Stephen Daldry Articles

Angelina Jolie, In the Land of Blood and Honey Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Albert Brooks?: Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor/Actress Contenders For Best Director, look for a star. Or even better, stars. That’s why likely Golden Globe nominees in that category are Steven Spielberg for War Horse, Martin Scorsese for Hugo, Stephen Daldry for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (once again, the power [...]

Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry’s The Hours THE HOURS Review: Part I Now, throughout her career Meryl Streep has created countless great portrayals of all types of women, so I have come to expect continuous excellence from her. Nicole Kidman, however, is a different matter. True, she displayed a solid comic talent in Gus Van Sant’s quirky To Die For back in [...]

THE HOURS (2002) Direction: Stephen Daldry Cast: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Stephen Dillane, John C. Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Eileen Atkins Screenplay: David Hare; from Michael Cunningham’s novel Oscar Movies Recommended Nicole Kidman, The Hours Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer-winning The Hours uses Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway (working title: "The Hours") as the link [...]

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner in Chris Weitz’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon (top); David Kross, Kate Winslet in Stephen Daldry’s The Reader (bottom) Academy Award nominee Stephen Daldry could be the next person to direct Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner in the Twilight Saga series. For those unfamiliar with the name, Stephen Daldry has been nominated for three Best Director Oscars: [...]