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Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Overview
Good Night, and Good Luck is a 2005
2005 in film
The year 2005 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top–grossing films:...

 film directed by George Clooney
George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Clooney has balanced his performances in big-budget blockbusters with work as a producer and director behind commercially riskier projects, as well as social and liberal political activism...

. The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov
Grant Heslov
Grant Heslov is an American actor and Academy Award-nominated film producer and screenwriter. His acting credits include films like True Lies, Dante's Peak, Enemy of the State, The Scorpion King and Good Night, and Good Luck. and several credits in TV series...

 and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss and Alex Kendrick considered...

 and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...

 of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. states. Located in the north-central United States, Wisconsin is considered part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the...

, especially relating to the anti-Communist
Anti-communism
Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communism, especially Marxism. Organized anti-communism developed in reaction to the growing popularity of the communist movement, and took on many forms during the 20th century....

 Senator's actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

The movie, although released in black and white
Black-and-white
Black-and-white is a number of monochrome forms in visual arts. Most forms of visual technology start out in black and white, then slowly evolve into color as technology progresses....

, was filmed on color film stock
Film stock
Film stock is photographic film on which motion pictures are shot and reproduced.-1889–1899:Modern motion picture film stock was first created thanks to the introduction of a transparent flexible film base material, celluloid, which was discovered and refined for photographic use thanks to the work...

 but on a grayscale
Grayscale
In photography and computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample, that is, it carries only intensity information...

 set, and was later color corrected
Color grading
Color grading is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture or television image, either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally. The photo-chemical process is also referred to as color timing and is typically performed at a photographic laboratory...

 to black and white during post-production
Post-production
Post-production is part of the filmmaking process. It occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programs, radio programs, videos, audio recordings, photography and digital art...

.
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Quotations

We will not walk in fear, one of another.

Funny thing, Freddie, every time you light a cigarette for me, I know you're lying.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Referring to a line from Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Ceasar recited by Senator McCarthy: Had Senator McCarthy looked just three lines earlier he would have found this: "The fault dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves...”

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.

Let us dream to the extent of saying that on a given Sunday night the time normally occupied by Ed Sullivan is given over to a clinical survey of the state of American education, and a week or two later the time normally used by Steve Allen is devoted to a thoroughgoing study of American policy in the Middle East.

I've searched my conscience, and I can't for the life of me find any justification for this, and I simply cannot accept that there are on every story two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Encyclopedia
Good Night, and Good Luck is a 2005
2005 in film
The year 2005 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top–grossing films:...

 film directed by George Clooney
George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Clooney has balanced his performances in big-budget blockbusters with work as a producer and director behind commercially riskier projects, as well as social and liberal political activism...

. The film was written by Clooney and Grant Heslov
Grant Heslov
Grant Heslov is an American actor and Academy Award-nominated film producer and screenwriter. His acting credits include films like True Lies, Dante's Peak, Enemy of the State, The Scorpion King and Good Night, and Good Luck. and several credits in TV series...

 and portrays the conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss and Alex Kendrick considered...

 and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...

 of Wisconsin
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. states. Located in the north-central United States, Wisconsin is considered part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the...

, especially relating to the anti-Communist
Anti-communism
Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communism, especially Marxism. Organized anti-communism developed in reaction to the growing popularity of the communist movement, and took on many forms during the 20th century....

 Senator's actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

The movie, although released in black and white
Black-and-white
Black-and-white is a number of monochrome forms in visual arts. Most forms of visual technology start out in black and white, then slowly evolve into color as technology progresses....

, was filmed on color film stock
Film stock
Film stock is photographic film on which motion pictures are shot and reproduced.-1889–1899:Modern motion picture film stock was first created thanks to the introduction of a transparent flexible film base material, celluloid, which was discovered and refined for photographic use thanks to the work...

 but on a grayscale
Grayscale
In photography and computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample, that is, it carries only intensity information...

 set, and was later color corrected
Color grading
Color grading is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a motion picture or television image, either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally. The photo-chemical process is also referred to as color timing and is typically performed at a photographic laboratory...

 to black and white during post-production
Post-production
Post-production is part of the filmmaking process. It occurs in the making of motion pictures, television programs, radio programs, videos, audio recordings, photography and digital art...

. It focuses on the theme of media responsibility, and also addresses what occurs when the media offer a voice of dissent against the government. The movie takes its title from the line with which Murrow routinely closed his broadcasts.

The film was nominated for six Academy Awards.

