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When Julianne Moore accepted her 2015 Oscar for Still Alice, she made a point of thanking me and my husband: “And finally, to the filmmakers, Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, who had hoped to be here tonight but can’t, because of Richard’s health. When Richard was diagnosed with Als, Wash asked him what he wanted to do. Did he want to travel? Did he want to see the world? And he said that he wanted to make movies.”

The declaration she referred to took place three years before. Richard had just been told it was highly likely he had Als. The weight of terms like total paralysis, locked-in, and no cure was beginning to settle, dramatically reshaping our sense of the future. The more common form of the disease starts in the legs or arms and is called “limb onset.” Richard’s variant of Als was known as “bulbar...

Angelina Jolie is easily one of the most recognizable actresses all around the globe. But even she had to start somewhere, and Californication's David Duchovny joked that he played a role in her becoming a huge star.

Angelina Jolie might be one of Hollywood's nepo babies, given that her father is Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, but the actress has proven her talent time and time again. Whether it's as an actress, director, or producer, Angelina Jolie has done it all and well. However, during an appearance on Sirius Xm's Radio Andy on Thursday, David Duchovny explained why he feels like he had a hand in "discovering" Angelina Jolie.

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Exclusive: Sonic the Hedgehog franchise producer Original Film is developing a feature take of the Alexis Hall novel, Rosaline Palmer Takes The Cake.

Original’s Neal Moritz and Karina Rahardja are producing through their discretionary fund with Paramount.

David Mandell is adapting the Forever book, which follows a young single mother who dreams of owning a bakery. She enters Britain’s premiere baking competition. However, more than just the ovens heat up as sparks fly with not one but two of the other contestants on the show.

Cameron Fuller (Girl in The Woods) and Gregg Sulkin are executing producing. Maisie Richardson-Sellers (The Kissing Booth) will executive produce as well.

Mandell co-wrote the feature project Every Note Played based on the Lisa Genova novel. Hall is the author of such novels as Boyfriend Material, A Lady for a Duke, Something Fabulous, and How to Bang a Millionaire.

In a somewhat odd pairing, Oscar winners Angelina Jolie and Christoph Waltz are in talks to star in the music-driven drama Every Note Played for STXfilms, the studio announced Friday. The film is based on the acclaimed book of the same name by Still Alice author Lisa Genova. Monet Clayton and David Mandell optioned the novel and adapted the screenplay, and Clayton will produce with Richard Barton Lewis and Gabrielle Jerou via Lewis' Southpaw Entertainment banner. Michael Sucsy (Grey Gardens) will direct Every Note Played, which follows a world-renowned concert pianist and composer (Waltz) on the verge of …...

Michael Sucsy is set to direct.

STXfilms has acquired worldwide rights to the film adaptation of Lisa Genova’s novel Every Note Played.

Angelina Jolie and Christoph Waltz are in talks to star in the project, which will be directed by Michael Sucsy.

Monet Clayton, Richard Barton Lewis, and Gabrielle Jerou are set to produce via Richard Barton Lewis’s Southpaw Entertainment banner.

The story follows a world-renowned concert pianist and composer on the verge of creating his magnum opus. When he receives a life-changing diagnosis, his estranged ex-wife takes up the cross of caring for him, and he is...

Angelina Jolie and Christoph Waltz are in talks to star in “Every Note Played,” a music drama for which STXfilms has just acquired worldwide rights.

Michael Sucsy is attached to direct the film that’s based on the most recent book by “Still Alice” author Lisa Genova. And the book was optioned and adapted into a screenplay by Monet Clayton and David Mandell, whose script landed at #1 on the Black List.

“Every Note Played” follows a world-renowned concert pianist and composer on the verge of creating his magnum opus. When he receives a life-changing diagnosis, his estranged ex-wife takes up the cross of caring for him, and he is forced to balance reconciling his failed relationships with redefining his pursuit of greatness.

Monet Clayton, Richard Barton Lewis and Gabrielle Jerou will all produce “Every Note Played” via Richard Barton Lewis’s Southpaw Entertainment production banner.

Jolie most recently starred in...

Angelina Jolie and Christoph Waltz are circling the lead roles in Every Note Played, a drama based on Still Alice author Lisa Genova’s latest novel.

