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Alexander Payne

  1. interview
    Oscar Winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph Never Let the Buzz Get to Her HeadThe Holdovers star poured so much detail into Mary Lamb and that extra effort helped win her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  2. accusations
    Luca Writer Accuses The Holdovers of Big Fat Liar-ing Their ScriptSimon Stephenson claims Alexander Payne has read his original script on two separate occasions and cites similarities between the two projects.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  3. oscars 2024
    The Holdovers Screenwriter Predicts a Renaissance of Humanist Films“I’m a big believer in no tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”
    By Zoe Guy
  4. awards szn
    The National Board of Review Loves Scorsese, The HoldoversPaul Giamatti and Lily Gladstone are among NBR winners now.
    By Jason P. Frank
  5. movie review
    Paul Giamatti Is Never Better Than When He’s in an Alexander Payne MoviePrep school dramedy The Holdovers, the pair’s first collaboration since Sideways, showcases Giamatti’s capacity for the prickly and the heartbreaking.
    By Alison Willmore
  6. role call
    Laura Dern Answers Every Question We Have About Citizen RuthOn Alexander Payne’s “equal-opportunity offender” abortion comedy, Miramax’s efforts to “kill” support for it, and its continued relevance.
    By Matthew Jacobs
  7. crime
    Alexander Payne Says Rose McGowan Allegations Are ‘Simply Untrue’The director denies meeting McGowan when she was 15, but admits that they went on dates when she was 17 or 18.
    By Rebecca Alter
  8. ‘i was 15’
    Rose McGowan Accuses Director Alexander Payne of Sexual Misconduct“I was 15.”
    By Zoe Haylock
  9. Downsizing Is a Boldly Executed Sci-Fi That Trips Over Its Own ModestyHong Chau is a stand-out in Alexander Payne’s willfully weird economic parable.
    By Emily Yoshida
  10. profile
    Alexander Payne Is Supersizing His Artistic Ambitions With a Very Tiny ComedyWith Downsizing, the director mines the comedy in the microscopic.
    By Boris Kachka
  11. Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig Literally Shrink Themselves in the Downsizing TrailerPremiering this December.
    By Jackson McHenry
  12. trailer mix
    Downsizing Trailer: Why Shrink Your Lifestyle When You Can Shrink Your Body?Matt Damon and Christoph Waltz take the plunge.
    By Devon Ivie
  13. casting couch
    Be Excited: Matt Damon and Alexander Payne Are Making a Movie TogetherDownsizing.
    By Jesse David Fox
  14. oscars 2014
    Best Director: Can We Confidently Predict a Split?Director/Picture splits are awfully rare, but can anything stop Alfonso Cuarón?
    By Kyle Buchanan
  15. Talking to Will Forte About ‘Nebraska’, ‘MacGruber 2’, and Never-Aired […]Will Forte is a busy man. Upon leaving SNL in 2010, he starred in MacGruber, a film that received mixed reviews but is nonetheless considered a […]
    By Erik Voss
  16. movie review
    Edelstein: There’s a Gnarled Grace to Alexander Payne’s NebraskaStarring Bruce Dern as a man who believes he’s won a million dollars.
    By David Edelstein
  17. Alexander Payne Likes That Comedians Don’t ‘Wallow in Heavy-osity’“”I’ve found that in the past I’m often drawn to people with good comic timing to perform in dramatic parts,” the director said. “Because […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  18. profile
    Bruce Dern on Nebraska, the Part He’s Waited 77 Years ForThe perpetual supporting man gets his star turn.
    By Mary Kaye Schilling
  19. trailer mix
    Nebraska Trailer: Will Forte’s Driving Mr. DernIt’s in black and/or white.
    By Jesse David Fox
  20. Watch the Trailer for Will Forte’s Dramatic Debut in Alexander Payne’s […] Here’s the brand new trailer for Nebraska, director Alexander Payne’s upcoming movie that stars Will Forte in his dramatic debut. Forte stars […]
    By Bradford Evans
  21. cannes 2013
    Cannes: Why Alexander Payne Shot Nebraska in B&WThe film stars Bruce Dern and Will Forte.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  22. Watch Will Forte Get Dramatic in a Clip from Alexander Payne’s ‘Nebraska’ Saturday Night Live alum Will Forte is set to take a rare dramatic turn in Nebraska, a new movie directed by Oscar-winner Alexander Payne […]
    By Bradford Evans
  23. Will Forte Hopefully to Work with Alexander Payne; Bring the PainAlexander Payne, writer/director of such minor (not minor at all) films as The Descendants, Sideways, and Election, wants Will Forte to star in […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  24. chat room
    Alexander Payne on The Descendants, the Contraception Battle, and the Japanese Sideways“Oh, God, it’s unwatchable.”
    By Bilge Ebiri
  25. exclusive
    Paramount Demands a Budget Cut and a Big Star for Alexander Payne’s Black-and-White MovieTo win the right to block color from ‘Nebraska,’ he slices his $20 million budget nearly in half.
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  26. clickables
    See George Clooney in the Poster for The DescendantsIt’s the new movie from Alexander Payne.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  27. clickables
    See George Clooney in a Clip From The DescendantsIt’s the newest film from Alexander Payne, and it involves a lot of running.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  28. the industry
    Alexander Payne Is Making Another Road-Trip MovieIt’s called ‘Nebraska.’
    By Kyle Buchanan
  29. the industry
    Bobby Fischer Pawned by David FincherPlus: Mary Steenburgen to have obnoxious kids.
    By Lane Brown
  30. the industry
    Owen Wilson Is a DogPlus: Jim Belushi! Gordon Ramsay! A Canadian kid!
    By Adam K. Raymond
  31. the industry
    Jonah Hill Knows The Best ThingPlus: a Hank Williams biopic.
    By Amos Barshad
  32. the industry
    Ed Helms to Make Iowa Cool AgainPlus: Somebody finally cuts Spielberg a break.
    By Lane Brown
  33. the industry
    Sacha Baron Cohen, Reese Witherspoon, and Paul Giamatti Get SmallPlus, Chuck Lorre’s shows to remain on TV forever.
    By Amos Barshad
  34. the industry
    Barry Sonnenfeld to Save World From Aliens AgainPlus: What’s Christopher Lloyd up to these days?
    By Lane Brown
  35. the industry
    Samuel L. Jackson to Star in Basically ‘Torture: The Movie’Plus: Alexander Payne’s next movie, and the big names behind ‘Bioshock.’
  36. news reel
    A Peek at the Movie ‘Chuck & Larry’ Could Have BeenThe finished version of I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry bears little resemblance to the script credited writers Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor turned in several years ago.
  37. news reel
    Did Joshua Ferris’s Novel Sell to HBO?