Yes. I am aware this is super old. But I've only recently had a chance to actually catch up on YouTube, and I just discovered Kristina Horner's Accio Books tag. While I don't make videos, and when I do, they take FOREVER, I thought, there's no reason I can't write a blog post! And I'm bored right now, so here we go. (Check out Kristina's video here!)
The Accio Books program is something run by the Harry Potter Alliance (one of my favourite organisations), and it is an annual book drive! "Since 2009, Harry Potter fans around the world have donated more than 100,000 books to underprivileged or underserved readers." (Check out this page for more information - it is mainly an American organisation, meaning I don't get to participate as fully due to limited access, but I absolutely adore the idea.)
Here's the tag!
1. What was your favourite book growing up?
Oof. What a question. And I'm going to cop out and list like ten million! My family is pretty much made up of voracious readers, so I have NEVER had a shortage of books. (And I am aware of how lucky I am to have that childhood experience, and sharing that experience is part of the reason I love the Accio Books drive.) I think I read a lot of classics handed down from my mum - Anne of Green Gables (I reread this series every year, pretty much); Chronicles of Narnia; Nancy Drew (every time my grandparents went to a garage sale, I got a new Nancy Drew book!) - there were so many. Harry Potter also came out when I was seven years old, so I am totally counting that as part of my favourite books growing up. Also Babysitters Club, and I read a lot of Mercedes Lackey's books. I read above my age level, and one of the funniest/frustrating stories my mum tells me is that they would get notes sent home from school from teachers concerned about my reading material.
2. What's the best lesson you ever learned from a book?
I think it's gotta be Harry Potter themed for one lesson - love. That was a MASSIVE part of shaping my life, because I started reading them so young. Love and perseverance, and learning what can come of those and what can't be fixed by them is so important. (And that your friends will get you through anything - Harry would have been nothin' without Ron and Hermione, especially Hermione.) I also learned that it's okay to show that you're smart! (That's from a lot of books.)
Otherwise, lessons I learned from Anne Shirley - that you can't have ridiculous levels of optimism because it's just not realistic and you'll crash - but you should try to strive for some optimism no matter what.
3. What would your dream library look like?
Realistically - a room with three and a half walls just bookcases. Just floor to ceiling bookcases, but three and a half walls because one wall would have a huge bay window with a super comfy window seat looking out onto a lake! And a super comfy chair in a corner with a lamp. And room in the middle so I could spread out on some pillows sometimes. I want to make that happen!
Fantasy - definitely gotta go with Beauty and the Beast library. That one's been in my head for my whole life!
4. If you could be any fictional character, who would you be?
HM. I'm probably going to surprise no one and say Hermione. Even with all her trials and tribulations, she is just one of my favourite people ever.
5. What's your favourite fictional food?
Any time I read ANY story wherein ANYONE goes to a faerie court, I want everything in the feast except the meat. ALWAYS. (And I would be hard pressed to remember that if I eat it, I'm stuck in faerie forever.) Or you have to love raspberry cordial - although luckily, that's not actually fictional. That's just one of my favourite scenes. Also any of Marilla's preserves. I am going to have to make a trip to PEI.
6. What fictional book from Harry Potter would you most like to read?
I totally had an answer prepared, and then Kristina mentioned Lockhart's books - and YES! I want to read all of those! They would be fascinating and more than likely super pretentious and hilarious.
Other than that, I definitely want to read The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore by Rita Skeeter, and Hogwarts, a History. Come on, Jo Rowling!
7. What books are you donating to Accio Books and why?
Again, it's much harder to figure out where I can donate books in Canada, and I definitely don't have the resources to ship books - also, I'm behind the times here - but if I was able to, I would have a hard time choosing. And would probably end up replacing the copies of whatever I donated, because I would want to donate books that meant a lot to me and would be entertaining for others, and not books I felt lukewarm about.
Well, that passed about twenty minutes! Excellent. I love this initiative, and it was fun trying to answer these questions, and having to peruse my literature memories. (Especially because of the majority of my books are still in storage, two years after I moved.)
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Invitations to the Academy
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invites people to join the Academy. It's usually to fill vacancies that open when members pass on or retire. Under Dawn Hudson, CEO since 2011, the Academy has been trying to increase diversity. (https://www.yahoo.com/movies/lupita-nyongo-julia-louis-dreyfus-michael-fassbender-89987731367.html)
Members of the Academy represent 17 general areas - actors, directors, animators and short film makers, designers, casting directors, costume designers, cinematographers, composers and songwriters, documentary filmmakers, executives, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, producers, public relations specialists, sound artists and engineers, visual effects experts and writers. Each has different requirements and must be nominated by other members.
Here's the list of the 271 people invited to join! They come from all over - it's a big list!
ACTORS
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Clancy Brown (The Hurricane; The Shawshank Redemption)
Paul Dano (12 Years a Slave; Prisoners)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave; Shame)
Ben Foster (Lone Survivor; Ain't Them Bodies Saints)
Beth Grant (The Artist; No Country for Old Men)
Clark Gregg (Much Ado About Nothing; Marvel's The Avengers)
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine; Happy-Go-Lucky)
Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games; The Kids Are All Right)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Enough Said; Planes)
Kelly Macdonald (Brave; No Country for Old Men)
Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt; Casino Royale)
Joel McKinnon Miller (Super 8; The Truman Show)
Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight Rises; Inception)
Lupita Nyong'o (Non-Stop; 12 Years a Slave)
Rob Riggle (21 Jump Street; The Hangover)
Chris Rock (Grown Ups 2; Madagascar)
June Squibb (Nebraska; About Schmidt)
Jason Statham (Parker; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
David Strathairn (Lincoln; Good Night, and Good Luck)
CASTING DIRECTORS
Douglas Aibel (The Grand Budapest Hotel; The Immigrant)
Simone Bär (The Monuments Men; The Book Thief)
Kerry Barden (August: Osage County; Dallas Buyers Club)
Nikki Barrett (The Railway Man; The Great Gatsby)
Mark Bennett (Drinking Buddies; Zero Dark Thirty)
Risa Bramon Garcia (Speed; Wall Street)
Michelle Guish (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; Nanny McPhee)
Billy Hopkins (Lee Daniels' The Butler; Disconnect)
Ros Hubbard (Romeo & Juliet; The Mummy)
Allison Jones (The Way, Way Back; The Heat)
Christine King (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith)
Beatrice Kruger (To Rome With Love; The American)
Marci Liroff (Mean Girls; Pretty in Pink)
Debbie McWilliams (Skyfall; Quantum of Solace)
Joseph Middleton (The Twilight Saga: New Moon; Legally Blonde)
Robi Reed (For Colored Girls; Do the Right Thing)
Kevin Reher (Monsters University; Finding Nemo)
Paul Schnee (August: Osage County; Dallas Buyers Club)
Gail Stevens (Zero Dark Thirty; Slumdog Millionaire)
Lucinda Syson (Gravity; Fast & Furious 6)
Fiona Weir (J. Edgar; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2)
Ronnie Yeskel (The Sessions; Atlas Shrugged Part 1)
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave; The Place Beyond the Pines)
Philippe Le Sourd (The Grandmaster; Seven Pounds)
James Neihouse (Hubble 3D; NASCAR: The IMAX Experience)
Masanobu Takayanagi (Out of the Furnace; Silver Linings Playbook)
Bradford Young (Ain't Them Bodies Saints; Pariah)
COSTUME DESIGNERS
William Chang Suk Ping (The Grandmaster; In the Mood for Love)
Pascaline Chavanne (Renoir; Augustine)
Daniela Ciancio (The Great Beauty; Il Divo)
Frank L. Fleming (Draft Day; Monster's Ball)
Maurizio Millenotti (Hamlet; Othello)
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor (Great Expectations; Good Will Hunting)
Karyn Wagner (Lovelace; The Green Mile)
DESIGNERS
William Arnold (Lovelace; Crazy, Stupid, Love.)