The story follows a world-renowned concert pianist and composer on the verge of creating his magnum opus. When he receives a life-changing diagnosis, his estranged ex-wife takes up the cross of caring for him, and he is forced to balance reconciling his failed relationships with redefining his pursuit of greatness.

Michael Sucsy is set to direct, with Monet Clayton, Richard Barton Lewis, and Gabrielle Jerou producing via Richard Barton Lewis’s Southpaw Entertainment. STXfilms has taken world rights to the project.

UTA and ICM represented the financing and deal.

Our sister publication Variety was first with the news.

Angelina Jolie and Christoph Waltz are in talks to star in “Every Note Played,” an adaptation of Lisa Genova’s contemporary romance novel. STX Films has acquired global rights to the movie.

Jolie will play Karina, the ex-wife of an accomplished concert pianist named Richard (portrayed by Waltz). He has suffered many losses, including the estrangement of his daughter, when he gets diagnosed with Als in his hands. As the disease worsens and Richard can no longer play the piano or live on his own, Karina reluctantly steps in to be his caregiver.

Michael Sucsy, whose resume includes “13 Reasons Why” and “The Vow” starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, is set to direct. Monet Clayton is producing “Every Note Played,” along with Richard Barton Lewis and Gabrielle Jerou-Tabak of Southpaw Entertainment. Clayton also adapted the screenplay with David Mandell.

“We’re thrilled to be bringing this exceptional filmmaking team together for this emotional,...

Richard Glatzer, who wrote and directed Julianne Moore’s Oscar-winning performance in Still Alice, has died after battling Als. He was 63.

Publicists say he passed away Tuesday morning only three weeks after he watched Moore win the statuette. Glatzer poured his heart and soul into the film, alongside his husband Wash Westmoreland, in spite of his debilitating condition. The pair adapted the film from Lisa Genova’s novel and proceeded to develop the project, even though he had just been diagnosed with Als.

Glatzer and Westmoreland previously made waves with 2006’s Quinceanera, a film about a pregnant 14-year-old Latina growing up in L.A.’s Echo Park neighborhood, which went on win the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.

Westmoreland released the following statement regarding Richard’s death on Tuesday:

“I am devastated. Rich was my soulmate, my collaborator, my best friend and my life.

Richard Glatzer, co-writer and co-director of Still Alice, has died. The filmmaker had been battling the ravages of Als, or Lou Gehrig's disease, since his diagnosis in 2011. He was 63.Glatzer, who married his long-time co-filmmaker and partner Walsh Westmoreland in 2013, had planned to watch his star, Julianne Moore, at the Academy Awards from his hospital bed, when he was taken into an La hospital just two days before the ceremony.He'd defied his ailing health by playing an active role in the making of Still Alice, not only in working with Westmoreland to adapt Lisa Genova's novel of a successful academic's spiral into the hell of early-onset Alzheimer’s, but never missing a day of the film's shoot. By the time of his death he was able to communicate only by tapping a specially-modified iPad with his big toe.Born in New York in 1952, Glatzer segued from University Of...

Filmmaker Richard Glatzer, best known for co-writing and co-directing Still Alice alongside his husband Wash Westmoreland, died Tuesday from complications due to Als. He was 63.

Glatzer was first diagnosed with Als in 2011 when he began working on adapting Still Alice from a novel by Lisa Genova. As production progressed, his condition deteriorated severely, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Julianne Moore won an Oscar for her performance in the film, which tells the story of a woman suffering from degenerative Alzheimer’s.

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Two days before the Academy Awards ceremony, Glatzer was rushed to the hospital after suffering from respiratory problems. According to Westmoreland, he and Glatzer watched the gala event from the hospital ward.

Glatzer and Westmoreland met in 1995 and got married in 2013. During their time together, they worked on several other well-received projects including the 2001 drama The Fluffer, the 2006 family drama Quinceanera, and the 2011 Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood.

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Richard Glatzer, co-director of the critically acclaimed film Still Alice, has died following a battle with Als, People confirms. He was 63. Glatzer died less than three weeks after the 2015 Oscars ceremony, which included star Julianne Moore picking up a Best Actress trophy for her portrayal of a Columbia University professor coping with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Glatzer learned of his medical condition in 2011, just months before he began adapting Still Alice with husband and writing-directing partner Wash Westmoreland, the New York Times reported in November. Glatzer and Westmoreland adapted Still Alice together from Lisa Genova's bestselling novel of the same name,...

