![]() ![]() (Technically, there are 39 Christmas movies because the 40th is a Hanukkah journey focusing on. Fear not, the elves have been working overtime again this year to offer up 40 new Yuletide flicks that will premiere on Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. ![]() She could turn a shrimp into a blimp.The first day of fall has arrived - and it just so happens to be the first day of your Hallmark Christmas movie planning. (Mirren, it should be noted, is not at present expected to be nominated for an Oscar or attend the event.) “I know,” Knoxville said when this was pointed out. “I’m sure Irving would love to hook up with Helen Mirren,” he said. He is tan, rested and ready.”Īnd what would the character’s ambition be once there? “Irving would be wide…open to attend the Oscars. “If they wanted to invite Irving Zisman, I’m sure he could make time,” the actor said. So though a nomination would go to Prouty and his team, would Knoxville pull a Sacha Baron Cohen and head to the Dolby come March 2? Perhaps even.in character? ![]() I hope the academy sees and respects that.” “I got an email one day that said, ‘You’re on the shortlist for best makeup.’ And I said, ‘Let’s go for this because no one is more deserving than our guys.’ ” He added that the idea of a youth-skewing comedy getting an Oscar wasn’t as hard to believe as it once was. Knoxville said that he hadn’t been thinking much about the Oscars but that when he received word that “Grandpa” was among the finalists, it began to creep into his brain. “I got some advice to maybe leave things out, like the vending machine scene or a strip club scene, because it may not play that well in the room,” he said, then deadpanned, “I listened to that advice.” To convince these voters, Prouty has been busy cutting a minute-long clip of “Grandpa” makeup that highlights the most adventurous moments from the film. ![]() (The branch is, it should be said, also partial to movies, such as last year’s winner “The Iron Lady,” that have similar age-up qualities to “Grandpa.”) One of the category front-runners is “American Hustle,” which revels in all manner of ‘70s hairstyles and, like “Bad Grandpa,” has plenty of over-the-top comedic moments. The ribald nature of the film may jolt more staid academy members, and some of the other shortlisted films - such as “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Hansel and Gretel” - fit more neatly into the wheelhouse of the academy and its hair and makeup branch.īut Prouty and the other “Grandpa” artists could be in luck - the branch may already be thinking outside the box this year. None of the pranking victims, he noted, ever saw through Knoxville’s disguise. We had to make Johnny really look like an 86-year-old man. “With a lot of monster movies,” said Steven Prouty, one of the artists who helped create Knoxville’s getup, “you have a lot of latitude, because nobody knows what those monsters look like. Oscar voters have typically honored hard-core genre movies in the hair and makeup category - winners in recent years have included “The Wolfman” and “Pan’s Labyrinth.”īut those who worked on “Grandpa” say their film presents a tougher challenge. Because of the Paramount film’s real-world setting, there was also nothing as bourgeois as makeup trailers: Knoxville’s face and body were adjusted between takes in a minivan that waited around the corner, guerrilla style. ![]()
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