Official Nominations: Julia. Equus. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden. Oh, God!. That Obscure Object Of Desire. Not many surprises here, with Julia picking up the win. It’s a standard enough story set in a torrid time, but I don’t think there’s enough here to warrant a win. Equus in its original form is a messed up […]
Official Nominations: Annie Hall. The Goodbye Girl. The Late Show. Star Wars. The Turning Point. As is usually the case with this category, it closely matches the Best Picture nominees. Annie Hall – not that different from the usual Woody Allen shtick although there are enough one-liners and rambling speeches to highlight. A modern viewer will find […]
“If you have an opportunity to accomplish something that will make things better for someone coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.” Baseball great and humanitarian Roberto Clemente Every day 150,000 people die. On Sunday, nine people died in a tragic helicopter accident in Calabasas, California. […]
via The Fragility of Life (Stories from the Sporting World) — Screenwriting from Iowa
The deep rooted theme of this blog is embedded in the title—Screenwriting from Iowa … and Other Unlikely Places. Here are a couple of quotes from two recent Oscar winners about telling stories from unlikely places (at least from a Hollywood, Oscar-winning perspective): “Because I’m based in Seoul, I wanted to tell the story about […]
via Screenwriting from Unlikely Places … and Winning Oscar Awards — Screenwriting from Iowa
First Scene Screenplay Festival 