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bafta and Oscar best film nominee The Queen is a prime example of how to make an utterly British story resonate for filmgoers all over the world. But Paul Greengrass's best directing Oscar nomination for United 93 shows how a British perspective can also work for a very American event. Both films were made with a mix of British and U.S. funding, but both directors know how to get the best stories out of the smallest budgets. "In Britain, you don't necessarily have $50 million to throw at a movie, so you need to come up with something...
...that's enough for us. UNITED 93 One of the few films to deal with the war on terrorism at its first flash point, this fine 9/11 docudrama merited a slot. BEST DIRECTOR CLINT EASTWOOD, Letters from Iwo Jima STEPHEN FREARS, The Queen ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ IŅARRITU, Babel PAUL GREENGRASS, United 93 MARTIN SCORSESE, The Departed MARTIN SCORSESE Surely this is the year the six-time nominee for Best Director gets the prize he has so richly deserved for more than three decades. MARTIN SCORSESE We're talking Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York...
...Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima Stephen Frears, The Queen Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel Paul Greengrass, United 93 Martin Scorsese, The Departed...
...grosses don't explain why United 93, Paul Greengrass' meticulous, creepy and critically acclaimed 9/11 docudrama, failed to nab a slot. It pulled in a respectful $31.5 million here, $44.1 million abroad. I'd say that United 93 was snubbed for two reasons: because a lot of people were reluctant, perhaps afraid, to relive 9/11, and because, for the Academy, all Oscar politics is local. Crash proved that last year. It was the ultimate L.A. movie - a drama about car violence on the interracial highway - while United 93 is the ultimate New York movie. Its shot of a passenger...
...horror movie could have scared so many people away from seeing it as this first major 9/11 film--a meticulous reimagining of the hijacking of one of the planes and the passengers' heroic improvisations to stop it. Paul Greengrass's grueling, ultimately inspiring drama is hard to watch but imperative...