There are plenty of gorgeous movies up for the Best Picture nomination for the 2020 Academy Awards, but few are as technically astounding as 1917. The film follows young World War I soldiers, Lance ...

It's been 20 years since Sam Mendes took home best director and best picture Oscars with his debut feature film "American Beauty." Since then, he has had to settle for just box office success, like ...

"1917," the Oscar favorite for sound editing and mixing, utilized new techniques and equipment to achieve an innovative soundscape. In planning the sound design for “1917,” supervising sound editor ...

During the epic final scene of 1917, actor George MacKay swerved through 500 extras. He unsuccessfully avoided a collision. The final scenes in arguably one of the best World War I movies took ...

Screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns and actor George MacKay were integral parts of Sam Mendes' uniquely collaborative cinematic adventure. After directing back-to-back Bond films “Skyfall” and “Spectre, ...

The war movie is a Hollywood staple, so much so that there might not be much new to say. Yet like “Dunkirk” a few years back, director Sam Mendes has found a way to breathe life into the genre with a ...

Sam Mendes filmed his suspenseful beat-the-clock thriller in what appears to be one continuous take. It's an impressive feat — but it makes the WWI movie feel like an overly polished one-shot wonder.

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Oscar-winning film editor Lee Smith likes ...

Director Sam Mendes based the plot of 1917 on a World War I story told to him long ago by a veteran of the trenches — his Trinidadian novelist grandfather Alfred Mendes, who in 1917 was a Lance ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Spoilers for 1917 follow below. A latecomer to ...

Warning: spoilers for 1917 are present throughout this article. If you haven’t seen the film yet, head out of this story and come back once you’ve caught up. When people talk about Sam Mendes’ World ...

World War I was a disaster, but Sam Mendes’s Oscar-nominated epic paints a dangerously misleading picture of the conflict. By Cathy Tempelsman Ms. Tempelsman is a writer. I was looking forward to ...