K.K. Barrett (Her; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
Susan Benjamin (Saving Mr Banks; The Blind Side)
Bill Boes (The Smurfs 2; Fantastic Four)
Tony Fanning (Contraband; War of the Worlds)
Robert Greenfield (Priest; Almost Famous)
Marcia Hinds (I Spy; The Public Eye)
Sonja Brisbane Klaus (Prometheus; Robin Hood)
David S. Lazan (Flight; American Beauty)
Diane Lederman (Lee Daniels' The Butler; Tower Heist)
Heather Loeffler (American Hustle; Silver Linings Playbook)
Christa Munro (Jack Reacher; Erin Brockovich)
Andy Nicholson (Gravity; The Host)
Adam Stockhausen (12 Years a Slave; Moonrise Kingdom)
DIRECTORS
Hany Abu-Assad (Omar; Paradise Now)
Jay Duplass (Jeff, Who Lives at Home; Cyrus)
Mark Duplass (Jeff, Who Lives at Home; Cyrus)
David Gordon Green (Joe; Pineapple Express)
Gavin O'Connor (Warrior; Miracle)
Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees; Love and Basketball)
Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty; This Must Be the Place)
Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club; Young Victoria)
Felix van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown; The Misfortunates)
Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners; Incendies)
Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt; The Celebration)
DOCUMENTARY
Malcolm Clarke (The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life; Prisoner of Paradise)
Dan Cogan (How to Survive a Plague; The Queen of Versailles)
Kief Davidson (Open Heart; Kassim the Dream)
Dan Geller (The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden; Ballets Russes)
Dayna Goldfine (The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden; Ballets Russes)
Julie Goldman (God Loves Uganda; Gideon's Army)
Sam Green (Utopia in Four Movements; The Weather Underground)
Gary Hustwit (Urbanized; Helvetica)
Eugene Jarecki (The House I Live In; Why We Fight)
Brian Johnson (Anita; Buena Vista Social Club)
Ross Kauffman (E-Team; Born Into Brothels)
Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom; Troubadours)
Matthew J. O'Neill (Redemption; China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province)
Rithy Panh (The Missing Picture; S-21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine)
Lucy Massie Phenix (Regret to Inform; Word Is Out)
Enat Sidi (Detropia; Jesus Camp)
Molly Thompson (The Unknown Known; Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer)
Cynthia Wade (Mondays at Racine; Freeheld)
EXECUTIVES
Adrian Alperovich
Sean Bailey
Len Blavatnik
Nicholas Carpou
Nancy Carson
Charles S. Cohen
Jason Constantine
Peter Cramer
William Kyle Davies
Christopher Floyd
David Garrett
David Hollis
Tomas Jegeus
Michelle Raimo Kouyate
Anthony James Marcoly
Hiroyasu Matsuoka
Kim Roth
John Sloss
FILM EDITORS
Alan Baumgarten (American Hustle; Gangster Squad)
Alan Edward Bell (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; The Amazing Spider-Man)
Dorian Harris (The Magic of Belle Isle; The Mod Squad)
Sabrina Plisco (The Smurfs 2; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
Tatiana S. Riegel (Million Dollar Arm; The Way, Way Back)
Julie Rogers (Wreck-It Ralph; Kit Kittredge: An American Girl)
Mark Sanger (Gravity)
Joan Sobel (Admission; A Single Man)
Crispin Struthers (American Hustle; Silver Linings Playbook)
Tracey Wadmore-Smith (About Last Night; Death at a Funeral)
Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave; Shame)
John Wilson (The Book Thief; Billy Elliot)
MAKEUP ARTISTS AND HAIRSTYLISTS
Vivian Baker (Oz the Great and Powerful; Conviction)
Adruitha Lee (Dallas Buyers Club; 12 Years a Slave)
Robin Mathews (Dallas Buyers Club; The Runaways)
Anne Morgan (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone; A Little Bit of Heaven)
Gloria Pasqua-Casny (The Lone Ranger; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Peter Becker
Jeff Dashnaw
Kenneth L. Halsband
Jody Levin
Tom MacDougall
Chuck Picerni, Jr.
Spiro Razatos
Mic Rodgers
Kevin J. Yeaman
MUSIC
Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen; Winnie-the-Pooh)
Stanley Clarke (The Best Man Holiday; Boyz N the Hood)
Earl Ghaffari (Frozen; Wreck-It Ralph)
Steve Jablonsky (Lone Survivor; Ender's Game)
Robert Lopez (Frozen; Winnie the Pooh)
Steven Price (Gravity; The World's End)
Tony Renis (Hidden Moon; Quest for Camelot)
Angie Rubin (Pitch Perfect; Sex and the City)
Buck Sanders (Warm Bodies; The Hurt Locker)
Charles Strouse (All Dogs Go to Heaven; Annie)
Eddie Vedder (Eat Pray Love; Into the Wild)
Pharrell Williams (Despicable Me 2; Fast & Furious)
PRODUCERS
Jason Blumenthal (Hope Springs; Seven Pounds)
Dana Brunetti (Captain Phillips; The Social Network)
Megan Ellison (American Hustle; Her)
Sean Furst (Daybreakers; The Cooler)
Nicola Giuliano (The Great Beauty; This Must Be the Place)
Preston Holmes (Waist Deep; Tupac: Resurrection)
Lynette M. Howell (The Place Beyond the Pines; Blue Valentine)
Anthony Katagas (12 Years a Slave; Killing Them Softly)
Alix Madigan (Girl Most Likely; Winter's Bone)
Paul Mezey (The Girl; Maria Full of Grace)
Stephen Nemeth (The Sessions; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Tracey Seaward (Philomena; The Queen)
John H. Williams (Space Chimps; Shrek 2)
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Larry Angrisani
Nancy Bannister
Christine Batista
Karen Hermelin
Marisa McGrath Liston
David Magdael
Steven Raphael
Bettina R. Sherick
Dani Weinstein
SHORT FILMS AND FEATURE ANIMATION
Didier Brunner (Ernest & Celestine; The Triplets of Belleville)
Scott Clark (Monsters University; Up)
Pierre Coffin (Despicable Me 2; Despicable Me)
Esteban Crespo (Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me); Lala)
Peter Del Vecho (Frozen; The Princess and the Frog)
Kirk DeMicco (The Croods; Space Chimps)
Doug Frankel (Brave; WALL-E)
Mark Gill (The Voorman Problem; Full Time)
David A.S. James (Mr Peabody & Sherman; Megamind)
Fabrice Joubert (Dr Seuss' The Lorax; French Roast)
Jean-Claude Kalache (Up; Cars)
Jason Katz (Toy Story 3; Finding Nemo)
Jennifer Lee (Frozen; Wreck-It Ralph)
Baldwin Li (The Voorman Problem; Full Time)
Nathan Loofbourrow (Puss in Boots; How to Train Your Dragon)
Lauren MacMullan (Get a Horse!; Wreck-It Ralph)
Tom McGrath (Megamind; Madagascar)
Dorothy McKim (Get a Horse!; Meet the Robinsons)
Hayao Miyazaki (The Wind Rises; Spirited Away)
Ricky Nierva (Monsters University; Up)
Chris Renaud (Despicable Me 2; Despicable Me)
Benjamin Renner (Ernest & Celestine; A Mouse's Tale (La Queue de la Souris))
Michael Rose (Chico & Rita; The Gruffalo)
Toshio Suzuki (The Wind Rises; Howl's Moving Castle)
Selma Vilhunen (Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitta? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?); The Crossroads)
Anders Walter (Helium; 9 Meter)
Laurent Witz (Mr Hublot; Renart the Fox)
SOUND
Niv Adiri (Gravity; The Book Thief)
Christopher Benstead (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit; Gravity)
