Sideways
film by Payne [2004]
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- In Alexander Payne
…also emerged from the picaresque Sideways (2004), which focused on a hapless snob (Paul Giamatti) who escorts his lothario friend (Thomas Haden Church) on a getaway to California wine country. (It was Payne’s first film not set at least partially in his native Omaha.) The film earned Payne the best…
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- Oscar to Payne and Taylor for best adapted screenplay, 2004
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- In Paul Giamatti
…the enormously successful road film Sideways (2004), directed by Alexander Payne, in which Giamatti played a failed novelist and recently divorced high-school English teacher who travels with his friend to the wine-making regions of California for a celebratory trip before the latter’s wedding. In 2006 Giamatti received his first Academy…
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