Scripter Award 2009
2009 USC Scripter Awards
2009 Scripter Award nominations: Jan. 6, 2009
2009 Scripter Award winners: Jan. 30, 2009
("*" denotes the winner)
Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
Screenwriter Eric Roth, who shares story credit with Robin Swicord, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Screenwriters Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway for Iron Man, based on the comic book series authored by Stan Lee and Don Heck
Screenwriter David Hare and author Bernhard Schlink for The Reader
Screenwriter Justin Haythe for Revolutionary Road, based on the novel by Richard Yates
* Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire, based on Q & A by author Vikas Swarup
USC Scripter Awards
USC Scripter Awards: 2005 [...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 30, 2009
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Tags: David Hare, Film Awards, Iron Man, Justin Haythe, Revolutionary Road, Robin Swicord, Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Reader
Best Films – 2002
A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier — though no less bizarre — with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted by director François Ozon and Marina de Van, from Robert Thomas’ play), this murder musical is dotted with 8 of the brightest stars of the French cinema of the last 7 (!) decades.
More than seventy years after her film début, Danielle Darrieux, in full form both as an actress and as a singer, joins [...]
by Andre Soares | June 13, 2005
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Tags: About a Boy, Alberto Iglesias, Avner Bernheimer, Best Films, Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Doyle, Christopher Hampton, Classic Movies, Conrad L. Hall, Daniel Day-Lewis, Danielle Darrieux, David Hare, Dennis Quaid, Eytan Fox, Fanny Ardant, Gangs of New York, Henry Thomas, Hero, Isabelle Huppert, Jay Cocks, Jude Law, Julianne Moore, Kenneth Lonergan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Meryl Streep, Michael Ballhaus, Michael Caine, Nicole Kidman, Ohad Knoller, Paul Newman, Pawel Edelman, Philip Glass, Road to Perdition, Stephen Daldry, Steven Zaillian, Tan Dun, The Hours, Thomas Newman, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Virginie Ledoyen, Wedigo von Schultzendorff, Yehuda Levi
THE HOURS II – Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore
THE HOURS Review: Part I
As a plus, instead of the plasticky makeup Kidman has used in her other roles (including her destitute heroine in the purportedly gritty Cold Mountain), she has an ugly fake nose plastered on her face for this one. Whether the fake nose possessed magical properties, I don’t know, but Kidman — though no Virginia Woolf replica — has never looked as interesting or acted as movingly. With a glance, she is able to convey in heartbreaking fashion Woolf’s yearnings for freedom from her constraining life, while her lowered tones add the appropriate somberness to the precarious psychological state of her character.
Finally, to her belong the two emotional highlights of the film: the first, when Woolf [...]
by Andre Soares | October 21, 2004
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Tags: David Hare, Film Reviews, Gay Interest, Lesbian Interest, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Philip Glass, Seamus McGarvey, Stephen Daldry, The Hours
THE HOURS d: Stephen Daldry
The Hours (2002)
Direction: Stephen Daldry
Screenplay: David Hare, from Michael Cunningham’s novel
Cast: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Eileen Atkins
Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer-winning The Hours uses Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway (whose working title was "The Hours") as the link that binds its three leading female characters. Far apart in terms of time and space, those three disturbed, unhappy women have in common both the deadness of a life of self-abnegation and the living reality of death itself.
Despite gaps in the narrative, Stephen Daldry’s stabs at melodrama, and one poor central performance, The Hours stands as an intelligent and deeply moving achievement. Most [...]
by Andre Soares | October 21, 2004
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Tags: David Hare, Ed Harris, Film Reviews, Four-Star Gay Movies, Four-Star Movies, Four-Star Oscar Nominees, Gay Interest, Julianne Moore, Lesbian Interest, Meryl Streep, Michael Cunningham, Mrs. Dalloway, Nicole Kidman, Oscar 2002, Oscar Movies, Stephen Daldry, The Hours, Toni Collette, Virginia Woolf
