This is considered the first televised suicide in history, and though it was the inspiration for the 1976 Best
Picture nominee Network, the story and facts behind the event remain mostly unknown.
Not exact matches
Directed by: David Fincher Written by: Gillian Flynn Main Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Carrie Coon, Tyler Perry, Neil Patrick Harris, Kim Dickens, Patrick Fugit, and more... Past Oscar relations: Affleck is a two time Oscar winner (co-writing Good Will Hunting and co-producing his Best
Picture winner Argo), while Fincher is a two time Best Director
nominee, having been cited for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Social
Network
Graeme Robertson on why
Network should have won Best
Picture at the 49th Academy Awards... The Oscars celebrating the best of 1976 were a rarity, in that, almost all of the
nominees for Best
Picture are truly excellent and have gone on to become celebrated classics.
It also amassed more than five of its nine fellow Best
Picture nominees, including media fixture The Social
Network and Aronofsky - produced The Fighter.
The studio recently had Golden Globe - winner and seven - time Oscar -
nominee The Fighter in theatrical release, via Paramount
Pictures, starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Amy Adams as well as Golden Globe - winner and eight - time Oscar -
nominee The Social
Network via its partnership with Sony
Pictures.
Best
picture, like last year, has 10
nominees, but if you want to know what's really going on in that category, just look at best director: Darren Aronofsky («Black Swan»), David O. Russell («The Fighter»), Tom Hooper («The King's Speech»), David Fincher («The Social
Network») and Joel and Ethan Coen («True Grit»).
More interesting, and more considered, are some recent comments on «The Social
Network» from the star of yet another Best
Picture nominee, «Inception» «s Joseph Gordon - Levitt.