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...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...
...with their nationality. Kate Winslet is on both the bafta and Oscar shortlists, and Daniel Craig's Bond is the first 007 to ever earn a bafta nod. While their elders are known for their controlled performances, younger Brits are more raw and unrefined. And that's thanks to Hollywood. "Actors of my generation all look to Americans as the inventors of modern cinema acting technique," says Toby Jones, a British actor who plays American literary icon Truman Capote in Infamous - a role that both Sean Penn and Johnny Depp read for. "It's more naturalistic. We've always looked...
...this symbiosis that helps keep British cinema flourishing and U.S. cinema interesting. Sometimes, the relationship turns parasitic and British talent gets sucked into the Hollywood machine, never to return home. But most of the time, there's give and take. The U.S. system gives some funding or a distribution deal, and, in return, it gets a good story. Kevin Macdonald's portrait of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin The Last King of Scotland was made with mostly British funding, giving him the freedom to make his movie his way. "If I tried to do The Last King of Scotland through...
...Last King of Scotland was distributed through a Hollywood studio, which gave it a bigger audience than any British studio could. The film now has one Oscar nomination for its star Forest Whitaker and five bafta nominations. As Macdonald knows, it's the Oscar that will stick. He won an Academy Award in 2000 for his documentary on the Munich Olympics, One Day in September, and a bafta four years later for Touching the Void. "Winning a bafta is like winning a literary award," he says. "You're happy, your friends phone you up, and a week later everyone...