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The Kikkomon bottle was designed by Kenji Ekuanat GK Design.
It took three years for Ekuan and his team to arrive at the dispenser’s transparent teardrop shape. More than 100 prototypes were tested in the making of its innovative, dripless spout (based on a teapot’s, but inverted). The design proved to be an ideal ambassador. With its imperial red cap and industrial materials (glass and plastic), it helped timeless Japanese design values — elegance, simplicity and supreme functionality — infiltrate kitchens around the world.
Bernard H. Porter’s 1939 map depicting Physics as a continent, with rivers corresponding to its principal branches.
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WORLD WAR II CODEBREAKER ALAN TURING BIOPIC NOMINATED IN 8 OSCAR CATEGORIES
Los Angeles CA – The 2015 Academy Award nominations have been announced. Near the top of the heap for most total nominations is The THE IMITATION GAME, the historical thriller biopic about British WWII codebreaker and pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing. Nominated in 8 categories:
— Best Picture
— Actor in a Leading Role (Benedict Cumberbatch)
— Actress in a Supporting Role (Keira Knightley)
— Director (Morten Tyldum)
— Film Editing (William Goldenberg)
— Original Score (Alexandre Desplat)
— Production Design (Maria Djurkovic; Tatiana Macdonald)
— Adapted Screenplay (Graham Moore)
THE IMITATION GAME follows the real-life wartime accounts of Turing and his team of codebreakers as they crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine, ultimately putting an end to the war and saving millions of lives.
Loosely based on the biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges, the adapted screenplay topped the annual Black List for best unproduced Hollywood scripts in 2011. After a bidding process against five other studios, The Weinstein Company acquired the film for $7 million in February 2014, the highest amount ever paid for US distribution rights at the European Film Market.
THE IMITATION GAME paves the way for another horror-thriller script called UNDER ANGELS, a dark fantasy extension of that same real-life WWII codebreaking universe. While THE IMITATION GAME covers events in Europe, UNDER ANGELS is set in the legendary haunted tunnels beneath Los Angeles and Fort MacArthur, which served as a nerve center for the Allies in the Pacific Theater.
Adapted from Jace Daniel’s novel of the same name, UNDER ANGELS won the Script Pipeline First Look Project (Horror/Thriller) 2012, and made finalist in both the Table Read My Screenplay Screenplay Competition Austin 2013 and the ScreamCraft Horror Script Contest 2014.
UNDER ANGELS is now being read and looking for the right home. For more information and to request a copy of the script for review, please contact writer Jace Daniel.
The UNDER ANGELS book trailer:
Best Picture
American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
Best Director
Alexandro G. Iñárritu, Birdman
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game
Best Actor
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper, American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton, Birdman
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, Two Days One Night
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Laura Dern, Wild
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
Best Cinematography
Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
Ida – Lukasz Zal & Ryszard Lenczewski
Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
Unbroken – Roger Deakin
Best Foreign Language Film
Ida
Leviathan
Tangerines
Timbuktu
Wild Tales
Best Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper
The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
Best Original Screenplay
Birdman
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Nightcrawler
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Foxcatcher
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians of the Galaxy
Best Original Score
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Mr. Turner
The Theory of Everything
Best Original Song
“Lost Stars,” Begin Again
“Everything is Awesome,” The LEGO Movie
“Glory,” Selma
“Grateful,” Beyond the Lights
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You,” Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me
Best Animated Feature
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Song of the Sea
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Best Documentary—Short
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
Joanna
Our Curse
The Reaper
White Earth
Best Film Editing
American Sniper
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Whiplash
Best Production Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Interstellar
Into the Woods
Mr. Turner
Best Animated Short
The Bigger Picture
The Dam Keeper
Feast
Me and My Moulton
A Single Life
Best Live Action Short
Aya
Boogaloo and Graham
Butter Lamp
Parvaneh
The Phone Call
Best Sound Editing
American Sniper
Birdman
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Unbroken
Best Sound Mixing
American Sniper
Birdman
Interstellar
Unbroken
Whiplash
Best Visual Effects
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Guardians of the Galaxy
Interstellar
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Best Documentary — Feature
Citizenfour
Finding Vivien Maier
Last Days of Vietnam
The Salt of the Earth
Virunga
Best Costume Design
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Inherent Vice
Into the Woods
Maleficent
Mr. Turner
