For Your Consideration

Success in Hollywood is as fragile as a rumor

Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called 'Home for Purim,' when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in 'Variety' and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood!

Direction

Christopher Guest

Screenplay

Christopher Guest

Eugene Levy