'Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood' is the year's first surefire Oscar best picture nominee
by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
Aug 06, 2019
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Ian Hunter saw Quentin Tarantino's bravura "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood" last Saturday at the motion picture academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater, making it into the 1,000-seat venue before it filled to capacity and a hundred or so people had to be turned away.
Hunter returned to the Goldwyn on Thursday, wanting to revel again in what he calls the "ultimate L.A. movie." He invited two friends for a showing that Sony Pictures agreed to schedule after the lines for Saturday's screening wrapped around the side streets of Beverly Hills.
"I grew up in Los Angeles and the movie really captures what makes the city - and the industry -
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