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Winner
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Ryan Gosling
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Best Motion Picture of the Year
Achievement in directing
- Ryan Fleck
Best First Screenplay
Nominated
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
- Ryan Gosling
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Half Nelson
Get high, Mr. Chips. Crackhead Brooklyn schoolteacher Dan Dunne (Gosling) manages to do the inspiring inner-city educator thing until 12-year-old Drey (Epps in a stellar debut performance), no stranger to addicts, discovers him passed out in a bathroom stall after a basketball game, pipe in hand. This leads to a tentative, complicated relationship between the two, with Dan's ironic efforts to save Drey from a drug dealer's plans to bring her into his fold somehow offering the pair the possibility of salvation. Gosling is raw and sympathetic portraying Dan's contradictions, and the film smartly avoids the usual feel-good trappings.
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Ryan Gosling gives yet another amazing performance in this complicated film about inner city youth, education, and drugs. Sounds trite and simple, but this movie is anything but. Think of films like 'Traffic' or 'Requiem for a Dream' meets 'Dead Poets Society' or 'Finding Forrester' (with a darker edge). Gosling and Epps have a great chemistry and its hard to take your eyes off the screen when they interact. Well worth multiple viewings.
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English
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