Upon yesterday’s announcement of the Oscar nomination for A Single Man, WCCO reporter Darcy Pohland stopped by our office in downtown Minneapolis. Check out the news footage, which includes info about all of Minnesota’s ties to the Oscars, here.
We are delighted (and not at all surprised) at the news that can-you-believe-he’s-never-before-been-nominated Colin Firth has been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in the Tom Ford-directed A Single Man. (Though, in our totally biased opinion, the film deserves to be among the Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress (Julianne Moore) categories … More A Single Man at the Oscars + UK premiere + book vs. film
In case you missed any of this, here’s a roundup of A Single Man in the news and on TV this week: –Dorian Awards: Winner of Film of the Year and Performance of the Year (Colin Firth). –The Daily Show with John Stewart: Colin Firth talks about getting naked in a fish tank for a … More A Single Man week-in-review
While Tom Ford’s A Single Man, sadly, did not win a Golden Globe in any of the three categories in which it was nominated, we are keeping our fingers crossed for its potential at the Oscars. Nominations for the Academy Awards will be announced two weeks from today, on Tuesday, Feb. 2nd. Elsewhere in recent … More Crossing our fingers for ‘A Single Man’ at the Oscars …
If you’ve been following this blog regularly, you’ve likely seen a lot of information about the movie tie-in edition of Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man that we’ve recently published. What hasn’t been covered in any great depth is the fact that this book is a very valuable tool to teach in the classroom. Until now. … More Teachability and Isherwood’s A Single Man
Yesterday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced that the film A Single Man is up for three Golden Globe awards: Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting Actress (Julianne Moore), and Best Score (Abel Korzeniowski). The awards will be televised on January 17th, and we can’t wait to see what the stars will be wearing to … More 3 Golden Globe nominations
At Barnes & Noble, downtown Minneapolis: The film A Single Man opens in limited release today. “Tom Ford has created a gay man troubled by ordinary grief and haunted by joy, a man apart and yet like any other.” New York Times movie review. “We’re always looking for those performances that truly define an actor, … More Spotted Downtown: A Single Man
Get ready for an A Single Man frenzy this week! Tonight, director Tom Ford will appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC, 11:35 pm CST. Tomorrow morning, Ford will appear on The Martha Stewart Show (10 a.m. CST on NBC), while actress Julianne Moore visits The View (10 a.m. CST on ABC). In … More Must-see TV
The film A Single Man, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore and directed by Tom Ford, will be released in select theaters in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco one week from today on Dec. 11th. As for the rest of us, we’ll be able to see the film when it releases three weeks … More Coming Soon
Dear readers, Welcome to the discussion forum for Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man. With this forum, the University of Minnesota Press invites you to leave a comment and chat with other readers about all things A Single Man and Isherwood: Your favorite passages of the book; your thoughts on how the book and the film … More A Single Man: Readers’ Forum
