Michael Arndt Articles

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 [...]

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 [...]

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006) Direction: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris Cast: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano Screenplay: Michael Arndt Oscar Movies Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Little Miss Sunshine More often than not, "independent film" merely indicates that an American production received its financing from sources outside — or somewhere in [...]

2007 WGA Awards 2007 Writers Guild of America Award television and radio nominations: December 13, 2006; motion picture nominations: January 11, 2007 2007 WGA Award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and at the Hudson Theater in the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York on February 11, 2007 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, [...]