Word: hollywood
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...surreal moment for the visiting Hollywood élite, and an embarrassing one for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (bafta) hosting its annual version of the Oscars back in February 2002. But the gaffe was also sort of charming, a reminder of what distinguishes the British film industry from its bigger, glossier American counterpart. These days, though, the Orange British Academy Film Awards, known as the baftas, want to be taken seriously. This year's ceremony marks the awards' 60th anniversary and the academy is determined that the evening's only bubbles will come from the champagne...
...talent came home weighed down with Golden Globes last month, it's a good bet the same will happen at the Oscars on Feb. 25. This kind of success can get people overexcited, thinking that maybe - just maybe - this is the year that Britain will finally step out of Hollywood's shadow. But it will never happen. Britain's industry is far too small to compete with the U.S. entertainment behemoth. And that's probably the best thing about...
...including The Queen (Peter Morgan) and Notes on a Scandal (Patrick Marber). "The quality of really good British writing has been a tradition for decades," says Vaines. "British screenwriters have a facility with words, a theatricality, but they also understand the way film works as a medium." In the Hollywood power scale, most screenwriters rank just below the guy who buys the bagels, and a finished script is never really finished until the director, the producers and, often, other writers have had their say. But the Oscar-nominated British writers all have long histories with the people they work with...
...surveying this bleak terrain, the Academy membership might turn to the one feel-good movie nominated for Best Picture. Voting for a comedy that celebrates life - eccentric but essentially loving family life - would be an affirmation of what Hollywood has done since its Golden Age: try to make America forget what makes it gloomy, and bring it a little Sunshine...
...million; ThinkFilm picked up the astronaut documentary In the Shadow of the Moon for $2.5 million; the Weinstein Co. paid $4 million to win a heated bidding war for the John Cusack drama Grace is Gone, prompting the indie film company's head, Harvey Weinstein, to tell the Hollywood Reporter, "F--- it. I'm good at this. It's fun." We're pretty sure Cusack was happy about...