William
Goldenberg
Argo
FILM SYNOPSIS
When six Americans take refuge in the Canadian embassy in Tehran during the
1979 hostage crisis, U.S. government agent Tony Mendez turns to Hollywood
for help. Working with a producer and a makeup artist, he devises a rescue
mission that centers on the creation of a fake film production company
scouting locations in Iran.
Tim Squyres
Life of Pi
FILM SYNOPSIS
Young Pi, the son of zookeepers in Pondicherry, India, finds the world he
knows swept away when his family sells the zoo and sets sail for Canada with
a few of its remaining animals. A storm capsizes the ship and only Pi
escapes, set adrift in a lifeboat that is also the refuge of an enormous
Bengal tiger.
Michael Kahn
Lincoln
FILM SYNOPSIS
With the Civil War coming to a close and the freedom granted to the slaves
by the Emancipation Proclamation called into question, Abraham Lincoln seeks
to pass a thirteenth amendment to the Constitution that will outlaw slavery
everywhere in the United States. Facing opposition from many quarters in
Congress, Lincoln uses his vast political powers to gain allies in his
fight.
Jay Cassidy and
Crispin Struthers
Silver Linings Playbook
FILM SYNOPSIS
Pat Solatano is released into his parents' care after eight months of
treatment for a bipolar disorder. His recovery seems far from certain,
however, when he stops taking his medication and becomes increasingly
obsessed with winning back his estranged wife, a plan that leads him to
embark on a complicated relationship with a troubled young woman whose
husband has died.
Dylan Tichenor
and William Goldenberg, Zero Dark Thirty
FILM SYNOPSIS
In the aftermath of 9/11, as the trail in the hunt for Osama bin Laden seems
to grow cold, a determined CIA agent begins a painstaking, decade-long
search for the Al Qaeda leader. For Maya, direct experience of terrorism
steels her resolve to find bin Laden and leads her to trust her own
instincts regarding the best course of investigation to pursue.
