This article marks Part 19 of the 21-part Gold Derby series analyzing Meryl Streep at the Oscars. Join us as we look back at Meryl Streep’s nominations, the performances that competed with her at the Academy Awards, the results of each race and the overall rankings of the contenders.
After scoring her 18th Oscar nomination with “August: Osage County” (2013), Meryl Streep lined up a trio of promising projects for the following year. That 19th nomination would, no doubt, be lurking around the corner.
First, there was “The Giver,” the long-awaited film adaptation of Lois Lowry‘s best-selling dystopian young adult novel. The project paired Streep with, for the first time, two Hollywood heavyweights – Oscar winner Jeff Bridges and Australian director Philip Noyce. A late summer release, “The Giver” mustered decent box office receipts but was resoundingly trashed by critics.
Garnering warm reviews but a chilly box office reception was Streep’s second 2014 release,...
After scoring her 18th Oscar nomination with “August: Osage County” (2013), Meryl Streep lined up a trio of promising projects for the following year. That 19th nomination would, no doubt, be lurking around the corner.
First, there was “The Giver,” the long-awaited film adaptation of Lois Lowry‘s best-selling dystopian young adult novel. The project paired Streep with, for the first time, two Hollywood heavyweights – Oscar winner Jeff Bridges and Australian director Philip Noyce. A late summer release, “The Giver” mustered decent box office receipts but was resoundingly trashed by critics.
Garnering warm reviews but a chilly box office reception was Streep’s second 2014 release,...
- 2/22/2018
- by Andrew Carden
- Gold Derby
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Golden Rut
Logline: Austin’s finest actor is inspired to take his career up a notch when he falls for a beautiful, independent, business woman. However his plans are derailed when her spicy, eccentric identical twin sister pops into the picture.
Elevator Pitch:
Scottie Johnson, the finest actor in Austin, Texas is loving life until he starts dating Ebby, a beautiful savvy entrepreneur. In an attempt to secure her love, he makes a promise to take his career to the next level. Around the same time Alex the wild, sexy, identical twin sister of Ebby shows up to stay with her.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
The Golden Rut
Logline: Austin’s finest actor is inspired to take his career up a notch when he falls for a beautiful, independent, business woman. However his plans are derailed when her spicy, eccentric identical twin sister pops into the picture.
Elevator Pitch:
Scottie Johnson, the finest actor in Austin, Texas is loving life until he starts dating Ebby, a beautiful savvy entrepreneur. In an attempt to secure her love, he makes a promise to take his career to the next level. Around the same time Alex the wild, sexy, identical twin sister of Ebby shows up to stay with her.
- 7/12/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
By Lee Pfeiffer
Director/screenwriter Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" has been released by Sony as a dual format Blu-ray/DVD package that also includes a digital edition of the film. The film lives up to the almost unanimous acclaim it has received since it opened last year. It is also a front-runner for this year's Best Picture Oscar. What Linklater did was nothing short of historic: filming the same story in real time with the same actors over a twelve year period. The audaciousness of the project makes the mind reel, in terms of the physical logistics alone. Linklater had to shoot around his actor's other filming schedules, ensure that the production funds wouldn't dry up and work with an ever-revolving crew in varying locations throughout Texas. To be fair, director Michael Apted's historic "Up!" series has been filming updates every seven years for his series that has traced...
Director/screenwriter Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" has been released by Sony as a dual format Blu-ray/DVD package that also includes a digital edition of the film. The film lives up to the almost unanimous acclaim it has received since it opened last year. It is also a front-runner for this year's Best Picture Oscar. What Linklater did was nothing short of historic: filming the same story in real time with the same actors over a twelve year period. The audaciousness of the project makes the mind reel, in terms of the physical logistics alone. Linklater had to shoot around his actor's other filming schedules, ensure that the production funds wouldn't dry up and work with an ever-revolving crew in varying locations throughout Texas. To be fair, director Michael Apted's historic "Up!" series has been filming updates every seven years for his series that has traced...
- 2/19/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
As is our annual tradition we like to peruse the credits of the SAG Ensemble nods to see who got left out despite their film's nomination. The Film Experience started this kind of analysis ten years ago when The Aviator had some really dumb exclusions and inclusions but lots of other sites now cover the injustice. We never get credit for starting this line of Norma Rae righteous anger but, that said, at least a lot of people have it now.
Did SAG think her face looked like she'd licked a homelessman's ass?
If you aren't familiar SAG uses a system whereby only actors with solitary title cards are official nominees for the Cast category. This means if you are famous in a bit part and have a good agent you are more likely to be an official nominee than the unknown who delivered a better performance in possibly a...
Did SAG think her face looked like she'd licked a homelessman's ass?
If you aren't familiar SAG uses a system whereby only actors with solitary title cards are official nominees for the Cast category. This means if you are famous in a bit part and have a good agent you are more likely to be an official nominee than the unknown who delivered a better performance in possibly a...
- 12/10/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
A character actor with more than 80 film and TV projects to his name, Austin, Tex.-based Marco Perella is receiving his widest exposure ever—for a movie he finished shooting eight years ago. As the drunk disciplinarian stepfather of Mason (Ellar Coltrane) in Richard Linklater’s decades-spanning Boyhood, Perella plays the pathetic bully with a finesse that’s left some viewers thinking the movie was all too real.
