Oscar Predictions 2010: Best Adapted Screenplay

Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard in An Education (Kerry Brown / Sony Pictures Classics)

District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
An Education, Nick Hornby
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach
Precious, Geoffrey Fletcher
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Other possibilities: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Tony Roche, In the Loop; Nora Ephron, Julie & Julia; Anthony Peckham, Invictus; Scott Cooper, Crazy Heart. Less likely: Joe Penhall, The Road; David Scearce and Tom Ford, A Single Man; Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, Where the Wild Things Are.
Any of the "possibilities" listed above could take the place of Precious, Fantastic Mr. Fox, or District 9. In the Loop won a couple of critics’ awards, Julie & Julia provided [...]

London 2009: Dominic Cooper, Carey Mulligan

Actors Dominic Cooper and potential best actress Oscar 2010 contender Carey Mulligan, screenwriter Nick Hornby, director Lone Scherfig, producers Amanda Posey and Finola Dwyer and actor Matthew Beard attend An Education photocall during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 20.

Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper

Dominic Cooper
Photos: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images

Sundance 2009: World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Sundance 2009: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
 

Nathalie Baye in A French Gigolo
 
Before Tomorrow (Le Jour Avant Lendemain) / Canada (Directors: Madeline Piujuq, Marie-Helene Cousineau)
A wise old woman fights to survive impossible circumstances with her young grandson in the Canadian Arctic. Cast: Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Paul-Dylan Ivalu, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu, Mary Qulitalik, Tumasie Sivuarapik. U.S. premiere
Bronson / U.K. (Director: Nicolas Winding Refn; screenwriter: Brock Norman Brock)
Traces the transformation of Mickey Peterson into Britain’s most notorious, dangerous and charismatic prisoner, Charles Bronson. Cast: Tom Hardy. North American premiere
Carmo, Hit the Road / Spain (Director-screenwriter: Murilo Pasta)
A lonely, handicapped smuggler and a beautiful girl embark on a reckless ride through [...]

ABOUT A BOY – Hugh Grant

About a Boy (2002)
Director: Chris and Paul Weitz
Screenplay: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, and Peter Hedges; from Nick Hornby’s novel
Cast: Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Weisz
 

 
"No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
With the above statement, seventeenth-century English writer John Donne reached beyond the apparent [...]