Twin Cities-related Oscar nods
I’ll challenge Erica’s vow not to ever post about Diablo Cody and share today’s Academy Award news.
“Juno” got Oscar nominations for Best Picture, as well as for original screenplay by Diablo Cody, best actress for Ellen Page and direction for Jason Reitman.
Wow. That’s a ton of back-slapping for the Minneapolis writer who wrote the screenplay while living here. Congrats Ms. Cody!
The UK’s The First Post has a great profile on Diablo today here.
In addition, home state favorites The Coen Brothers also have a lot to brag about today. “No Country for Old Men” is leading the Oscar nominations with eight nominations in a tie with “There Will Be Blood.”
Full list of nominees here.
UPDATE: Diablo on Letterman last night:
“I wrote this screenplay at a Starbucks inside a Target, which is like two layers of corporate filth…surrounded by surburban misery and thought, ‘I gotta get the hell outta here. I better finish this.”
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I agree with Erica. This is Chicago (or LA) news, not Minneapolis or Saint Paul news.
Yeah, she wrote it while she was living here for a couple years, but who cares?
I’m sure she and the film are great but I’m sick of people thinking she is relevant to local news.
It’s like saying new-age pianist Yanni is from Minnesota (and not Greece) just because he went to the U of M. He spent a lot more time here than Diablo Cody did.
Greg, you’re free to have at it. Y’all just won’t hear it from me. I’m indifferent is all. ;)
I disagree. I think her story is relevant on a local twist because her fame took off here. Her story of going from stripper to random blogger to City Pages writer to author to screenplay writer all basically took place here, and that is something to talk about.
Yeah, I am really tired of our local media’s need to make every story local, but I have no problem with her local ties being mentioned.
Don’t be a haters people. Certainly 20 instances of local Cody press would have been more digestible than 320 instances, but she wrote a popular blog, entertaining memoirs and now a clever screenplay in an age when clever screenplays rarely feel the oak of a studio executive’s desk. Allow her the credit and notoriety she deserves.
Meanwhile, I secretly hope you guys get your underwear equally bunched when/if lightning ever strikes for me. Though, in all fairness, I was born and raised here and am now spending the winter here when I could very well be in the south of France, so I better get 1,320 instances of local press or I’m gonna be super pissed.