This Academy Awards season, IndieWire is keeping with tradition in presenting our annual Awards Spotlight series, which kicks off this month. The video series is presented by Amazon Studios.
IndieWire Editor-at-Large and awards analyst Anne Thompson and Executive Editor Eric Kohn spoke with a dynamic range of the year’s best talent to discuss their work on the top film contenders of 2021.
From Academy Award winners Guillermo del Toro, Jared Leto, and Kenneth Branagh (all back in the hunt with brand-new films) to perennial favorites like Penelope Cruz and Jessica Chastain and rising stars like Rebecca Hall and Alana Haim, IndieWire will continue to unveil exclusive interviews with awards contenders as Oscar voting gets underway.
The full list of IndieWire Winter Awards Spotlight participants is as follows.
Jennifer Hudson Kristen Stewart and Pablo Larrain Guillermo del Toro Kenneth Branagh Jessica Chastain Jared Leto Hans Zimmer Alana Haim Phil Lord and Chris Miller Penelope Cruz Javier Bardem Peter Dinklage Ariana DeBose Lin-Manuel Miranda and Andrew Garfield Daniel Craig Amy Schumer Mahershala Ali
In a conversation with IndieWire alongside producer Barbara Broccoli, the actor looked back on the Sundance moment where he realized the cultural impact of James Bond, and addressed the character’s future.
Inventing instruments, tapping into his teenage self, annoying Christopher Nolan — all of it was necessary to create the otherworldly score of “Dune.”
Schumer tells IndieWire how she called upon her William Esper Studio training, which encourages impulse and connections with other actors, for the dysfunctional family drama.
Cruz explains to IndieWire how Pedro Almodóvar’s rehearsal process was about the actors “drying our tears” to convey the film’s unpredictable emotions.
They discuss one of the pivotal scenes in their hallucinatory portrait of Princess Diana, as the director compares his star to Isabelle Adjani in “Possession.”
