Night 1 of the Creative Arts Emmy Awards has wrapped with Games Of Thrones taking home the most trophies with seven wins out of its 15 announced categories tonight. The Assassination of Gianni Versace took four statuettes, and The Crown, The Handmaid’s Tale and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel followed with three each.
Guest acting honors went to Tiffany Haddish for Saturday Night Live, Ron Cephas Jones for This Is Us, Samira Wiley for The Handmaid’s Tale and Katt Williams for Atlanta.
The award for outstanding television movie went to “USS Callister”, the first episode of the fourth installment of anthology series Black Mirror. “USS Callister” also won outstanding sound editing for limited series, movie or special.
In all, tonight’s awards encompassed 53 categories honoring outstanding technical and creative achievement for scripted programming, including comedy, drama and limited series, while Creative Arts Sunday will cover the remaining 26 categories in animation, documentary,...
Guest acting honors went to Tiffany Haddish for Saturday Night Live, Ron Cephas Jones for This Is Us, Samira Wiley for The Handmaid’s Tale and Katt Williams for Atlanta.
The award for outstanding television movie went to “USS Callister”, the first episode of the fourth installment of anthology series Black Mirror. “USS Callister” also won outstanding sound editing for limited series, movie or special.
In all, tonight’s awards encompassed 53 categories honoring outstanding technical and creative achievement for scripted programming, including comedy, drama and limited series, while Creative Arts Sunday will cover the remaining 26 categories in animation, documentary,...
- 9/8/2018
- by Antonia Blyth and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
It's that time of year, loyal readers. Please subscribe or renew your subscriptions to Cinema Retro, if you have not yet done so. It's going to be another great year for the world's most unique film magazine! The new season begins with issue #25, showcasing the usual eclectic array of classic and cult films. Among the highlights:
James Bond at 50: Cinema Retro interviews Daniel Craig, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and Skyfall director Sam Mendes about the screen legacy of Agent 007. Major coverage of Hammer Films events: convention report, Hammer horror film locations then and now and coverage of the latest Blu-ray releases. A look at the new restoration of David Lean's masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia and exclusive interview with Sony's Grover Crisp, the man who spearheaded the restoration process. Best-selling author Robert Sellers provides a fascinating look at the life and career of the ultimate "bad boy" of British cinema,...
James Bond at 50: Cinema Retro interviews Daniel Craig, producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson and Skyfall director Sam Mendes about the screen legacy of Agent 007. Major coverage of Hammer Films events: convention report, Hammer horror film locations then and now and coverage of the latest Blu-ray releases. A look at the new restoration of David Lean's masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia and exclusive interview with Sony's Grover Crisp, the man who spearheaded the restoration process. Best-selling author Robert Sellers provides a fascinating look at the life and career of the ultimate "bad boy" of British cinema,...
- 11/23/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
In one of the more unexpected events of the Edinburgh International Book festival, the Dutch journalist Frank Westerman explored the 500-year history of the silver Lipizzaners, stars of Vienna's famous Spanish Riding School.
His book, Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse, tells a story which began with a mission to create a mount fit for emperors and has culminated in a tiny bloodline, which was cited by Hiter as a model of genetic purity and has become embroiled in some of the most horrific episodes of 20th century European history. Westerman joins us to explain his adventures among the dancing horses and their dedicated trainers.
Festivals are all about making connections, and when it transpired that stuntman Vic Armstrong – veteran of nearly 200 films – also had a personal interest in Lipizzaners, we decided to invite him on to the podcast too. He reveals how a boy from the Gorbals became the godfather of the stunt world,...
His book, Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse, tells a story which began with a mission to create a mount fit for emperors and has culminated in a tiny bloodline, which was cited by Hiter as a model of genetic purity and has become embroiled in some of the most horrific episodes of 20th century European history. Westerman joins us to explain his adventures among the dancing horses and their dedicated trainers.
Festivals are all about making connections, and when it transpired that stuntman Vic Armstrong – veteran of nearly 200 films – also had a personal interest in Lipizzaners, we decided to invite him on to the podcast too. He reveals how a boy from the Gorbals became the godfather of the stunt world,...
