Sheldon Turner Articles

Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, and author Walter Kirn won USC’s 2010 Scripter Award for the socially conscious comedy drama Up in the Air this past Saturday. The Scripter Award goes both to the screenwriter(s) of an adapted screenplay from a literary work and to the author of the source material. Directed by Reitman, and starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, and Anna Kendrick, Up in the [...]

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 [...]

Best Screenplay Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air The Golden Globe for best screenplay is trickier to predict than the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s choices for best supporting actress (Mo’Nique) and best supporting actor (Christoph Waltz). Up in the Air would be our choice for a couple of reasons: Unlike The Hurt Locker (scr: Mark Boal), which is perceived as a director’s [...]

George Clooney, Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner’s screenplay for Up in the Air is the #1 winner among North American critics groups, with Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds coming in second place. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber’s (500) Days of Summer, a boy meets girl tale in which things don’t quite go as planned, [...]