Alex Procopio,
Amanda Stepto,
Ben Chaplin,
Brent Banes,
Brent Smiga,
Hanna Kalia,
Nghia Nguyen,
Rodney James,
Vasiliy Shevchenko, birthplace unspecified, Russian animator
So here’s a guy, two of whose three roles in the pictures have been administering lie detector tests in Steven Soderbergh films. Here’s another guy, with the same name, whose job it is to peddle
Adrian Linke,
Christopher Nolan,
Dean Edwards, The Bronx,
Edyta Duda, birthplace unspecified, Polish actress
Harald Burmeister,
Jason Watkins,
Jason Watkins, birthplace unspecified, British actor
Laura Morett,
M.C. Trouble (died 4 June 1991),
Ognjen Popic,
Stink Fisher,
Christopher Nolan, you are the big winner today. You are the first person to actually bum me out that my parenting duties routinely preclude me from going to the movies, and will do so for quite some time to come. I had been rejoicing in the utter absence of tempting cinematic offerings until Inception came along. Not only that: it’s playing right now at the goddamn Ziegfeld.
Andi Peters,
Clayton Gee Claridy,
Ernest Rister,
Geir Bratland,
Jonah Falcon,
Kit Hoover,
Maria Checa,
Rafael Gomez,
Svend Ploug Johansen,
Ted LeHane,
Tim Montijo,
Tina Krause,
I’m not going to link to any pictures of Today’s Winner. But they’re out there if you don’t believe me.
David Frigerio, Garden City,
Fabiano Iha,
Isabelle Brasseur,
Jan-Willem van Ewijk,
Jeffrey Winogrand,
Lisa Foxx,
Neda Armian, birthplace unspecified, American producer
Sándor Várfi, birthplace unspecified, Hungarian actor
Scott Egan,
Skye Nakamura,
Tameka Holmes,
Good times: Today’s Winner “got busted by the Belgian police while shooting a scene in which [he and his costar] drove around naked in a convertible.”
Birgitta Weizenegger,
Csaba Gieler, birthplace unspecified, Hungarian actor
David Barsky,
David Smith,
Ernesto Trinidad,
Jason Bentley, state of
Katherina Marx,
Kimmo Rasila,
Krzysztof Szczygiel,
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, birthplace unspecified, Danish actor
Patrick Labbé,
Péter Vajda, birthplace unspecified, Hungarian cinematographer
Roberto De Angelis,
I’m a little surprised that the hometown of Today’s Winner actually retains this web address. It seems like they should have sold it by now to the kind of online service that would pay dearly for a name that catchily devoid of a fixed meaning. You could sell pet food, financial services, Mexican morphine derivatives, Asian mail-order brides, what have you.
Adam Gersh,
Andrey Grigorev-Apollonov,
Anna Ludmilla,
Anna Slaba,
Eric Stephens (died 24 August 2007), birthplace unspecified, American composer
Joan Wasser,
Johnny Juice Rosado,
Kyle Reed,
Michael Gerald,
Nancy Digonis,
Rob Garvie,
Scott Dolph, birthplace unspecified, interpreter and bodyguard for Hideo Kojima
Thomas Vos,
I have to have you take a look at Today’s Winner’s page, and tell me: if one is credited as “Self” when playing Catherine the Great, what might that mean, exactly?
Billy Glyde,
Christopher Allen,
Daniel Osers,
Dawn Bradfield, birthplace unspecified, Irish actress
Eric Jacobson, birthplace unspecified, American puppeteer
Ernesto Alterio,
Hardrock Llewynyth,
Ivy, birthplace unspecified, American porn star
Mark S. Longo,
Markus Kurtz,
Moritz von Uslar,
Sharon Flake,
I’m not afraid to chat up Jason Segel’s upcoming Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made. I really have high hopes for that thing. The only announced non-Muppet-manipulating actors in the cast as it sits on the IMDb today are Segel and Charles Grodin. To me, that’s a good sign that they’re keeping all the special guest stars top secret…for now.
It’s interesting to discover – yet quite logical once you learn it – that most of the living original Muppeteers (chiefly Frank Oz) no longer routinely perform in any capacity. Today’s Winner is the next-generation Miss Piggy, Animal, and Fozzie Bear. What a sweet gig for someone born in 1970, considering what a thoroughgoing part of our childhood the Muppets were.
Axelle Laffont,
Becki Seddiki, birthplace unspecified, Moroccan “Big Brother” contestant
Blaine Bishop,
Christopher A. Browne,
David Langham,
Elli Kokkinou,
Frank Thiel, birthplace unspecified, Danish actor
Gregory Vignolle, birthplace unspecified, American actor
Konstandinos Markoulakis,
Marcus Kanter,
Peter Abrahams,
Roberto Scarpetti,
Rosen Petrov,
Shoko Kikuchi,
Stephanie Adams,
Today’s choice is perhaps the biggest star on the list, but only in
Bill Migliore, state of
Charisma Carpenter,
Emanuela Tittocchia,
Jenny Marchandeau, birthplace unspecified, French accountant
Jesper Odelberg, birthplace unspecified, Swedish comedian/musician
Kenji Nomura,
Rich Kelly,
Rya Kihlstedt,
Saverio Di Biagio,
Thea Dorn,
Toshi Fujiwara,
I’m eager to read more of Today’s Winner’s work. This essay, published five years ago, deals with the present blog’s whole subject, turning forty. I was touched by a German writer’s internalization of the September 11th attacks as emblematic for Germans her age too. Americans (outside those who’ve spent time on the inside of a think tank) too seldom think of themselves as “Westerners”. But our allies sure think of themselves that way. Whether they are accurate to think so is another matter. I’m just pleased to be reminded of the way the week after the attacks, firefighters in every country stood at attention in tribute to our lost people. Solidarity sure has become underrated in this day and age.
