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

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2009 Stories by Scott Foundas

• It’s Complicated: Nancy Meyers Can’t Keep Making the Same Film Over and Over

  published December 24, 2009

  Does Nancy Meyers hate women? The thought ran through my head not very long into It's Complicated, Meyers' biennial stocking-stuffer about... More >>

• Tom Ford’s A Single Man: It’s Better to Look Good Than Be Good

  published December 24, 2009

  Tom Ford's A Single Man: It's better to look good than be good. Too much is never enough for fashion designer turned filmmaker Tom Ford,... More >>

• Crude Details the Toxic Battle Between Big Oil and Dying Natives in Ecuador

  published December 10, 2009

  Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it's thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction, serpentine... More >>

• The Maid: Tackling the Thorny Role of a Live-In Maid, Sebastian Silva’s Film Cleans Up

  published December 3, 2009

  Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but for the title character of the pitch-black Chilean comedy The Maid, it's closer to an infernal... More >>

• Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson Brings His Wes Anderson-Ness to Animation – and It’s a Fantastic Fit

  published November 26, 2009

  Given his preference for static, symmetrical, scrupulously color-coordinated and art-directed compositions, it's less surprising that Wes Anderson... More >>

• Precious Pushes the Limits of Taste, but Locates the Heart – and Hell – of Its Heroine’s Struggle

  published November 19, 2009

  In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother... More >>

• 9: Wall-E Would Never Escape Shane Acker’s Animated, Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape

  published September 10, 2009

  Early in Shane Acker's computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and the... More >>

• District 9: Alien Invasion as Apartheid Metaphor

  published August 13, 2009

  The aliens have been with us already for 20 years at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp's fast and furiously inventive District... More >>

• Ponyo: Miyazaki Dives Under the Sea for His Latest Environmental Fairy Tale

  published August 13, 2009

  In the same week that the South African import District 9 gives us a Johannesburg beset by alien invaders, the latest film by animation... More >>

• Funny People Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler Are Together at Last

  published July 30, 2009

  After devoting his first two films as director, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, to getting laid and having kids,... More >>

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: That Old Black Magic Is Back Again

  published July 16, 2009

  Don't let the PG rating fool you: The dark arts are back with a vengeance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the generally grim,... More >>

• The Hurt Locker Is a Ticking Time Bomb as Unconventional as the Warfare It Depicts

  published July 9, 2009

  Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker is a full-throttle body shock of a movie. It gets inside you like a virus, puts your... More >>

• Public Enemies: Michael Mann and Johnny Depp Take Us Through the Life and Crimes of John Dillinger

  published July 2, 2009

  "They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero... More >>

• Away We Go: Dave Eggers Makes His Screenwriting Debut

  published June 11, 2009

  Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers' solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic... More >>

• Ramin Bahrani’s Quietly Profound Goodbye Solo

  published May 28, 2009

  At 73, the Memphis-born actor, stuntman, former U.S. Marine, and Golden Gloves boxer Red West has the stoic, leathery repose of a barfly on a John... More >>

• 17 Again Shows That Zac Efron Should Stick to Musicals

  published April 16, 2009

  This much is for sure about the makers of the new Zac Efron picture 17 Again: They know their audience. Scientifically engineered for... More >>

• Adventureland Lets Us Revisit the Summer of Our '80s Youth

  published April 2, 2009

  Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola's Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg warmers... More >>

• In Duplicity, Tony Gilroy Drops the Darkness He Was "Bourne" Into and Lets Loose a Giggle

  published March 19, 2009

  Whether it's the amnesiac super-spy of the Bourne franchise or the weary law-firm fixer of Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy specializes... More >>

• Citizen’s Arrest For Wayne Kramer’s Tasteless Crossing Over

  published February 26, 2009

  Haven't we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer-director Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over... More >>

• The International’s Clive Owen and Naomi Watts Can’t Outrun Film’s Generic Plot

  published February 12, 2009

  Tom Tykwer's The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned buildings, and inconspicuous... More >>

• In Coraline, Neil Gaiman’s Book is Brought to Life By Henry Selick’s Stop Motion

  published February 5, 2009

  If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick's 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in... More >>

• Sundance 2009: Less Money, Fewer Hits

  published January 22, 2009

  What is the shape and size of a human soul? Does it look like a chickpea? A gumdrop? A pet rock? And if you could somehow extract your soul from... More >>

• In Revolutionary Road, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet Awake to a Nightmare

  published January 1, 2009

  No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which may explain why... More >>

• With Gran Torino Clint Eastwood Has Solidified His Position as America's Director

  published January 1, 2009

  "You've made the first movie of the Obama generation!" exclaimed an audience member, as he rushed up to Clint Eastwood after a recent screening of... More >>

• In The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke Climbs Back in the Ring

  published January 1, 2009

  "I hated the '90s. The '90s fuckin' sucked," says professional wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson early on in The Wrestler — and he... More >>