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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s Oscar for the screenplay of “Good Will Hunting” is a classic Hollywood—and Harvard—success story. Damon, an unknown and a Harvard undergrad, writes an astounding script with his pal. A director likes it. They star in it themselves. Fast-forward to the ceremony for Best Original Screenplay.But what’s often overlooked is that the duo seem to have had only one good script in them, and it took them years to write it.Passion, adventure, and tragedy encapsulated in three acts...
Told using simple dialogue, the storyline follows entertaining characters and is hip, sexy, action-packed, and believable. In other words, the screenplay includes everything that your average Middle American would want in a story...
...Attendees dressed the part. Brokeback Mountain writer Larry McMurtry picked up his best adapted screenplay Oscar in jeans and cowboy books. The Wallace & Gromit directors Nick Park and Steve Box accepted for best animated feature in cartoonish Paul Smith bow-ties. Presenter King Kong?s Naomi Watts wore a distressed Givenchy gown that looked straight from Skull Island. Fortunately, Best Actress nominee Felicity Huffman left her Transamerica look at home, choosing a low-cut gown that proves she?s all woman...
...zero-tolerance orchestra. Past gabby winners Cuba Gooding Jr. and Julia Roberts wouldn?t have had a chance with this year?s schedule-conscious conductor. Co-winners, like Crash, scriptwriter Bobby Moresco who won for original screenplay, never got to utter a word. In fact, we had lots more to say?about Jon Stewart?s under-stated hosting, Meryl Streep & Lily Tomlin?s witty presenting, Isaac Mizrahi?s good behavior, the penguins who made the trip?(music swells...
Members of the largest queer student group on campus cheered the success of “Brokeback Mountain,” the story of two cowboys struggling with their sexuality, in the 78th Annual Academy Awards, as the film won Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay honors. The biggest film story of the night was that stories portraying the lives of gay, bisexual and transgender individuals broke through to attract mainstream attention and critical acclaim. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor for his potrayal of an openly gay author in “Capote...