Other cool things about Thea Dorn…her philosophy dissertation was on the subject of self-deception…she has hosted a writers’ interview program on German television…she was a visiting professor at Dartmouth this year…judging by the internet, she has a personal affinity for a variety of hair colors…she is an intellectual crime novelist (isn’t that the new hot kind of writer?)…her personal website is presently “closed due to extensive Content updating” (looking forward to it, and by the way, more Germans should insist on gratuitous English-language Noun Capitalization (Nomenkapitalizierung)).
Brian Evans,
Chris Burgess,
Deepa Purohit,
Gabriel Ruelas, La
Ivan Stefanovic,
Jason Teresi,
Jonathan Zaccaï,
Leonore Capell,
Marina Majko, birthplace unspecified, ex-Soviet actress
Robert Plemic,
Scott Wiper,
Sean Matic,
Shannon C. Pitanielio,
All members of Today’s Winner’s family are required to have a middle name that begins with the letter “O”. Some suggestions:
Othmar
Ophelia
Olentha
Omar
Oswald
Obediah
Otto
Ovid
October
Adrian Rigby, Lytham Saint Annes,
Alysia Reiner, birthplace unspecified, American actress
Arnaud Ladagnous, birthplace unspecified, French writer/director
Carlos Diaz,
Glen Miller, birthplace unspecified, American visual effects artist
Jason Ensler, birthplace unspecified, American TV director
Loreto Caro-Valdes,
Michael Dierks,
Onno Perdijk, birthplace unspecified, Dutch grip
Sean Stipich,
Tone Bekkestad,
I think “Dutch grip” may be my favorite job description of the year so far.
Allison Giannini, state of
Claudio Lauretta, Novi
Diego Wainstein,
Ivana Bakaric,
Marco
Mark Robertson,
Michael Haro,
Moritaka Yoshida,
Nahuel García,
Rob Marchitti,
Even now, it can’t be easy to make a documentary criticizing the Argentine government. I imagine people are reasonably happy not to have the government they had 30 years ago, or 10 years ago. Today’s Winner made a film detailing the shocks the Argentine economy suffered at the last millennium’s end. I’d like to know why he gave it the title El tren blanco.
Ashley Paske,
Joanna Sokalszczuk, birthplace unspecified, Polish actress
Kankurô Kudô,
Milena Velba,
Rafal Sabara,
Rowley Irlam,
Sinclair,
Taiji Yano, birthplace unspecified, Japanese actor
Tana Roller,
Today’s Winner’s biographical sketch really tells her story much more eloquently than I ever could.
Bara Kastakova, birthplace unspecified, Czech film editor
Bryan Hinds,
Cheryl Casone,
Cirie Fields,
Conrado,
Dan Brown,
Gruff Rhys, Haverfordwest,
Kris Edlund,
Patrick Dancy, state of
Sandor Soeteman, Zaanstad, The Netherlands, film editor
Tabea Heynig,
Tracie Donahue,
William Bolander,
I did not realize that in
Adam Rubin,
Alan Morier,
Alexandra Pascalidou,
Gábor Szabó,
Gary Gulman,
Hyeong-seong Jang, birthplace unspecified, South Korean actor
Mandy Smith, birthplace unspecified, English singer/teenage bride of Bill Wyman
Marek Traskowski,
Marius Florian, birthplace unspecified, Romanian cameraman/stuntman
Miles Reetz,
Vicky Chen, birthplace unspecified, Taiwanese actress
Werner De Smedt,
Today’s Winner is honored more for the man he shares his name with than anything else. However, hey, without carpenters, every movie would look like Dogville. So let’s hear it for them.
Aleksandra Keskinov,
Alik Pelman, birthplace unspecified, Israeli organic farmer
An Tonthat,
Angela Todd, county of
Apichatpong Weerasethkul,
Dale McKeel,
Daniel Krige,
David Raines,
Fon Davis,
Gavin Ricketts,
Lee Baxter,
Tera Goldblatt,
Tommy Jaud,
Yaron Motola, birthplace unspecified, Israeli actor
Well, first of all, Today’s Winner has a really fun name to say. Say it. It’s not that hard once you say it a couple of times out loud.
As to his work, he may be the artiest filmmaker at work in the world today. His films are so arty, they cannot actually be watched: they can only be written about, or alluded to. He holds a degree in architecture, for Christ’s sake. That should tell you everything you need to know.
On the plus side, his movies have really funny titles, and he seems like a fairly unpretentious man himself.
Audrey Bolder, Didam, The Netherlands, actress
Cheng Chi,
Chris Warren,
Danielle Salter, birthplace unspecified, Australian script coordinator
Deborah Corrigan,
Drazen Cucek,
Frank Grasso,
Heather Leavitt,
Igor Filipovic,
Ilknur Boyraz,
Julian Vergov,
L.A. Bust, county of
Niki Greb,
Stefan Sims,
Stefano Benappi (died 10 October 2009),
William Joseph Elk the Third,
No winner today. I have to run; time to take my daughter to her first movie, a free outdoor screening of Double Indemnity. Rapid-fire witty dialogue is going to be one of her specialties!
