how he looks,” Wilkinson says. “He’s doing things like curling his hair, but he doesn’t have a very finessed approach to what he’s doing. When he comes into contact with Irv and Sydney, it has a huge effect on him. He re-invents himself: he goes from ill-fitting polyester cotton blends to silk shirts and stylish leather jackets.”

“For Jeremy Renner’s character, David wanted to put him in pale suits,” continues Wilkinson. He had a signature way of dressing with a slightly old-school feel to it, a Rat Pack kind of boldness to it. Maybe his clothes aren’t the most up-to-date – they hark back to another era, especially when juxtaposed with the finer, sophisticated clothes we see from Irv and Sydney – but he’s a very well-dressed man expressing a New Jersey bravado, and that was fun to explore.”

In the end, it was the film’s director of photography, Linus Sandgren, who was responsible for capturing these images.

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most extraordinary scandals of the 1970s, AMERICAN HUSTLE tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper). DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down. Like David O. Russell’s two previous films, AMERICAN HUSTLE defies genre to tell a story of love, reinvention, and survival.

Win A Pass To The Advance Screening Of AMERICAN HUSTLE In St. Louis

A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, AMERICAN HUSTLE tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced to work for a wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper).

DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that’s as dangerous as it is enchanting. Jeremy Renner is Carmine Polito, the passionate, volatile, New Jersey political operator caught between the con-artists and Feds. Irving’s unpredictable wife Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence) could be the one to pull the thread that brings the entire world crashing down.

Like David O. Russell’s previous films, AMERICAN HUSTLE defies genre, hinging on raw emotion, and life and death stakes.

AMERICAN HUSTLE opens December 13, 2013 New York / Los Angeles and December 20, 2013 Wide.

Want to win tickets to the advanced screening of AMERICAN HUSTLE on Monday, December 16th at 7PM?

Answer the following question:

What 1999 film – starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube – did David O. Russell direct?

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1. YOU MUST BE IN THE ST. LOUIS AREA THE DAY OF THE SCREENING.

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3. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.

AMERICAN HUSTLE has been rated R by the MPAA for: for pervasive language, some sexual content and brief violence.

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