Best Motion Picture of the Year

FROST/NIXON

FROST/NIXON

Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner
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ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY

This is the fourth Academy Award nomination for Brian Grazer. He was previously nominated for:

  • A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001) -- Winner, Best Picture
  • APOLLO 13 (1995) -- Nominee, Best Picture
  • SPLASH (1984) -- Nominee, Writing (Original)

Including his nomination this year for Directing for FROST/NIXON, this is the fourth Academy Award nomination for Ron Howard. He was previously nominated for:

  • A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001) -- Winner, Directing
  • A BEAUTIFUL MIND (2001) -- Winner, Best Picture

This is the third Academy Award nomination for Eric Fellner. He was previously nominated for:

  • ATONEMENT (2007) -- Nominee, Best Picture
  • ELIZABETH (1998) -- Nominee, Best Picture

FILM SYNOPSIS

Following his 1974 resignation, Richard Nixon withdraws from public life until talk show host David Frost persuades him--with the help of a sizeable payment--to participate in a series of television interviews.  For Frost, the much-anticipated event offers a chance to establish himself as a serious journalist, while the disgraced former president regards the interviews as an opportunity to reestablish himself on the political stage.

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