Sideways scoops screenplay gong

Sideways, the film based on the Rex Pickett novel about two middle-aged men who take a road trip through California's wine country, won the best adapted screenplay gong at last night's Academy Awards.

Sideways, the film based on the Rex Pickett novel about two middle-aged men who take a road trip through California's wine country, won the best adapted screenplay gong at last night's Academy Awards.

For the Visual Effects category, the nominees stood on the stage as the winner, Spider-Man 2, was read out.

Director Sidney Lumet, now 80, and behind films like Fail-Safe, Serpico, Running on Empty and Murder on the Orient Express, The Pawnbroker was announced as the winner of an honorary Oscar for a lifetime of achievement, by movie legend Al Pacino.

Pacino said: “If you prayed to inhabit a character, Sidney was the priest that made your dreams come true.”

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