Steve Boedekker (All Is Lost; Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Beau Borders (Million Dollar Arm; Lone Survivor)
David Brownlow (Lone Survivor; The Book of Eli)
Chris Burdon (Captain Phillips; Philomena)
Brent Burge (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
Andre Fenley (How to Train Your Dragon 2; All Is Lost)
Glenn Freemantle (Gravity; Slumdog Millionaire)
Greg Hedgepath (Frozen; The Incredible Hulk)
Craig Henighan (Noah; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Tony Johnson (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; Avatar)
Laurent M. Kossayan (Red Riding Hood; Public Enemies)
Thomas L. Lalley (Mr Peabody & Sherman; Star Trek Into Darkness)
Ai-Ling Lee (Godzilla; 300: Rise of an Empire)
Stephen Morris (Monsters University; Fruitvale Station)
Jeremy Peirson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; Looper)
Mike Prestwood Smith (Divergent; Captain Phillips)
Alan Rankin (Iron Man 3; Star Trek)
Oliver Tarney (Captain Phillips; Philomena)
Chris Ward (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
VISUAL EFFECTS
Gary Brozenich (The Lone Ranger; Wrath of the Titans)
Everett Burrell (Grudge Match; Pan's Labyrinth)
Marc Chu (Noah; Marvel's The Avengers)
David Fletcher (Sabotage; Prisoners)
Swen Gillberg (Ender's Game; Jack the Giant Slayer)
Paul Graff (The Wolf of Wall Street; Identity Thief)
Alex Henning (Star Trek Into Darkness; Hugo)
Evan Jacobs (Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Olympus Has Fallen)
Chris Lawrence (Edge of Tomorrow; Gravity)
Eric Leven (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2; The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1)
Steven Messing (Godzilla; Oz the Great and Powerful)
Ben Matthew Morris (Lincoln; The Golden Compass)
Jake Morrison (Thor: The Dark World; Marvel's The Avengers)
Eric Reynolds (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
David Shirk (Gravity; Elysium)
Patrick Tubach (Star Trek Into Darkness; Marvel's The Avengers)
Bruno Van Zeebroeck (Lone Survivor; Public Enemies)
Tim Webber (Gravity; The Dark Knight)
Harold Weed (G.I. Joe: Retaliation; Star Trek)
WRITERS
Chantal Akerman (A Couch in New York; Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)
Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours; Irma Vep)
Craig Borten (Dallas Buyers Club)
Scott Z. Burns (Side Effects; Contagion)
Jean-Claude Carriere (The Unbearable Lightness of Being; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)
Steve Coogan (Philomena; The Parole Officer)
Claire Denis (White Material; Beau Travail)
Larry Gross (We Don't Live Here Anymore; 48 Hrs.)
Mathieu Kassovitz (Babylon A.D.; Hate (La Haine))
Diane Kurys (For a Woman; Entre Nous)
Bob Nelson (Nebraska)
Scott Neustadter (The Spectacular Now; (500) Days of Summer)
Jeff Pope (Philomena; Pierrepoint - The Last Hangman)
John Ridley (12 Years a Slave; Undercover Brother)
Paul Rudnick (In & Out; Jeffrey)
Eric Warren Singer (American Hustle; The International)
Melisa Wallack (Dallas Buyers Club; Mirror Mirror)
Michael H. Weber (The Spectacular Now; (500) Days of Summer)
Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street; Get Rich Or Die Tryin')
ASSOCIATES
Matt Del Piano
Joe Funicello
Robert Hohman
Paul Christopher Hook
David Kramer
Joel Lubin
David Pringle
Melanie Ramsayer
Beth Swofford
Meredith Wechter
Members of the Academy represent 17 general areas - actors, directors, animators and short film makers, designers, casting directors, costume designers, cinematographers, composers and songwriters, documentary filmmakers, executives, film editors, makeup artists and hairstylists, producers, public relations specialists, sound artists and engineers, visual effects experts and writers. Each has different requirements and must be nominated by other members.
Here's the list of the 271 people invited to join! They come from all over - it's a big list!
ACTORS
Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
Clancy Brown (The Hurricane; The Shawshank Redemption)
Paul Dano (12 Years a Slave; Prisoners)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave; Shame)
Ben Foster (Lone Survivor; Ain't Them Bodies Saints)
Beth Grant (The Artist; No Country for Old Men)
Clark Gregg (Much Ado About Nothing; Marvel's The Avengers)
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine; Happy-Go-Lucky)
Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games; The Kids Are All Right)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Enough Said; Planes)
Kelly Macdonald (Brave; No Country for Old Men)
Mads Mikkelsen (The Hunt; Casino Royale)
Joel McKinnon Miller (Super 8; The Truman Show)
Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight Rises; Inception)
Lupita Nyong'o (Non-Stop; 12 Years a Slave)
Rob Riggle (21 Jump Street; The Hangover)
Chris Rock (Grown Ups 2; Madagascar)
June Squibb (Nebraska; About Schmidt)
Jason Statham (Parker; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
David Strathairn (Lincoln; Good Night, and Good Luck)
CASTING DIRECTORS
Douglas Aibel (The Grand Budapest Hotel; The Immigrant)
Simone Bär (The Monuments Men; The Book Thief)
Kerry Barden (August: Osage County; Dallas Buyers Club)
Nikki Barrett (The Railway Man; The Great Gatsby)
Mark Bennett (Drinking Buddies; Zero Dark Thirty)
Risa Bramon Garcia (Speed; Wall Street)
Michelle Guish (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; Nanny McPhee)
Billy Hopkins (Lee Daniels' The Butler; Disconnect)
Ros Hubbard (Romeo & Juliet; The Mummy)
Allison Jones (The Way, Way Back; The Heat)
Christine King (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith)
Beatrice Kruger (To Rome With Love; The American)
Marci Liroff (Mean Girls; Pretty in Pink)
Debbie McWilliams (Skyfall; Quantum of Solace)
Joseph Middleton (The Twilight Saga: New Moon; Legally Blonde)
Robi Reed (For Colored Girls; Do the Right Thing)
Kevin Reher (Monsters University; Finding Nemo)
Paul Schnee (August: Osage County; Dallas Buyers Club)
Gail Stevens (Zero Dark Thirty; Slumdog Millionaire)
Lucinda Syson (Gravity; Fast & Furious 6)
Fiona Weir (J. Edgar; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2)
Ronnie Yeskel (The Sessions; Atlas Shrugged Part 1)
CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Sean Bobbitt (12 Years a Slave; The Place Beyond the Pines)
Philippe Le Sourd (The Grandmaster; Seven Pounds)
James Neihouse (Hubble 3D; NASCAR: The IMAX Experience)
Masanobu Takayanagi (Out of the Furnace; Silver Linings Playbook)
Bradford Young (Ain't Them Bodies Saints; Pariah)
COSTUME DESIGNERS
William Chang Suk Ping (The Grandmaster; In the Mood for Love)
Pascaline Chavanne (Renoir; Augustine)
Daniela Ciancio (The Great Beauty; Il Divo)
Frank L. Fleming (Draft Day; Monster's Ball)
Maurizio Millenotti (Hamlet; Othello)
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor (Great Expectations; Good Will Hunting)
Karyn Wagner (Lovelace; The Green Mile)
DESIGNERS
William Arnold (Lovelace; Crazy, Stupid, Love.)
