www.SHOOTonline.com February 2019 Chat Room 11 Films’ titles & photo credits on page 3 credits titles & photo Films’ DGA Awards 22 The Road To Oscar Series Part 14, Page 4 ASC Awards Preview 24 VES Supervisors 27 Production Outlook 12 Sundance 28 TO GET CONNECTED 10 ACADEMY AWARD ® N OMINATIONS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR BEST DIRECTOR • BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ALFONSO CUARÓN “‘ROMA’ IS A MONUMENT TO THE POWER OF FILM TO INSPIRE EMPATHY ACROSS THE WALLS OF GEOGRAPHY, CLASS AND CULTURE.” American Film Institute SHOOT MAGAZINE, COVER 2 NETFLIX: ROMA PUB DATE: 02/11/19 TRIM: 9” X 10.875” BLEED: 9.25” X 11.125” Perspectives The Leading Publication For Commercial, Branded Content & Entertainment Production February 2019 spot.com.mentary By Robert Goldrich Volume 60 • Number 1 www.SHOOTonline.com EDITORIAL Publisher & Editorial Director Agent of Change Roberta Griefer 203.227.1699 ext. 701 [email protected] Editor Past installments of this both sides of the aisle to come together their stance, making punishment more Robert Goldrich 203.227.1699 ext 702 [email protected] column have chroni- in Congress, yielding criminal justice re- proportional to the nature of the crime. 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How does one make cally persuade consumers; to pay out mil- out their employees at three or more Brand New[s] weekly ePub is published Wednesdays. an impact in music? lions to musicians, creators, songwriters times their salaries, nor require a client to SHOOT Screenwork published Mondays. www.shootonline.com/subscribe For many folks like and producers; to become quite skilled pay for the full array of billable services SHOOTmobile me, who were formally at being a policemen of IP, a competent such as strategic planning, production Get the SHOOTonline Mobile app trained in music, impact is a calling. corporate politician, a bit of a rainmaker services, creativity, digital, social, business App Store: iPhone.SHOOTonline.com Google Play: Android.SHOOTonline.com At 18, I opined in my lofty HS yearbook for my company and a manager to several management, talent management, cast- Mobile Web Version: m.SHOOTonline.com quote: “To Achieve Music is to Achieve young musically-inclined folks. I believe ing, post, project management, account SHOOT is printed in the U.S.A. the Essence.” In its “essence” music can I made some impact. I’ve produced over management, middle management, up- be profound, an essential aspect of most 10K tracks for media, and gazillions have per management, legal services, and, everyone’s existence. It is that universal heard my music. The best part has been oh yeah, music services. Additionally, language that compels people to feel, dealing with musically inclined creative ad music has, to a large extent, become SHOOT is a member of: forces people to connect. I’ve persistently comrades in the space and mentoring. devalued. Budgets have been battered. tried to sustain myself via music. I was a The toughest part has been to be a har- Data, Metadata and Playlists have become street musician, a public school teacher, binger of musicality in a business where equally precious as taste. Follow SHOOT via hashtag #SHOOTONLINE at: a trombonist, a bandleader, a composer, music, although an important, alluring The ad scene is too prickly for me to a producer, a music-house and ad-agency and sexy piece of the puzzle, isn’t the pri- continue to make an impact or even at- producer, a columnist, a university profes- mary, secondary or even the tertiary offer- tempt to "achieve the essence"--thus it's Cover photo credits: The Road To Oscar, Top Row-- sor, public speaker, and music director--a ing of the traditional advertising concern. time to try something different. As of Dec. BlacKkKlansman (l), photo by David Lee/Focus Features; student of all and a mentor to some. Also tough--The Big Agency model is 31, I’ve left the Big agency world--wish me Cold War, Amazon Studios; Middle Row--Roma (l), Netflix; My main gig over the last 20+ years deeply challenged. Clients seem to be es- luck. Goodbye to you! Black Panther, photo by Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios & Disney Studios; Bottom Row: Vice (l), photo by Matt has been as a Big ad agency music per- chewing the Big and looking to the Bou- Rabinowitz was a music leader at WPP Kennedy/Annapurna Pictures; Bohemian Rhapsody, photo son, which afforded me the ability to be tique and/or to the Consultancy--scrappy, for 20 years. He is an adjunct professor at by Alex Bailey/Twentieth Century Fox. musical; to creatively collaborate; to soni- small enterprises who don’t need to bill The New School and a music consultant. February 2019 SHOOT 3 ROAD TO OSCAR ® ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS INCLUDING Director, Editor and BEST PICTURE Production Designer POVs •OF THE• YEAR• BEST DIRECTOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY BEST FILM EDITING BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Shedding light on Roma, Vice, BlacKkKlansman, Cold War, Black Matt by Kennedy/courtesyPhoto of Annapurna Pictures “SPIKE LEE’S GREATEST FILM. Panther and courtesy of Netflix THE IMPASSIONED WORK OF A CINEMA GIANT.” Bohemian Features Lee/courtesy of Focus David by Photo Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE Rhapsody By Robert Goldrich, The Road To Oscar, Part 14 Photo by Jack English/courtesy of Focus Features Jack English/courtesy by Photo of Focus Samsel & Aga Wunsche Magda by Photo Photo by Mike by Photo Butler Three of this year’s five DGA Award Fall 2018 Directors Series.) ton and Adam Driver “to get that vibe” nominees are also up for the Best Direc- This part 14 of our Road To Oscar se- with one another so that they “feel each tor Oscar: Alfonso Cuaron for Roma (Net- ries also connects with Hank Corwin, other’s energy”--and ultimately the audi- flix), Spike Lee for BlacKkKlansman (Fo- ACE, John Ottman, ACE, and Barry Al- ence does as well. cus Features) and Adam McKay for Vice exander Brown who are nominated for BlacKkKlansman takes us back to the (Annapurna).