'Zero' not giving up best picture campaign
Though many have counted it out of the best picture race, "Zero Dark Thirty" is still fighting. Packaged with today's Variety is a 38-page, full-color bound booklet with a kudos roll call, critical praise and screenplay excerpts, as well as director Kathryn Bigelow's Los Angeles Times op-ed defending the film's depiction of torture. The final words on the back page are a quote from Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune: "A movie that will endure."
Not to be outdone, "Argo" put forth an ersatz front cover of Variety today, playing off its now famous contrived appearance in the paper three decades ago.
A native of Los Angeles raised by two parents and "Hill Street Blues," Jon Weisman ankled his scriptwriting career and began working for Variety in 2004, subsequently serving as associate editor of features and television reporter before becoming awards editor. He promises not to use this platform to retroactively campaign for Oscars for “The Misfits,” though he’d feel justified in doing so.
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