EW spoke to Perella about his role in the film and the choice of words when he’s being praised for being bad.
The interview below references specific scenes and plot details of Boyhood.
EW spoke to Perella about his role in the film and the choice of words when he’s being praised for being bad.
The interview below references specific scenes and plot details of Boyhood.
- 8/6/2014
- by Joe McGovern
- EW - Inside Movies
Chicago – Life is made up of moments, as the philosophy of the new Richard Linklater film wants to convey. What formulates a person’s ideals and soul, born in a certain place and time? Over 12 years, the writer and director created a fictional family using the same actors in “Boyhood.”
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The film is more than an experiment, it feels seamless – if you didn’t know that Linklater used the same actors over 12 years, you might think brothers portrayed the main character. Using precise time markers, mostly in technology, the director shows the growth, philosophy and aging process of one star-crossed family in Texas, who manage to survive in the way they know how to, with all their mistakes and sacrifices. The film is nearly three hours, but because of how fascinating their story becomes, it seems like a moment.
Mason (Ellar Coltrane, from age six to 18) is a product of a broken home,...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
The film is more than an experiment, it feels seamless – if you didn’t know that Linklater used the same actors over 12 years, you might think brothers portrayed the main character. Using precise time markers, mostly in technology, the director shows the growth, philosophy and aging process of one star-crossed family in Texas, who manage to survive in the way they know how to, with all their mistakes and sacrifices. The film is nearly three hours, but because of how fascinating their story becomes, it seems like a moment.
Mason (Ellar Coltrane, from age six to 18) is a product of a broken home,...
- 7/18/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Director Richard Linklater is a great American storyteller. In 2002, he embarked on a filmmaking journey that would be twelve years long, and conceived a fictional tale of a boy as he ages from age six to 18. Using the same actors over all those years, the result is the epic and philosophical “Boyhood.”
The power of “Boyhood” is embraced by the boy’s life cycle – portrayed by Ellar Coltrane through the ages. The ups and downs of his short but eventful existence is experienced as he grows during the 12 years. The basis for his perspective is forged through the difficulties of his estranged parents, two stepfathers and his mother’s dogged determination to keep everything together for him and his sister (portrayed by Richard Linklater’s daughter, Lorelei). Patricia Arquette (Mom) and the venerable Linklater collaborator Ethan Hawke (Dad) are around for the whole ride, and there is a poignancy...
The power of “Boyhood” is embraced by the boy’s life cycle – portrayed by Ellar Coltrane through the ages. The ups and downs of his short but eventful existence is experienced as he grows during the 12 years. The basis for his perspective is forged through the difficulties of his estranged parents, two stepfathers and his mother’s dogged determination to keep everything together for him and his sister (portrayed by Richard Linklater’s daughter, Lorelei). Patricia Arquette (Mom) and the venerable Linklater collaborator Ethan Hawke (Dad) are around for the whole ride, and there is a poignancy...
- 7/16/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
‘Boyhood’ movie review: Richard Linklater has created ‘conceptually brilliant new film’ (photo: Ellar Coltrane in ‘Boyhood’) Director Richard Linklater once said, “The most unique property of cinema is how it lets you mold time, whether it’s over a long or a very brief period.” Indeed, time — and our relationship to it both philosophically and practically — has been an ongoing theme in Linklater’s work over the course of his now lengthy career, and it is once again at the center of the writer-director’s conceptually brilliant new film, which took more than twelve years to nurture: Boyhood. When we first meet Mason (Ellar Coltrane), he’s six years old and living with his mother (Patricia Arquette) and sister (Lorelei Linklater, the filmmaker’s daughter) in a small town in Texas; his dad (Ethan Hawke) is a better-than-average weekend-warrior of an absentee father. Mason is a quirky kid with an...
- 7/12/2014
- by Tim Cogshell
- Alt Film Guide
Patricia Arquette with Ethan Hawke and Ellar Coltrane: "you lose contact with those people and then you can never find them again." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Richard Linklater's 12-years-in the making opus Boyhood had a New York première at the Museum of Modern Art with its stars Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater, the director's daughter, attending. Boyhood producers Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, filmmakers Alex Gibney, Joe Berlinger with current and former New York Film Festival Directors of Programming and Selection Committee Chairs Kent Jones and Richard Peña celebrated the IFC Films release. Joel Grey, although not in the film, shared with me a very early boyhood memory. I brought up to Linklater, Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom as filmic references and the director was surprised and amused.
Ethan Hawke with Lorelei Linklater: "You always start to...
Richard Linklater's 12-years-in the making opus Boyhood had a New York première at the Museum of Modern Art with its stars Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater, the director's daughter, attending. Boyhood producers Cathleen Sutherland, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, filmmakers Alex Gibney, Joe Berlinger with current and former New York Film Festival Directors of Programming and Selection Committee Chairs Kent Jones and Richard Peña celebrated the IFC Films release. Joel Grey, although not in the film, shared with me a very early boyhood memory. I brought up to Linklater, Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point and Michael Powell's Peeping Tom as filmic references and the director was surprised and amused.
