Oscar nominations are out

Sounds ridiculous, but I legitimately think I could win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. I have the story largely written in my head, just haven't written it out yet. It's intensely personal and, therefore, daunting to write.

I didn't mean that post in a sense of a pie-in-the-sky, wish-I-could scenario. I want to write my movie, get it made and win. I need to get over the hump of putting this story out to the world to do it. Not sure I'll ever get there (and if I do, it could, of course, turn out to be trash).

 

Roger Deakins, about mfking time.

 

I really, really hope you write this. And I sincerely hope you win.

Just not in a year when I'm also nominated.

 

I'll sincerely be happy to be nominated if I lose to you.

 

Poor Chef, though. He missed the cut!

 

I'm the same as you. I've sold two scripts (haven't written either—sold them on pitches). I've never written a script before, and there is every chance they don't get made, or the studio says, "Thanks, now we're going to give them to a real screenwriter," or they get made and are perfectly fine but not Oscar-worthy (the real best-case scenario), but every time I work on them, just about, I think about getting nominated for an Oscar. It's so stupid. But I believe in radical honesty. I think it. I think about it all the time.

 

Greatness is never achieved by aiming for mediocrity.

Sure, nobody writes a movie for the purpose of winning an Oscar. The award is a byproduct of great work. And, frankly, if you aren't aiming for greatness when you write your film, you're doing the viewer a disservice.

I see nothing wrong with hoping an Oscar (or a nomination) is the byproduct of the diligence and effort you put into your work.

 

You should try them out here first. You could win an OOPie!

 

His heartwarming, coming of age tale of life, love and loss set in depression-era Kansas, "A Tale of Two Toes," just wasn't what the Academy was looking for.

 

As a career criminal defense attorney and an active member of the criminal defense bar and politically liberal on crime and related issues I’d have a difficult time finding a criminal prosecution she wouldn’t criticize.

 

You may win an Oscar, but can you work at the Plain Dealer?

 

"Swing Blade 2: How 12 Beers Equals 9 Toes."