K.K. Barrett (Her; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)
Susan Benjamin (Saving Mr Banks; The Blind Side)
Bill Boes (The Smurfs 2; Fantastic Four)
Tony Fanning (Contraband; War of the Worlds)
Robert Greenfield (Priest; Almost Famous)
Marcia Hinds (I Spy; The Public Eye)
Sonja Brisbane Klaus (Prometheus; Robin Hood)
David S. Lazan (Flight; American Beauty)
Diane Lederman (Lee Daniels' The Butler; Tower Heist)
Heather Loeffler (American Hustle; Silver Linings Playbook)
Christa Munro (Jack Reacher; Erin Brockovich)
Andy Nicholson (Gravity; The Host)
Adam Stockhausen (12 Years a Slave; Moonrise Kingdom)
DIRECTORS
Hany Abu-Assad (Omar; Paradise Now)
Jay Duplass (Jeff, Who Lives at Home; Cyrus)
Mark Duplass (Jeff, Who Lives at Home; Cyrus)
David Gordon Green (Joe; Pineapple Express)
Gavin O'Connor (Warrior; Miracle)
Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Secret Life of Bees; Love and Basketball)
Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty; This Must Be the Place)
Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club; Young Victoria)
Felix van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown; The Misfortunates)
Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners; Incendies)
Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt; The Celebration)
DOCUMENTARY
Malcolm Clarke (The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life; Prisoner of Paradise)
Dan Cogan (How to Survive a Plague; The Queen of Versailles)
Kief Davidson (Open Heart; Kassim the Dream)
Dan Geller (The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden; Ballets Russes)
Dayna Goldfine (The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden; Ballets Russes)
Julie Goldman (God Loves Uganda; Gideon's Army)
Sam Green (Utopia in Four Movements; The Weather Underground)
Gary Hustwit (Urbanized; Helvetica)
Eugene Jarecki (The House I Live In; Why We Fight)
Brian Johnson (Anita; Buena Vista Social Club)
Ross Kauffman (E-Team; Born Into Brothels)
Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom; Troubadours)
Matthew J. O'Neill (Redemption; China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province)
Rithy Panh (The Missing Picture; S-21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine)
Lucy Massie Phenix (Regret to Inform; Word Is Out)
Enat Sidi (Detropia; Jesus Camp)
Molly Thompson (The Unknown Known; Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer)
Cynthia Wade (Mondays at Racine; Freeheld)
EXECUTIVES
Adrian Alperovich
Sean Bailey
Len Blavatnik
Nicholas Carpou
Nancy Carson
Charles S. Cohen
Jason Constantine
Peter Cramer
William Kyle Davies
Christopher Floyd
David Garrett
David Hollis
Tomas Jegeus
Michelle Raimo Kouyate
Anthony James Marcoly
Hiroyasu Matsuoka
Kim Roth
John Sloss
FILM EDITORS
Alan Baumgarten (American Hustle; Gangster Squad)
Alan Edward Bell (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; The Amazing Spider-Man)
Dorian Harris (The Magic of Belle Isle; The Mod Squad)
Sabrina Plisco (The Smurfs 2; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
Tatiana S. Riegel (Million Dollar Arm; The Way, Way Back)
Julie Rogers (Wreck-It Ralph; Kit Kittredge: An American Girl)
Mark Sanger (Gravity)
Joan Sobel (Admission; A Single Man)
Crispin Struthers (American Hustle; Silver Linings Playbook)
Tracey Wadmore-Smith (About Last Night; Death at a Funeral)
Joe Walker (12 Years a Slave; Shame)
John Wilson (The Book Thief; Billy Elliot)
MAKEUP ARTISTS AND HAIRSTYLISTS
Vivian Baker (Oz the Great and Powerful; Conviction)
Adruitha Lee (Dallas Buyers Club; 12 Years a Slave)
Robin Mathews (Dallas Buyers Club; The Runaways)
Anne Morgan (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone; A Little Bit of Heaven)
Gloria Pasqua-Casny (The Lone Ranger; Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Peter Becker
Jeff Dashnaw
Kenneth L. Halsband
Jody Levin
Tom MacDougall
Chuck Picerni, Jr.
Spiro Razatos
Mic Rodgers
Kevin J. Yeaman
MUSIC
Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen; Winnie-the-Pooh)
Stanley Clarke (The Best Man Holiday; Boyz N the Hood)
Earl Ghaffari (Frozen; Wreck-It Ralph)
Steve Jablonsky (Lone Survivor; Ender's Game)
Robert Lopez (Frozen; Winnie the Pooh)
Steven Price (Gravity; The World's End)
Tony Renis (Hidden Moon; Quest for Camelot)
Angie Rubin (Pitch Perfect; Sex and the City)
Buck Sanders (Warm Bodies; The Hurt Locker)
Charles Strouse (All Dogs Go to Heaven; Annie)
Eddie Vedder (Eat Pray Love; Into the Wild)
Pharrell Williams (Despicable Me 2; Fast & Furious)
PRODUCERS
Jason Blumenthal (Hope Springs; Seven Pounds)
Dana Brunetti (Captain Phillips; The Social Network)
Megan Ellison (American Hustle; Her)
Sean Furst (Daybreakers; The Cooler)
Nicola Giuliano (The Great Beauty; This Must Be the Place)
Preston Holmes (Waist Deep; Tupac: Resurrection)
Lynette M. Howell (The Place Beyond the Pines; Blue Valentine)
Anthony Katagas (12 Years a Slave; Killing Them Softly)
Alix Madigan (Girl Most Likely; Winter's Bone)
Paul Mezey (The Girl; Maria Full of Grace)
Stephen Nemeth (The Sessions; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Tracey Seaward (Philomena; The Queen)
John H. Williams (Space Chimps; Shrek 2)
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Larry Angrisani
Nancy Bannister
Christine Batista
Karen Hermelin
Marisa McGrath Liston
David Magdael
Steven Raphael
Bettina R. Sherick
Dani Weinstein
SHORT FILMS AND FEATURE ANIMATION
Didier Brunner (Ernest & Celestine; The Triplets of Belleville)
Scott Clark (Monsters University; Up)
Pierre Coffin (Despicable Me 2; Despicable Me)
Esteban Crespo (Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me); Lala)
Peter Del Vecho (Frozen; The Princess and the Frog)
Kirk DeMicco (The Croods; Space Chimps)
Doug Frankel (Brave; WALL-E)
Mark Gill (The Voorman Problem; Full Time)
David A.S. James (Mr Peabody & Sherman; Megamind)
Fabrice Joubert (Dr Seuss' The Lorax; French Roast)
Jean-Claude Kalache (Up; Cars)
Jason Katz (Toy Story 3; Finding Nemo)
Jennifer Lee (Frozen; Wreck-It Ralph)
Baldwin Li (The Voorman Problem; Full Time)
Nathan Loofbourrow (Puss in Boots; How to Train Your Dragon)
Lauren MacMullan (Get a Horse!; Wreck-It Ralph)
Tom McGrath (Megamind; Madagascar)
Dorothy McKim (Get a Horse!; Meet the Robinsons)
Hayao Miyazaki (The Wind Rises; Spirited Away)
Ricky Nierva (Monsters University; Up)
Chris Renaud (Despicable Me 2; Despicable Me)
Benjamin Renner (Ernest & Celestine; A Mouse's Tale (La Queue de la Souris))
Michael Rose (Chico & Rita; The Gruffalo)
Toshio Suzuki (The Wind Rises; Howl's Moving Castle)
Selma Vilhunen (Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitta? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?); The Crossroads)
Anders Walter (Helium; 9 Meter)
Laurent Witz (Mr Hublot; Renart the Fox)
SOUND
Niv Adiri (Gravity; The Book Thief)
Christopher Benstead (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit; Gravity)
Steve Boedekker (All Is Lost; Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Beau Borders (Million Dollar Arm; Lone Survivor)
David Brownlow (Lone Survivor; The Book of Eli)
Chris Burdon (Captain Phillips; Philomena)
Brent Burge (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
Andre Fenley (How to Train Your Dragon 2; All Is Lost)
Glenn Freemantle (Gravity; Slumdog Millionaire)
Greg Hedgepath (Frozen; The Incredible Hulk)
Craig Henighan (Noah; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Tony Johnson (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; Avatar)
Laurent M. Kossayan (Red Riding Hood; Public Enemies)
Thomas L. Lalley (Mr Peabody & Sherman; Star Trek Into Darkness)
Ai-Ling Lee (Godzilla; 300: Rise of an Empire)
Stephen Morris (Monsters University; Fruitvale Station)
Jeremy Peirson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; Looper)
Mike Prestwood Smith (Divergent; Captain Phillips)
Alan Rankin (Iron Man 3; Star Trek)
Oliver Tarney (Captain Phillips; Philomena)
Chris Ward (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
VISUAL EFFECTS
Gary Brozenich (The Lone Ranger; Wrath of the Titans)
Everett Burrell (Grudge Match; Pan's Labyrinth)
