Jodie Foster

All We Have Is Each Other - The Affirmation Spot for Wednesday October 28, 2009

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Contact is a 1997 movie based on a book by Carl Sagan and starring Jodie Foster. It is one of my all-time favorite movies. Foster plays Ellie Arroway a highly-driven, highly rational astronomer searching for extraterrestrial life.

Published Tue, Oct 27

Oscar... Now With More Spirit Fingers

source: Film Experience

In 81 Years of Oscar Nights... Minorities (all 4 of them) who've had the honor Akira Kurosawa, Eddie Murphy, Sidney Poitier and Denzel Washington Who would you love to see close out the 82nd Oscars with an enthusiastic line reading of "and the Oscar goes to..."

Published Fri, Oct 23

Anton Yelchin is all over The Beaver

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Variety reports that Anton Yelchin (Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Charlie Bartlett) will be co-starring with Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster in The Beaver. Foster will be directing this project. The script was written by Kyle Killen. Foster initially came on to the project and then brough...

Published Thu, Sep 10

Jodie Foster steps in SJP's shoes

source: JodieFosterLove

The Oscar-winning actress has a cameo in the movie - directed by Katherine Dieckmann and starring Uma Thurman - which was inspired by Katherine seeing the Sex And The City star hounded by paparazzi while trying to spend time with her six-year-old son at a New York City playground.

Published Thu, Aug 6

Streep Noms #4-5 and Oscar Trivia

source: Film Experience

Streep Stats: With this win Meryl became the 4th actress to win an Oscar for a Nazi/Holocaust related drama. It didn't happen again until Winslet won this past February for The Reader. Meryl was not, at 33 then, the youngest actress to win a second Oscar. Luise Rainer still holds that title win...

Published Sat, Jun 20

EVAN RACHEL WOOD - WOOD'S CONFRONTATION WITH FOSTER OVER FLORA PLUM ROLE

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Caption: Evan Rachel Wood (Picture) Los Angeles Premiere of 'Whatever Works' held at the Pacific Design Center - Arrivals West Hollywood, California .... As a child Wood was pushed to emulate the actress' career, by her mother, who was obsessed with the Oscar winner.

Published Tue, Jun 16

Which silver-screen dynamic duos should be revived?

source: EducationGuardian.co.uk

 UK I'm hoping for a reunion of Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, whose tentative courtship in The Silence of the Lambs is one of the enduring screen romances of the last 20 years. The briefest glimpse of Ellen Barkin and Dennis Quaid together in The Big ...

Published Mon, Jun 15

GET REEL: Biopics are worth their weight in Oscar gold

source: Milford Daily News

  USA Jodie Foster as rape victim Susan Tobias in "The Accused" (1988) and Daniel Day-Lewis as Christy Brown in "My Left Foot." In this mix, we have music, history, crime and physical affliction. "The Accused" is based on the gang rape of Cheryl Araujo ...

Published Sat, Jun 13