Richard Glatzer, co-directer of the critically acclaimed film Still Alice, has died following a battle with Als, People confirms. He was 63. Glatzer passed away less than three weeks after the 2015 Oscars ceremony, which included star Julianne Moore picking up a Best Actress trophy for her portrayal of a Columbia University professor coping with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Glatzer learned of his medical condition in 2011, just months before he began adapting Still Alice with husband and writing-directing partner Wash Westmoreland, The New York Times reported in November. Glatzer and Westmoreland adapted Still Alice together from Lisa Genova's bestselling novel of the same name,...

Still Alice co-director Richard Glatzer has died, aged 63.

The filmmaker passed away following a long battle with neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Als), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Glatzer's death came just two weeks after Julianne Moore won a Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of a professor battling early-onset Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice.

The writer-director was not in attendance because he was hospitalised two days before the Oscars ceremony for respiratory issues.

Glatzer was diagnosed with Als just before he and husband Wash Westmoreland began adapting Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice.

The filmmaking partners also directed the 2006 family drama Quinceañera and the Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood.

Still Alice co-director Richard Glatzer has died.

The filmmaker passed away following a long battle with neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Als), according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Glatzer's death came just two weeks after Julianne Moore won a Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of a professor battling early-onset Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice.

The writer-director was not in attendance because he was hospitalised two days before the Oscars ceremony for respiratory issues.

Glatzer was diagnosed with Als while he and husband Wash Westmoreland were adapting Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice.

The filmmaking partners also directed the 2006 family drama Quinceañera and the Errol Flynn biopic The Last of Robin Hood.

Wash Westmoreland began making a film about Alzheimer’s just as his co-director husband was diagnosed with degenerative condition Als

Just over a week ago, Julianne Moore won the best actress Oscar for her role in Still Alice. The film’s two directors watched the awards from hospital. Wash Westmoreland and his husband Richard Glatzer had hoped to be at the ceremony, but shortly before, on the day they had been fitted for tuxedos, Glatzer developed breathing difficulties. In hospital, he had a cardiac arrest and had to have his heart restarted five times. “The best of times and the worst of times is the phrase I’ve been using for the last year,” says Westmoreland, “but this was extreme.” Still, Glatzer recovered to watch their lead actor take the award on the hospital TV; they had smuggled champagne in to the ward. When Moore won, they cheered so loudly...

Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland; Screenwriters: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland; Starring: Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish; Running time: 101 mins; Certificate: 12A

Julianne Moore recently won her first Oscar out of four nominations for this up-close portrait of a 50-year-old woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease. It's a performance beautifully coloured with varying shades of emotion that also makes clever use of her porcelain looks to evoke the vulnerability of the eponymous Alice.

Lisa Genova, the neuroscientist on whose novel the film is based, had the advantage of being able to tell the story from Alice's own fractured perspective, but the way that inner landscape shifts isn't so easily captured on screen by co-writer/directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. They take a neat, linear approach to Alice's mental decline that is at odds with the way she is experiencing the world around her. Essentially, Moore...

★★★☆☆ It's impossible to pinpoint the first memory embezzled under Alzheimer's rampage through the tangled web of neurons and chemical pulses of the human brain. Since even the healthiest of minds can find itself prone to moments of absent-mindedness the illness looms large over all of us, especially in an ageing society that clings to individualism. In Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's adaptation of Lisa Genova's novel Still Alice (2014) this increasingly prevalent fear is confronted head-on, sidestepping the well-trodden route of similar dramas and choosing to inhabit the deteriorating world of the sufferer, played in this instance by recent Academy Award winner Julianne Moore.

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Managing Editor

At Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony, Julianne Moore could join the ranks of 10 actors and actresses who have had five or more acting nominations before their first win.

Moore earned her fifth nomination for her portrayal of a professor suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s in Still Alice, based on Lisa Genova‘s 2007 novel of the same name. She was first nominated in 1998 for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights.

In Academy history, five actors and actresses have won their first Oscar on their fifth nomination.