Marc Chu (Noah; Marvel's The Avengers)
David Fletcher (Sabotage; Prisoners)
Swen Gillberg (Ender's Game; Jack the Giant Slayer)
Paul Graff (The Wolf of Wall Street; Identity Thief)
Alex Henning (Star Trek Into Darkness; Hugo)
Evan Jacobs (Captain America: The Winter Soldier; Olympus Has Fallen)
Chris Lawrence (Edge of Tomorrow; Gravity)
Eric Leven (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2; The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1)
Steven Messing (Godzilla; Oz the Great and Powerful)
Ben Matthew Morris (Lincoln; The Golden Compass)
Jake Morrison (Thor: The Dark World; Marvel's The Avengers)
Eric Reynolds (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug; The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
David Shirk (Gravity; Elysium)
Patrick Tubach (Star Trek Into Darkness; Marvel's The Avengers)
Bruno Van Zeebroeck (Lone Survivor; Public Enemies)
Tim Webber (Gravity; The Dark Knight)
Harold Weed (G.I. Joe: Retaliation; Star Trek)
WRITERS
Chantal Akerman (A Couch in New York; Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)
Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours; Irma Vep)
Craig Borten (Dallas Buyers Club)
Scott Z. Burns (Side Effects; Contagion)
Jean-Claude Carriere (The Unbearable Lightness of Being; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)
Steve Coogan (Philomena; The Parole Officer)
Claire Denis (White Material; Beau Travail)
Larry Gross (We Don't Live Here Anymore; 48 Hrs.)
Mathieu Kassovitz (Babylon A.D.; Hate (La Haine))
Diane Kurys (For a Woman; Entre Nous)
Bob Nelson (Nebraska)
Scott Neustadter (The Spectacular Now; (500) Days of Summer)
Jeff Pope (Philomena; Pierrepoint - The Last Hangman)
John Ridley (12 Years a Slave; Undercover Brother)
Paul Rudnick (In & Out; Jeffrey)
Eric Warren Singer (American Hustle; The International)
Melisa Wallack (Dallas Buyers Club; Mirror Mirror)
Michael H. Weber (The Spectacular Now; (500) Days of Summer)
Terence Winter (The Wolf of Wall Street; Get Rich Or Die Tryin')
ASSOCIATES
Matt Del Piano
Joe Funicello
Robert Hohman
Paul Christopher Hook
David Kramer
Joel Lubin
David Pringle
Melanie Ramsayer
Beth Swofford
Meredith Wechter
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
68th Tony Awards - Winners - UPDATED
I didn't get to liveblog the Tony's this year as I was working at the 1st Annual Ottawa Tony Awards Show - a party where we watch the Tony's and raise money for local theatre initiatives. It was fun, and it'll be happening again next year - make sure to keep us in mind! (ottawatonyawards.com)
And here are the winners of the Tony's - including the history making Audra MacDonald, winning a Tony in every acting category! Winners are bolded.
BEST PLAY
Act One
All the Way
Casa Valentina
Mothers and Sons
Outside Mullingar
BEST MUSICAL
After Midnight
Aladdin
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Glass Menagerie
A Raisin in the Sun
Twelfth Night
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Les Miserables
Violet
BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Aladdin - Chad Beguelin
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical - Douglas McGrath
Bullets Over Broadway - Woody Allen
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - Robert L. Freedman
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE
Aladdin - Music: Alan Menken; Lyrics: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Chad Beguelin
The Bridges of Madison County - Music & Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - Music: Steven Lutvak; Lyrics: Robert L. Freedman, Steven Lutvak
If/Then - Music: Tom Kitt; Lyrics: Brian Yorkey
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
Samuel Barnett - Twelfth Night
Bryan Cranston - All the Way
Chris O'Dowd - Of Mice and Men
Mark Rylance - Richard III
Tony Shalhoub - Act One
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
Tyne Daly - Mothers and Sons
LaTanya Richardson Jackson - A Raisin in the Sun
Cherry Jones - The Glass Menagerie
Audra McDonald - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Estelle Parsons - The Velocity of Autumn
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Neil Patrick Harris - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Ramin Karimloo - Les Miserables
Andy Karl - Rocky
Jefferson Mays - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Bryce Pinkham - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Mary Bridget Davies - A Night With Janis Joplin
Sutton Foster - Violet
Idina Menzel - If/Then
Jessie Mueller - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Kelli O'Hara - The Bridges of Madison County
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Reed Birney - Casa Valentina
Paul Chahidi - Twelfth Night
Stephen Fry - Twelfth Night
Mark Rylance - Twelfth Night
Brian J. Smith - The Glass Menagerie
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Sarah Greene - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Celia Keenan-Bolger - The Glass Menagerie
Sophie Okonedo - A Raisin in the Sun
Anika Noni Rose - A Raisin in the Sun
Mare Winningham - Casa Valentina
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Danny Burstein - Cabaret
Nick Cordero - Bullets Over Broadway
Joshua Henry - Violet
James Monroe Iglehart - Aladdin
Jarrod Spector - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Linda Emond - Cabaret
Lena Hall - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Anika Larsen - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Adriane Lenox - After Midnight
Lauren Worsham - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Tim Carroll - Twelfth Night
Michael Grandage - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Kenny Leon - A Raisin in the Sun
John Tiffany - The Glass Menagerie
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Warren Carlyle - After Midnight
Michael Mayer - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Leigh Silverman - Violet
Darko Tresnjak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Warren Carlyle - After Midnight
Steven Hoggett & Kelly Devine - Rocky
Casey Nicholaw - Aladdin
Susan Stroman - Bullets Over Broadway
BEST ORCHESTRATIONS
Doug Besterman - Bullets Over Broadway
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
Steve Sidwell - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Jonathan Tunick - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY
Beowulf Boritt - Act One
Bob Crowley - The Glass Menagerie
Es Devlin - Machinal
Christopher Oram - The Cripple of Inishmaan
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Christopher Barreca - Rocky
Julian Crouch - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Alexander Dodge - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Santo Loquasto - Bullets Over Broadway
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY
Jane Greenwood - Act One
Michael Krass - Machinal
Rita Ryack - Casa Valentina
Jenny Tiramani - Twelfth Night
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Linda Cho - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
William Ivey Long - Bullets Over Broadway
Arianne Phillips - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Isabel Toledo - After Midnight
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY
Paule Constable - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Jane Cox - Machinal
Natasha Katz - The Glass Menagerie
Japhy Weideman - Of Mice and Men
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Kevin Adams - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Christopher Akerlind - Rocky
Howell Binkley - After Midnight
Donald Holder - The Bridges of Madison County
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY
Alex Baranowski - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Steve Canyon Kennedy - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Dan Moses Schreier - Act One
Matt Tierney - Machinal
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Peter Hylenski - After Midnight
Tim O'Heir - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Mick Potter - Les Miserables
