Interviews and Clips
Ebert & Roeper: If We Picked the Winners
Cast: Richard Roeper and guest critic Michael Phillips
Synopsis: If We Picked the Winners is a special online-only video presentation of At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, in which Richard Roeper and guest critic Michael Phillips give their choices for the top Academy Award categories.
Heath Ledger (1979-2008): My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: Best Actor in a Leading Role for Brokeback Mountain. (2005)
Cast: Co-starred in I’m Not There
Synopsis: In one of his last interviews, Heath Ledger talked to Fandango about his earliest experiences with the Batman character and what it was like to play "The Joker" in the upcoming The Dark Knight.
Diablo Cody and Ellen Page
Nominated for: Diablo Cody- Best Original Screenplay, Juno (2007); Ellen Page- Best Actress, Juno (2007)
Cast: Ellen Page stars in Juno.
Synopsis: Screenwriter Diablo Cody and actress Ellen Page talk about the unconventional story of Juno.
Denzel Washington: My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: Golden
Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award
Cast: Starred
in American Gangster; Starred and directed The
Great Debaters
Synopsis: Denzel
Washington, Oscar winner for Training Day (2001)
and Glory (1989) tells Fandango about his
first moviegoing experiences.
Ben Affleck and Casey Affleck
Nominated for: An Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (Casey Affleck in 2007’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
Cast: Ben Affleck wrote and directed Gone Baby Gone; Casey Affleck co-starred in Jesse James and Gone Baby Gone
Synopsis: Ben Affleck, Oscar winner for co-writing Good Will Hunting (1997) and brother Casey tell Fandango about their big-screen inspirations.
Nicolas Cage: My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: Best Actor in Adaptation (2002)
Cast: Starred in Ghost Rider, Next, and National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Synopsis: Cage, who won his Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas (1995) shifts between arthouse movies and commerical fare, reflecting his personal tastes in movies. In this interview, Cage tells Fandango about his earliest experiences at the cinema, from Fellini to Brando and Dean to Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson.
Patrick Dempsey: My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Drama Series Ensemble Cast (ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy)
Cast: Stars in Enchanted, nominated for 3 Oscars, and the upcoming romantic comedy, Made of Honor
Synopsis: Dempsey, a two-time People’s Choice Award Winner for “Favorite Male TV Star” (2007 and 2008), talks to Fandango about his first big-screen experience, seeing David Lean’s Great Expectations in the basement of his rural high school in Maine, and his work on the big-screen Disney comedy, Enchanted.
Emile Hirsch talks
about working with director
Sean Penn.
Into
the Wild (R)
Nominated for: Screen
Actors Guild Award
Cate Blanchett
Nominated for: Best Actress, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Synopsis: An Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress in The Aviator, Cate Blanchett discusses the return to her Oscar-nominated role as Queen Elizabeth.
Anthony Hopkins: My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: Won
Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role for Silence
of the Lambs.
Cast: Co-starred
in Beowulf
Synopsis: Anthony
Hopkins, Oscar winner for The Silence of the Lambs (1991),
tells Fandango about his earliest big-screen and 3D
memories.
Juliette Binoche: My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: Best Actress in Chocolat (2000)
Cast: Co-starred in Dan in Real Life
Synopsis: "La Binoche", as she is called in her native country of France, won an Oscar for The English Patient (1996). She tells Fandango about her early experiences with Charlie Chaplin.
Amy Ryan: My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: Best Supporting Actress, Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Cast: Co-starred in HBO’s The Wire and appears in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming The Changeling
Synopsis: A winner of several 2007 Best Supporting Actress awards, Oscar contender Ryan tells Fandango about her first acting inspirations, and what it was like to work with Ben Affleck on his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone.
Jon Voight: My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: Best Supporting Actor, Ali (2001) and Runaway Train (1986), Best Actor, Midnight Cowboy (1970)
Cast: Co-starred in National Treasure: Book of Secrets and Transformers
Synopsis: An Oscar winner for Best Actor in Coming Home (1978), Voight tells Fandango about his first experiences as a young moviegoer, from classic B Westerns to cliffhanging Superman serials.
Marcia Gay Harden: My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: Best Supporting Actress, Mystic River (2003)
Cast: Co-starred in the Oscar-nominated Into the Wild and Stephen King’s The Mist
Synopsis: An Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress in Ed Harris’ Pollock (2000), Harden talks to Fandango about a girlhood crush on a movie cowboy (Young Billy Young’s Bobby Walker), inspirations like The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady, and how movies can take you to another world.
Susan Sarandon: My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: Best Actress, The Client (1994), Lorenzo’s Oil (1992), Thelma & Louise (1991), and Atlantic City (1980).
Cast: Co-starring as the evil Queen Narissa in Disney’s Oscar-nominated Enchanted and as Doris Duke in the HBO movie, Bernard and Doris.
Synopsis: An Oscar winner for Best Actress in Dead Man Walking (1995), Sarandon tells Fandango about her first memories of the movies, from the classic musical Gigi to Walt Disney’s Fantasia (with its scary dancing broomsticks in The Sorceror’s Apprentice sequence).
Menken: My First Time at the Movies
Nominated for: Best Song, from films like Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules.
Cast: N/A
Synopsis: The winner of 8 Oscars, beloved composer Menken has three Oscar nominations this year, all in the Best Song category (for Disney’s Enchanted.) Menken talks to Fandango about his Broadway inspirations, including the musical, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
