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...screenwriter as well as a novelist, Westlake received an Academy Award nomination in 1991 for his screenplay for The Grifters and won the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award three times from the Mystery Writers of America...
...several remarkable things about this austere and masterly movie - which may remind cinephiles of the calm clarity and seeming simplicity of the French master, Robert Bresson - is that Bégaudeau is playing a version of himself, in a screenplay of his own devising that is in turn based on a novel that he also wrote. It is hard to think of another film more tightly autobiographical than this one. It's even harder to think of other films that build so gripping a narrative out of a string of comparatively minor and disparate incidents. For its first few minutes...
...crowd, Milk in New York and, in L.A., Pixar's summer hit WALL-E (which won for Animated film in the other groups). Best directors were David Fincher for Benjamin Button (NBR), Danny Boyle for Slumdog (D.C. and L.A.) and Mike Leigh for Happy-Go-Lucky (New York). Screenplay prizes were allotted to Slumdog, Benjamin Button, Happy-Go-Lucky, Rachel Getting Married and Gran Torino. Art-house habituées may wish to know that Man on Wire was judged best documentary by all four groups (the only clean sweep), and that the best foreign-language films were Mongol...
There's nothing that I wouldn't repeat if there was a new take or new dimension to it. A great role in a great screenplay, I'll never say no to. There are a lot of areas that I really want to approach. I would love to do more "real person" screenplays, somebody's life, like the average hero. I think there's a ton of historic Latin people whose stories need to be told. My dream is to do what I do on stage, on film. That's my huge quest in life. I want to take...
...play off of Brecher's uncredited role as script editor on The Wizard of Oz--also bestowed on Brecher the nickname "The Wicked Wit of the West." Brecher used that wit to create the long-running radio series The Life of Riley and pen the Academy Award--nominated screenplay for Meet Me in St. Louis...