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On Feb. 26, Los Angeles will become what La La Land promises: A city of stars.
But before the envelopes are opened, we’ve got inside intel on the nominees.
But who honestly could have expected the gentle, sophisticated concerto on romance and heartache that isLa La Land?
“Whiplashwas the angry, venting-my-frustrations script,” Chazelle says.
As with all great romances, fate intervenes.
Gosling adds, “This love that he finds keeps him from becoming the worst version of himself.”
And that’s the magic ofLa La Land.
“Everyone is capable of a little bit of tenderness.”
“It’s a kind of baptism,” Jenkins says.
That’s the movie right there."
Naomie Harris, who plays Chiron’s mother, cites another factor for the movie’s power.
They all share something so soulful and sensitive and kind in their eyes.
“Moonlightis a movie that looks back at you while you’re watching it.
You might not be prepared for how perceptively it sees.
you’ve got the option to say the movie is cynical.
But there’s a vibrance in the film’s core, a yearning humanism and a spontaneity.
Here is a movie about Americans who try and fail.
Come hell or high water, they will have another go.
“How come we don’t know this story?”
Unabashedly inspirational, Figures' message of empowerment feels even stronger given our current political climate.
A dream with all the right stuff.
“I had to tell this story,” he says.
“There were tears on page 58.
It’s unbelievable that someone could do what this man did.”
Every drop of Gibson’s love for this story is on the screen, says his star.
“He’s [either] crying behind the monitor or chewing on the leg of the chair.
It’s wonderful because you know whether it’s going well or not.”
With six nominations and $158 million in global box office, Hacksaw clearly went very well.
But for writer-director Kenneth Lonergan, griefhow we bear it, how it rearranges usis grief regardless of circumstance.
“Ordinary people carry these great burdens with them with varying degrees of difficulty.
you’ve got the option to move forward, but you don’t always move on.”
If it had never been made, it would still be something great.
You’d want to put it on your shelf and read it from time to time.”
Or watch it (over and over) again.
But Washington, who also directed, magnifies the right elements to produce truly great cinema.
“It doesn’t just hold up; August Wilson wrote a masterpiece.”
“When the downfall actually happens, you fall with [Troy],” she says.
“If there is no investment, then there is no journey.”
The deeply moving film adaptation explores the meaning of family.
“It’s about the love that you have from someone.
Then-5-year-old Sunny Pawar, who plays Saroo as a child, had to learn his English lines phonetically.
Says the director, “You don’t need a language to understand the power of this story.”
“It was the optimism that attracted me from the start,” says Villeneuve.
The film looks and sounds hauntingly different from any other.
“They looked like paintings.”
The poignant third-act twist is yet another surprise, one that leaves audiences in tears.
