Phil Alden Robinson Articles

Academy Award nominated actress Alfre Woodard (Cross Creek), Passion Fish), Field of Dreams writer-director Phil Alden Robinson, and cinematographer John Bailey (The Accidental Tourist, As Good As It Gets) are among eight members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who will be traveling to Kenya and Rwanda "for an educational and cultural exchange with African filmmakers, students and the local creative communities," [...]

Upon learning of author J.D. Salinger's death at the age of 91, I immediately thought of Phil Alden Robinson's Academy Award-nominated 1989 drama Field of Dreams, in which Kevin Costner's character sets out to find a reclusive writer played by James Earl Jones. In W.P Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe, the character is Salinger himself, but not surprisingly, the reclusive real-life Salinger refused to allow the [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented a 20th anniversary screening of the Academy Award-nominated Field of Dreams on Wednesday, December 16, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Pictured above prior to the screening of the family drama featuring baseball, corn fields, and ghosts are (left to right): Academy President Tom Sherak, cinematographer John Lindley, Oscar-nominated writer/director Phil Alden Robinson (he [...]

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Phil Alden Robinson's Field of Dreams, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented a screening of the supernatural baseball drama on Wednesday, December 16, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Back in 1989, Field of Dreams, in which a farmer builds (a baseball field) so they'll come ("they" being the Shoeless Joe Jackson and the [...]