Archive for the 'Awards' Category

• 02.20.08 Saturn Award nomination

  Matt Venne emailed me this morning to point out something I would have otherwise missed: The Nines just got a Saturn Award nomination for its DVD. It’s a cliché to say, “It’s an honor just to be nominated,” but really, it is. And surprising, too. The Nines isn’t an obvious choice at all. The Saturn Awards are [...]

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• 02.11.08 And I barely know who she is now

  At the Grammy Awards last night, my friend Jen pointed to presenter Miley Ray Cyrus and said, “You know she was in Big Fish, right?” I insisted that was impossible, and immediately tried to pull up IMDb on my iPhone in order to prove her wrong. But the network inside Staples Center was massively [...]

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• 05.29.07 Life is now worth living

  In a bold choice that shocked, well, me, The Morning News gave this very site one of its 2007 Editors’ Awards for Online Excellence, which is pretty cool considering it’s a damn screenwriting blog. The other award-winners are more deserving quite interesting, and worth a click-through. I’m particularly enamored by Mindy Kaling’s awesome [...]

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• 02.28.07 Blingons and despair

  Measured by the number of entries, the first-ever John August Scene Challenge was a surprising success. In terms of quality, well, there was a disappointing sameness that I’m going to blame on the limited nature of the assignment. Many entries were just a slightly-better version of the existing scene. While a lot [...]

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• 01.23.07 Best editors

  In this morning’s Oscar nominations, I was delighted (but not surprised) to see Doug Crise and Stephen Mirrione nominated for Babel. Stephen Mirrione cut Go, and Doug Crise followed up his work on Babel with a little movie called The Nines. Huge congrats to both of them.

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• 01.06.07 The Queen on a silver platter

  The inflow of screeners has slowed to a trickle, with only The Queen arriving this week. That makes nine screeners so far: The Queen Little Children Babel World Trade Center United 93 Notes on a Scandal Flags of Our Fathers Little Miss Sunshine Thank You for Smoking The Hollywood Reporter claims its FYC has screenplays for download, but I’ve yet to find one for [...]

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• 12.29.06 Little Children, a little late

  Yesterday afternoon, I hauled my butt over to the Sunset 5 to catch Little Children. I’d been dying to see it ever since catching the brilliant trailer months ago. (The trailer was better than the movie, which is no slam on the film. The trailer really is that good.) Today’s mail brought a screener copy [...]

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