Arrival

Hidden Figures,' 'arrival' Garner Oscar Nominations

... This year's Academy Awards may have an otherworldly bent: The sci-fi spectacle "Arrival" and the space history flick "Hidden Figures" were nominated for Best Picture, and space media made the list in other places as well. "Arrival" is  a thoughtful story of alien contact  based on a short story by Ted Chiang that was released in November of last year. In addition to receiving the nomination for Best Picture, the  film was nominated for Best Directing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing. "Hidden Figures," a film that follows black women who performed calculations  at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia leading up to John Glenn's orbit around the Earth, was also nominated for Best Picture. In addition, Octavia Spencer was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for portraying pioneering programmer Dorothy ...

Amy Adams Was @#$ing Robbed Of An Oscar Nomination For Arrival

... her hips as she leaves the room. That's butt acting! Amy Adams' performance is so full-bodied, you can tell what Louise is feeling from behind. And Adams' breathing is everything. It portrays fear, elation, exhaustion, even attraction. Louise could be speaking a language we don't understand the whole movie sans subtitles and we'd still know exactly what she's thinking and what's going on. Through her performance as Louise Banks in Arrival, Amy Adams is speaking the true and timeless universal languages of joy and loss. No amount of scripting or direction can teach an actor how to do that. And only the best of actors can portray both at the same time. Every time Louise experiences memories of her daughter, Hannah, before the actual moments occur in her timeline, she is experiencing pure joy and sadness simultaneously. She has a daughter. Her daughter will die. There are no moments in which both of these truths are not in every layer of Amy Adams' performance. It's in her eyes, her hands, the way she walks, or hugs Ian, or struggles to understand the Heptapods. Amy Adams gave the performance of a lifetime. Arrival is well written and well shot, but it would be incalculably ...

Arrival', Amazon's 'manchester By The Sea' Tapped For Oscars

... " La La Land " came out on top as the 2017 Academy Award contenders were released. The musical, which is also tapped for best picture, earned 14 nominations in all. That's a tie for the record with " Titanic " and "All About Eve". Of the sci-fi, fantasy and other nerd-focused films, " Arrival " led the way with eight nominations: best adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, production design, sound editing, sound mixing, best director and best picture. "Arrival" director Denis Villeneuve was tapped by the Academy, but star Amy Adams missed out on a nod for best actress. " Hidden Figures " was nominated for three awards, including best picture and adapted screenplay. The third was Octavia Spencer's nomination for her supporting role as real-life NASA pioneer Dorothy Vaughan. Watch these Oscar-nominated films online. Actors Michelle Williams, Casey Affleck and Lucas Hedges were nominated for their performances in "Manchester by the Sea". With six nominations in total, ...

Saucer Magnolia Blooms Herald Arrival Of Spring

... Gardening , Lifestyle. GARY BACHMAN. Saucer magnolias and other flowering, deciduous magnolias start to peek out of their buds every spring, usually in late February or early March. The rush of colorful pinks is always a welcome sight. So, imagine my surprise when the saucer magnolia at the Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center in Biloxi exploded into bloom three weeks early in mid-January. In my opinion, saucer magnolias are, by far, the most popular of the deciduous, flowering magnolias. The saucer magnolia, which dates back to the 1820 s, is a cross between the white-flowered Magnolia denudata and the purple-flowered Magnolia lillflora. According to legend, the saucer magnolia was developed to bring beauty back to the European landscape after the Napoleonic Wars. One of Napoleon’s retired soldiers is credited with wanting to do something to help repair the damage to the land caused by the wars. The saucer magnolia is considered a ...

Arrival' Arrives In Theaters Again, With Bonus Footage

... the film itself. Watch these Oscar-nominated films online. "Arrival" depicts scientists and Adams' linguist character trying to figure out how to talk to mysterious alien newcomers before the world slides into disaster. Unlike many action-oriented, shoot-'em-up sci-fi films, it deals with themes of finding common ground and striving to communicate with those we don't understand, rather than fearing and attacking others. That might sound dry and technical, but the film drew praise for being taut and gripping. Originally released in November, "Arrival" scores a solid 81 on Metacritic. In Adams, it also features a smart and capable woman in the lead role. About the film's focus on linguistics, she had this to say last year: "So much of linguistics is very mathematical, which is not in my wheelhouse, but once it became anthropological and sociological I identified with it.". The 89 th Academy Awards ...

Small Businesses Concerned About The Arrival Of Walmart In Tsawwassen

... Jan 27, 2017 8:31 am PST. Last Updated Jan 27, 2017 at 7:36 pm PST. (Courtesy Maclean's Magazine). TSAWWASSEN (NEWS 1130) – Small business owners in South Delta are nervously hoping there’s room for everyone in the community as the latest Walmart opens in Metro Vancouver. Marlene Flumerfelt who owns the local toy store Toys and Tech is concerned about her business and the long-term impact on her neighbourhood. “This is their livelihood. This is how they pay for their mortgage and their children’s education and everything else,” she says. “If these little businesses aren’t able to sustain themselves then there will be empty leased places and landlords will be a little concerned and then the look of the community may change.”. A retail analyst admits it’s going to be a tough-go for a lot of small businesses now that the biggest of ...

Arrival Screenwriter Eric Heisserer On His Oscar Nomination, Amy Adams, And Figuring Out What Heptapods Look Like

... that we have other films to thank for even the opportunity to get this one made, with Gravity and Martian and Interstellar before us, helping pave the way. This one gets particularly detailed about things like  Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. We went whole hog into making sure these characters were real scientists, and as such the audience has to keep up with us. It seemed like that paid off. Maybe audiences are a little bit smarter than people estimate. I would think so, yes. Thank God. Do you have other sort of sci-fi ideas you’d love to investigate further. Oh, yeah, I certainly do. I’m going to keep those under wraps for now though. How much were you involved in thinking of what the visuals were in the film, going from the script to the finished project. I had to take a swing at all of those, all of those visuals and concepts evolved as we brought in the team that selected cinematographer Bradford Young and our production designers Patrice Vermette and Paul Hotte. A great example is of the heptapods, the aliens themselves. ...

Most Of Plan Will Be Installed Before Super Bowl Arrival

... – The New England Patriots will have four practices at Gillette Stadium before departing Monday for Super Bowl LI, and coach Bill Belichick said most of the team’s game plan will be installed at that point. “We’ll be certainly more than halfway there, but there will be some things, particularly some situations, that we’ll be covering in Houston,” Belichick said Thursday morning, a few hours before the team’s first practice leading into the Super Bowl. “How exactly that will break up, we’ll just have to see how it goes. I don’t think we need to go to something until we have what we’re doing right just to be moving [forward]. We’ll see how these days go as to how far we get.”. Unlike a normal week during the regular season, Belichick said the Patriots “won’t get all the way - we won’t try to do that. But hopefully we’ll have a good chunk of it in and feel confident about what we’re doing, so we can keep that part of it ...