- 8/23/2012
- by Claire Armitstead, Iain Chambers
- The Guardian - Film News
“No CGI can match what Vic can accomplish.” –Steven Spielberg
That quote is from the introduction to The True Adventures of the World’s Greatest Stuntman. Spielberg is talking about Vic Armstrong, and trust me when I say you Do know him. He’s been stunt doubles for James Bond, Superman and Indiana Jones. He’s directed action scene in Bond movies, Mission Impossible 3 and the recent Thor blockbuster. You can see his work this summer in The Amazing Spider-Man too! This is a great look at the industry; Vic Armstrong’s memories are page turners.
He’s been part of the business for over 40 years and in that time played the most iconic on screen heroes. Harrison Ford joked (image above), “If you learn to talk I’m in deep trouble.” That says it all about his ability don’t you think? He’s got a lot of amazing stories to tell you,...
That quote is from the introduction to The True Adventures of the World’s Greatest Stuntman. Spielberg is talking about Vic Armstrong, and trust me when I say you Do know him. He’s been stunt doubles for James Bond, Superman and Indiana Jones. He’s directed action scene in Bond movies, Mission Impossible 3 and the recent Thor blockbuster. You can see his work this summer in The Amazing Spider-Man too! This is a great look at the industry; Vic Armstrong’s memories are page turners.
He’s been part of the business for over 40 years and in that time played the most iconic on screen heroes. Harrison Ford joked (image above), “If you learn to talk I’m in deep trouble.” That says it all about his ability don’t you think? He’s got a lot of amazing stories to tell you,...
- 5/13/2012
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Directed by Michael Winner
Screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; original story by Michael Winner and Tom Wright
Featuring Oliver Reed, Michael J. Pollard, Helmut Lohner, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Carsten, Karin Baal
Just one look at the poster for Hannibal Brooks tells you United Artists didn’t know what to do with the film.
The promotional material focuses on the action, and the fact that Pollard is the action hero and not Reed, while ignoring the script’s attempt to portray warfare in shades of gray rather than stark black and white. But while the film has the best intentions, the script falters at the end, injecting a moralistic tone at odds with earlier scenes.
The film opens as Stephen Brooks (Reed), a British soldier in World War II, is captured by German troops. Brooks isn’t upset that he’ll spend the rest of the war as...
Screenplay by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais; original story by Michael Winner and Tom Wright
Featuring Oliver Reed, Michael J. Pollard, Helmut Lohner, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Carsten, Karin Baal
Just one look at the poster for Hannibal Brooks tells you United Artists didn’t know what to do with the film.
The promotional material focuses on the action, and the fact that Pollard is the action hero and not Reed, while ignoring the script’s attempt to portray warfare in shades of gray rather than stark black and white. But while the film has the best intentions, the script falters at the end, injecting a moralistic tone at odds with earlier scenes.
The film opens as Stephen Brooks (Reed), a British soldier in World War II, is captured by German troops. Brooks isn’t upset that he’ll spend the rest of the war as...
- 3/30/2012
- by Chris McMillan
- Planet Fury
Anyone that knows anything about the world of movie stuntmen surely knows the name Vic Armstrong. He's been working in the biz for nearly 50 years, first doing all the dangerous leaps, falls, shimmies and fights that actors can't (or won't) do in front of the camera. The movies that he's worked on, and the heroes that he's stunt-doubled for, are icons of cinema, like James Bond, Indiana Jones and Superman. He's moved up from being a stuntman to a competent second unit director to a stunt coordinator. Can you imagine the stories this guy could tell you about working with Sean Connery or Harrison Ford or Christopher Reeve?
This is why I was looking forward to reading Armstrong's memoir of his professional career. The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman: My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Movie Heroes is a helluva wordy title but it's...
This is why I was looking forward to reading Armstrong's memoir of his professional career. The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman: My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Movie Heroes is a helluva wordy title but it's...
- 6/22/2011
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman
My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Movie Heroes
Hardcover | Kindle
By Vic Armstrong with Robert Sellers, Foreword by Steven Spielberg
Titan Books
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Vic Armstrong has been hiding in plain sight my entire life disguised as some of my favorite action-adventure characters. In his book, The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman: My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Movie Heroes, Armstrong takes us on the spectacular journey of his life that left me wondering who would be brave enough to play him in a movie. What a legacy! What a life! What a book!
