Hollywood took a break Saturday from its growing sexual harassment crisis to present the first Oscars of the forthcoming awards season to four film-industry veterans and a virtual-reality project.
Oscar-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu will team with his Oscar-winning Revenant and Birdman cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki on a virtual reality short film showcasing the plight of illegal immigrants crossing the border between Mexico and the United States.
The Revenant director Alejandro G. Inarritu took home the top prize at Saturday night’s Director’s Guild of America Awards and didn’t waste any time going after Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, telling reporters in the press room that Trump’s plan to build a wall on the southern border “betrays the foundation” of America.
Academy Award-winning director Alejandro G. Inarritu says he feels sorry for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump—because Trump’s strong stance on illegal immigration stems “from ignorance.”
Based in part on the true story of an 18th 19th Century American trapper left for dead by his fellow traders, director/co-writer Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “The Revenant” is both a satisfying genre film and a legitimate piece of cinematic art. As
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant has picked up early Oscar buzz ahead of its Christmas Day release, but some viewers and Academy voters could be put off by the film’s brutal violence — according to a report from early screenings, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Hugh Glass gets raped and nearly mauled to death by a bear.
The first trailer for Alejandro G. Inarritu’s “The Revenant” dropped online this week, and it looks like a doozy. Fresh off Best Director and Best Picture Oscars for last year’s “Birdman,” Inarritu’s “The Revenant” stars Leonardo DiCaprio as 1820s fur
