A Conversation with Scott Cooper about Crazy Heart
// January 19th, 2010 // Comments Off // People
Director Scott Cooper on the set with Jeff Bridges Photo Credit: Lorey Sebastian TM and (C) Twentieth Century Fox. All Rights Reserved.
by Marla Lewin
I spoke with Scott Cooper the morning after the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala about his first film Crazy Heart, which he wrote and directed. He is very excited about all the buzz and nominations that the film has generated. Jeff Bridges was honored with an award at the Palm Springs Film Festival Awards Gala and last night he won the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama.
Scott said, “I was thrilled with all the excitement”.
Marla: How did this film come into being?
Scott: I wrote the role for Jeff, I told Robert Duvall, if I don’t get Jeff and T-bone to do the music, I shouldn’t do the film. (more…)
The 21st Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present Academy Award winners Marion Cotillard with the Desert Palm Achievement Actress Award and Quentin Tarantino with the Sonny Bono Visionary Award, named after the Festival’s founder. The Awards Gala will kick off the 2010 awards season on Tuesday, January 5 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Hosted by “Entertainment Tonight’s” Mary Hart, the Awards Gala will also honor Jeff Bridges, T Bone Burnett, Mariah Carey, Morgan Freeman, Anna Kendrick, Helen Mirren, Jason Reitman and Jeremy Renner.
Quentin Tarantino made a bold debut with Reservoir Dogs, a cops and robbers tale that Tarantino wrote, directed and produced on a shoe-string budget. Following the film’s success, the screenplays that Tarantino wrote during his tenure as a video store clerk became hot properties including True Romance and From Dusk Till Dawn. Tarantino co-wrote, directed and starred in Pulp Fiction, which won the Palme D’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, numerous critics’ awards and a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. Pulp Fiction was nominated for seven Academy Awards® including Best Picture and Best Director, and Tarantino received an Academy Award® for Best Screenplay. Tarantino also wrote and directed Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol. 1and Kill Bill Vol 2. Tarantino will receive the Sonny Bono Visionary Award. His most recent film is Inglourious Basterds. 