Plot


Good Night, and Good Luck takes place during the early days of television broadcast journalism
Broadcast journalism
Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are "broadcast", that is, published by electrical methods, instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. Broadcast methods include radio , television , and, especially recently, the Internet generally...

 in the 1950s. Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow
Edward R. Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss and Alex Kendrick considered...

 and his dedicated staff—headed by his co-producer Fred Friendly
Fred W. Friendly
Fred W. Friendly was the former president of CBS News and the creator, with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now.-Early career:...

 and reporter Joseph Wershba
Joseph Wershba
Joseph Wershba was a professional journalist who joined the CBS News team in 1944, where he served as a writer, editor and correspondent. He was a producer of the renowned CBS "60 Minutes" program from 1968-1988. Counted among his colleagues are the renowned Edward R...

 in the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...

 newsroom—defy corporate and sponsorship pressures, and discredit the tactics used by Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...

 during his crusade
McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence...

 to root out Communist elements within the government.

Murrow first defends Milo Radulovich, who was facing separation from the U.S. Air Force
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare branch of the U.S. armed forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on 18 September 1947 under the National Security Act of 1947 - 80 P.L....

 because of his sister's political leanings and because his father subscribed to a Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country located in both Central and Southeastern Europe. Its territory covers the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and central part of the Balkans...

n newspaper. A very public feud develops when McCarthy responds by accusing Murrow of being a communist. Murrow is accused of having been a member of the leftist union Industrial Workers of the World
Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World is an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers. Its membership declined dramatically after a...

, which Murrow claimed was false.

In this climate of fear and reprisal, the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...

 crew carries on and their tenacity ultimately strikes a historic blow against McCarthy. Historical footage also shows the questioning of Annie Lee Moss
Annie Lee Moss
Annie Lee Moss was a communications clerk in the US Army Signal Corps in the Pentagon who was accused by United States Senator Joseph McCarthy of being a member of the American Communist Party, and therefore a security risk...

, a Pentagon
The Pentagon
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building itself....

 communication worker accused of being a communist based on her name appearing on a list seen by an FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency. The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...

 infiltrator of the American Communist Party
Communist Party USA
The Communist Party of the United States of America is a Marxist-Leninist political party in the United States.During the first half of the 20th century it was the largest and most widely influential communist party in the country, and played a prominent role in the U.S...

. The film's subplots feature Wershba and his wife, recently married staffers, having to hide their marriage to save their jobs at CBS; and the suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the intentional killing of one's self. Many dictionaries also note the metaphorical sense of "willful destruction of one's self-interest"...

 of Don Hollenbeck
Don Hollenbeck
Don Hollenbeck was a CBS newscaster and commentator and colleague of Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. He died from natural gas inhalation as it was discovered that his stove and oven had been turned on but not lit . Consequently, Hollenbeck's death was ruled a suicide...

, who was accused of being a Communist.

The film is framed
Framing device
The term framing device refers to the usage of the same single action, scene, event, setting, or any element of significance at both the beginning and end of an artistic, musical, or literary work. The repeated element thus creates a ‘frame’ within which the main body of work can develop.The...

 by performance of the speech given by Murrow to the Radio and Television News Directors Association
Radio and Television News Directors Association
The Radio-Television News Directors Association is a membership organization of radio, television and online news directors, producers, executives and educators with both a Canadian and an American organization...

 in 1958, in which Murrow harshly admonishes his audience not to squander the potential of television
Television
Television is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...

 to inform and educate the public.

Cast

  • David Strathairn
    David Strathairn
    -Life:Strathairn was born in San Francisco, California, the son of a physician. He has Scottish ancestry through his paternal grandfather, Thomas Scott Strathairn , and Native Hawaiian ancestry through his paternal grandmother, Lei...

     as Edward R. Murrow
    Edward R. Murrow
    Edward R. Murrow, KBE was an American broadcast journalist. He first came to prominence with a series of radio news broadcasts during World War II, which were followed by millions of listeners in the United States and Canada.Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss and Alex Kendrick considered...

    , journalist and host of the CBS television program See It Now
    See It Now
    See It Now was a television newsmagazine and documentary broadcast by CBS in the 1950s. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, Murrow being the host of the show. From 1952 to 1957, See It Now won four Emmy Awards and was nominated three times...

  • George Clooney
    George Clooney
    George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Clooney has balanced his performances in big-budget blockbusters with work as a producer and director behind commercially riskier projects, as well as social and liberal political activism...

     as Fred Friendly, coproducer with Murrow of See It Now
  • Robert Downey, Jr. as Joseph Wershba
    Joseph Wershba
    Joseph Wershba was a professional journalist who joined the CBS News team in 1944, where he served as a writer, editor and correspondent. He was a producer of the renowned CBS "60 Minutes" program from 1968-1988. Counted among his colleagues are the renowned Edward R...

