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Silver Linings Playbook
How many of you have seen this movie, filmed in part in our own Ridley Park and now nominated for a bunch of Academy Awards? I'll admit that I had dismissed it from my mind, but now I am going to make a point of seeing it. Can you actually tell you're seeing Ridley Park?
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Comment by RidleyParkOnline on January 11, 2013 at 4:54pm -
Seems like the staff writer Kevin Tustin was thinking about your Rebecca when he authored this article today in the Delco NewsNetwork.
Delco is heading to the Academy Awards next month.
The locally shot “Silver Linings Playbook” earned eight Oscar nominations Thursday morning including best picture.
Stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence earned best actor and actress nods, respectively, and Robert DeNiro and Jacki Weaver received supporting nods.
This is the first time a film landed nominations in all acting categories since Warren Beatty’s “Reds” in 1981, and the first film to receive four acting nominations since 2008’s “Doubt.”
This is the first nomination for Philadelphia native Cooper, the second for Lawrence and Weaver, and the seventh for two-time winner DeNiro.
The film’s writer and director, David O. Russell, was nominated for best adapted screenplay and director.
“Silver Linings” was also nominated for best editing.
This is the first film shot primarily in the Delaware Valley that has earned a best picture nomination since “The Sixth Sense” in 1999.
Based on the novel by Matthew Quick, “Silver Linings” is the story of a man (Cooper) who returns to Philadelphia after a stint in a Baltimore mental hospital. As he slowly pieces his life back together he falls for his equally unbalanced neighbor (Lawrence).
“Silver Linings” was shot in parts of Lansdowne, Upper Darby, Ridley Park and Ridley Township in Oct. 2011, featuring landmarks like the former Archbishop Prendergast High School and Lansdowne Theater.
“Silver Linings” faces competition from eight other best picture nominees including “Lincoln” and “Life of Pi” and Cannes Film Festival winning films “Amour” and “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” All of these films compete for best director as well.
“Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Les Misérables” and “Zero Dark Thirty” are the other best picture nominees.
The 85th Annual Academy Awards will be handed out Feb. 23 on ABC at 7 p.m.
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