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Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 2006 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical 2006 · Nominated
Academy Award Writing (Original Screenplay) 2006 · Nominated
AFI Awards, USA. 2006 Winner AFI Award. Movie of the Year. THE SQUID AND THE WHALE is a funny film about pain - the deep, aching pain of a family dissolved. It is rare for a film to be comedic and heartbreaking beyond cliches, but the film's standout performances capture the characters with such truth that one cannot help but feel that we've ...
At the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the film won awards for best dramatic direction and screenwriting, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. Baumbach later received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Dec 16, 2005 · The Squid and the Whale: Directed by Noah Baumbach. With Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg. Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
6.6. 8,099. Drama. Comedy Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1986. When Walt Berkman, an impressionable 16-year-old, passes off the Pink Floyd song "Hey You" as his original work and performs it at a high school talent show, he's perfectly content with his rationale.
Jan 25, 2005 · Moment when children discover their parents aren't perfect forms the core of writer-director Noah Baumbach's semiautobiographical tale of two brothers coping with parents' divorce.
Nov 16, 2005 · It’s been a classic triumph-over-adversity tale for writer-director Noah Baumbach and his cast and crew of “The Squid and the Whale,” but can the storybook success continue come Oscar...
Nov 29, 2005 · The film received six nominations, including best feature, best director and best screenplay (Noah Baumbach), best male lead (Jeff Daniels), best female lead (Laura Linney), and best supporting...