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The Hollywood Reporter

Perfect Harmony: Movie Musicals Often Wind Up With Oscar Wins • With contenders including West Side Story and Tick, Tick … Boom! in the running this year, the song-and-dance genre is poised for a return to glory

‘I Did Use Bits and Pieces of My Voice’ • A trio of pros from Skywalker Sound share their work on animated movies, from the sounds of the Italian Riviera to a Southeast Asia-inspired fantasy world

Oscar Race Shifts as It Enters December • THR’s awards expert looks at how the Thanksgiving box office and the Gothams impact the competition

Aretha Franklin’s Story ‘Is Also About America’ • Director Liesl Tommy and writer Tracey Scott Wilson reflect on a longtime collaboration that brought them to the Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect

A Prosthetic Design That Finds ‘Humanity in the Mask’ • Jared Leto and makeup designer Göran Lundström reveal their collaborative process of turning the Oscar-winning actor into his unrecognizable onscreen persona as Paolo Gucci in the stylish crime drama House of Gucci

‘WE’RE TRYING TO REBEL AGAINST THE SYSTEM, BUT IT’S A GOOD REBELLION’ • Cinematographers Alice Brooks (Tick, Tick … Boom! and In the Heights), Chung Chung-hoon (Last Night in Soho), Bruno Delbonnel (The Tragedy of Macbeth), Greig Fraser (Dune), Janusz Kaminski (West Side Story), Ari Wegner (The Power of the Dog) and Haris Zambarloukos (Belfast) talk about subjects from rest periods to gun safety in the aftermath of the tragedy on the set of Rust

The Making of FLEE • A contender in three categories — documentary, animation and international feature — Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s moving account of a gay man’s journey from war-torn Afghanistan to Denmark could make Oscar history

DESIGNING A WORLD IN BLACK AND WHITE • The production designers of Belfast, C’mon C’mon, Passing and The Tragedy of Macbeth prioritized texture and light for their monochrome features

THE RETURN OF THE BLOCKBUSTER • With movie theaters reopened, 2021 has seen big-budget tentpoles with cutting-edge visual effects back on the big screen and in Oscar contention

BUILDING A CHARACTER THROUGH HER FASHION POINT OF VIEW • The costume designers for Cinderella, Cruella and Last Night in Soho reveal how they created fictional designer lines to portray their protagonists’ sartorial perspectives

SCORING AN EPIC WITH INTIMACY • Composer Harry Gregson-Williams teamed up with director Ridley Scott on his two films this year: The Last Duel and House of Gucci

OUT OF AFRICA, A SHORT OSCAR CONTENDER • Phumi Morare, a 2021 Student Academy Award winner for her MFA thesis, reflects on her continents-spanning journey and making Lakutshon’ Ilanga (When the Sun Sets)

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