Email Author Scott Foundas

Awards

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published April 9, 2009

  "Boxing, Sex, and Madness"

• 2010 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  2009 Film Issue

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 10, 2009

  "Eastwood on the Pitch"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 10, 2008

  "The Visitor"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 14, 2008

  "Diary of the Dead"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "Benjamin Button"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 30, 2007

  "Iron Butterfly"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 23, 2007

  "Born Identities"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 9, 2007

  "Badlands"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Film reviews

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2013 Stories by Scott Foundas

• Adam Leon's Stellar First Film — and TV show — Toasts the Tag Artist

  published March 21, 2013

  For a movie as much in love with New York's outer-borough street life as Adam Leon's Gimme the Loot, it will not do just to talk about... More >>

• Spring Breakers: A Thrilling Corruption of the Disney Princess Set

  published March 21, 2013

  "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun" goes Jean-Luc Godard's quip. Add to that a few more girls and their bikinis and you have the... More >>

• Like Someone in Love: Iranian Master Kiarostami's Audacious Romance

  published March 14, 2013

  Like the yearning Jimmy Van Huesen/Johnny Burke torch song that lends it its title, Abbas Kiarostami's Like Someone in Love is a sly,... More >>

• This Oz Is Neither Great Nor Powerful

  published March 7, 2013

  It's a bad omen when, early on in Oz the Great and Powerful, we learn that the full given name of its wizard is Oscar, also the ceremony... More >>

• Jack the Giant Slayer: A Giant Adventure's Old-Fashioned Spirit

  published February 28, 2013

  To paraphrase Stephen Sondheim, there are big, tall, terrible, fleshy, bulbous-headed giants in the sky in Jack the Giant Slayer. And... More >>

• Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

  published February 21, 2013

  If Sundance signals the annual launch of American indie cinema's new product line, the 63-year-old Berlin Film Festival offered the year's... More >>

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  Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

  published February 14, 2013

  If Sundance signals the annual launch of American indie cinema’s new product line, the 63-year-old Berlin Film Festival (February... More >>

• Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns Talk Side Effects and Collaboration

  published February 7, 2013

  "I've been lucky in that I've always worked with writers whose voices are so specific that there really isn't any way to recalibrate things... More >>

• The Movies to Know from Sundance -- and the Year Ahead

  published January 17, 2013

  For the next 10 days, all Hollywood eyes — and those of many a filmgoer — will turn toward the frigid wilds of Park City, Utah,... More >>

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  The 2012 Village Voice Film Critics' Poll

  published January 3, 2013

  Squeaking by with an Obama 2012–size victory margin, Paul Thomas Anderson's thrillingly strange More >>

• The Thrilling Manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

  published January 3, 2013

  "Just so you know, it's going to take a while," says the CIA officer to his newly arrived colleague at the start of Kathryn Bigelow's Zero... More >>

• Gangster Squad's Cop Turned Screenwriter Faces the Thin Blue Line Edit

  published January 3, 2013

  "Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it," screenwriter Will Beall says of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood's... More >>