Significant Flix

First, not one but two more Thomas Productions movies (My Teachers Are Aliens and The Last Kiss) have joined the club of having at least 1,000 views on YouTube! Currently, MTAA has 1,004, and TLK has 1,001. Celebrate in all their glory!

Second, you can see Garett Thomas (me) get interviewed on Pen TV by Almetria Vaba about the upcoming Academy Awards! This was filmed earlier this month, so I've since viewed "Inglorious Basterds," "Up in the Air" and "Precious." There are still a few more to see, but I've now viewed 7/10 Best Pic noms, which is amazing because I rarely see all 5 (previously "the norm") prior to the show!

New Doc Started

As of late last night, the basic questions were sent out to the tentative interviewees. My next short documentary, to be called Everyone and Their Mother, has good intentions. It will contain interviews that are simultaneously edited together in a way resembling Traffic and Crash. These interviews at first seem to have nothing to do with each other. By the end, though, it is revealed that for each of the stories being told, their mother is the hero.

I intend to film this in March, and edit immediately afterward. I hope to be able to submit this in time for Mother's Day to CurrentTV, which would make it my second contribution to that site, after Fat is Not a Four Letter Word. This time, though, I'd be the director and producer, not just the latter.

How in the world is there time for this stuff? We shall see!

BTW, today, The Hurt Locker won the BAFTAs for Best Director and Best Pic (and Screenplay / Cinematography / Editing / Sound!), and Writers Guild Award a few days before that!

Nailed Eddie, Too

How can it NOT win Best Pic now? The Hurt Locker officially won the top Eddie Award tonight from the ACE (American Cinema Editors) Guild. With THL nailing all of the top guild awards (Producing, Directing, and now Editing), there's no way it can't go all the way to the top.

Generally speaking, the Best Picture winner has to at least be nominated for Editing as well. The winner of the Editing Oscar, if also nominated for Best Pic, tends to go on to win Best Pic afterward. THL was up against Avatar for the Eddie, of course, and this little-film-that-could did it yet again.

I don't know about you, but I find following this small film's success story to be quite inspiring!

Vimeo is Live!

Finally, I can announce that both Thomas Productions documentaries that previously aired on Pen TV (Journey of the Mind and At the Core) have now been posted online to their Vimeo Channel! Each are embedded below:

"Submit at least one project to Vimeo"? This item can now be checked off twice! (√√)

Online Entities

It's a one-two punch: both Part I of "Three Shorts: Commentary on Society" (2003) and "Thief" (2006) have each surpassed 400 views on YouTube! The former ("3 Shorts") currently has 425 views, and the latter ("Thief") has 416. View 'em below!

You can also view all of this year's Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts below, at least before they're ever removed from the web!

French Roast:

The Lady and the Reaper:

Logorama (Pts. I & II):

Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death:

Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty:

Bunch of Names

And so the nominees are officially announced. The Hurt Locker and Avatar tied with 9 noms apiece, the highest quantity achieved! However, Avatanic received zero nods for acting and screenplay, which luckily implies it's just a techie. See the noms here.

As a second tie-in to this blog entry's title, the Names Database has been updated for the first time in several months. Apparently, it had not yet contained the names of those involved with Journey of the Mind, including the neurological experts... until now!