There may not be an obvious connection between Damien Chazelle’s horror script “The Last Exorcism Part 2” and “Whiplash,” but the adapted screenplay nominee drew heavily on his training as a ...

J.K. Simmons revealed in an oral history of “Whiplash” to mark the film’s 10th anniversary that he assumed the film’s director, Damien Chazelle, was a Black man after he first read the script about ...

It has been just about a full year since “Whiplash” debuted—or, rather, exploded—out of the Sundance Film Festival, where it seized both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. Now a PGA and WGA ...

EXCLUSIVE: Damien Chazelle‘s Sundance-winning Whiplash, an admittedly largely autobiographical screenplay he wrote, has been mysteriously classified as an adapted script by the Academy of Motion ...

"I’m picturing Antoine Fuqua," the Academy Award winner admitted when first meeting with Chazelle. According to Simmons, it was producer Jason Reitman who first introduced him to Chazelle’s feature ...

Though the Indiana Film Journalists Association have chimed in with the usual at the top, as “Boyhood” took Best Film and Best Director honors, their decisions in a few areas are pretty interesting.

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