Charles Ferguson Articles

Justin Timberlake, The Social Network If David Fincher’s The Social Network, produced by Dana Brunetti, Ceán Chaffin, Michael De Luca, and Scott Rudin, doesn’t win the Producers Guild (PGA) Award on Saturday, Jan. 22, that’ll be an upset akin to, say, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen winning the Directors Guild Award for True Grit — despite the fact that the Coens weren’t even nominated. In [...]

Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, about the greed, corruption, and general idiocy that led to the still-lingering global financial meltdown, narrated by Matt Damon Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home, Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, Alex Gibney’s Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for ‘Superman’, and Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger’s Restrepo are the Directors Guild of America’s nominees for the 2011 [...]

Pat Tillman (left) in Amir Bar-Lev’s The Tillman Story The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences haven’t officially released their longlist of Best Documentary Feature contenders for the 2011 Oscars, but the 15-film list has already been circulating online thanks to a leak (see “update” below) somewhere inside the Academy. (Deadline was the first site to publish the list; others have followed suit since.) [...]

Oscar Ceremony 2008: Part I The biggest surprise at the Oscar 2008 ceremony was Javier Bardem’s best supporting actor Oscar win for No Country for Old Men. Joke! (Bardem, shown above next to Jack Nicholson, is not applauding himself.) The second biggest surprise was Marion Cotillard’s win. I was expecting Julie Christie. In fact, I wanted Julie Christie, though Cotillard (right) was surely just as [...]