    , writer, editor, and correspondent for CBS News
  • Patricia Clarkson
    Patricia Clarkson
    Patricia Davies Clarkson is an American actress. After having a dramatic education in the East Coast, Clarkson launched her acting career in 1985, and is working steadily on both film and television...

     as Shirley Wershba
  • Frank Langella
    Frank Langella
    Frank A. Langella Jr. is an American stage and film actor. His Tonys include two for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Edward Albee's Seascape , and Ivan Turgenev's Fortune's Fool , and for Best Leading Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Nixon in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon...

     as William Paley
    William S. Paley
    William Samuel Paley , the chief executive who built Columbia Broadcasting System from a small radio network into one of the foremost radio and television network operations in the United States....

    , chief executive of CBS
  • Jeff Daniels
    Jeff Daniels
    Jeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an American actor, musician and playwright. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan. He has performed in a number of stage productions, both on and off-Broadway...

     as Sig Mickelson
  • Tate Donovan
    Tate Donovan
    Tate Buckley Donovan is an American animated voice actor. He is currently starring in the FX drama Damages, as "Tom Shayes." Prior to this, he was best known for his role as, "Jimmy Cooper," in the American teen drama television series The O.C...

     as Jesse Zousmer
  • Ray Wise
    Ray Wise
    Ray Wise is an American actor, known for his roles as Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks, as Leon Nash, right-hand henchmen to villain Clarence Boddicker in the sci-fi classic RoboCop, and most recently as the Devil in the CW television series Reaper.-Biography:Wise was born in Akron, Ohio and attended...

     as Don Hollenbeck
    Don Hollenbeck
    Don Hollenbeck was a CBS newscaster and commentator and colleague of Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly. He died from natural gas inhalation as it was discovered that his stove and oven had been turned on but not lit . Consequently, Hollenbeck's death was ruled a suicide...

    , journalist for CBS News; accused in the press of being a "pinko
    Pinko
    Pinko is a derogatory term for a person regarded as sympathetic to communism, though not necessarily a Communist Party member. The term has its origins in the notion that pink is a lighter shade of red, the color associated with communism; thus pink could be thought of as a "lighter form of...

    "
  • Alex Borstein
    Alex Borstein
    Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein , also known as "a.bo", is an Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-nominated American actress, singer, voice actress, writer and comedian...

     as Natalie
  • Reed Diamond
    Reed Diamond
    Reed Edward Diamond is an American actor. He appeared in the NBC series Journeyman and had a recurring role as Laurence Dominic on the series Dollhouse during its first season.-Personal life:...

     as John Aaron
  • Matt Ross
    Matt Ross
    Matthew Brandon Ross is an American actor best known for his role as Alby Grant in the HBO series, "Big Love."-Filmography:*Urusei Yatsura 2 *Desperation Rising *PCU *Twelve Monkeys...

     as Eddie Scott
  • Joseph McCarthy
    Joseph McCarthy
    Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...

     as himself (archive footage)

Production


In September 2005, Clooney explained his interest in the story to an audience at the New York Film Festival
New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival is one of the most important film festivals in the world, first held in 1963 in New York. The films are selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.The non-competitive festival was established by Amos Vogel and Richard Roud...

: "I thought it was a good time to raise the idea of using fear to stifle political debate." Having majored in journalism in college, Clooney was well-versed in the subject matter. His father, Nick Clooney
Nick Clooney
Nicholas Clooney is an American journalist, anchorman and game show host, as well as a politician from the state of Kentucky...

, was a television journalist for many years, appearing as an anchorman
News presenter
A news presenter is a person who presents a news show on television, radio or the Internet.-Newscasters and newsreaders:...

 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state of the United States. The thirty-fourth largest state by area in the U.S., it is the seventh-most populous with nearly 11.5 million residents...

, and Buffalo, New York
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, second only to New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the seat of Erie...

. The elder Clooney also ran for congress in 2004.

George Clooney was paid $1 each for writing, directing, and acting in Good Night, and Good Luck, which cost $7.5 million to make. Due to an injury he received on the set of Syriana
Syriana
Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast. Gaghan's screenplay is loosely adapted from Robert Baer's memoir See No Evil...

a few months earlier, Clooney couldn't pass the tests to be insured. He then proposed to mortgage his own home in order to make the film. Dallas Mavericks
Dallas Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team based in Dallas, Texas, USA. They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association ....

 owner Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban
Mark Cuban is an American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, an NBA basketball team, and Chairman of HDNet, an HDTV cable network.-Biography:...

 and former eBay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. A majority of the sales take place through a set-time auction format, but subsequent methods include...

 president Jeff Skoll invested money in the project as executive producers. The film ultimately grossed more than $54m worldwide.

