Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street won the Oscar for Art Direction at the 80th Annual Academy Awards. One of the finest movies we’ve seen, Sweeney Todd starring Johnny Depp is a work of genius. Other contenders for the Art Direction Oscar were American Gangster, Atonement, The Golden Compass and There Will Be […]
Alexandra Byrne, costume designer for Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age won the first Oscar at the 80th Annual Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday evening for Best Costume Design. Alexandra Byrne was also the costume designer for Shekhar Kapur’s previous movie Elizabeth.
Watching George Clooney on screen after seeing our Bollywood bozos like Ajith, Vijay, Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra et al prance around like hippopotamuses in heat in movie after movie is like the sight of water to a lost traveler in the vastness of the merciless Sahara. “Do I look […]