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IRISH PRODUCTION COMPANY Element Pictures has gotten more awards season nods after the film The Favourite scooped five nominations in this year’s Golden Globes.
The film, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos – a longtime collaborator with Element – was nominated for Golden Globes across five categories:
This follows Golden Globe nominations for previous Element productions including The Guard, Room and The Lobster.
Ed Guiney, co-founder of Element, told TheJournal.ie: “It’s great – we’re really happy. It means greater visibility for the film. It has just been released in the States and it is doing very well. As it expands and we get more of a profile and people go see it, it also gets us more visibility with the Academy [which gives out the Oscars]. It means it’s on people’s radars a bit more, which is very tangible and important for the film.”
Does he think The Favourite is – like Room – set for an Oscar nomination? “One remains optimistic, but we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves either,” said Guiney.
With the nomination we are certainly in what they euphemistically call ‘the conversation’ [about the Oscars]. We’ll see how we roll.
He added: “Obviously we went through a it a couple of years ago with Room, so it’s nice to be back in contention again and have another film that might get that recognition.”
Asked how The Favourite differs to Lanthimos’s previous work with Element, Guiney said: “It’s a bigger budget, it’s a period film – he didn’t write it, unlike the other movies we made. But I guess it’s designed by its authors to be a bit more accessible perhaps than his previous work and hopefully will bring his work to a wider audience. And so far that’s happening for sure, but it’s also very much a film made by him.
It’s got a very distinctive style and it’s very particular and interesting and different, and for anyone who enjoys film I think it’s something fresh and new. It’s obviously a period film partly based on real events and is also very funny, with an acid wit to it.
The Favourite won the Grand Jury Prize and Olivia Colman won Best Actress in Venice earlier this year, and it recently won a record-breaking 10 awards at the BIFAs (British Independent Film Awards).
The Favourite stars Olivia Colman and Academy Award winners Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, and marks the third collaboration between Element Pictures and director Yorgos Lanthimos.
The film was shot by Irish cinematographer Robbie Ryan and was partly post-produced in Dublin. It will be released in Ireland in January 2019 through Fox Searchlight. It’s written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara and is produced by Ed Guiney and executive produced by Andrew Lowe for Element Pictures.
Irish actress Catriona Balfe was also nominated for a Golden Globe, for her role in the TV series Outlander.
The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan TD, commented:
I’m delighted to see, yet again, Irish excellence recognised on such a global scale – nominations for major international awards demonstrate the strength of the Irish film industry and the outstanding talent of many of our actors, writer, directors and others involved in every aspect of the industry.
This, Catriona’s fourth consecutive nomination in this category, is testament to her talent and dedication to her art. I would like to wish Catriona every success on awards’ night in the New Year.
The 76th annual Golden Globe awards will take place on 6 January 2019, and will be hosted by Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg.
Here are the Golden Globes nominees for the major categories:
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Best Actress (film)
Best Actor (film)
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Best Actress (Film – Musical or Comedy)
Best Actor (Film – Musical or Comedy)
Best Motion Picture – Animated
Best Motion Picture (Foreign Language)
Find the full list here.
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So, basically, the boards.ie administrator was a dunce.
Agreed, this was no hack the administrator of boards was negligent using the same password for two different services. It amazes me how lax people are with passwords, pet name year of birth etc.
Hey that’s victim blaming ……. Oh wait .. yeah it is a bit like leaving a BMW unlocked in Dolphins Barn with a laptop and Iphone in view and expecting nothing to happen.
That part of the report was taken from his submission which we couldn’t cross examine as he pleaded guilty. Its factually incorrect as the password was unique and not used on Twitter. It was also a strong password and we believe it was snatched during a “man-in-the-middle” attack.
Boards.ie/journal.ie are the same company, how much of this article can be taken at face value ?
I hope you were referring to the site administrator when you said Muppet!
Shocking lack of security on behalf of boards.ie really amateur stuff!
Or how about changing the headline to – Script Kiddy discovers gaping hole in Boards.ie security, boards thank him for identifying the hole and have since upgraded their security policy.
