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
Eric Roth on the Making of THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Merrick Morton/Paramount Pictures
In the London Times, screenwriter Eric Roth discusses "The curious case of the making of Benjamin Button" with Kevin Maher:
"’In 1922 F.Scott Fitzgerald had a baby girl,’ continues the 63-year-old Oscar-winner Roth (Forrest Gump). ‘And when she was three months old he wrote a short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.’ The tale, about a man who was born at 70 and slowly aged backwards towards infancy, reflected Fitzgerald’s newly altered views on mortality, Roth says, adding: ‘But it was very broad and whimsical.’ However, the basic idea would eventually evolve into the story of an 86-year-old man, Benjamin ([Brad] Pitt), who is born as a wizened homunculus [...]
by Massimo David | January 29, 2009
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Tags: Brad Pitt, David Fincher, Eric Roth, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kevin Maher, Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA – Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Direction: Rob Marshall
Screenplay: Robin Swicord; from Arthur Golden’s novel
Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Mako, Tsai Chin
There are some movies that are released before their time. Only years or decades later, do they come to be appreciated. In the case Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha, based on Arthur Golden’s bestseller about the life and love of a young geisha in pre-World War II Japan, it’s the other way around. It is a movie released after – way after — its time.
As long as its makers chopped off about a third of its 145-minute running time, Memoirs of a Geisha would have worked beautifully as a silent film, [...]
by Andre Soares | December 9, 2005
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Tags: Dion Beebe, Film Reviews, Gong Li, John Williams, Ken Watanabe, Memoirs of a Geisha, Michelle Yeoh, Oscar 2005, Oscar Movies, Period Movies, Rob Marshall, Robin Swicord, Ziyi Zhang
