Israeli director Alma Har’el signs TV deal with Amazon Studios
Israeli director Alma Har’el signs TV deal with Amazon Studios
“Honey Boy” was her feature film directorial debut and received four Independent Spirit Awards nominations, including for Best Director. Alma Har el attends the 23rd Annual Hollywood Film Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. Credit: Ovidiu Hrubaru/Shutterstock.
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(April 15, 2021 / JNS) Alma Har’el, the award-winning Israeli director behind Shia LaBeouf’s 2019 autobiographical drama “Honey Boy,” has penned a television deal with Amazon Studios.
Har’el and her newly formed production company, Zusa, will work with the studio to develop and create a new television series exclusively for Amazon Prime Video,
Mank, Lee Isaac Chung for
Minari, Emerald Fennell for
Promising Young Woman and Aaron Sorkin for
The Trial Of The Chicago 7. Zhao is only the second woman ever to win this award in the DGA’s 73 years of handing out awards like this, with the other being Kathryn Bigelow for
The Hurt Locker in 2009, which also makes Zhao the first woman of color to ever win the top prize from the DGA.
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Directors Guild of America announces film nominations
DGA Nominations: Emerald Fennell and Chloe Zhao Make the Cut, Three POC in First-Time Feature https://t.co/zZfU5xH3Xl Variety (@Variety) March 9, 2021
A day after releasing its TV nominations, the Directors Guild of America released its nominations for feature film directing. The DGA winner (who is going to be Chloé Zhao, let s not pretend there s much of a race happening here) is virtually locked to win the Best Director Oscar, while the DGA s nominees are typically 4/5 of the Academy s choices (they ve gone 5/5 twice in the last twenty years), so pick which of the five you hope to see replaced by somebody else at the Oscars.