The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Articles

2009 Directors Guild Awards 2009 DGA feature film nominations: January 8, 2009. Documentary and television nominations: January 9, 2009 2009 DGA award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, January 31, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Following his DGA win, Danny Boyle is the odds-on favorite to win the best director Academy Award. In fact, Boyle has been the [...]

The Makeup Artist and Hairstylist Symposium, focusing on the achievements of the 2009 Oscar nominees in the makeup category, will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Saturday, February 21, at 2:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Moderated by Academy governor Leonard Engelman, the symposium will include a discussion of the nominees’ creative process and the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]