Life of Pi evening at the Academy: ‘Deconstructing Pi’ (photo: The Tiger Richard Parker in Life of Pi) The Life of Pi creative team will get together to discuss the 3D and visual-effects work employed on the Ang Lee-directed fantasy adventure on Monday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. “Deconstructing Pi” will be hosted by Academy governor Bill Kroyer (The Green Mile, The Monkey King), and will feature film sequences and “making-of” clips, in addition to an onstage chat with Academy Award-winning visual-effects artists Bill Westenhofer, Erik-Jan De Boer, and Donald R. Elliott; Oscar-winning cinematographer Claudio Miranda; previsualization supervisor Brad Alexander; and Oscar-nominated film editor Tim Squyres. “Thinking in 3D really helped me make this movie," Ang Lee is quoted as saying on the Academy’s website. "…I think that put me in a position to...
- 4/23/2013
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Jessica Chastain, Ang Lee: 2013 Oscar Nominees Luncheon Ang Lee and Jessica Chastain, both nominated for the 2013 Academy Awards, were in attendance at this year’s Oscar Nominees Luncheon, which took place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ press release, approximately 160 Oscar 2013 nominees were expected to attend the Nominees Luncheon. (Photo: Ang Lee, Jessica Chastain.) Best Director nominee Ang Lee is in the running for Life of Pi, starring Suraj Sharma as a young man who finds himself floating in a small boat in mid-ocean, with only a tiger as his companion — much like a young Nazi-Germany refugee finds himself floating in a small boat in mid-ocean, with only a jaguar as his companion, in Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar’s novel Max and the Cats. Best Director Oscar winner Ang Lee Ang Lee won the Best Director Oscar in...
- 2/5/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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