Brian Ronan - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
SPECIAL TONY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE THEATRE
Jane Greenwood (Costume designer for more than 125 Broadway productions)
REGIONAL THEATRE AWARD
Signature Theatre (New York City's Signature Theatre exists to honour and celebrate the playwright)
ISABELLE STEVENSON AWARD
Rosie O'Donnell (The Emmy-award winning performer, writer, producer, three-time past host of the Tony Awards ceremony, and founder of Rosie's Theater Kids)
TONY HONORS FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE THEATRE
Joseph P. Benincasa - President and CEO of The Actors Fund
Joan Marcus - Broadway photographer who has created production shots for over 300 shows on the Great White Way since 1986
Charlotte Wilcox - Founder of The Charlotte Wilcox Company and one of the leading general managers in the Broadway industry
And here are the winners of the Tony's - including the history making Audra MacDonald, winning a Tony in every acting category! Winners are bolded.
BEST PLAY
Act One
All the Way
Casa Valentina
Mothers and Sons
Outside Mullingar
BEST MUSICAL
After Midnight
Aladdin
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Glass Menagerie
A Raisin in the Sun
Twelfth Night
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Les Miserables
Violet
BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Aladdin - Chad Beguelin
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical - Douglas McGrath
Bullets Over Broadway - Woody Allen
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - Robert L. Freedman
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE (MUSIC AND/OR LYRICS) WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE
Aladdin - Music: Alan Menken; Lyrics: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Chad Beguelin
The Bridges of Madison County - Music & Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder - Music: Steven Lutvak; Lyrics: Robert L. Freedman, Steven Lutvak
If/Then - Music: Tom Kitt; Lyrics: Brian Yorkey
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
Samuel Barnett - Twelfth Night
Bryan Cranston - All the Way
Chris O'Dowd - Of Mice and Men
Mark Rylance - Richard III
Tony Shalhoub - Act One
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A PLAY
Tyne Daly - Mothers and Sons
LaTanya Richardson Jackson - A Raisin in the Sun
Cherry Jones - The Glass Menagerie
Audra McDonald - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Estelle Parsons - The Velocity of Autumn
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Neil Patrick Harris - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Ramin Karimloo - Les Miserables
Andy Karl - Rocky
Jefferson Mays - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Bryce Pinkham - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Mary Bridget Davies - A Night With Janis Joplin
Sutton Foster - Violet
Idina Menzel - If/Then
Jessie Mueller - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Kelli O'Hara - The Bridges of Madison County
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Reed Birney - Casa Valentina
Paul Chahidi - Twelfth Night
Stephen Fry - Twelfth Night
Mark Rylance - Twelfth Night
Brian J. Smith - The Glass Menagerie
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A PLAY
Sarah Greene - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Celia Keenan-Bolger - The Glass Menagerie
Sophie Okonedo - A Raisin in the Sun
Anika Noni Rose - A Raisin in the Sun
Mare Winningham - Casa Valentina
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Danny Burstein - Cabaret
Nick Cordero - Bullets Over Broadway
Joshua Henry - Violet
James Monroe Iglehart - Aladdin
Jarrod Spector - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Linda Emond - Cabaret
Lena Hall - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Anika Larsen - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Adriane Lenox - After Midnight
Lauren Worsham - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Tim Carroll - Twelfth Night
Michael Grandage - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Kenny Leon - A Raisin in the Sun
John Tiffany - The Glass Menagerie
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Warren Carlyle - After Midnight
Michael Mayer - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Leigh Silverman - Violet
Darko Tresnjak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Warren Carlyle - After Midnight
Steven Hoggett & Kelly Devine - Rocky
Casey Nicholaw - Aladdin
Susan Stroman - Bullets Over Broadway
BEST ORCHESTRATIONS
Doug Besterman - Bullets Over Broadway
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
Steve Sidwell - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Jonathan Tunick - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY
Beowulf Boritt - Act One
Bob Crowley - The Glass Menagerie
Es Devlin - Machinal
Christopher Oram - The Cripple of Inishmaan
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Christopher Barreca - Rocky
Julian Crouch - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Alexander Dodge - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Santo Loquasto - Bullets Over Broadway
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY
Jane Greenwood - Act One
Michael Krass - Machinal
Rita Ryack - Casa Valentina
Jenny Tiramani - Twelfth Night
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Linda Cho - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
William Ivey Long - Bullets Over Broadway
Arianne Phillips - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Isabel Toledo - After Midnight
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY
Paule Constable - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Jane Cox - Machinal
Natasha Katz - The Glass Menagerie
Japhy Weideman - Of Mice and Men
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Kevin Adams - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Christopher Akerlind - Rocky
Howell Binkley - After Midnight
Donald Holder - The Bridges of Madison County
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY
Alex Baranowski - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Steve Canyon Kennedy - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill
Dan Moses Schreier - Act One
Matt Tierney - Machinal
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Peter Hylenski - After Midnight
Tim O'Heir - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Mick Potter - Les Miserables
Brian Ronan - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
SPECIAL TONY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE THEATRE
Jane Greenwood (Costume designer for more than 125 Broadway productions)
REGIONAL THEATRE AWARD
Signature Theatre (New York City's Signature Theatre exists to honour and celebrate the playwright)
ISABELLE STEVENSON AWARD
Rosie O'Donnell (The Emmy-award winning performer, writer, producer, three-time past host of the Tony Awards ceremony, and founder of Rosie's Theater Kids)
TONY HONORS FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE THEATRE
Joseph P. Benincasa - President and CEO of The Actors Fund
Joan Marcus - Broadway photographer who has created production shots for over 300 shows on the Great White Way since 1986
Charlotte Wilcox - Founder of The Charlotte Wilcox Company and one of the leading general managers in the Broadway industry
Saturday, June 07, 2014
59th Annual Drama Desk Awards - Winners
The Tony Awards are TOMORROW! On that note - I won't be liveblogging like I usually do! I'm assisting in a Tony's party that's fundraising for Suzart Productions, a local Ottawa non-profit community theatre initiative. (Mostly, we just want to hang out with people and watch the Tony's, but might as well raise some money for a great cause.) Check out @OttTonyAwards on Twitter - and if you're in Ottawa, you can pay at the door to get in! Silent auction, coffee station and a fun photobooth! (ottawatonyawards.com)
Anyway. I wanted to share the Drama Desk Awards winners! Let's prep for Broadway's biggest night; I always love to see who gets the Drama Desk Awards.
