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Oscar hosts sum up screenwriters
...and the winner is The Hurt Locker
Tue, 9 Mar 2010
Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jnr presented the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the Kodak Theatre last weekend, with an inspired speech on the theme 'Great movies begin with great writing'.
Downey Jr: "What does an actor look for in a script? Specificity, emotional honesty, catharsis."
Fey: "And what does a writer look for in an actor? Memorising. Not paraphrasing. Fear of ad-libbing."
Downey Jr: "Actors want scripts with social relevance; warm weather locations; phone call scenes that can be shot separately from that insane actress that I hate; and long, dense columns of uninterrupted monologue."
Fey: "And we writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop. Alone."
Downey Jr: "It's a collaboration. A collaboration between handsome, gifted people and sickly little mole people.
Here are the nominees for best
original screenplay..."