Valerie Faris Articles

Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Moulin Rouge! DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1990s: Odd People Out Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman 2000 DGA Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous AMPAS Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot DGA/AMPAS Steven Soderbergh, Traffic Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ridley Scott, Gladiator Steven Soderbergh, Erin Brockovich   2001 DGA Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge! Christopher Nolan, Memento [...]

Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano in Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' Little Miss Sunshine LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE Review Part I Apart from two funny bits — when Alan Arkin's Gramps exclaims, "At my age, you'd be crazy not to [snort heroin]!" and when the little daughter, who had been coached by Gramps, performs a quite risqué striptease during her beauty-pageant moment of [...]

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 [...]

2007 Directors Guild Awards 2007 Directors Guild of America nominations: feature film nominees on January 9, 2007; made-for-TV movies on January 10, 2007; other television nominees on January 11; and documentary and commercials nominees on January 16, 2007 2007 DGA Award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 3, 2007 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Steven Spielberg, DGA [...]