Gregory Peck, who was first nominated in 1946 for The Keys of the Kingdom, didn’t win until 1962 for To Kill a Mockingbird. Five years later, Peck was awarded The Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Susan Hayward won her first and only Oscar in 1959 for her leading role in I Want to Live!. She was first nominated in 1948 for Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman.

"Still Alice" is a moving film that showcases the immense talent of Julianne Moore; the movie is written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, a couple with a previous run of quirky Independent films like 2013's "The Last of Robin Hood" or 2008's "Pedro," which played the Toronto Film Festival that year.

The film is about characters dealing with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, a horrifying condition when a person loses not only their faculties, but a major part of who they are as they descend into dementia.

Sounds cheery...

Well, this is indeed a tear-jerker, but to its credit the film isn't all about manipulation of emotions as we drive towards the inevitable conclusion. I can't speak to the source material, the 2007 book by Lisa Genova that Westomoreland and Glatzer based their script on, but the narrative does do more than engage in disease porn. There's some lovely character moments amongst the family members,...

Chicago – In one of the best film acting performances from 2014, Julianne Moore devastatingly portrays a woman in her fifties who is a victim of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. As the effects of dementia physically deteriorates her life, it is a wonder if she is “Still Alice.”

Rating: 4.5/5.0

The performance of Moore is brave, unforgiving and sympathetic, plus it’s also unerringly sad. As much as it’s a story of Alice, it is also a story of her family, who must endure the infamous double loss of Alzheimer’s – the disintegration of the essence of their loved one, and their eventual physical demise. Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart (“Twilight”) represent the family with virtually no tears, as their choices regarding Alice are faced by thousands of families every year. Although difficult to experience, “Still Alice” provides a glimpse into an inevitability in most people’s lives, and is a...

The Oscar train stops here – Julianne Moore is devastatingly good, and certainly worthy of all the many awards that will certainly come her way, as a linguistics professor succumbing to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in Still Alice. Moore, who has a number of astonishing acting feats under her belt, has perhaps never been as affecting, nor as raw, as she is in the part of a woman losing the once-formidable control she had over her mind and body.

Alzheimer’s is certainly not an easy topic for any film to cover, let alone to cover well, but Moore, along with writer Lisa Genova and directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, rise to the occasion, crafting a narrative that fully communicates the disease’s creeping horror while never dissolving into cable-tv levels of melodrama. Still Alice is not only a well-made film, but also an important one in how honestly it...

Jose here. Why do I keep forgetting how funny Julianne Moore is? Perhaps because not counting 30 Rock and Maps to the Stars (yes, that is a funny performance) the movies always give us tragic, sad Juli.

Photo credit: Jose Solis

She is the one actress who has perfected the act of onscreen suffering, if you only knew how many times I’ve played that scene with the late night phone call in Far From Heaven to help me cleanse my soul...anyway, once you think of it, outside the movies she always seems to have a huge smile on her face and emanates ginger joy wherever she goes, which wasn’t the exception at a Still Alice press conference I attended yesterday, where she along with Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, author Lisa Genova and co-director Wash Westmoreland discussed the film.

Not one to keep my obsessive fan questions to myself,...

Julianne Moore was stunning on the carpet in an ivory Alexander McQueen gown at Tuesday's Still Alice screening in New York, but she couldn't leave the house without her 12-year-old daughter Liv's approval.

"She always has an opinion," Moore joked to Et. "She liked this. She saw me before I left. She's like, 'I like that mama, yeah!'"

We liked it too – and we're not alone. Moore's Still Alice co-stars had some serious Julianne fever.

"I'm so proud of her, I can barely even begin to tell you," Kristen Stewart told Et. "The movie was made so that she can do what she does in it."

"She's just an astonishing woman," Kate Bosworth told Et. "To be able to sit there and watch her perform, she's always brilliant."

The film has already seen some serious awards buzz and is a contender for an Oscar nomination. Julianne already won a Golden Globe for her performance in the...

Lisa Genova, neurologist and author of "Still Alice," is still amazed at what her self-published book has become.

"To see all the moving parts and the millions of pieces that have to come together for us to be standing here right now -- it's a miracle that this happened," Genova told Access Hollywood at the New York Premiere of the film based on her work on Tuesday night.

