The film has five Oscar nominations, including the best film category.
One of the great protagonists of what will be the 96th edition of the Oscar awards, The Holdoverswas accused of plagiarism by writer Simon Stephenson, author of Luke (2021) and Paddington 2 (2017). The film has nominations for best picture, best actor (Paul Giamatti), best supporting actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), best original screenplay and best editing.
The film stars Paul Giamatti, as a cynical teacher at a boarding school who gets stuck babysitting a teenager (Dominic Sessa) during the Christmas holidays. According to Stephenson, the script has striking similarities to his unproduced script for frisco, about a cynical pediatrician who finds himself caring for a teenage patient for several days. Frisco’s script had some notoriety, as in 2013 it landed on the Black List, which honors the best unproduced scripts of the year.
Stephenson prepared documents comparing scenes from both scripts as well as their overall structure. Variety, which made one of those documents public on Saturday, reported that Stephenson sent him to the WGA (Writers Guild of America in January to seek help. According to a document, a Alexander Paynedirector of the film, was They submitted drafts of the script in 2013 and 2019 in an attempt to get him to tackle the project.
What the accusation of plagiarism says about the film
“The significant entirety of THE HOLDOVERS script has been copied from the FRISCO script through transposition,” the document states. “This includes the complete story of the FRISCO script, the structure, the sequence, the scenes, the sequential sub-beats within the scenes, the line-by-line substance of the action and dialogue, the characters, the arcs, the relationships, the theme and tone. Most of this has been done line by line, and a “A large number of unique and highly specific elements created in FRISCO are easily and unmistakably identifiable in THE HOLDOVERS.”describes.
Among the similarities Stephenson highlighted was an early moment in which the protagonist is summoned to his boss’s office and reprimanded for having wronged a politician. In The Holdovers, Giamatti’s character failed the son of a US senator, while in friscothe protagonist doctor calls an American congresswoman, who was the mother of a patient, an idiot.
Holdovers script competes with Teacher, Anatomy of a fall, Teacher, May December and Past Lives for best original screenplay at the Oscars, which ended their voting window late last month. Late last year, Payne and Hemingson discussed the film’s origins with The Hollywood Reporter. Payne said that he had long wanted to make a film set in a boarding school, while Hemingson had written an unproduced television pilot set in a school. The pilot script caught Payne’s attention and he called the screenwriter.
“At first I thought it was a prank call until I saw the Omaha area code and realized it was actually Alexander Payne,” Hemingson recalled of receiving that call from Payne. “And he said, ‘I have this movie I want to make about this obnoxious, socially challenged teacher stuck at school over Christmas.’ Would you be interested in writing it?’”
Oscars 2024: schedule, where it takes place and how to watch the ceremony live
The 96th installment of the Oscar awards which will take place on March 10 from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles will be broadcast live for Latin America through the channel TNT and Max (ex HBO Max), the platform that will be launched on February 27 in the region, the organization reported.
In Latin America, complete coverage of the Oscars will begin with the Punto de Encuentro pre-show on TNT and Max on March 10 at 7:00 p.m. (Argentina). Live from Los Angeles, Axel Kuschevatzky and Lety Sahagun They will experience the excitement of the gala by interviewing the celebrities of the night as they walk the carpet, providing all the information about the intimacy of the award ceremony. Comments during the broadcast will be provided by Ileana Rodriguez and Rafael Sarmientoand the translation of Coianis Flower.
The Academy’s list of nominees, which was announced on January 23, revealed that “Oppenheimer”the acclaimed biopic about the “father of the atomic bomb” directed by the English filmmaker Christopher Nolanis the great favorite with presence in 13 categories, followed by “Poor creatures” with 11 and “The Moon Killers” with 10.
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