Tag: Oscars

#WritingAdviceWednesday – Oscar Nominated PDF Screenplays Here

#WritingAdviceWednesday – Raindance has posted the 2010 and 2011 Oscar-nominated screenplays for both original screenplay and adapted screenplay.

McKee on 2011 Best Screenplay

Here is Robert McKee’s views on Best Screenplay and on stories based on history, fact or actual people’s lives. Like McKee, I believe that a writer’s first duty is to the emotional truth of the story, not factual accuracy. That’s why it’s FICTION.

#ThinkpieceThursday – A Hope-ful survey on the state of indie films

#ThinkpieceThursday – Ted Hope presents a glowing outlook on the state of the independent film business.

“King’s Speech” and “Fighter” lead the SAG Awards

The 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced. What do you think? Film Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture The King’s Speech Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Natalie Portman, Black Swan Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Colin Firth, The King’s… Continue reading “King’s Speech” and “Fighter” lead the SAG Awards

It Never Gets Easier

Here is the good news and the bad news about being a writer– “It never gets any easier.” Every writer from an Academy Award winner to a complete beginner face the same challenges, obstacles and terrors

Idealism Wins at the Oscars

Pixar won the 2009 Oscar for Best Animated Feature with Up. All seven Pixar films released since the creation of the category have been nominated. Five have taken home the Oscar: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, and Up. Three of those five Oscar winners— Up, The Incredibles and Ratatouille— are Power of Idealism films.

Two Oscar Contenders – Up In The Air and The Hurt Locker

Two of the most talked about characters in Oscar-nominated pictures this year are emotionally damaged men deployed to handle bombs in people’s lives. Their approaches to this assignment are very different.