ICYMI 1/19 – 1/23: Sundance, PGA Awards, Laura Dern, Eddie Redmayne, Linklater and Graham Moore

Sundance 2015: Eight Films To Watch

Kicking off tomorrow, the 2015 version of indie film’s biggest fortnight will feature a host of new films, some by established filmmakers like Noah Baumbach, others from newbies you’ve never heard of. SSN has a selection of flicks that could be this year’s Whiplash or Boyhood. (SSN)

Awards 2015: PGA Awards — How the Nominated Producers Reached the Finish Line

Each year the Producers Guild of America (PGA) honors the finest producers of film and television at their annual awards show, being held this Saturday. To celebrate, SSN sat down with a number of the nominated producers about their journeys to the screen and the hurdles along the way. (SSN)

Awards 2015 Spotlight: Laura Dern On the Role That Changed Her — Bobbi In ‘Wild’

Oscar nominee Dern earned her second nod (her first was for 1992’s Rambling Rose), for her performance in Wild as Reese Witherspoon’s wounded but ever-hopeful mother, Bobbi. She’s previously won Golden Globes for her small-screen work in Recount, Afterburn, and Enlightened, a show whose fans took to social media to express their outrage upon its cancellation in 2013. (SSN)

Awards 2015 Spotlight: A Conversation With ‘The Theory Of Everything’s Eddie Redmayne

With the SAG Awards coming up this weekend, it remains to be seen who will have the ultimate edge going in to the final lap of the Oscar race, Redmayne or Birdman star Michael Keaton. Yet no matter what happens on that fateful evening, there’s no question that playing Hawking has been a career-making role for Redmayne. (SSN)

Awards 2015 Spotlight: ‘Boyhood’s Richard Linklater On Organically Writing the Screenplay Through the Years

In Part Two of our three-part series with the writer, director and producer of one of the year’s most revered films, the filmmaker discusses with SSN the writing part of his job, and how the whole project came together in the first place. (SSN)

Awards 2015 Spotlight: Screenwriter Graham Moore On His Long Quest To Bring Alan Turing’s Story To Light

After a lifetime of admiring the little-known mathematician, then writing a screenplay about him, Moore has earned a spot on the Black List, a Golden Globe nomination and, as of Thursday morning, an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. (SSN)