Toni Collette Articles

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006) Direction: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris Cast: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano Screenplay: Michael Arndt Oscar Movies Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear, Little Miss Sunshine More often than not, "independent film" merely indicates that an American production received its financing from sources outside — or somewhere 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 [...]

ABOUT A BOY (2002) Direction: Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz Cast: Hugh Grant, Toni Collette, Nicholas Hoult, Rachel Weisz Screenplay: Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz, and Peter Hedges; from Nick Hornby's novel Oscar Movies Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Hugh Grant, About a Boy "No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a [...]

Sandra Bullock (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA) Last year's top box-office star in the United States, Sandra Bullock won the best actress (drama) Golden Globe for The Blind Side, in which she plays a conservative, well-to-do matriarch who adopts an inner-city teenager. I don't think it should come as a surprise to anyone that somewhere along the way Bullock's character discovers there's plenty of [...]