My Left Foot
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60% Brothers...prior films have garnered 16 Academy Award® nominations and won two Academy Awards, for lead actors Daniel Day Lewis and Brenda Fricker in MY LEFT FOOT: THE STORY OF CHRISTY BROWN. Sheridan has personally been nominated six times, for writing... In this article: Brothers, Tobey Maguire, Jim Sheridan, Academy Awards, Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Bailee Madison |
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New York Magazine: Movies | 20 hours ago
Beyond the Call of Duty
Empathy must come as naturally as breathing to the Irishman Jim Sheridan, director of My Left Foot, In America, and now the overpoweringly intimate Brothers. Working with screenwriter David Benioff (25th Hour), he skips among three...
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NPR | 1 day ago
Director Jim Sheridan On 'Brothers'
...good flight, and they treat me well. All the air hostesses know me. SMITH: You're best known for your films about the Irish experience, "My Left Foot," "In the Name of the Father," "In America," about the Irish diaspora, and this is quite a...
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The Huffington Post | 1 day ago
Regina Weinreich: Jim Sheridan Touts Brothers At The Monkey Bar
...you would not necessarily tap this Dublin-based director -- no matter how distinguished his track record for such superb films as My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, and In America -- for this job, but producer Ryan Kavanagh insisted...
In this article: Jim Sheridan, Brothers, Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman, The Professional, Spider-Man, New York, and Oscars
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SFGate: Entertainment | 1 day ago
Jim Sheridan directs 'Brothers'
...shifting relationships between parents and children and among siblings. Think of Daniel Day-Lewis as an artist with cerebral palsy in "My Left Foot" and Brenda Fricker as the mother who finds a balance between doing too much for him and...
In this article: Jim Sheridan, Brothers, Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniel Day-Lewis, In America, Afghanistan, Dublin, San Francisco Chronicle, and Cerebral palsy
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boston.com - Latest movie news | 2 days ago
Tobey Maguire loses control
...subjected to torture in captivity. "Tobey controls his life to a very exacting degree,'' says "Brothers'' director Jim Sheridan ("My Left Foot,'' "In the Name of the Father''). "He's very de rigueur in his choice of what he eats as well as...
In this article: Tobey Maguire, Brothers, Robert Downey Jr., Spider-Man, Jim Sheridan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sam Raimi, and In the Name of the Father
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Detroit News | 3 days ago
Tom Long: December movies will shine with something for everybody
...Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mare Winningham and Natalie Portman shine in a wrenching story of family and war, directed by Jim ("My Left Foot") Sheridan. "Everybody's Fine" (PG-13): Robert De Niro plays a widowed father traveling the...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 4 days ago
Movies you mustn't miss this holiday season
...of the ol' magic that has since been ceded to Pixar. Brothers (Dec. 4). It's directed by Jim Sheridan, who got Oscar nominations for My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father. It's written by David Benioff (25th Hour, The Kite Runner),...
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L.A. Times - The Envelope - Ultimate Awards Site | November 10, 2009
Gold Derby nuggets: Pundits predict top races at Globes and Oscars
...of director Jim Sheridan -- "his films have earned 16 nominations, including nods for 'In America,' 'In the Name of the Father' and 'My Left Foot.' " As Pete recounts, "Sheridan received a tremendous ovation Sunday afternoon when he was...
In this article: Academy Awards, Matthew Weiner, Oscar de la Renta, Jim Sheridan, Mad Men, Don Draper, Emmy, and Lee Daniels
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Chicago Tribune | November 10, 2009
'Glee' wheelchair episode upsets actors with disabilities
...Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." In films, Daniel Day-Lewis received an Academy Award for his portrayal of a man with severe cerebral palsy in "My Left Foot" and Tom Cruise was nominated for an Oscar for playing a paralyzed Vietnam veteran in...
In this article: Glee, Daryl "Chill" Mitchell, Robert David Hall, Artie, Academy Award, Cerebral palsy, All rights reserved, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and University of California, Los Angeles
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Description from Wikipedia:
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 drama film directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis. It tells the story of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could only move his left foot. The film also stars Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee and Cyril Cusack. It was adapted by Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan from the book of the same name by Christy Brown.
It won the Academy Award for Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Brenda Fricker). It was also nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
It also won the NYFCC Best Picture Award for 1989.
- Name:
- My Left Foot
- Release Date:
- November 10, 1989
- Directed By:
- Jim Sheridan
- Produced by:
- Noel Pearson
- Written By:
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- Christy Brown (book)
- Jim Sheridan
- Shane Connaughton
- Music By:
- Elmer Bernstein
- Distributed By:
- Granada Films (UK)
- Length:
- 103 min.
- Language:
- English
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