As always, winners are bolded!
OUTSTANDING PLAY
The Explorers Club - Neil Benjamin
Core Values - Steven Levenson
The Night Alive - Conor McPherson
Regular Singing - Richard Nelson
Domesticated - Bruce Norris
All the Way - Robert Schenkkan
Outside Mullingar - John Patrick Shanley
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Aladdin
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Fun Home
Love's Labour's Lost
Rocky
The Bridges of Madison County
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
I Remember Mama
London Wall
No Man's Land
Of Mice and Men
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Model Apartment
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe Production)
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL OR REVUE
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Les Miserables
Violet
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Bryan Cranston - All the Way
Hamish Linklater - The Comedy of Errors
Ian McKellen - No Man's Land
David Morse - The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Dumin
Chris O'Dowd - Of Mice and Men
Daniel Radcliffe - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Denzel Washington - A Raisin in the Sun
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Barbara Andres - I Remember Mama
Tyne Daly - Mothers and Sons
Audra McDonald - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Laurie Metcalf - Domesticated
J. Smith-Cameron - Juno and the Paycock
Harriet Walter - Julius Caesar
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Neil Patrick Harris - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Adam Jacobs - Aladdin
Andy Karl - Rocky
Jefferson Mays - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Steven Pasquale - The Bridges of Madison County
Bryce Pinkham - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Sutton Foster - Violet
Idina Menzel - If/Then
Jessie Mueller - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Kelli O'Hara - The Bridges of Madison County
Margo Seibert - Tamar of the River
Barrett Wilbert Weed - Heathers: The Musical
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Reed Birney - Casa Valentina
Chuck Cooper - Choir Boy
Peter Maloney - Outside Mullingar
Bobby Moreno - Year of the Rooster
Bill Pullman - The Jacksonian
Brian J. Smith - The Glass Menagerie
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Betty Buckley - The Old Friends
Julia Coffey - London Wall
Diane Davis - The Model Apartment
Celia Keenan-Bolger - The Glass Menagerie
Jan Maxwell - The Castle
Sophie Okonedo - A Raisin in the Sun
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Danny Burstein - Cabaret
Nick Cordero - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Joshua Henry - Violet
James Monroe Inglehart - Aladdin
Rory O'Malley - Nobody Loves You
Bobby Steggert - Big Fish
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Stephanie J. Block - Little Miss Sunshine
Anika Larsen - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Adriane Lenox - After Midnight
Sydney Lucas - Fun Home
Laura Osnes - The Threepenny Opera
Jennifer Simard - Disaster!
Lauren Worsham - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Joe Calarco - A Christmas Carol
Tim Carroll - Twelfth Night
Thomas Kail - Family Furniture
Bill Rauch - All the Way
Anna D. Shapiro - Domesticated
Julie Taymor - A Midsummer Night's Dream
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Sam Gold - Fun Home
Michael Mayer - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Bartlett Sher - The Bridges of Madison County
Susan Stroman - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Alex Timbers - Rocky
Darko Tresnjak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Warren Carlyle - After Midnight
Steven Hoggett, Kelly Devine - Rocky
Danny Mefford - Love's Labour's Lost
Casey Nicholaw - Aladdin
Susan Stroman - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Sonya Tayeh - Kung Fu
OUTSTANDING MUSIC
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
Andrew Lippa - Big Fish
Steven Lutvak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Alan Menken - Aladdin
Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe - Heathers: The Musical
Jeanine Tesori - Fun Home
OUTSTANDING LYRICS
Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin - Aladdin
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Michael Friedman - Love's Labour's Lost
Michael Korie - Far From Home
Lisa Kron - Fun Home
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Chad Beguelin - Aladdin
Robert L. Freedman - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair - Murder for Two
Lisa Kron - Fun Home
Douglas McGrath - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Marsha Norman - The Bridges of Madison County
OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
John Clancy - Fun Home
Larry Hochman - Big Fish
Steve Sidwell - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Michael Starobin - If/Then
Jonathan Tunick - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING MUSIC IN A PLAY
Lewis Flinn - The Tribute Artist
Elliot Goldenthal - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Rob Kearns - The Life and Sort Of Death of Eric Argyle
Tom Kochan - Almost, Maine
Nico Muhly - The Glass Menagerie
Duncan Sheik - A Man's a Man
OUTSTANDING REVUE
After Midnight
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Musik from the Weimar and Beyond
Le Jazz Hot: How the French Saved Jazz
Til Divorce Do Us Part
What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
Christopher Barreca - Rocky
Alexander Dodge - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Richard Hoover - Small Engine Repair
Santo Loquasto - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Ian MacNeil - A Doll's House
Donyale Werle - The Explorers Club
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Constance Hoffman - A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Ivey Long - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Zane Pihlstrom - Nutcracker Rouge
Loren Shaw - The Mysteries
Jenny Tiramani - Twelfth Night
David C. Woolard - The Heir Apparent
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Christopher Akerlind - Rocky
Jane Cox - Machinal
David Lander - The Civil War
Peter Mumford - King Lear
Brian Tovar - Tamar of the River
Japhy Wiedeman - Macbeth
OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN
Robert Massicotte and Alexis Laurence - Cirkopolis
Sven Ortel - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Aaron Rhyne - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Shawn Sagady - All the Way
Austin Switser - Sontag: Reborn
Ben Rubin - Arguendo
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN IN A MUSICAL
Kai Harada - Fun Home
Peter Hylenski - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Peter Hylenski - Rocky
Brian Ronan - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Dan Moses Schreier - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Jon Weston - The Bridges of Madison County
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN IN A PLAY
M.L. Dogg - The Open House
Katie Down - The Golden Dragon
Paul James Prendergast - All the Way
Dan Moses Schreier - Act One
Christopher Shutt - Love and Information
Matt Tierney - Machinal
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
David Barlow - This Is My Office
Jim Brochu - Character Man
Hannah Cabell - Grounded
Debra Jo Rupp - Becoming Dr Ruth
Ruben Santiago-Hudson - August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned
John Douglas Thompson - Satchmo at the Waldorf
UNIQUE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
Charlatan
Cirkopolis
Mother Africa
Nothing to Hide
Nutcracker Rouge
The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill Vol. 2
SPECIAL AWARDS
To SoHo Rep: For nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection.
To Veanne Cox: For her ability to express the eccentricities, strengths, and vulnerabilities of a range of characters, and notably for her comedic flair as evidenced in this season's The Old Friends and The Most Deserving.
To Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, the Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award: For his visionary directorial excellence. This season's The Golden Dragon and The Mysteries exemplify his bold and strikingly original imagination.
To the ensembles of off-Broadway's The Open House and Broadway's The Realistic Joneses and to the creator of both plays, Will Eno: For two extraordinary casts and one impressively inventive playwright.
