BP005 American Beauty (1999) - with special guest Deborah Frances-White

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and
Tom Salinsky


Episode 5: American Beauty (1999)


Released 28 March 2018.


For this episode, we watched American Beauty, written by Alan
Ball and directed by Sam Mendes, both making their feature film
debuts and both winning Academy Awards. Music was by Thomas
Newman (nominated) and cinematography was by Conrad Hall (won).
The cast includes Kevin Spacey (winning Best Actor), Annette
Bening (nominated), Thora Birch, Alison Janney, Peter Gallagher,
Mena Suvari, Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper.


In total, the film won five awards from eight nominations, the
best haul of any film that year.


Next time we will be discussing Ben-Hur. If you
want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy
the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can
download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA).


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