Baz Luhrmann says it will be “a great historical moment” if elvis Cinematographer Mandy Walker would win the Oscars on Sunday. To quote Lizzo, “It’s been too long,” the filmmaker told me last night at the Australian Oscar nominees’ penthouse suite at Chateau Marmont.
The elvis The director argues that no woman has ever won an Oscar for Best Cinematography because “the camera unit is just the last bastion of stupidity and probably boils down to who you want to have a beer with.”
It is extremely unfair, he says. “It can be a little boyish and a little cowboy.”
Walker started out as a flapper loader and worked his way up. “She can run the film department like an army and still maintain her mandyness,” adds Luhrmann. “She’s a pioneer,” he says, pointing to “when she shot AustraliaMandy was the first woman to have one $100 million movie.
They worked on it together Australia And elvis plus two beautiful shorts for Chanel, one starring Nicole Kidman and the other starring Gisele Bundchen.
Lurhmann is eager to work with Walker again once he can work out the project that is “fit for my growth and worth releasing.”
Screen Australia CEO Graeme Mason noted that Walker had won the American Society of Cinematographers’ ASC Award for her work behind the camera elvis “That’s a good sign!”
To be honest, I was quite impressed that Mason was still standing after landing a few hours short of the Perth, Western Australia shindig. Coincidentally, my wife is from this Australian state and I know well how exhausting such a trip can be.
Ambassador Jane Duke, the Australian Consul General in Los Angeles, Ausfilm CEO Kate Marks, Councilor Emma Cooper and Mason welcomed all guests at Thursday’s event.
These include Luhrmann; Catherine Martin, the Oscar-winning costume designer and producer of elvis; legendary producer Gail Berman; producer Schuyler Weiss, longtime Luhrmann collaborator; producer Patrick McCormick; and key elvis creative. I was especially pleased to meet producer and film manager Rebecca Yeldham (Son deleted, the hang glider). I knew her from her time at Film4 in London.
Unfortunately, I had to estimate for the arrival of Cate Blanchett, star of TAR.
I had to be somewhere else…
CLIMATE ACTIVISM WITH TOM FORD, LIVIA FIRTH, LEONARDO DiCAPRIO, TRUDIE STYLER, ANNIE LENNOX AND JERRY HALL
I got off to a flying start last night at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards at Neusehouse Hollywood. Bridgeton Star Simone Ashley was there with her publicist’s protective arm around her. “No interviews!” came the rather strange command when I actually just wanted to say goodbye. I think good intentions get lost in translation during the intense preparation for the Oscars. Despite this, the actress was very charming.
And there was Jerry Hall with daughter Georgia May Jagger. It was a while – actually decades – when I was instructed by my bosses at the time to board an Air France Concorde at JFK (like you do, right?) and escort Hall to Paris, from where she was in my arms was, will be Mick Jagger fell Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Actor Simu Liu (Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) was also there. He shared an interesting tidbit with us about his work on the highly anticipated Barbie. He would not say what role he plays, but shared: “I had to shave off all my body hair if that’s any indication,” he says. I mean, I have no idea about the Barbie universe, so please reply by postcard.
I mock him unfairly because it was a really big deal that he was at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards and I loved that he teamed up with a lot of climate justice activists like Shiloh Yarlagadda, Tori Tsui and Sophia Kianni.
The most moving moment of the evening came when the amazing singer Annie Lennox, dressed in a t-shirt reading ‘Global Feminist’, took the stage and introduced 14 climate activists, each making a statement about the state of the planet made. Trudie Styler and Tom Ford both jumped up and hugged Livia Firth, whose idea it was to shine the spotlight on the new generation. “It’s amazing,” says Ford, “how far it’s come.”
And then there was Leonard DiCaprio, who took the stage to introduce Sonia Guajajara, Brazil’s Minister of Indigenous Relations, who spoke about the environmental dangers of plastic in fashion. But Robert Triefus, a top executive at Gucci, is something of a trailblazer in the fashion industry when it comes to sourcing sustainable materials, and he’s also been praised for his insight.
Ford tells me he plans to increase his activism, but even now that “I’ve sold my company,” he’ll return to making films after his success A single man And nocturnal animals. “I will definitely turn my attention back to movies,” he says.
Other star contestants in Neuehouse Hollywood included Jodie Turner-Smith, Alicia Silverstone, Freida Pinto, John Taylor, Edward Enninful and Cora Corré. The latter, granddaughter of the late fashion icon Vivienne Westwood, delivered an impassioned speech about civil rights and the importance of climate awareness.
Source: Deadline
Ashley Root is an author and celebrity journalist who writes for The Fashion Vibes. With a keen eye for all things celebrity, Ashley is always up-to-date on the latest gossip and trends in the world of entertainment.
