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Matt Damon, Class of 1992, 1998, Best Original Screenplay...
...cinematic fluidity using sliding walls to cut between scenes, while film clips of happy couples reminiscing (a successful device in the original) are often projected on a screen in front of the set. It's a good try, but since playwright Marcy Kahan uses much of Ephron's screenplay verbatim there are too many rapid-fire scenes. Every setting change, however brief, disrupts the momentum, and the effect is wearying. The cinematic production simply emphasizes Kahan's failure to find a way of making this work in the theater. And it's not just the sets that disappoint. Hannigan...
Over at Miramax, which touted Cold Mountain as its main Oscar contender this year, company co-chairman Harvey Weinstein told several news outlets that his movie’s late release date was the reason for its being passed over in the Picture, Director, Actress, and Screenplay categories. Weinstein told the New York Observer that “the biggest reason I think Cold Mountain had problems this year was the fact that we released at Christmas . . . We were the last to send out cassettes. It was an early schedule this year. I don’t think...
...this year, I counted no less than seven certified jaw-droppers in the big categories: Director and Screenplay nominations for City of God, an obscure Brazilian film released back in January 2003; a Screenplay nom for The Barbarian Invasions, a French-language movie from Canada; two Acting nominationss and a Screenplay nod for In America, a small film with no star wattage; and a freak Best Actress nomination for 13-year-old Whale Rider star Keisha Castle-Hughes, who became the youngest nominee in the category’s history...
...winners, were stiffed--not to mention the film itself, denying Miramax a Best Picture finalist for the first time in 12 years. The company's co-chairman Harvey Weinstein is still determined to find the pony in the manure. "With Cold Mountain, City of God [which got Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography and Editing nods] and The Barbarian Invasions [Foreign Language]," he insists, "this is the moment to say, All right, we're there. No one's taking those nominations away for five weeks, so we can run like demons and try to do some business on these films...