Mermaids on Mars, Hollywood Reporter Oscar Picks, ADG Hall of Fame, ADG Lifetime Achievement

 
Mermaids on Mars - Behind the Scenes with Production Designer Tom Proost from Athena Studios on Vimeo.


Feinberg Forecast Award Predictions 2015-16

ART DIRECTORS GUILD TO INDUCT FOUR LEGENDARY WOMEN INTO ITS HALL OF FAME AT THE 20TH ANNUAL EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN AWARDS ON JANUARY 31, 2016

BILL ANDERSON, HARRISON ELLENSHAW AND WILLIAM J. NEWMON, ll JOIN PATRIZIA VON BRANDENSTEIN IN RECEIVING ADG LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

The Hollywood Reporter's Favorite Performances - Bel Powley, Bill Graham gets Museum Show, Sense8, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Humpty Christmas

THR Film Critics' favorite performances of 2015: #6, @BDPowley https://t.co/zGgH1LLkwo pic.twitter.com/vOGoqkVF48

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) December 23, 2015

Bill Graham is getting a show at the Contemporary Jewish Museum - Bill Graham and the Rock & 
Roll Revolution

Why Sense8 was the most unfairly overlooked show of 2015. - Slate

50 years later, the gospel truth behind why tonight’s ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ endures -

BEFORE THE STEADY STREAM of Emmy Awards and Grammy nominations and Oscar consideration came The Idea — the one that producer-director Lee Mendelson, a half-century later, calls with a certain zest “the best idea I’ve had in my entire life...” 

...Mendelson called fellow Northern California resident Charles Schulz — “his phone number was listed right in the book,” the producer recalls...

Meanwhile Happy Holidays:

Candorville Comic Strip on GoComics.com

SF Opera

S.F. Opera to Premiere Work Based on Chinese Classic - See more at: https://www.sfcv.org/music-news/sf-opera-to-premiere-work-based-on-chinese-classic#sthash.eRvanEeS.dpuf

I just helped Sandra Woodall work on some designs for Stan Lai's new theater in Shanghai. She's over there now.

This is Sand and a Distant Star written by Stan Lai, more images

SF Ballet Orchestra, Looking

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra Scores Three Grammy Nominations

The Top Ten TV Series of 2015 - By Matt Brennan | Thompson on Hollywood!- #4 "Looking"

Bel Powley, Diary of a Teenage Girl, SF Ballet's Nutcracker, Looking, Steve Jobs, Detour San Francisco

Bel Powley Best actress, 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl'

DON’T BOTHER VOTING ON THE OSCARS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN… BEL POWLEY IN THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL - BY MATTHEW ENG

‘Spotlight,’ Dano, Powley Big Winners At Gotham Independent Film Awards

Bel Powley Wins Best Actress At Gotham Awards 2015!


Bel Powley winning the Best Actress Gotham Award for THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

Marielle Heller's 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' Dated and Detailed for Blu-ray - The Blu-ray will feature 1080p video, lossless 5.1 audio, and supplements include: Deleted Scenes; Marielles Journey: Bringing The Diary To Life A Making-of Featurette; and LA Film Festival Q&A with Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgård, and Marielle Heller.

Nutcracker returns to SF Ballet

Top 10 TV Episodes of 2015 - Time

7. Looking, "Looking for a Plot" "HBO’s moody half-hour came in for criticism throughout its now-concluded run for being “boring.” This was the series’s most eventful episode, sure–encompassing a trip to a funeral in Modesto and a car crash. But for all the incident, “Looking for a Plot” was as deliberate and thoughtful as fans of the show had reason to expect. A scene at a gay bar, in which the show’s characters contemplate what life would be like had they never grown up and gone West, is as fuzzily moving as any the show produced."

Los Angeles Film Critics
Best Actor: Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”)

‘Steve Jobs’ Flops at Box Office, and Silicon Valley Cheers - New York Times