Equally amazing for Genova was hearing her name included in Julianne Moore's acceptance speech at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards.

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Beverly Hills - Julianne Moore isn't gonna lie: she really wanted this Golden Globe. "I said to Nathan Lane, who is a friend of mine, we were doing a movie together and somebody sent me an email saying they liked what I did. And that made my heart soar. I turned to Nathan and said 'I just figured out why I do this. I crave praise,'" Moore told the press backstage after winning the Best Actress trophy for "Still Alice." "I think we all do and respond to it. It is one of those things that just sort of keeps you going." Moore also spoke to the extra-special feeling of winning an award for a film that wrapped only nine months ago - an unusually short window. "We shot it last March so the fact that I am standing here holding this talking about a movie that was very...

Julianne Moore has praised her co-star Kristen Stewart for having "so much emotion available".

Moore, who plays Stewart's mother in Alzheimer's drama Still Alice, told Pop Sugar that the 24-year-old has "such a depth of feeling".

"Oh, I love her," she said. "Kristen has so much emotion available. Such a depth of feeling. Sometimes you can literally see her feelings on her skin.

"I loved working with her. She was a true partner, she's a wonderful actress, and she's a great friend."

Still Alice is an adaptation of Lisa Genova's novel of the same name, and stars Moore as a professor who discovers that she has early onset Alzheimer's.

Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish also star in the drama.

Still Alice is released in the UK in March 2015. Watch a trailer below:...

Still Alice Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland Screenwriter: Richard Glatzer, Wash Wesmoreland, from Lisa Genova’s book Cast: Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish Screened at: Sony, NYC, 11/7/14 Opens: January 16, 2015 As they say, old age is better than the alternative. Still, young people have an inordinate fear of going gray but really, it’s not as bad as they think. Sure, you won’t be able to play even junior-high level football at age 60 and after 40, forget full-court basketball. And the longer you live, the more chance some disease [ Read More ]

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Alzheimer's is a heartbreaking disease, both for the person who has it and his or her loved ones. "Still Alice" stars Julianne Moore as a respected professor who begins experiencing lapses in memory; she's soon diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's, much to the shock of her family and friends. Alec Baldwin co-stars as her husband John, alongside Kate Bosworth, Kristen Stewart, and Hunter Parrish as their adult children. The screenplay was adapted from the novel by neuroscientist Lisa Genova.

Moore has already scored a SAG nom for her performance as Alice, as well as Best Actress at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. We've got months of awards season madness ahead of us, which means this is probably just the beginning of "Still Alice."

"Still Alice" is already open for a qualifying Oscar run in limited cities. It opens across the country on January 16.

[Via Empire]...

Sneak Peek a new trailer from the Sony Pictures Classics drama "Still Alice", from Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, adapting author Lisa Genova's novel about Alzheimer's, starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish:

"...a brilliant linguistics professor (Moore) struggles with the early onset of 'Alzheimer’s Disease'..."

"Still Alice" expands theatrically January 16, 2014.

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Still Alice"...

Julianne Moore is looking like an Oscar winner in the trailer for "Still Alice." Awards-season watchers are already pegging Moore as the likely Best Actress winner at next year's show, and it's about time: the four-time nominee has yet to take home the gold despite turning in a slew of stunning performances over a career spanning nearly 25 years. Based on Lisa Genova's bestselling novel of the same name, the Sony Classics film centers on a cognitive psychologist (Moore) as she grapples with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Also starring Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart and Kate Bosworth, the film received a limited Oscar-qualifying run this month and is slated for wide release on Jan. 16. For the record, Moore's four Oscar nominations were for "Boogie Nights" (Supporting), "The End of the Affair" (Leading), "Far from Heaven" (Leading) and "The Hours" (Supporting) - the latter two of which came in the same year. My personal favorite?...

Sony Pictures Classics has released the first Still Alice trailer from co-directors and co-writers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s adaptation of the Lisa Genova novel. The film stars Julianne Moore as a brilliant linguistics professor struggling with early onset Alzheimer's Disease, and it has gathered a huge amount of awards buzz since it premiered at Tiff back in September; Moore emerged as a front runner in the Best Actress category when Sony Pictures Classics quickly released the film in time for an awards qualifying run. Still Alice looks absolutely devastating, and no doubt an actress of Moore's caliber can do the heart-wrenching material justice. Moore has been nominated for an Oscar four times now (for her work in Boogie Nights, The Hours, Far From Heaven, and The End of the Affair), and as she's long been one of Hollywood's finest working actresses, it would be an absolute thrill to...

