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B-Roll: The Background Banner poster of “Critic’s Choice Awards”, zoom out to show background, pan over to show press, pan back and zoom in to show poster, various zoom’s of background, pan over to show red carpet, show reporter doing stand up, pan over to show red carpet, the fans pan over to background, CU on “VH1” poster zoom out to show background, a light pan down to show carpet,

B-Roll: The crowd waiting for arrivals, zoom out to show carpet fill, the press, Joey Berlin gets interviewed, the carpet fill, the crowd, the press, etc.

Sound Bite: Joey Berlin – President, Broadcast Film Critic’s Association
I run the Broadcast Film Critic’s Association and it’s not pretty, there all a bunch of critics I have to say, but we don’t ever actually get in one room, it’s all done, because the thing about the Broadcast Film Critic’s Association is that we are truly national, we are the only truly national critic’s association, all the top 25 markets around the country have members on the air talking about movies, most of the secondary markets as well, actually all 50 states, the running joke is that Julia Roberts, will sit down and do an interview with one of our members and they say, “Oh, who’s that pretty woman sitting there next to Sarah?” Sarah we know she is the film critic in our market, so.

Sound Bite: Bruce Cohen (Blonde hair) – Producer – Milk Dan Jinks – Producer – Milk
Dan: We are so incredibly excited, this kind of recognition for a movie like “Milk” is really essential, there’s a part of the audience that’s going to rush to see “Milk”, has been rushing but to cross over, to middle American audiences is, this is important, they need to say, “Oh, wow, Broadcast Film Critic’s have nominated this film for Best Picture this year and have given it a total of 8 nominations, that’s a big deal, there must be something great about this movie.”
OC: Your thoughts.
Bruce: We were fortunate enough to come to these awards 9 years ago for “American Beauty” and it has grown so much, it was a lunch and it was at the Beverly Hills Hotel, it wasn’t televised, it was a lovely event, but to see how it has become, a big important awards show of the season now, how much coverage it gets and how potential it can get, how good it can be for your movie, for people to see it watch the show tonight, is really exciting.

Sound Bite: Bruce Cohen (Blonde hair) – Producer – Milk Dan Jinks – Producer – Milk
Dan: Wow, what an interesting question. I think you learn, how an audience is responding to your movie, at least certain audience’s responding to your movie, we’ve been very fortunate, in that most of the movies that we’ve done have been positively received, uh, but there always been some negative reviews, actually the “Hollywood Reporter” gave the worst review “American Beauty” got, in the entire country,
Bruce: Kind of in the world.
Dan: The worst review, but the same critic I’m not going to name loved, “Milk”, so he’s a genius now and has gotten much better over the years.
Bruce: The painful part is I think you can learn a lot from a review, but it’s too late to do anything about it, there’s you know, I’ve read many a good review of stuff we’ve done, I mean review good in quality, sometimes not liking the piece, bringing up points, and I’ll be like my god there right good point, I wish we would have done that, it would be great fun at one point to make a movie take all the reviews and study and take all the suggestions and then get to make it again, but of course that’s not really to feasible. It’s too late

Sound Bite: Alexander Desplat – Music Composer – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Yes, actually yes, when there bad, when there good it’s fun, when there bad, you think, “Bastard”, but then you go, hmm, there must be something true, so you try to understand what’s wrong, but you can, sometimes it just mean, ok you forget, but it’s useful it’s good to hear bad things, ????, it good to hear, from critic’s which are tough, which are trying to show you something you might not have seen in your work.

Sound Bite: Tom Hooper – Director – John Adams
Of the list, I’ve really liked, it’s difficult to answer I know too many of the people involved, you know, I always, there a fight between loyalty and I haven’t seen all of them, but I certainly really liked “Rachel Getting Married”, I thought Ann Hathaway was great in that, I liked “Milk” with Sean Penn performance, I thought “Frost/Nixon” was interesting and that’s written by a friend of mine Peter Morgan who I’m making another film with at the moment, so.

B-Roll: Gus Van Sant, gets interviewed by press. Zoom out to show press line, Amanda Byes, and Katy Perry on carpet.

Sound Bite: Virginia Madsen - Actress
I don’t read reviews, I mean I read them from other films, but not the one’s I’m in, because if you believe the good ones, you believe the bad ones, so I read them about other people’s films and other actor’s, but never on myself Bette Davis gave that advice, so, I think it was good, that way you don’t get sad and your head doesn’t get to big, either way, so.

Sound Bite: Gus Van Sant – Director – Milk
Best films, it’s hard to say, because I’ve been looking at everything a skewed with our own film competing against them so I can’t really see, I mean Waltz at Bashir is amazing. That was like one of my favorites.

B-Roll: Laura Dern gets interviewed by TV crew, wide shot of carpet, zoom into Viola Davis.

Sound Bite: Chris Noth – Actor
No.
OC: Never?
Chris: Do I learn anything no, no, I don’t, I dont think enough reviewers they maybe Dramaturge but not, I wouldn’t say any of them know a thing about acting, so um, unless there Harold Clurman, which there not or, Robert Lewis which there not, I don’t think many of them, there just going by their own taste, but do they know what good acting is, obviously not, since some of things that have been applauded are, go get Brad Pitt and ask him that.

Sound Bite: Kristen Bell – Actress
“Forgetting Sarah Marshall” if I had to choose. I don’t know why.

B-Roll: Kevin Bacon walks by

B-Roll: Richard Gere walks by

Sound Bite: Darren Aronofsky – Director – The Wrestler
Wow, I loved “The Hunger” I saw a lot of things in Europe, so I haven’t seen that much of the American films, “Waltz with Bashir” was great and “The Hunger” was great, I don’t know, I got a lot of films to catch up with, I’ve been mostly been doing press and promoting “The Wrestler”

B-Roll: Clint Eastwood walks by. Stops and talks to press, Elizabeth Banks walks by, Clint then walks by and past us.

B-Roll: Ann Hathaway walks by.