Ethan Hawke with Lorelei Linklater: "You always start to...
- 7/8/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Director Richard Linklater excels himself with his latest drama, Boyhood. Here’s Ryan’s review of a one-of-a-kind piece of filmmaking...
The mind boggles at the risks director Richard Linklater must have taken in order to make Boyhood. This is a drama shot over the course of more than a decade, following the same group of actors as they mature and change with each passing year. The passing of time - and how it affects relationships - is something Linklater flirted with before in his Before trilogy, but never to the groundbreaking extent seen here.
Boyhood is told from the perspective of six-year-old Mason (Ellar Coltrane), an imaginative, somewhat distracted boy more fascinated by the world around him than his homework, which he often leaves crumpled up in his school rucksack. His mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has little to do with Mason's father, Mason Senior (a brilliantly louche Ethan Hawke...
The mind boggles at the risks director Richard Linklater must have taken in order to make Boyhood. This is a drama shot over the course of more than a decade, following the same group of actors as they mature and change with each passing year. The passing of time - and how it affects relationships - is something Linklater flirted with before in his Before trilogy, but never to the groundbreaking extent seen here.
Boyhood is told from the perspective of six-year-old Mason (Ellar Coltrane), an imaginative, somewhat distracted boy more fascinated by the world around him than his homework, which he often leaves crumpled up in his school rucksack. His mother Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has little to do with Mason's father, Mason Senior (a brilliantly louche Ethan Hawke...
- 7/4/2014
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Exclusive Contest: We Are Giving Away One Copy Of Kerry Beyer's Cool Horror Flick Spirit Camp On DVD
I love this part and y'all know it! Just as we wrap up our Dr. Who and Sherlock giveaways we start a new contest, this time with the very cool 80's slasher throwback Spirit Camp from writer/director Kerry Beyer. The film stars Brandon Smith, Roxy Vandiver, Julin, Marco Perella and more and delivers a fun and bloody watch, I promise because this is one of my new go-to favorites and honestly I can't wait to see what Beyer does next!
Hey, with a tag line like "Friday the 13th meets Bring It On" this is a can't miss and your chance to win a copy on DVD! All you have to do is sign into Intense Debate below and leave a comment on about your favorite slasher film. It doesn't have to be a theatrical movie either, DVD, indie film you saw at a film festival, the more obscure...
- 11/27/2010
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
Who said sexiness is dead in horror? Spirit Camp brings back some tried and true methods to entertain fans (sex-appeal)! Not only that, but Spirit Camp has shock value and those in the Houston get the special treat of hosting the world premiere of this slyly comedic horror film. Being described as "Friday the 13th meets Bring it On" fans of horror or cheerleaders can check out these shocking movie stills below (Spirit Camp). Plus, a trailer can be found inside.
A synopsis for Spirit Camp here:
"A street smart goth girl is forced to attend cheer camp as part of her rehabilitation from a juvenile correction facility, she clashes with the popular girls and finds herself embroiled in a bitter rivalry with the bitchy ringleader. But, members of the spirit squad start turning up dead, and the girls must put aside their differences, as they struggle to survive the...
A synopsis for Spirit Camp here:
"A street smart goth girl is forced to attend cheer camp as part of her rehabilitation from a juvenile correction facility, she clashes with the popular girls and finds herself embroiled in a bitter rivalry with the bitchy ringleader. But, members of the spirit squad start turning up dead, and the girls must put aside their differences, as they struggle to survive the...
- 12/20/2009
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
We never turn down a chance to ogle images of cheerleaders in their underwear here around the Dread Central offices, but it's especially cool when said sexy subjects are also starring in a horror film! Get ready for your first look at Spirit Camp!
Spirit Camp, directed by Kerry Beyer and starring Brandon Smith, Julin, Marco Perella, Denise Williamson, Amy Morris, Alyssia Dujmovich, and Jon Paul Burkhart, centers upon what happens when streetwise Goth Nikki (Witchcraft 13's Roxy Vandiver) is forced to attend cheerleader camp as part of her rehabilitation from a juvenile correction facility. She clashes with the popular girls and finds herself embroiled in a bitter rivalry with the bitchy ringleader Rachel (Sweatshop's Julin). But when members of the spirit squad start turning up dead, the girls must put aside their differences and struggle to survive the murderous rage of a crazed psycho-killer lurking among them!
The...
Spirit Camp, directed by Kerry Beyer and starring Brandon Smith, Julin, Marco Perella, Denise Williamson, Amy Morris, Alyssia Dujmovich, and Jon Paul Burkhart, centers upon what happens when streetwise Goth Nikki (Witchcraft 13's Roxy Vandiver) is forced to attend cheerleader camp as part of her rehabilitation from a juvenile correction facility. She clashes with the popular girls and finds herself embroiled in a bitter rivalry with the bitchy ringleader Rachel (Sweatshop's Julin). But when members of the spirit squad start turning up dead, the girls must put aside their differences and struggle to survive the murderous rage of a crazed psycho-killer lurking among them!
The...
- 10/28/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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