In his own words, with the help of biographer Robert Sellers, the man who so closely resembled Harrison Ford that Ford’s little boy once took his hand and walked off with him by mistake tells his...
My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Movie Heroes
Hardcover | Kindle
By Vic Armstrong with Robert Sellers, Foreword by Steven Spielberg
Titan Books
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Vic Armstrong has been hiding in plain sight my entire life disguised as some of my favorite action-adventure characters. In his book, The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman: My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman and Other Movie Heroes, Armstrong takes us on the spectacular journey of his life that left me wondering who would be brave enough to play him in a movie. What a legacy! What a life! What a book!
In his own words, with the help of biographer Robert Sellers, the man who so closely resembled Harrison Ford that Ford’s little boy once took his hand and walked off with him by mistake tells his...
- 6/18/2011
- by The Book Slave
- Geeks of Doom
by Vic Armstrong with Robert Sellers; introduction by Steven Spielberg (Titan Books) He’s doubled for James Bond, Indiana Jones, and Superman onscreen and worked up the ladder from stuntman to stunt coordinator and second-unit director. Now Vic Armstrong can add another title to his résumé: author. Book reviewers usually confer the term “page-turner” on juicy novels, but that’s how I’d describe this breezy and informative volume. I couldn’t put it down. Armstrong, who now works with his entire family planning major action sequences for such films as The Green Hornet and Thor, has an incredibly good memory about virtually every…...
- 6/13/2011
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Titan Books Language: English Isbn-10: 1848568746 Isbn-13: 978-1848568747
Synopsis: Think you don’t know Vic Armstrong? Wrong! You’ve seen his work in countless films… He’s been a stunt double for James Bond, Indiana Jones and Superman, and he’s directed action scenes for three Bond movies, Mission Impossible 3, I Am Legend and the upcoming Thor, to name but a few.
Counting Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger among his friends, and officially credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World’s Most Prolific Stuntman, Vic’s got a lot of amazing stories to tell, and they’re all here in this – the movie memoir of the year!
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I normally don’t read a lot of biographies. It’s not that I don’t find other people interesting, but I like to fill my head with the delicious nonsense of fantasy...
Synopsis: Think you don’t know Vic Armstrong? Wrong! You’ve seen his work in countless films… He’s been a stunt double for James Bond, Indiana Jones and Superman, and he’s directed action scenes for three Bond movies, Mission Impossible 3, I Am Legend and the upcoming Thor, to name but a few.
Counting Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger among his friends, and officially credited in the Guinness Book of World Records as the World’s Most Prolific Stuntman, Vic’s got a lot of amazing stories to tell, and they’re all here in this – the movie memoir of the year!
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I normally don’t read a lot of biographies. It’s not that I don’t find other people interesting, but I like to fill my head with the delicious nonsense of fantasy...
- 5/23/2011
- by Brandon Johnston
- ScifiMafia
The True Adventures Of The World’S Greatest Stuntman
Written by Vic Armstrong w/Robert Sellers | Published by Titan Books
Vic Armstrong has seen it all. Broken shins, busted shoulders, concussions…you name the injury, and he’s had at least one on the sets of some of the biggest films of the last 40 years, from You Only Live Twice to Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. Beginning as a stuntman in the early ’60s on smaller pictures, Vic worked his way up to co-ordinating stunts for Bond movies and second unit directing work on major Hollywood pictures like Gangs Of New York, and has the stories – and friends – to show for it.
The autobiography takes the usual chronological approach to its author’s life, with occasional asides to relate how certain life lessons or skills were applied later on, and begins with Vic’s rural English upbringing before his...
Written by Vic Armstrong w/Robert Sellers | Published by Titan Books
Vic Armstrong has seen it all. Broken shins, busted shoulders, concussions…you name the injury, and he’s had at least one on the sets of some of the biggest films of the last 40 years, from You Only Live Twice to Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. Beginning as a stuntman in the early ’60s on smaller pictures, Vic worked his way up to co-ordinating stunts for Bond movies and second unit directing work on major Hollywood pictures like Gangs Of New York, and has the stories – and friends – to show for it.
The autobiography takes the usual chronological approach to its author’s life, with occasional asides to relate how certain life lessons or skills were applied later on, and begins with Vic’s rural English upbringing before his...
