The Lighthouse and Uncut Gems earned five nods each in the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards nominations, while Honey Boy and Give Me Liberty got four.
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The 2018 Independent Spirit Awards winners were announced the night before the Oscars ceremony, and the Best Picture nominee Get Out ended up winning Best Feature. Director Jordan Peele also won Best Director. Could this be a preview of Oscar night?
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Get Out and Call Me By Your Name are this year's most prominent Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees, earning five and six nominations respectively.
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The 2017 Independent Spirit Award nominations have been announced, and there's an outstanding array of diverse selections with nods this year.
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How does a Jason Reitman Live Read come together? We spend two weeks talking to the director and exclusively take you behind the scenes.
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The Empire Strikes Back Live read, directed by Jason Reitman, took place Thursday December 18. Here, read about all the details of the event.
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Jason Reitman's live-read series has been a hot ticket at LACMA for a few years. The director chooses a new cast to read a well-known, sometimes classic script live on stage as a one-time performance. (We've covered many of these events in the past.) This year, among other films, Reitman has chosen one script with…
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The 2015 Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations are out and films like Birdman, Selma, Whiplash, Boyhood and Nightcrawler are among the nominees.
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Jason Reitman's latest was a Diner Live Read. He brought in the cast of FXX's The League to read Barry Levinson's 1982 masterpiece. Read a recap here.
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The Sloan Film Summit by Film Independent takes place November 14-16 at LA Live and celebrates movies that center around science. Free screenings too.
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The American Beauty Live Read by Jason Reitman featured his cast of Men, Women and Children. Here's a recap of the once in a lifetime event.
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Jason Reitman's The Graduate Live Read took place April 17 and featured sizzling reads by Jay Baruchel and Sharon Stone in the two lead roles.
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Jason Reitman's Groundhog Day Live Read starred Jason Bateman, Elizabeth Reeser and Stephen Tobolowsky reading an early, more serious, script.
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There's absolutely no need to touch Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Built around an Academy Award winning screenplay, the film is pretty much perfect from beginning to end. It teems with exquisite detail as performances and dialogue tell interweaving stories of crime and craziness. A reinforcement of that absolute brilliance was the main thing I took…
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