Awards
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Why Jon Batiste Followed His Huge ‘American Symphony’ With a Gentle Love Song
TheWrap magazine: The composer and performer says the ballad “It Never Went Away” “felt spiritually connected to everything that happened” as his wife battled leukemia
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How Composer Ludwig Göransson Took Viewers Inside J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Head
TheWrap magazine: “You’re with him — you’re feeling his feelings, you’re seeing through his eyes throughout the whole film,” Göransson says
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‘Sweet Dreams’ Director Explains Why She Filmed a Scene From Inside the Mouth of a Tiger
TheWrap Screening Series: “I love to watch films where every shot is a universe of its own,” director Ena Sendijarević says
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Why John Carney Needed to Write ‘Good, Not Great’ Music for ‘Flora and Son’
TheWrap magazine: “It can’t be that she suddenly starts singing like Beyoncé and he starts writing Ed Sheeran songs,” Carney says
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How Jarvis Cocker Channeled His Childhood Cowboy to Write Songs for ‘Asteroid City’
TheWrap magazine: The musician and longtime Anderson collaborator also appears in the 1950s-set film
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How ‘American Fiction’ Grew Out of Cord Jefferson’s Own Experiences of Being Piegonholed as a Black Writer
TheWrap magazine: “The subtext of all those conversations is an inability to see Black life as being as complex and dynamic and broad and deep as anybody else’s life,” Jefferson says
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2023 Gotham Awards Red Carpet — The Stars Are Back Post-Strike | Photos
Margot Robbie dropped her pink Barbiecore for black, which was seen on many other attendees
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How Maori Singer Stan Walker Reclaimed His Identity With a Song From Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’
TheWrap magazine: “Even though I’m 33 years old, I feel born again in a whole new way,” says the New Zealand singer
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Diane Warren Is Back in the Oscar Song Race, But You Probably Could Have Guessed That
TheWrap magazine: “He wants a friend,” says Warren of the Honorary Oscar she received last year after 14 nominations without a win
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Greta Gerwig to Receive Palm Springs International Director of the Year Award
The “Barbie” director will be feted on Jan. 4, 2024 at the Palm Springs Convention Center
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Roger Ross Williams Had to Prepare ‘Cassandro’ Real-Life Subject for Artistic License: ‘It Wasn’t a Documentary’
TheWrap magazine: “This is a deeply emotional story of the love between a mother and a son, their isolation and loneliness,” the filmmaker says
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How ‘Nyad’ Screenwriter Julia Cox Captured the Marathon Swimmer’s ‘Extreme, Intense, Very Esoteric Dream’
TheWrap Magazine: Cox drew from Diana Nyad’s memoir and conversations with the super athlete to write the biopic starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster
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How ‘Rustin’ Cowriter Found the Mischievous Humor Within the Stature of a Civil Rights Icon
TheWrap Magazine: “Rustin was into pranks and jokes, and I felt like that played into his brilliance as a strategist,” says screenwriter Julian Breece
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‘May December’ Screenplay Was Influenced By an ‘Eternal and Archetypal’ ’90s Tabloid Scandal
TheWrap Magazine: The Mary Kay Letourneau case was a precursor to the “never-ending true crime parade we have right now,” says screenwriter Samy Burch
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How ‘Jaws’ Inspired the Michael Jordan-Infused ‘Air’
TheWrap magazine: “This kind of unknown employee at Nike, an underdog in his own right, was all very interesting to me,” screenwriter Alex Convery says of his massive industry break
