Nebraska Movie: Looking Back

Has it really been 3 years? Location Department office from the movie, #Nebraska. #ThrowbackThursday #NebraskaMovie pic.twitter.com/TYGHTdqSkM

— Kendra Liedle (@Cococaffeine) July 30, 2015

Golden Globe Nods to NEBRASKA

Golden Globe Nominations were announced on Thursday.  I'm looking forward to seeing AMERICAN HUSTLE and INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS.  

However, I must say that I'm especially proud of the 5 nominations snagged by NEBRASKA.  I spent a good chunk of time last year back in the heartland filming this movie.  Congratulations to all involved.   

Below are the five nominations the film received along with the other nominees in those categories:

NEBRASKA'S FIVE GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS:

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
"American Hustle"
"Her"
"Inside Llewyn Davis"
"Nebraska"
"The Wolf Of Wall Street"

Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Christian Bale, "American Hustle"
Bruce Dern, "Nebraska"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Oscar Isaac, "Inside Llewyn Davis"
Joaquin Phoenix, "Her"

Best Supporting Actress
Sally Hawkins, "Blue Jasmine"
Jennifer Lawrence, "American Hustle"
Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years A Slave"
Julia Roberts, "August: Osage County"
June Squibb, "Nebraska"

Best Director
Alfonso Cuaron, "Gravity"
Paul Greengrass, "Captain Phillips"
Steve McQueen, "12 Years A Slave"
Alexander Payne, "Nebraska"
David O. Russell, "American Hustle"

Best Screenplay
Spike Jonze, "Her"
Bob Nelson, "Nebraska"
Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan, "Philomena"
John Ridley, "12 Years A Slave"
Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell, "American Hustle"

For the complete list of 2014 Golden Globe Nominees, click here.  

-- KLiedle  

A year ago last September, I was adapting to life in Norfolk, Nebraska-- where our production office and the crew were based during the shooting of Nebraska. 

At this time last year, we were scurrying around in pre-production-- less than a month away from our rapidly approaching deadline of October 15, 2012.  It was to be our first day of filming.

Nebraska, directed by Alexander Payne, is slated for theatrical release November 2013.

Nebraska Official Movie Site

Copyright © 2013 by KLiedle 

After A Movie Wraps

I just arrived home after being on-location for 4 months working on a feature called "Nebraska." 

When they make the final call, "That's a wrap!" everyone involved in the making of the film has mixed feelings.  Usually those feelings are a combination of elation, relief, and sadness.  I know this was true for me.  As a tribute to my fellow cast and crew members and to the collaborative process of it all, I wrote the following...

Cinema

An idea, a character, a journey

A writer wishes upon a star

A director takes the wand

We all come together now

Hoping to tell a story,

Bring it to life in all its glory

Mold a script into something

Everyone can see—

Beauty and reality,

Emotion and heartbreak,

Moments that matter,

Opportunities that scattered—

In dust along a gravel road

Costumes, Construction, Art

Locations, Casting locked,

Actors become characters,

It’s more than fiction now

Black and white we see—

The shadows and the light

Truth and human failings,

Relationships worth saving

Before we know it,

The journey for us ends

Now it awaits the theater,

Awaits the crowd,

This film to share—

That will make us proud

There’s no recipe to create—

A movie with a blessed fate

Worth the heartache and the pain

We did it all together

To create this story,

Told within the frame.

© 2012 by KLiedle

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