Winter's Bone Articles
SIMON AND THE OAKS Tops Swedish Oscar Nominations: Guldbagge Awards

Bill Skarsgård, Simon and the Oaks Best film Apflickorna / She Monkeys Producer: Helene Lindholm Play Producer: Erik Hemmendorff Simon och ekarna / Simon and the Oaks Producers: Christer Nilson, Per Holst Best Foreign Language Film Kynodontas / Dogtooth Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Jodaeiye Nader az Simin / A Separation Director: Asghar Farhadi Winter's Bone Director: Debra Granik Best Director Lisa Aschan for Apflickorna / She [...]
Oscar-, Mainstream-Friendly Spirit Awards 2011: BLACK SWAN, Natalie Portman, James Franco

Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan The Spirit Awards aren't the Oscars, we're told. No, they aren't. But they share a lot more in common with one another than the free-spirited, it's-all-about-the-art crowd would have us believe. Held this afternoon at Santa Monica beach (I hope they had good heaters), the 2011 Spirit Award voters went for Oscar-nominated mainstream hits and near-hits in their [...]
Roman Polanski, Joel and Ethan Coen, Aaron Sorkin: USC Scripter Award Nominations

Olivia Williams, Pierce Brosnan in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer 127 Hours, The Ghost Writer, The Social Network, True Grit, and Winter's Bone are the five movies in the running for the 2011 USC Scripter Award, given to both the writer of an adapted screenplay based on a book and to the author of the source material. The nominees are (in alphabetical order): Danny Boyle [...]
WGA Nominations: No THE KING'S SPEECH, WINTER'S BONE, TOY STORY 3

Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor in writer-directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra's I Love You Phillip Morris David Seidler's widely praised screenplay for The King's Speech was left out of the 2011 Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominations announced earlier today. Also missing from the WGA shortlist were Debra Granik for Winter's Bone and Mike Leigh for Another Year. What's up with that? [List of Writers [...]