The comedy Little Miss Sunshine and Babel could also bring recognition for their directors, and there is a chance that one of the five best director slots could go to United 93's Greengrass.
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According to Ms. Kaplan, the producers of "Little Miss Sunshine" also contacted the group when they were casting a movie.
Meanwhile Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, the couple behind "Little Miss Sunshine" shot a slow-motion short on slapstick stunts from the silent era.
My picks for best supporting actor are Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls), Jack Nicholson (The Departed), Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children), Michael Sheen (The Queen) and Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine).
It will be joined by Babel, The Departed, Dreamgirls and Little Miss Sunshine.
Eddie Murphy is looking like a strong candidate for supporting actor, but not yet out of the running is the fantastic Alan Arkin from Little Miss Sunshine, who has been snubbed far too many times by Oscar.
While it would be lovely to see it on the list, it would probably knock out Little Miss Sunshine, which I would not like to see out of the running.
Sundance is where films like Little Miss Sunshine, The Usual Suspects and The Blair Witch Project made their debuts.
On the indie front, "The Way, Way Back" (July 5), a PG-13 coming-of-age comedy starring Steve Carell and Toni Collette, is being advertised as "from the studio that brought you 'Little Miss Sunshine, '" which also starred Mr. Carell and Ms. Collette.
" So you've had sales for what I'd like to call the indie sitcom, movies like "Little Miss Sunshine" or "Garden State" or "Napoleon Dynamite.
The first of these, Star Wars: Episode VII, will be scripted by Michael Arndt, the Oscar-winning writer of Toy Story 3 and Little Miss Sunshine.
"There are certain campaigns that have very distinctive artwork to break through, " he says, citing the bright yellow background and bus in Fox Searchlight's Little Miss Sunshine ads as example.
"Little Miss Sunshine" was chosen as best picture by the Producer's Guild of America.
As John Cooper of Sundance points out, the only way for a studio to have a low-cost indie hit like Little Miss Sunshine or Slumdog Millionaire is to take a risk.
The Mr Men books are a popular series for younger children, which has characters such as Mr Happy and Little Miss Sunshine.
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