Little Miss Sunshine Articles
DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards: Odd Men Out Christopher Nolan, Pedro Almodóvar, Peter Jackson
Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Moulin Rouge! DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1990s: Odd People Out Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman 2000 DGA Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous AMPAS Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot DGA/AMPAS Steven Soderbergh, Traffic Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ridley Scott, Gladiator Steven Soderbergh, Erin Brockovich 2001 DGA Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge! Christopher Nolan, Memento [...]
Academy Should Fire Brett Ratner, Some Say. But Will They?
Brett Ratner: Oscar Producer & Gay Slur, (Not) Banging Olivia Munn This is what Mark Harris quite eloquently has to say at Grantland: What I do care about is what the Academy does, which should be either to ask for and receive his resignation from the show or to drop him as the producer of a show that is supposed to represent the best the [...]
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE's Abigail Breslin to Murder Mother in THE CLASS PROJECT
Abigail Breslin, Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominee for the sleeper hit Little Miss Sunshine, is all grown up now. Or at least grown up enough to commit matricide. Breslin is set to star in Stan Brooks' real-life-based indie drama The Class Project, the story of two teenage Canadian sisters who, fed up with their alcoholic mother, decide to do away with her — reportedly with [...]
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE Review Pt.2 – Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Abigail Breslin
Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' Little Miss Sunshine LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE Review Part I Apart from two funny bits — when Alan Arkin's Gramps exclaims, "At my age, you'd be crazy not to [snort heroin]!" and when the little daughter, who had been coached by Gramps, performs a quite risqué striptease during her beauty-pageant moment of [...]