The first time I've been proud of my guild in a while.
Posted on 01/28/2005 11:10:22 AM PST by BMC1
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Two days after being snubbed when the Oscar nominations were announced, Michael Moore was left off the list Thursday when the Writers Guild of America unveiled nominees for its first documentary writing award for a feature film.
The six nominated pictures are "The Hunting of the President," which alleges a campaign against Bill Clinton from his early days in Arkansas through his impeachment; "Control Room," an inside view of the Arab television network Al Jazeera during the war in Iraq; "Bright Leaves," a reflection on Big Tobacco by the great-grandson of a tobacco baron; "Home of the Brave," a study of murdered civil-rights activist Viola Liuzzo; "In the Realm of the Unreal," which follows artist, novelist and janitor Henry Darger; and "Super Size Me," a first-person take on the perils of overeating fast food.
Of those films, only Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" has been nominated for a best documentary Academy Award.
WGA officials said Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" was eligible but Moore elected not to submit it. Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" won the WGA Award for best original screenplay in 2003, the first time that a documentary had ever been nominated in that category.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" also failed to earn an Academy Award nomination this week. In that case, however, he had declined to submit "Fahrenheit" in the documentary category because he planned a TV airing before the Nov. 2 election -- and that disqualified the documentary under Academy rules. "Fahrenheit" was eligible in other categories, and Moore unsuccessfully campaigned for a best picture nomination.
The winner of the WGA Documentary Screenplay Award will be named at a reception for documentary filmmakers Feb. 15 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles.
Key word hear "FAILED" That's what eventually happens to BIG FAT LIARS.
Gravy train has come to an end.
15 min are up
The appearance obsessed of Hollyweird can only take so much of a fat whining slob who only shaves once a week.
Then how do you expalin Rob Reiner? lol
Oh yeah *lol*
Rob Reiner actually has talent...and the good sense to not appear on camera in his movies.
Voice over narration.
Nobody wamts to pay Lumpy Riefenstahl's lunch tab..
Reiner did appear in This Is Spinal Tap.
The first time I've been proud of my guild in a while.
Well yeah but he was playing a hectoring has been filmmaker. Typecasting! Iv'e never regarded that as a Reiner film really. More Chritopher Guest and co.
All very true about Spinal Tap. But Reiner did direct and I would say it is easily the best of the Guest, etc. mockumentary films.
Don't think he accomplished as much as the dem-lib-socialist-hollywierd types thought he would -- Bush still won!
MM spent and tried to dazzle them with his big fat belly. But no deal. There must be some brains in Hollywood after all. Nooooooooooo !!
He was in Sleepless in Seattle.
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