From left, The Other Side of the Wind producer Frank Marshall, executive producer Peter Bogdanovich, editor Bob Murawski and producer Filip Jan Rymsza pose at Tribeca West in Los Angeles on December 18, 2017. Their efforts have been recognized by The National Society of Film Critics. (Ray Kelly photo)
The National Society of Film Critics bestowed its Film Heritage Award today on the recently completed The Other Side of Wind.
Founded in 1966, the National Society of Film Critics counts among its members many of the country’s leading film critics. Its Film Heritage Award was given to “the team of producers, editors, restorers, technicians and cineastes who labored for decades to bring Orson Welles’ The Other Side of Wind to completion for a new generation of movie lovers.”
Producers Frank Marshall and Filip Jan Rymsza each tweeted their thanks to the critics group for the honor.
In recent weeks, The Other Side of Wind has received William K. Everson Award for Film History from the National Board of Review and a special citation from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Welles and editor Bob Murawski were given the Best Film Editing Award by the San Francisco Film Critics Circle.
The movie has appeared on more than three dozen Best Films of 2018 lists.
During the filming four decades ago, Welles asked co-star and fellow director Peter Bogdanovich to complete the movie in the event he was unable to do so.
Following Welles’ death, Bogdanovich, producer Frank Marshall, cinematographer Gary Graver, film historian Joseph McBride and others labored unsuccessfully for years to bring the project to fruition.
After nearly a decade of work, Rymsza untangled and united the rights held by the Iranian financial backers, Welles’ longtime companion Oja Kodar, and the filmmaker’s youngest daughter, Beatrice Welles. With support from Netflix executives Ian Bricke and Ted Sarandos, editing on The Other Side of the Wind got underway in 2017.
Marshall, Rymsza and Bogdanovich put together a top-notch post-production team, which included Murawski, Ruth Hasty, Mo Henry, Dov Samuel, Scott Millan, Gregg Rudloff, Daniel Saxlid, John Knoll, Joe Ceballos, Brian Meanley, Michel Legrand, Ellen Segal, Alyssa Swanzey and Frank Lomento.
Congratulations to them and the original “Volunteers in Service to Orson Welles,” who labored during the 1970s shoot: Marshall, Bogdanovich, Graver, McBride, Larry Jackson, Peter Jason, Eric Sherman, Pat McMahon, R. Michael Stringer, Mike Ferris, Polly Platt, Sally Stringer, Louis Race, and many, many more. The cast included such Welles loyalists as Paul Stewart, Mercedes McCambridge and Norman Foster, as well as Kodar, John Huston, Lilli Palmer, Bob Random, Cameron Mitchell, Tonio Selwart, John Caroll, and a host of others.
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