The Advanced Imaging Society has announced the winners of the 2025 Lumiere Awards, recognizing outstanding creative and technical achievements in its 15th annual celebration. The awards honor the artists, engineers and innovators whose work continues to push the boundaries of storytelling and cinematic technology.

The second stage of aging of old age makeup with a healthy face was tricky, and the stage scene because I knew the audience would be able to compare both sides at the same time you want to do cool prosthetic makeup, but you don’t want to make it too obvious. You want to blend with the face because you are building up with the prosthetics, but at the same time, you see the other side of the face which is not wearing any prosthetics. That’s hard. So there is a balance.
What is interesting about this story is that it works on an emotional and intellectual level. The crimes are horrible and unimaginable but when you examine the context of the time in history and the societal influences there is a strange logic there. It makes them not just isolated acts of evil, but part of an oppressive community. Then it starts becoming a story about all of us.
I worked closely with Damian Volpe, who is one of the main sound designers. Essentially we tried to isolate what was most important. Rob wanted a lot of music for this film to be big and in your face. I also knew Rob wanted a lot of sound design, especially in like, a lot of the Orlok scenes. When we’re in the castle things need to suddenly start to feel otherworldly and kind of like off. You wanna make sure that those two things are in harmony and they’re not clashing or competing.
Nic Cage is a huge movie buff, so he knew exactly where he wanted to go with things. So we tried three noses. I was pushing for more of a classic plastic surgery nose, the smaller one, and I got voted out. He and the director were like, we tried it and they were right. It didn’t look as good as the final nose.
That’s one of those happy accidents where that squeak comes from that moment on set and there’s a natural progression to how that windshield chill wiper sounded based on the amount of snowfall that was hitting the windshield. So when the windshield was initially dry, it was grating, and then as the snowfall continued, it slowly changed over time until it became basically like a whisper.
With every show I have done with Ryan, there is a defining color, and it’s one of the first things we discussed during our initial prep. For instance, with Ratched, it was green. Hollywood was mustard and golden tones. Dahmer was a dingy, depressing yellow, and Monsters was blue.
The second stage of aging of old age makeup with a healthy face was tricky, and the stage scene because I knew the audience would be able to compare both sides at the same time you want to do cool prosthetic makeup, but you don’t want to make it too obvious. You want to blend with the face because you are building up with the prosthetics, but at the same time, you see the other side of the face which is not wearing any prosthetics. That’s hard. So there is a balance.
What is interesting about this story is that it works on an emotional and intellectual level. The crimes are horrible and unimaginable but when you examine the context of the time in history and the societal influences there is a strange logic there. It makes them not just isolated acts of evil, but part of an oppressive community. Then it starts becoming a story about all of us.
The Advanced Imaging Society has announced the winners of the 2025 Lumiere Awards, recognizing outstanding creative and technical achievements in its 15th annual celebration. The awards honor the artists, engineers and innovators whose work continues to push the boundaries of storytelling and cinematic technology.
2025 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners Announced: Atropia (U.S. Dramatic Competition), Seeds (U.S. Documentary Competition), Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears) (World Cinema Dramatic Competition), and Cutting Through Rocks (اوزاک یوللار) (World Cinema Documentary Competition) Awarded Grand Jury Prizes; NEXT Innovator Award Presented by Adobe Goes to Zodiac Killer Project. Twinless (U.S. Dramatic Competition) and André is an Idiot (U.S. Documentary Competition) Receive Audience Awards Presented by Acura
Audience Awards Presented by United Airlines Go to DJ Ahmet (World Cinema Dramatic Competition) and Prime Minister (World Cinema Documentary Competition); East of Wall wins NEXT Audience Award Presented by Adobe
The 16th annual TCM Classic Film Festival is pleased to announce the 2025 Robert Osborne Award will be presented to writer, director, producer, playwright and author George Stevens, Jr. in recognition of his artistic excellence, his dedication to creating new generations of American filmmakers, his visionary leadership in preserving American film history, and for tirelessly championing American filmmaking as a culturally significant and unique art form.
The 97th Oscar nominations were announced today. Academy members from each of the 19 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film, International Feature Film and Live Action Short Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of members from all branches who opt in to participate. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) recently announced the nominees in the Motion Pictures and Television categories for the 36th Annual Producers Guild Awards.
Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in screenwriting, television, streaming, news, radio/audio, and promotional writing during 2024. Winners will be honored at the 2025 Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, February 15.