The CBS offices and studios seen in the movie were all sets on a soundstage. To accomplish a pair of scenes showing characters going up an elevator
Elevator
An elevator or lift is a vertical transport vehicle that efficiently moves people or goods between floors of a building...

, different "floors" of the building were laid out on the same level. The "elevator" was actually built on a large turntable at the intersection of the two floor sets, and rotated once the doors were closed. When the doors reopened, the actors appeared to be in a different location.

Clooney and producer Grant Heslov decided to use only archival footage of Joseph McCarthy in his depiction. As all of that footage was black-and-white, that determined the color scheme of the film. A young Robert Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy , also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician. He was a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and acted as one of his advisers during his presidency. From 1961 to 1964, he was the U.S...

 is also shown in the movie during McCarthy's hearing sessions. He was then a staff member on the Senate subcommittee chaired by McCarthy.

Music


A small jazz combo starring jazz singer Dianne Reeves
Dianne Reeves
Dianne Reeves is an American jazz singer, known for her live performances as much as her albums. She is considered one of the most important contemporary jazz singers.She lives in Denver, Colorado.-Early life:...

 was hired to record the soundtrack to the movie. This combo (Peter Martin
Peter Martin (jazz pianist)
Peter Martin is an American jazz pianist. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and currently resides there. He has released two albums on the Max Jazz label, Something Unexpected and In The P.M....

, Christoph Luty, Jeff Hamilton
Jeff Hamilton (drummer)
Jeff Hamilton is an American jazz drummer. He is co-director of the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and leader of his own trio.-Career:...

 and Matt Catingub) was featured in the movie in several scenes; for example, in one scene the newsmen pass a studio where she is recording with the rest of the band. The CD is Dianne Reeves's second featuring jazz standards, and it won the Grammy Award
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...

 in 2005 for best jazz vocal performance
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album has been presented since 1977. Until 2001 this award was titled the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance...

.

Reception


The film received generally glowing reviews. It was named "Best Reviewed Film of 2005 in Limited Release" by Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films. The name derives from the historical cliché of throwing tomatoes and other produce at stage performers if a performance was particularly bad.- History :...

, where it achieved a 94% positive review rating. The movie received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Director, and Actor.

Libertarian Jack Shafer
Jack Shafer
Jack Shafer is a writer for the online magazine Slate. He currently edits and writes the column Press Box. Before joining Slate, he was editor for two city weeklies, Washington City Paper and SF Weekly. Much of Shafer's writing focuses on what he sees as a lack of precision and rigor in...

, a columnist for the online magazine Slate
Slate (magazine)
Slate is an English-language online current affairs and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley, initially under the ownership of Microsoft, as part of MSN. On December 21, 2004, it was purchased by the Washington Post Company...

, accused the film of continuing what he characterizes as the hagiography
Hagiography
Hagiography is the study of saints. A hagiography, from the Greek and , refers literally to writings on the subject of such holy people, and specifically to the biographies of ecclesiastical and secular leaders. The term hagiology, the study of hagiography, is also current in English, though...

 of Murrow. Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter.He is known for his film review column and for two television programs Sneak Previews and Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel...

, in his Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is owned by the Sun-Times Media Group, which filed for bankruptcy protection on March 31, 2009.-History:...

review, contends that "the movie is not really about the abuses of McCarthy, but about the process by which Murrow and his team eventually brought about his downfall (some would say his self-destruction). It is like a morality play
Morality play
The Morality play is a genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainment. In their own time, these plays were known as "interludes," a broader term given to dramas with or without a moral theme. Morality plays are a type of allegory in which the protagonist is met by personifications of...

, from which we learn how journalists should behave. It shows Murrow as fearless, but not flawless."

One complaint about the movie among test audiences was their belief that the actor playing McCarthy was too over the top, not realizing that the film used actual archive footage of McCarthy himself.

Awards and nominations


The American Film Institute
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act...

named Good Night, and Good Luck as one of the Top Ten Movies of 2005
American Film Institute Awards 2005
The American Film Institute Awards 2005 honored the best 10 Movies and 10 Television Programs of the year.-Films:*The 40-Year-Old Virgin*Brokeback Mountain *Capote...

. Other nominations and awards include:

2006 Academy Awards
78th Academy Awards
The 78th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2005 and were held on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. The ceremony was pushed back from its newly established February date because of the 2006 Winter Olympics in...

