In loving memory of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, an Oscar winning legend and star of The Master, Capote, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Mission: Impossible 3, who died today aged 46. July 23rd 1967 – January 2nd 2014
Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) picked up the Director’s Guild; American Hustle, Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine), Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave), Matthew MacConaughey and Jared Leto (both Dallas Buyers Club) swept up at the Screen Actor’s Guild; Gravity and 12 Years a Slave tied and Producer’s Guild. The Guild Awards now conclude with the Writer’s Guild Awards.
Best Original Screenplay:
Her – Spike Jonze
American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer, David O’Russell
Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club – Craig Borten, Melissa Wallack
Nebraska – Bob Nelson
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Captain Phillips – Billy Ray
August: Osage County – Tracy Letts
Before Midnight – Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Lone Survivor – Peter Berg
The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter
Best Documentary Screenplay:
Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley
Dirty Wars – Jeremy Scahill, David Riker
Herblock: The Black and the White – Sara Lukinson, Michael Stevens
No Place on Earth – Janet Tobais, Paul Laikin
We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks – Alex Gibney
In TV, Breaking Bad, Veep, Days of Our Lives, House of Lies and The Colbert Report won one award each.
Just a quick snippet of news to say that two Oscar nominated legends will be teaming up for an upcoming project. Director Martin Scrosese (The Departed, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator, Casino, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, The Last Temptation of Christ, After Hours, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy and Mean Streets) has just added Liam Neeson (Taken, Schindler’s List, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia) to the cast of the upcoming drama Silence alongside Andrew Garfield, Ken Watanabe and Adam Driver. The pair will be reuniting for the first time twelve years, the last being when the acclaimed Gangs of New York was released.
Silence – 2015