The Informant Articles

2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Actor – Comedy or Musical George Clooney, Up in the Air (with director Jason Reitman) A professional downsizer finds his ideal frequent-flying partner right when he's about to get grounded. Sacha Baron Cohen, Brüno An Austrian fashionista wants to become the next red-white-and-blue sensation. Matt Damon, The Informant! A pathological liar helps the FBI nab a law-breaking agribusiness conglomerate. Daniel [...]

2010 Golden Globes Predictions: Best Picture – Comedy or Musical The Informant! (above, with Matt Damon), d: Steven Soderbergh; scr: Scott Z. Burns A pathological liar helps the US government nab a nefarious agribusiness conglomerate. Julie & Julia (above, with Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci), d & scr: Nora Ephron Julia Child starts cooking decades ago, while in the early 21st-century blogger Julie Powell decides to [...]

BEST ACTOR George Clooney, Up in the Air A professional downsizer finds the frequent-flying love of his life while having to come to terms with his long-lost humanity. Matt Damon, The Informant! A pathological liar helps the FBI nab his employer, a dishonest agribusiness conglomerate. Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine (with Marion Cotillard) In this musicalized remake of Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, Daniel Day-Lewis plays the old [...]

BEST FILM An Education, d: Lone Scherfig; scr: Nick Hornby In Swinging (suburban) London, a teenager decides to have her first sexual experience with a man in his thirties. The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow; scr: Mark Boal An elite unit of the US Army must disarm bombs during combat in an "enemy" city in Iraq. The Informant!, d: Steven Soderbergh; scr: Scott Z. Burns A [...]