Julianne Moore has earned four Academy Award nominations — for Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, The Hours, and Far From Heaven, the last two in the same year — but the Alzheimer’s drama Still Alice is the one Oscar watchers predict will land the actress her very first little gold man. Here’s the trailer for the film directed and adapted by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland from Lisa Genova’s book. It’s the story of a cognitive psychologist dealing with the devastating effects of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and its impact on her marriage and family. Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish co-star. The film premiered at Toronto and hit limited release last weekend before rolling out wide in January.

Julianne Moore is garnering plenty of awards talk for her role, and the film as a whole is getting a lot of praise for its sensitive handling of a difficult subject. The trailer for Still Alice is now online. Moore stars as Dr. Alice Howland, a happily married and highly renowned linguistics professor. But in the midst of a lecture, she starts to forget words, and her family, including her husband John (Alec Baldwin) and daughter Lydia (Kristen Stewart) begin to worry when Alice loses track of time and important dates.Alice is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease, and the whole family finds their bonds thoroughly tested. She’s soon struggling to stay connected to who she is and those she loves the most.Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland adapted Lisa Genova’s novel for the screen, and have co-directed this one, which also features Kate Bosworth, Seth Gilliam,...

In the midst of a qualifying run for awards consideration this season, Alzheimer’s drama Still Alice has already attracted a slew of good notices. Following its debut at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the core of its critical acclaim has orbited around the performance of leading lady, Julianne Moore. Now, those who were unable to catch it on the festival circuit can get a glimpse of the drama in the first full trailer.

Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Still Alice follows the story of Dr. Alice Howland. A decorated linguist, mother and wife, when she discovers her memory is slipping and begins to struggle with everyday tasks, she seeks medical attention and receives a shocking diagnosis.

Moore’s research for her role – based on the lead character in Lisa Genova’s novel – shows a great attention to detail that extends far past misty-eyed outbursts. Overall,...

Julianne Moore has been garnering Oscar buzz for her performance in Still Alice ever since the film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it was quickly acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. The studio has released the first trailer for this upcoming drama, which opened in limited release last weekend before expanding nationwide on January 16, 2016. We'll have to wait another month to see if Julianne Moore will get an Oscar nomination for her performance, but many believe she's a surefire lock to be nominated in the Best Actress category.

Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring. Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (The Last...

Each weekend a profile on a just-opened Oscar contender. Here's abstew on this weekend's new limited release, the Julianne Moore awards hopeful, Still Alice.

Kristen Stewart as Lydia Howland in Still Alice

Best Supporting Actress

Born: Kristen Jaymes Stewart was born April 9, 1990 in Los Angeles, California

The Role: Adapted from Lisa Genova's bestselling novel, filmmakers and husbands Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (Quinceañera, The Last of Robin Hood) wrote and direct this film about a 50 year old Columbia linguist professor (Best Actress frontrunner, Julianne Moore) that is diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's disease. Stewart plays her daughter, Lydia, the black sheep of the family that moved to La to become an actress despite her mother's frequent requests for her to go to college. When Alice's mind begins to deteriorate more rapidly, it is Lydia that takes the most responsibility for her mother's health establishing herself as caregiver.

Still Alice

Written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland

USA, 2014

In the end, our bodies betray us. Most aren’t fortunate enough to go out on their own terms, but some are dealt a crueler fate than others. While most films treat Alzheimer’s disease with overwrought melodrama and naïveté, Still Alice stares unflinchingly into the abyss. Bolstered by a haunting performance from Julianne Moore and the focused storytelling of filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, this film has the raw power to simultaneously crush and rejuvenate your spirit. Painful, required viewing for life’s brutal training ground.

The power of film is that, unlike real life, it allows us to see the beginning of the end. For Dr. Alice Howland (Moore), her precipitous decline begins with a harmless memory gaffe at her 50th birthday party. Alice, a heralded linguistics researcher at Columbia University, is the model of self-control.

