Sweep!
“Best Picture, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, Doubt, Revolutionary Road, The Reader. Maybe The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Extremely strong possibility of The Dark Knight. WALL-E is good enough, but voters will cover it in the best animation category. Synecdoche, N.Y. is easily good enough, but they’re embarrassed you had to explain it to them.” “Best actor,” he writes, “Frank Langella as Richard M. Nixon in Frost/Nixon, a lock. Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, also a lock. Sean Penn in Milk, another lock.” “Best director, Jonathan Demme for Rachel Getting Married. A lock. Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon. Utterly fascinating. – from here
Michael Sheen, who played talk show host David Frost both on stage and now in the upcoming screen version of “Frost/Nixon,” knows that the transition can be scary.
“The great joy and fear about working in front of a camera is that it picks up everything,” said Sheen. He rejoined his stage costar Frank Langella for director Ron Howard’s adaptation of Peter Morgan’s acclaimed play about the 1977 interviews that revived Frost’s career and humanized a disgraced Nixon. The film opens Friday.
So when Frost’s cheerily sly grin dissipates on screen or a glimmer of despair flashes across his eyes as he bears the weight of turning his hard-won interview with Nixon into great TV, moviegoers see things that theater audiences in London and New York — outside the first few rows — didn’t get to see.
- from LAtimes
“Frost/Nixon’s” Michael Sheen is unquestionably a lead, but some pundits are trying to tell him he should be going for a sure nomination in supporting. He and his reps won’t bite. He wants to be thought of as a leading man in the role and won’t play the Oscar game any other way. Good for you, Sheen, but you’ll probably draw the short straw. The last time two lead actors were nominated for the same movie was in 1984, when Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham were both nominated for “Amadeus” (Abraham actually won). And while Frank Langella won a “Frost/Nixon” Tony, Sheen regrettably wasn’t even nominated. – from LAtimes
