In the midst of what has blossomed into a stellar awards season for Argo, director Ben Affleck sat down with SHOOT editor Robert Goldrich for a Q&A session after a screening of the film for an audience of DGA members at The Landmark theater in West Los Angeles on Thursday, January 17. The event was presented by Warner Bros. in conjunction with SHOOT.
Argo has earned seven Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture, garnered Affleck his first DGA Award nomination, won Best Picture and Best Director honors at both the Golden Globes and the Critics’ Choice Awards, took the SAG Award marquee honor for best cast performance as well as the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards, among other assorted industry accolades.
Argo is the third feature directed by Affleck who also served as producer and the lead actor in the film. He looked back on his transition to the director’s chair and what he learned from the first two movies he helmed, Gone Baby Gone and The Town, what led to him selecting cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, and editor William Goldenberg, ACE, for Argo, and what he has learned as an actor working with other directors, including master filmmaker Terrence Malick.
Here is SHOOT‘s conversation with Ben Affleck:
Stage and Film Actor Tony Roberts Dies At 85
Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in both plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies — often as Allen's best friend — has died. He was 85.
Roberts' death was announced to The New York Times by his daughter, Nicole Burley.
Roberts had a genial stage personality perfect for musical comedy and he originated roles in such diverse Broadway musicals as "How Now, Dow Jones" (1967); "Sugar" (1972), an adaptation of the movie "Some Like It Hot," and "Victor/Victoria" (1995), in which he co-starred with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage version of her popular film. He also was in the campy, roller-disco "Xanadu" in 2007 and "The Royal Family" in 2009.
"I've never been particularly lucky at card games. I've never hit a jackpot. But I have been extremely lucky in life," he write in his memoir, "Do You Know Me?" "Unlike many of my pals, who didn't know what they wanted to become when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before I got to high school."
Roberts also appeared on Broadway in the 1966 Woody Allen comedy "Don't Drink the Water," repeating his role in the film version, and in Allen's "Play It Again, Sam" (1969), for which he also made the movie.
Other Allen films in which Roberts appeared were "Annie Hall" (1977), "Stardust Memories" (1980), "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Radio Days" (1987).
"Roberts' confident onscreen presence — not to mention his tall frame, broad shoulders and brown curly mane — was the perfect foil for Allen's various neurotic characters, making them more funny and enjoyable to watch," The Jewish Daily Forward wrote in 2016.
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