The Open House: Hannah Bos, Michael Countryman, Peter Friedman, Danny McCarthy, Carolyn McCormick
The Realistic Joneses: Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, Marisa Tomei
Anyway. I wanted to share the Drama Desk Awards winners! Let's prep for Broadway's biggest night; I always love to see who gets the Drama Desk Awards.
As always, winners are bolded!
OUTSTANDING PLAY
The Explorers Club - Neil Benjamin
Core Values - Steven Levenson
The Night Alive - Conor McPherson
Regular Singing - Richard Nelson
Domesticated - Bruce Norris
All the Way - Robert Schenkkan
Outside Mullingar - John Patrick Shanley
OUTSTANDING MUSICAL
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Aladdin
Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Fun Home
Love's Labour's Lost
Rocky
The Bridges of Madison County
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY
I Remember Mama
London Wall
No Man's Land
Of Mice and Men
The Cripple of Inishmaan
The Model Apartment
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare's Globe Production)
OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL OR REVUE
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Les Miserables
Violet
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Bryan Cranston - All the Way
Hamish Linklater - The Comedy of Errors
Ian McKellen - No Man's Land
David Morse - The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Dumin
Chris O'Dowd - Of Mice and Men
Daniel Radcliffe - The Cripple of Inishmaan
Denzel Washington - A Raisin in the Sun
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Barbara Andres - I Remember Mama
Tyne Daly - Mothers and Sons
Audra McDonald - Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Laurie Metcalf - Domesticated
J. Smith-Cameron - Juno and the Paycock
Harriet Walter - Julius Caesar
OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Neil Patrick Harris - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Adam Jacobs - Aladdin
Andy Karl - Rocky
Jefferson Mays - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Steven Pasquale - The Bridges of Madison County
Bryce Pinkham - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Sutton Foster - Violet
Idina Menzel - If/Then
Jessie Mueller - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Kelli O'Hara - The Bridges of Madison County
Margo Seibert - Tamar of the River
Barrett Wilbert Weed - Heathers: The Musical
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
Reed Birney - Casa Valentina
Chuck Cooper - Choir Boy
Peter Maloney - Outside Mullingar
Bobby Moreno - Year of the Rooster
Bill Pullman - The Jacksonian
Brian J. Smith - The Glass Menagerie
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Betty Buckley - The Old Friends
Julia Coffey - London Wall
Diane Davis - The Model Apartment
Celia Keenan-Bolger - The Glass Menagerie
Jan Maxwell - The Castle
Sophie Okonedo - A Raisin in the Sun
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
Danny Burstein - Cabaret
Nick Cordero - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Joshua Henry - Violet
James Monroe Inglehart - Aladdin
Rory O'Malley - Nobody Loves You
Bobby Steggert - Big Fish
OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Stephanie J. Block - Little Miss Sunshine
Anika Larsen - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Adriane Lenox - After Midnight
Sydney Lucas - Fun Home
Laura Osnes - The Threepenny Opera
Jennifer Simard - Disaster!
Lauren Worsham - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
Joe Calarco - A Christmas Carol
Tim Carroll - Twelfth Night
Thomas Kail - Family Furniture
Bill Rauch - All the Way
Anna D. Shapiro - Domesticated
Julie Taymor - A Midsummer Night's Dream
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL
Sam Gold - Fun Home
Michael Mayer - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Bartlett Sher - The Bridges of Madison County
Susan Stroman - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Alex Timbers - Rocky
Darko Tresnjak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY
Warren Carlyle - After Midnight
Steven Hoggett, Kelly Devine - Rocky
Danny Mefford - Love's Labour's Lost
Casey Nicholaw - Aladdin
Susan Stroman - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Sonya Tayeh - Kung Fu
OUTSTANDING MUSIC
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
Andrew Lippa - Big Fish
Steven Lutvak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Alan Menken - Aladdin
Kevin Murphy and Laurence O'Keefe - Heathers: The Musical
Jeanine Tesori - Fun Home
OUTSTANDING LYRICS
Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin - Aladdin
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Michael Friedman - Love's Labour's Lost
Michael Korie - Far From Home
Lisa Kron - Fun Home
OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Chad Beguelin - Aladdin
Robert L. Freedman - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair - Murder for Two
Lisa Kron - Fun Home
Douglas McGrath - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Marsha Norman - The Bridges of Madison County
OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS
Jason Robert Brown - The Bridges of Madison County
John Clancy - Fun Home
Larry Hochman - Big Fish
Steve Sidwell - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Michael Starobin - If/Then
Jonathan Tunick - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
OUTSTANDING MUSIC IN A PLAY
Lewis Flinn - The Tribute Artist
Elliot Goldenthal - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Rob Kearns - The Life and Sort Of Death of Eric Argyle
Tom Kochan - Almost, Maine
Nico Muhly - The Glass Menagerie
Duncan Sheik - A Man's a Man
OUTSTANDING REVUE
After Midnight
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Musik from the Weimar and Beyond
Le Jazz Hot: How the French Saved Jazz
Til Divorce Do Us Part
What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN
Christopher Barreca - Rocky
Alexander Dodge - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Richard Hoover - Small Engine Repair
Santo Loquasto - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Ian MacNeil - A Doll's House
Donyale Werle - The Explorers Club
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Constance Hoffman - A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Ivey Long - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Zane Pihlstrom - Nutcracker Rouge
Loren Shaw - The Mysteries
Jenny Tiramani - Twelfth Night
David C. Woolard - The Heir Apparent
OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN
Christopher Akerlind - Rocky
Jane Cox - Machinal
David Lander - The Civil War
Peter Mumford - King Lear
Brian Tovar - Tamar of the River
Japhy Wiedeman - Macbeth
OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN
Robert Massicotte and Alexis Laurence - Cirkopolis
Sven Ortel - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Aaron Rhyne - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Shawn Sagady - All the Way
Austin Switser - Sontag: Reborn
Ben Rubin - Arguendo
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN IN A MUSICAL
Kai Harada - Fun Home
Peter Hylenski - Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical
Peter Hylenski - Rocky
Brian Ronan - Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Dan Moses Schreier - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Jon Weston - The Bridges of Madison County
OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN IN A PLAY
M.L. Dogg - The Open House
Katie Down - The Golden Dragon
Paul James Prendergast - All the Way
Dan Moses Schreier - Act One
Christopher Shutt - Love and Information
Matt Tierney - Machinal
OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE
David Barlow - This Is My Office
Jim Brochu - Character Man
Hannah Cabell - Grounded
Debra Jo Rupp - Becoming Dr Ruth
Ruben Santiago-Hudson - August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned
John Douglas Thompson - Satchmo at the Waldorf
UNIQUE THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
Charlatan
Cirkopolis
Mother Africa
Nothing to Hide
Nutcracker Rouge
The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O'Neill Vol. 2
SPECIAL AWARDS
To SoHo Rep: For nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection.
To Veanne Cox: For her ability to express the eccentricities, strengths, and vulnerabilities of a range of characters, and notably for her comedic flair as evidenced in this season's The Old Friends and The Most Deserving.
To Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, the Sam Norkin Off-Broadway Award: For his visionary directorial excellence. This season's The Golden Dragon and The Mysteries exemplify his bold and strikingly original imagination.
To the ensembles of off-Broadway's The Open House and Broadway's The Realistic Joneses and to the creator of both plays, Will Eno: For two extraordinary casts and one impressively inventive playwright.
The Open House: Hannah Bos, Michael Countryman, Peter Friedman, Danny McCarthy, Carolyn McCormick
The Realistic Joneses: Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, Marisa Tomei
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