. Julianne Moore, who sits atop our Best Actress chart for "Still Alice," is to be feted by the Palm Springs Film Festival at its Jan. 3 gala. Also making the trek to the desert will be Best Actor honoree Eddie Redmayne ("The Theory of Everything"). Expect a slew more of such announcements in the coming days for this key stop on the road to the Oscars. Psiff -Break- And Tim Gray reviews Wednesday's AFI screening of "Still Alice": Moore gives a moving and nuanced performance in a smart and tender film directed and written (from Lisa Genova’s novel) by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. Kristen Stewart and Alec Baldwin give excellent supporting performances and are worth some consideration. Variety Red-hot Oscar contender "Citizenfour" picked up a leading six nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors, including a bid for Best Documentary Feature. Others contend...'...

Hollywood — It was an emotional evening at the Egyptian Theatre Wednesday night as "Still Alice" finally came "home." Co-directors and husbands Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland are longtime Los Angelinos and the latter remarked how both men had spent many nights watching films in this same venue, which is the Hollywood home of the American Cinematheque. More importantly, this AFI Fest screening afforded Glatzer, who is in advance stages of Als, to finally see the movie on the big screen with an audience. He missed the amazing reception at the Toronto Film Festival. He missed the Rome Film Festival. He missed the Hamptons Film Festival. He was not going to miss seeing "Still Alice" in his hometown. Based on Lisa Genova's bestselling novel, "Alice" chronicles the heartbreaking progression of early on set Alzheimer's disease for Dr. Alice Howard (Julianne Moore), a 50-year-old accomplished Columbia University professor and mother of three grown children.

Top brass at the 26th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (Psiff) will host one-day event The Power Of Words: Book To Screen on January 8.

Barbara Keller and Susan Rosser curate the event, which will kick off with a morning keynote by Chaz Ebert and end with a conversation with Still Alice author Lisa Genova and producer Elizabeth Gelfand Stearns.

The day will comprise four sessions with expected participants such as Low Down author Amy Albany, Low Down and Brokeback Mountain producer Albert Berger, Black Hawk Down: A Story Of Modern War author Mark Bowden, Black Hawk Down screenwriter Ken Nolan and The Descendants (pictured) author Kaui Hart Hemmings.

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The Psiff will take place from January 2-12.

Sony Pictures Classics has released the first Still Alice clip from co-directors and co-writers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s adaptation of the Lisa Genova novel of the same name, and it’s heartbreaking. Julianne Moore stars in the film as a linguistics professor who begins showing the signs of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease and must come to grips with the illness alongside her family. By most accounts, Moore is the current frontrunner to win the Best Actress Oscar for her performance in the film. It debuted to strong reviews at Tiff, and even co-star Kristen Stewart is generating some awards buzz for her supporting performance. This clip is devastating to watch, as Moore describes to her daughter what it’s actually like to start losing her memory and, by extension, herself. Watch the first Still Alice clip after the jump. The film also stars Alec Baldwin and opens in...

Four-time Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore is featured in this first poster for Sony Classics Pictures Still Alice. The film was an Official Selection at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

In the film, Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.

Still Alice is based on the book Still Alice by Lisa Genova.

Writers-Directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland made Sundance history in 2006 when Quinceañera won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize. It went on to win numerous other prizes, including the Humanitas screenwriting Award, and the John Cassavettes Spirit Award in 2007. Their film The Last of Robin Hood, starring Kevin Kline, Susan Sarandon and Dakota Fanning,...

Today the new season of Tfe begins! We're celebrating with an all top ten list day. Every few hours, a new and highly random top ten list to kick off the Fall Movie Season (our favorite time of year!). Let's start with something that's been haunting me because I forgot to post about the 25th anniversary of The Fabulous Baker Boys yesterday, one of my all time favorite films. A long time ago in a New York City that still felt like a galaxy far far away (I was a recent transplant... 1999/2000?) I attended a Jeff Bridges photography show. He's really a very good photographer and takes photos on the sets of his movies. I stared and stared at this enormous black & white photograph of Michelle Pfeiffer that Bridges had taken. 

This photo is so magnificent in person

My bank account was humiliation in numeric form though I don't remember...

