J Michael Straczynski Nominated for BAFTA!
on January 15th, 2009J Michael Straczynski, whom we all know and love as a comics scribe and the creator of Babylon 5, has been nominated for the British OSCAR, the BAFTA for best original screenplay for his film The Changeling.
There is much dancing and singing and the fatted calf will be slain. But alas, the BAFTA Awards are the same weekend as New York Comic Con. Can you say scheduling conflict?
I won’t resent the Great Maker if he ditches to go swank at the BAFTA Awards. I know we are all pulling for him!
BTW: Changeling got noms in EIGHT categories, including a best actress nod for Angelina Jolie. Well deserved.
Note the best non-English language film nods for TWO animated films based on graphic novels.
I can’t believe I actually promised myself I would blog less. Am I blogging less? No.
At least I have a huge inventory of blog entries from the old site which I want to reload here, but dang, I can’t help myself. There’s something interesting going on every day. Especially with regards to happy news about people I like.
There can never be enough happy news.
I haven’t seen “The Changeling” yet but it’s on my list. It sounds like a very intense movie that demands a lot of the viewer, so I want make sure I’m in the right frame of mind when I see it.
I’m glad to see JMS enjoying so much success. B5 was such a tour de force, I remember when it wrapped up I thought, “How’s he gonna top that?” Answer: by writing some bang-up comic-books, and then writing the screenplay for “The Changeling.” I wish him nothing but continued success.
BTW, a few years ago JMS wrote a weekly column on writing for Newsarama. It was great stuff and I read it religiously. Unfortunately, as is so often the case, the comments in those threads were frequently littered with flames aimed at JMS. I wonder if people realized just how generous JMS was being with his time and knowledge? Anyway, I’ll always be grateful to him for that.
Are those JMS columns saved on the site?
BTW, if those yucksters had any idea how much JMS’s time is worth, they would have been thanking him. And thanking him some more.
Good news about good people is always reason to blog and shouldn’t count against your allotted time.
I’ve got the columns archived if you like, Colleen. Sadly, there weren’t a lot of them.
I’ve not been able to find the columns since Newarama was upgraded awhile back.
Oops, I was screwing around with my post and didn’t realize Jan had posted in the interim.
this has nothing to do with the subject, but…those ads work. Every time I see a Dominoes pizza ad, my mouth waters.
If I lived anywhere near a Dominoes pizza, I’d be clicking on that ad and buying one right now.
mmmm…pizza.
One big thing I miss about the city. There is no pizza delivery out here.
What, you with the gardening and canning and stuff, you can’t MAKE a pizza from scratch? Or even half-scratch as it is possible to buy pizza dough premade.
As for the award news, GO JOE! I really liked the movie, though it certainly was an emotional wringer! But it ended on the perfect note.
I’m seeing ads for a vacation in Quebec, which is probably for the best. I need to watch what I eat, and I can’t eat Quebec.
I don’t can tomatoes. I freeze them.
And there is no gardening going on right now. It is 18 degrees outside.
And I do not make a better pizza than Vito’s, which may b a ways down the road, but dang. I jsut got back. Extra cheese, pepperoni, artichoke hearts. Yum.
I added your link to the page, scribbler.
Wow, thanks for the link, Colleen!
Gee, I guess I should take care of getting the domain pointing all straightened out! I have two domains, and right now they’re both pointing to the book’s site. I need to get the ScribblerWorks addy pointing back to itself. (But you don’t need to change anything.)
Artichoke hearts? Ah well, can’t point fingers: my default pizza is pepperoni, ham, black olives, and extra cheese. Even though I shouldn’t have the extra cheese.