Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc. is an American film studio that is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. As a sister studio of the larger 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight specializes in North American production of independent, European and British films alongside dramedy and horror films as well as art-house and foreign films and is sometimes also involved in the financing of these films.
The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is an Honorary Award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose technological contributions have brought credit to the industry." The award is named in honour of Gordon E. Sawyer, the former Sound Director at Samuel Goldwyn Studio and three-time Academy Award winner who claimed that a listing of past Academy Awards, arranged both chronologically and by category, represents a history of the development of motion pictures. It was first presented at the 54th Academy Awards, in April 1982. The Gordon E. Sawyer Award is voted upon and given by the Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy.
The Satellite Award for Best Sound is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.
Dear Basketball is a 2017 American animated short film written and narrated by Kobe Bryant and directed and animated by Glen Keane, with music by John Williams whom Kobe is a longtime fan of. The film is based on a letter Kobe Bryant wrote to The Players' Tribune on November 29, 2015 announcing his retirement from basketball.
The 90th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2017, and took place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was held on March 4, 2018, rather than its usual late-February date to avoid conflicting with the 2018 Winter Olympics. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories. The ceremony was televised in the United States by American Broadcasting Company (ABC), produced by Michael De Luca and Jennifer Todd and directed by Glenn Weiss. Comedian Jimmy Kimmel hosted for the second consecutive year.
The 71st British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 18 February 2018 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2017. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2017. Following revelations of sexual harassment in the film industry, many attendees wore black or a badge to show their support for the Time's Up movement.
Luis Sequeira is a Canadian costume designer of Portuguese descent. He is best known for his work in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water for which he received an Academy Award for Best Costume Design nomination at the 90th Academy Awards.
Jonathan Amos is an English film and television editor. He has worked on TV series such as Spooks and Party Animals, New Street Law and feature films Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), 20,000 Days on Earth (2014), Paddington 2 (2017), and Baby Driver (2017), for which he received a nomination for Academy Award for Best Film Editing at the 90th Academy Awards. He was a co-editor on the 2018 film The Sisters Brothers.
"Stand Up For Something" is a song written by Common and Diane Warren, performed by the former with singer Andra Day. The song was released as a lead single from the soundtrack album of 2017 film Marshall, and at the 90th Academy Awards received a nomination for Best Original Song.
Daniel Phillips is an English Special effects make-up artist. Known for his work on films Florence Foster Jenkins, Dracula Untold, Closed Circuit, The Duchess, The Queen, and Victoria & Abdul, for which he was nominated with Lou Sheppard for Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling nomination at 90th Academy Awards.
David Malinowski is a BAFTA and Oscar winning special effects make-up artist. He started his career in 1996 and spent 10 years working for Madame Tussauds in London, then left to pursue his career in film and television. At the 2018 BAFTA Film Awards he won the award for Film Makeup and Hair, and at the 90th Academy Awards, he won the award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for his work on the 2017 film Darkest Hour. He was nominated with Kazuhiro Tsuji and Lucy Sibbick. He lives in the Buckinghamshire village of Aston Clinton.
Lucy Sibbick is a British special effects make-up artist. She is best known for her work on the film Darkest Hour for which she was awarded with Kazuhiro Tsuji and David Malinowski the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 90th Academy Awards.
Paul Lambert is a visual effects supervisor. He won two Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 2017 film, Blade Runner 2049, at the 90th Academy Awards and for the 2018 film, First Man, at the 91st Academy Awards.
Alex Gibson is an American music and sound editor, known for his work on films, Transformers, The Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road, Interstellar, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, Justice League, Dunkirk, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at 90th Academy Awards.
Nelson Ferreira is a sound editor. He is known for his work on the films The Shape of Water for which he was nominated with Nathan Robitaille for Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at the 90th Academy Awards, and The Breadwinner, for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Sound Editing at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards.
Nathan Robitaille is a Canadian sound editor, known for his work on 2017 film The Shape of Water for which he was nominated with Nelson Ferreira for Academy Award for Best Sound Editing at 90th Academy Awards.
J. Miles Dale (born 1961) is a Canadian producer and director of film and television, best known for producing the critically acclaimed film, The Shape of Water, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards. He is a regular collaborator of director Guillermo del Toro.