Companies pay kids like this to run penetration testing on their IT systems, having your IT admin use the same password on his twitter as for the server is a big facepalm.
Very surprised he didn’t go through a proxy for his hacking especially when he was a bit of a whizz kid.
Whizz kids usually use 7 proxies.
Yeah he’s a bit of a dope to get caught. Using his own ip address; scarlet for him.
How did such a security flaw cost boards.ie 30,000 Euro? All they had to do was delete the unauthorised file and change passwords. I’d say Boards.ie just exaggerated the claim to deck out their office and buy a couple of new servers, ipads, Macbooks etc
My password is my first name.
Boom?
Its factually incorrect to say the same password was used on Twitter. It wasn’t. The password was unique, it was also a strong password and we believe it was snatched during a “man-in-the-middle” attack.
OK buddy, we get you
Who are you trying to kid, Tom?
I remember having a few pints with you in town one night around that time, and I had a quick look at your phone when you were in the jacks*.
All of your passwords were the same. TomLuvsBords4Lyfe
*That chick who was pretending to be a journalist made me do it. She was hot, and I thought I had a chance.
Sorry for being the “Man-In-The-Middle”. :(
By the way, what year is that screenshot from?
When I look at the level of moderation on that site I am not surprised that the admins would be clueless. No surprises that this place is linked to them.
A bit OTT to extradite someone over something like this, no?
How is this hacking if you have the password ?
” Playing a game” They never change, do they? Kids will be kids!
I remember my first hacking back in 1983. I thought I was hacking into a video games company’s computer, to play all their unreleased games, but, it turned out, I was accidentally hacking into a NORAD supercomputer that was using games like chess as military simulators to calibrate how to react in a situation where the USA and the USSR began launching missiles, to spare as many lives as possible. I remember the designer, Dr Falken, used a backdoor password called “Joshua,” that the NORAD people weren’t aware of. I figured it out after doing some intense studying on the guy, and realised that was the name of his late son. So, me and a friend started playing this game on WOPR, that was the supercomputer’s name, called “Global Thermonuclear War,” and we started bombing cities like Las Vegas and Seattle, thinking we were playing a game, meanwhile, at NORAD, they thought the Russians were sending missiles their way. Long story short, after an arrest, an escape, a meeting with Dr Falken on his reclused island, we got back in time before the US responded to the phantom bombs, only for WOPR to try and overtake the system and figure out the code to send the missiles itself! So, we figured we’d let it play a game of tic-tac-toe, a game it couldn’t win or lose at, and it realised that there was no winning and decided not to play any more and decided not to set off the missiles.
God, those were the days!
I wonder who inserted my name into Irish waters database…. I didn’t…
My password is password.
How did he get the Twitter password? Was it hacked too?
I would imagine the sript kiddy used some kind of a widely known exploit to crack the password, if it cracked easy then it was unlikely very strong… provbably something like ‘ilikeboards’ or ‘boards123′
wysiwyg
Give that young man a job, he clearly knows more than others about IT security.
1Password enough said would end that problem in terms of using same password
It won’t take long for his next attempt and he won’t be caught.
He already works for the CIA.
A year suspended sentence is a bit harsh.
ok so how did he actually get Twitter password?
as by the sound of it he actually hacked Twitter not boards ie – he just logged onto boards.ie as proper user (admin)
Amateur. My password is passw0rd. They will never guess the o is a 0.
What’s with your quoting wysiwyg? And why should he get a job when his intentions are to falsify and steal from others? Any reason or answer?
Quoting wysiwyg was an example of “easy to guess” passwords. From reading that article, it suggests the site admin has used same/similar credentials for multiple accounts, which is extremely bad practice.
It states in the article that the hacker in this case didn’t divulge it share this information, instead the hack was to prove how easily it was in fact done.
The fact the hacker was only 17 at the time, probably had a bearing on a non custodial sentence.
Along a similar line, you’ll find AV vendors have actually hired people who wrote/spread malicious viruses, as they clearly have the ability to program and bypass security.
Hence my logic.
Give the lad a job, clearly he could seal up a few holes.
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