Update: The 2015 Oscar race may be a twofer for Julianne Moore, with word that "Maps to the Stars" may sneak in a short release to qualify for the race. More details below. One of the major surprises out of this year's Toronto International Film Festival was Julianne Moore's heartbreaking, subdued work in "Still Alice." A film that could easily have shriveled up into a ball of schmaltz, Moore, along with directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, explore the debilitating effects of early onset Alzheimer's with confidence and familial tenderness. "Still Alice" doesn't twist its knife to illicit a sob-fest — the tears come naturally. When Sony Pictures Classics picked up "Still Alice" out of Tiff, a Best Actress campaign was a given. HitFix first broke the news that the film would get a qualifying release, but last week Sony Classics made it official: The studio will release Glatzer and Westmoreland's...

Just two weeks after Sony Pictures Classics acquired the critically-acclaimed drama Still Alice, starring Julianne Moore, the studio has announced that the drama will open in New York and Los Angeles for a one-week Oscar-qualifying run, before its wide release on January 16, 2015. Take a look at the official press release from Spc.

Sony Pictures Classics announced today they will open Still Alice in New York and Los Angeles in December for a one-week year-end awards qualifying run, with a regular film release to follow on January 16. The film reunites Co-Directors and Co-Writers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (The Last of Robin Hood) with Sony Pictures Classics, who worked together on Quincea&#241era. Based on the novel by Lisa Genova, Still Alice, a Bsm Studio Presentation, is produced by Lex Lutzus, James Brown and Pamela Koffler and executive produced by Marie Savare, Christine Vachon of Killer Films, Maria Shriver, Emilie Georges,...

One of the big surprises of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival was a film called Still Alice. Not many people I talked to saw it, but those that did were raving about Julianne Moore’s performance as a linguistics professor who begins showing the signs of Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease. The consensus was that if a studio picked up the independent film and set it for release before the year was out, they would have very good odds of landing a Best Actress Oscar for Moore. And that is just what Sony Pictures Classics has done. The studio confirmed today that it will release co-directors and co-writers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s adaptation of the Lisa Genova novel in New York and Los Angeles in December for a one-week awards qualifying run, officially entering Moore into this year’s Best Actress race. Hit the jump for more...

Sony Pictures Classics is making good on its promise to debut its Toronto acquisition Still Alice this year to qualify the film for an Academy run, announcing this morning that it will open the picture for one week in December on both coasts before releasing the film wider on January 16, 2015.

Spc acquired the Julianne Moore-starring film about a psychologist who faces the early onset of Alzheimer’s this month at the Toronto International Film Festival in what was a low-seven-figure deal from filmmakers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. Since premiering in Toronto, the film has gotten a fair amount of buzz for Moore who stars in the film with Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth.

The film is based on the novel of the same name by author Lisa Genova and is produced by Marie Savare, Christine Vachon (Killer Films), Maria Shriver, Emilie Georges, Nicholas Shumaker, Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler.

Still Alice

Written for the screen by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland

Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland

USA, 2014

Based on a popular novel by Lisa Genova, Still Alice is a weepy portrait of a linguistic professor, Dr. Alice Howland, battling early onset alzheimers shortly after turning 50 years old. Boasting a cast that includes Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and the always electric Julianne Moore, above all else this is a film that leans on strong performances. This is not a film about script, ideas or even direction, it is about the intimacy of faces and the passion of performers.

Still Alice falls into the “social problem” genre, exploring the crippling and devastating effects that Alzheimer’s has. As North American society grows older, we have been told that Alzheimer’s will increasingly be a medical issue that needs to be addressed. Much like Cancer, nearly everyone is...

By Anjelica Oswald

Managing Editor

The Toronto International Film Festival ends Sunday and hundreds of films have been screened since the 11-day festival began. Throughout the years, Toronto has featured a number of Oscar hopefuls that have gone on to Oscar success. Just last year, best picture 12 Years a Slave (2013) was shown at Toronto (along with a number of other nominees). Hoping for the same success, some Tiff films have been met with instant Oscar chatter this year. Here are the top 10 films to generate buzz coming out of Tiff:

10. Maps to the Stars — Julianne Moore’s role in David Cronenberg’s dark satire of life in Hollywood won her the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, but it doesn’t look like the role is being pushed towards an Oscar nomination. Though the film might not be heading to the Academy Awards, it has generated quite the...