Ryan joined Deadline in March 2021 as Assistant Editor for Awardsline, rising to Crafts Editor in 2022. He received his MFA in Studio Art at The City College of New York in 2019. He contributes to the awards coverage of animation and the craft side of film and television. In his role as Crafts Editor, Ryan also contributes to the editing of Deadline's AwardsLine magazines and interviews contenders above and below the line.
For The Room Next Door, production designer Inbal Weinberg says her main focus was maintaining a realistic New York look while incorporating director Pedro Almodóvar's visual style. "Pedro has his own very strong aesthetic style and visual language that he has developed over 40 years of filmmaking," she…
It can be incredibly difficult to tell an expansive story while restricting yourself to a single location. However, with September 5, the restriction actually enhanced the storytelling for the filmmakers and craftspeople, once they realized they found themselves in a very similar position to that ABC…
As a longtime fan of the Broadway show, coming on as the choreographer for Wicked was an incredible opportunity for Christopher Scott. Not only was he able to translate one of his favorite shows to cinema, but the chance to infuse something new and original into a storied musical is a rare gift for any…
The shortlists are out for Oscars 2025, and the races in Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound and Visual Effects are heating up.
Some inclusions in the list are not surprises, like Dune: Part Two and Wicked – both of which were shortlisted in all three categories. Dune: Part One was nominated in all three…
When making a biopic about a famous artist and musician, you would think the research would come easy — until the aptly named A Complete Unknown, tracking the meteoric rise of Bob Dylan – the enigmatic man with an unknowable past. Even though the film only tells of his life through a few years…
After working on many Looney Tunes shorts, director Peter Browngardt decided to take on the challenge of bringing the characters into a feature length film with The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Although he has experience with the characters at this point, Browngardt still says the…
EXCLUSIVE: "In Wicked, the light is actually the darkness and the darkness is actually the light," says cinematographer Alice Brooks in a new Wicked featurette. "All through movie one, the pink sun rises for Glinda, and the sun is always setting for Elphaba."
In the cinematic retelling of the…
It’s not difficult to find a connection with Roz, voiced by Lupita Nyong’o, in The Wild Robot, especially for songwriter Maren Morris, who had a young child when she began writing the original song “Kiss the Sky” for the film. The song resonated so well with the story that composer Kris Bowers says “Kiss…
When he first met with Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross, cinematographer Jomo Fray was excited by the challenge of filming from a character's perspective. "It was a completely different experience to anything I've ever shot," says Fray. "As the cinematographer, you have to be present to the scene in a…
For composer Bryce Dessner, working on a film like Sing Sing was all about defying expectations in the score. Though the film takes place in a prison, the story itself avoids the usual stereotypes of violence to focus on a tale of rehabilitation. Dessner decided to focus on a sense of freedom for the…
It's an emotional morning for Walter Salles and Fernanda Torres, as they speak about their Golden Globes nominations. Their film I'm Still Here, directed by Salles, received a nomination in the Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language category and Torres received a nomination for her performance as well…
LEGO and documentary are not necessarily two words that you would find together in a pitch meeting for a film. But that’s exactly what director Morgan Neville heard when he was approached by Pharrell Williams to make Piece by Piece, and his response was an immediate yes. Not only was this a way to tell…