Clik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2001
“There was a hush, and all turned their eyes on Frodo. He was shaken by a sudden shame and fear; and he felt a great reluctance to reveal the Ring, and a loathing of its touch. He wished he was far...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Great Read: Astonishing X-Men
Astonishing X-Men (4 volumes or two larger volumes or one omnibus) Author: Joss Whedon Artist: John Cassaday Published: 2004-2007 Publisher: Marvel Comics Pages: 656 First Line: “Mommy is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Century of Film: Adapted Screenplay
A Century of Film Adapted Screenplay It didn’t take long for screenwriters to realize that what had been successful in other mediums could be successful in film as well. After all, what is probably...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Great Read: The Song of Achilles
The Song of Achilles Author: Madeline Miller Published: 2012 Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: 378 First Line: “My father was a king and the son of kings.” Last Lines: “In the darkness, two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Great Read: The Night Circus
The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern Published: 2011 Publisher: Doubleday Pages: 387 First Line: “The circus arrives without warning.” Last Lines: “You are no longer quite certain which side...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2002
“As Laura sets the plates and forks on the table – as they ring softly on the starched white cloth – it seems she has succeeded suddenly, at the last minute, the way a painter might brush a final line...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Century of Film: Miramax / The Weinstein Company
A Century of Film Miramax / The Weinstein Company The Studio Some forty years ago, long before one brother sank beneath the weight of his other brother’s sexual crimes, there were Bob and Harvey...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Century of Film: Sony Pictures Classics
A Century of Film Sony Pictures Classics The Studio How good a job are you doing if the first film your studio releases is nominated for nine Oscars and wins three including Adapted Screenplay and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2003
My Top 10 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Mystic River City of God American Splendor Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Nowhere in Africa Whale Rider Big Fish Bubba Ho-Tep...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2004
Miles Raymond: Come on, man. You know. Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can’t kill yourself before you’re even published! Jack: What about the guy who wrote Confederacy of Dunces? He committed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2005
When it came—thirty cents—he pinned it up in his trailer, brass-headed tack in each corner. Below it he drove a nail and on the nail he hung a wire hanger and the two old shirts suspended from it. He...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2006
Nothing Wahlberg says in the film is anything like the dialogue in the original film but damn it’s brilliant. My Top 10 The Departed Children of Men Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story The Prestige...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2007
“And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2008
Actually, it is only written in the screenplay. The book is very different. My Top 10 Slumdog Millionaire The Dark Knight Revolutionary Road Doubt OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies Let the Right One In The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2009
The most memorable moment in the film – described in the book but not with dialogue. My Top 10 An Education Up in the Air A Single Man Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Informant Precious...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2010
“You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Great Read: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs Author: Walter Isaacson Published: 2011 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pages: 630 First Line: “When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Great Read: If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk Author: James Baldwin Published: 1974 Publisher: The Dial Press Pages: 197 First Line: “I look at myself in the mirror.” Last Lines: “Fanny is working on the wood, on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Best Adapted Screenplay: 2011
“Smiley shrugged it all aside, distrustful as ever of the standard shapes of human motive, and settled instead for a picture of one of those wooden Russian dolls that open up, revealing one person...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Best Endings
Best Film Endings (not including credits, songs or lines listed below) 1931: City Lights 1938: Bringing Up Baby 1939: The Wizard of Oz 1961: One, Two, Three 1969: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...
View Article