- 5/19/2011
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
Chicago – In this edition of the HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Book, we have 5 books up for grabs to the new 384-page book “The True Adventures of the World’s Greatest Stuntman: My Life as Indiana Jones, James Bond, Superman & Other Movie Heroes” from Vic Armstrong, Robert Sellers and Steven Spielberg!
The book, which retails for $25.99, will be released on May 17, 2011 from Titan Books. Vic Armstrong is in the Guinness Book of Records as the “world’s most prolific stuntman”. In a career exceeding four decades, he has become a legend in the movie industry. Armstrong has won an Oscar for technical achievement, a BAFTA for outstanding British contribution to cinema and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
You may not know it, but you’ve seen his work in countless films. He’s been a stunt double for James Bond, Indiana Jones and Superman. He’s directed action scenes for three Bond movies,...
The book, which retails for $25.99, will be released on May 17, 2011 from Titan Books. Vic Armstrong is in the Guinness Book of Records as the “world’s most prolific stuntman”. In a career exceeding four decades, he has become a legend in the movie industry. Armstrong has won an Oscar for technical achievement, a BAFTA for outstanding British contribution to cinema and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
You may not know it, but you’ve seen his work in countless films. He’s been a stunt double for James Bond, Indiana Jones and Superman. He’s directed action scenes for three Bond movies,...
- 5/10/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
A biography of Jack Nicholson, Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper and Warren Beatty is great fun, if a little light, says Viola Fort
Biographer Robert Sellers angles his spotlight on four of cinema's most celebrated rakes: Warren Beatty, who devoured women like a child falling on chocolate cake at a birthday party; Marlon Brando, a binge-eating method actor who refused to learn his lines; Jack Nicholson, who deserved the nickname the Great Seducer; and Dennis Hopper, a volatile study in drug-induced paranoia prone to brandishing loaded pistols on set. Full of gossipy anecdotes, it can at times read like a bumper issue of Nuts magazine – all blokey sarcasm and tittering innuendo – but it does manage to give nice insights into what drove these men. There are some woeful lapses in taste, and it has all the depth of a paddling pool, but that aside, Hellraisers is great fun.
Jack NicholsonMarlon BrandoWarren BeattyDennis HopperBiography
guardian.
Biographer Robert Sellers angles his spotlight on four of cinema's most celebrated rakes: Warren Beatty, who devoured women like a child falling on chocolate cake at a birthday party; Marlon Brando, a binge-eating method actor who refused to learn his lines; Jack Nicholson, who deserved the nickname the Great Seducer; and Dennis Hopper, a volatile study in drug-induced paranoia prone to brandishing loaded pistols on set. Full of gossipy anecdotes, it can at times read like a bumper issue of Nuts magazine – all blokey sarcasm and tittering innuendo – but it does manage to give nice insights into what drove these men. There are some woeful lapses in taste, and it has all the depth of a paddling pool, but that aside, Hellraisers is great fun.
Jack NicholsonMarlon BrandoWarren BeattyDennis HopperBiography
guardian.
- 2/7/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Although Ari Folman's "Waltz With Bashir" did not make the shortlist of 15 films under consideration for the best documentary Oscar, it is among the nominees for the DGA's doc award, announced Friday.
"Waltz" will compete with Gonzalo Arijon's "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains," in which survivors of a 1972 Andes plane crash tell their story; Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco's "The Judge and the General," a look back at the investigation into the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; Peter Gilbert & Stevie James' "At the Death House Door," an examination of the wrongful conviction of a Texas man executed for murder; and James Marsh's "Man on Wire," a study of tight-rope walker Philippe Petit.
All the nominees are first-time DGA nominees, with the exception of Gilbert (who won the DGA's doc award in 1998 for "Vietnam: Long Time Coming" and was...
"Waltz" will compete with Gonzalo Arijon's "Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains," in which survivors of a 1972 Andes plane crash tell their story; Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco's "The Judge and the General," a look back at the investigation into the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet; Peter Gilbert & Stevie James' "At the Death House Door," an examination of the wrongful conviction of a Texas man executed for murder; and James Marsh's "Man on Wire," a study of tight-rope walker Philippe Petit.
All the nominees are first-time DGA nominees, with the exception of Gilbert (who won the DGA's doc award in 1998 for "Vietnam: Long Time Coming" and was...
- 1/9/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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