AwardsWatch - lin-manuel miranda

2022 Oscar Predictions: ORIGINAL SCORE, ORIGINAL SONG and SOUND (February)

Erik Anderson February 15, 2022

The fight for Original Score lies squarely with the two names: Hans Zimmer and Jonny Greenwood. For Zimmer, a win for Dune would mark a... Read More

Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Lin-Manuel Miranda earn Guild of Music Supervisors nominations

Erik Anderson February 11, 2022

The Guild of Music Supervisors have revealed the nominees for its 12th annual awards, celebrating outstanding achievement in the craft of Music Supervision for film,... Read More

Interview: ‘tick, tick… Boom!’ film editors Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum talk cutting under COVID, working with Lin-Manuel Miranda and their favorite sequences

Shadan Larki January 27, 2022

tick, tick… Boom! opens with the sound of applause, Andrew Garfield’s Jonathan Larson takes the stage and explains to his audience that he is being... Read More

Directors Guild (DGA) nominations: Women rule as Jane Campion, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Huezo, Rebecca Hall and Emma Seligman earn nods

Erik Anderson January 27, 2022

Directors Guild of America President Lesli Linka Glatter today announced the nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for... Read More

Interview: Robin de Jesús gets real about fear, worth and working with Andrew Garfield on ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’

Erik Anderson December 24, 2021

I’ve been a fan of Robin de Jesús since Camp, nearly 20 years ago. But de Jesús is more than Camp, he’s built a stellar... Read More

Interview: Jon M. Chu on the joys and lessons from ‘In the Heights’ and getting ready for ‘Wicked’

Ryan McQuade December 22, 2021

2021 has been the year of the musical. Whether it was Encanto, Vivo, tick…tick…BOOM, Annette, Cyrano, West Side Story, and many more, audiences have experienced... Read More

Interview: ‘Encanto’ composer Germaine Franco, the first-ever female composer of a Walt Disney Animation Studios feature film [VIDEO]

Benji Bury December 15, 2021

Germaine Franco is one of the biggest up and coming composers working in Hollywood and this year made history as the first-ever female composer of... Read More

‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ review: How do you measure the life of a genius? [Grade: A]

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‘tick, tick…BOOM!’ review: How do you measure the life of a genius? [Grade: A]

Catherine Springer November 12, 2021

What happens when the voices of the last two generations of musical theatre converge in one film? In the case of tick, tick…BOOM!, the new... Read More

Andrew Garfield has a song in his heart in the official trailer for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘tick, tick…BOOM!’

Erik Anderson October 4, 2021

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut with tick, tick…BOOM!, an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson,... Read More