  • Nominated: Best Picture
    Academy Award for Best Picture
    The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the motion picture industry. The Best Picture category is the only category in which every member of the Academy is eligible...

  • Nominated: Best Director
    Academy Award for Directing
    The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Awards of Merit presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to directors working in the motion picture industry...

    , George Clooney
  • Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
    Academy Award for Best Actor
    Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...

    , David Strathairn
  • Nominated: Best Original Screenplay
  • Nominated: Best Achievement in Art Direction
    Academy Award for Best Art Direction
    The Academy Awards are the oldest awards ceremony for achievements in motion pictures. The Academy Award for Best Art Direction recognizes achievement in art direction on a film. The films below are listed with their production year, so the Oscar 2000 for best art direction went to a film from 1999...

  • Nominated: Best Achievement in Cinematography
    Academy Award for Best Cinematography
    The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is an Academy Award awarded each year to a cinematographer for work in one particular motion picture....



2006 BAFTA
59th British Academy Film Awards
The 59th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on 19 February, 2006, honoured the best in film for 2005....

  • Nominated: Best Film
    BAFTA Award for Best Film
    This page lists the Milo and nominees for the BAFTA Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language and Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film for each year, in addition to the retired earlier versions of those awards...

  • Nominated: Best Direction
    BAFTA Award for Best Direction
    Winners of the BAFTA Award for Best Direction presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.- 2000's :*2008 - Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire**Clint Eastwood – Changeling...

    , George Clooney
  • Nominated: Best Actor in a Leading Role
    BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
    Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.- Winners and nominees :...

    , David Strathairn
  • Nominated: Best Actor in a Supporting Role
    BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
    Best Actor in a Supporting Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding supporting performance in a film...

    , George Clooney
  • Nominated: Best Original Screenplay
    BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
    The BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay is the British Academy Film Award for the best script not based upon previously published material. It has been awarded since 1984, when the original category was split into two awards, the other being the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted...

    , George Clooney and Grant Heslov
  • Nominated: Best Editing
    BAFTA Award for Best Editing
    The BAFTA Award for Best Editing is one of several annual awards presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . The film-voting members of the Academy select the five nominated films in each category...

    , Stephen Mirrione


2006 Golden Globe Awards nominations:
  • Nominated: Best Motion Picture (Drama category)
    Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama
    This page lists the winners and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, since its institution in 1951. The organizer, Hollywood Foreign Press Association , is an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are...

  • Nominated: Best Director (Motion Picture category)
    Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture
    This page lists the winners of and nominees for the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Since its inception in 1943, it has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization comprised of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications...

    , George Clooney
  • Nominated: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama category)
    Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
    The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture - Drama was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1951...

    , David Strathairn
  • Nominated: Best Screenplay (Motion Picture category)
    Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
    The Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture is one of the annual awards given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.-1960s:1965: Doctor Zhivago – Robert Bolt*The Agony and the Ecstasy – Philip Dunne...

    , George Clooney and Grant Heslov


2006 Producers Guild of America Awards
Producers Guild of America
Producers Guild of America is a trade organization representing television producers, film producers and New Media producers in the United States. The PGA's membership includes over 3,500 members of the producing establishment worldwide...

  • Won: Stanley Kramer Award


2005 Screen Actors Guild Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2005
The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, honoring the best in film and television acting achievement for the year 2005, took place on January 29, 2006 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center, in Los Angeles, California. It was the 10th consecutive year the ceremony was held at the...

  • Nominated: Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (Motion Picture category)
    Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture
    The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role is an award presented annually by the Screen Actors Guild to honour the finest male acting achievements in a motion picture in a lead role...

    , David Strathairn
  • Nominated: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
    Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Cast in a Motion Picture
    The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture is an award given by the Screen Actors Guild to honor the finest acting achievements in film.-1990's:...


Ratings

  • Allmovie  link
  • Roger Ebert
    Roger Ebert
    Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter.He is known for his film review column and for two television programs Sneak Previews and Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, which he co-hosted for a combined 23 years with Gene Siskel...

     
  • Empire
    Empire (magazine)
    Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media. From the first issue in July 1989, the magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney and published by Emap. Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008...

    link
  • Filmcritic.com link
  • Premiere
    Premiere (magazine)
    Premiere was an American and New York City-based film magazine published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., published between the years 1987 and 2007. The original version of the magazine, , was started in France in 1976 and is still being published there....

  • Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone
    Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J. Gleason.The magazine was named after the 1948 Muddy Waters song of the same...


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