Frost/Nixon

Hollywood heavyweight Ron Howard adapts playwright Peter Morgan's West End hit for the silver screen with this feature focusing on the 1977 television interviews between journalist David Frost (Michael Sheen) and former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella). At the time Nixon sat down with Frost ...more

Frank Langella delivers such a masterful performance in Frost/Nixon that he should have thrown both arms in the air and flashed victory signs at Oscar voters during the closing credits. He magnificently portrays disgraced president Richard Nixon's bitterness, bluster, and bile without descending into easy caricature. More importantly, he manages to elicit genuine sympathy for a man whose arrogance, self-deception, and criminality led to his well-deserved downfall. Michael Sheen is also ...more

Critic David Thomson once pointed out that by the time Ron Howard was 30, he had already spent more time on television than anyone else his age. Those years working inside a TV show's tightly structured shooting schedule instilled in him an extremely efficient approach to directing, like the filmmakers during the heyday of the studio system. His movies are usually solid, middlebrow crowd pleasers that make up for their occasional lack of substance with first-class professionalism. Frost/Nixon ...more

Frost/Nixon
Nominee - 81st Oscars®:
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Frank Langella
Achievement in Directing
Achievement in Film Editing
Best Motion Picture of the Year
Adapted Screenplay