Danny Boyle Articles

Danny Boyle, Oscar nominee for Best Motion Picture of the Year and for Adapted Screenplay, arrives with a guest for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Boyle won the Best Direction Oscar two years ago for Slumdog Millionaire. This year, he was in the running for 127 Hours, which starred Best Actor nominee and Oscar co-host James Franco. 127 Hours [...]

127 Hours (2010) Direction: Danny Boyle Cast: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, John Bott, Treat Williams, John Lawrence, Kate Burton Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle; from Aron Ralston's book Between a Rock and a Hard Place Oscar Movies Recommended with Reservations James Franco, 127 Hours When I initially heard that Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning team behind Slumdog Millionaire, were adapting [...]

Danny Boyle's Trainspotting stars Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, and Kevin McKidd It's too bad I'm posting this a little too late, as the Library of Congress' Packard Campus Theater welcomed the year 2011 with a screening of one of the best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals, The Gay Divorcee (1934). And screening tonight at 7:30 p.m. — there's still [...]

Mark Wahlberg, Amy Adams, The Fighter The Detroit Film Critics Society selected David Fincher's The Social Network as the top movie of 2010. Danny Boyle, however, was named Best Director for 127 Hours. Unlike two years ago, when he was winning awards left and right for Slumdog Millionaire, this time around Boyle has been placed in the back burner while American critics' groups honor Fincher [...]